I super enjoy photographing these little gems. Almost unlimited ability to reduce them to the most basic form. I used a Toyo 45A camera, a 150mm Sinaron lens, Kodak T-Max 400 film rated at ASA 200. A separate mask was created to isolate the tonality of the center part of the plant for printing.
I really enjoy creating something different with drones. I've had the Mavic now for about four weeks and I absolutely love it.
Client came and needed headshots immediately. Set up a single Broncolor Para 133 in the dining room. Delivered 20 pics. Setup, Shoot, Edit and delivered within 30 minutes.
This is a water reservoir for the city of Curitiba, Brazil
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Nice work, Nathan. I love the layers "threes." Are they flowers or bracts? The textures are wonderful!
"Flowers" will come later in the summer before the plant dies in late summer. The blooms are attached to a long stem in tight bunches, and I do not find them to be attractive. Unfortunately, or fortunately, the entire plant is toxic. When the blooms appear, usually in mid to late July and August the leaves wilt. The best success I have had in portraying them is in early June, just after the leaves come out. Thank you.
Layers of texture. I like shooting with T-Max, Tri-X and when I can find it Panatomic-X. I wish I could get 70mm film for my Kodak Six-16.
You have wonderful depth in your photograph.
Thank you. You might have in interest in this;https://filmphotographystore.com/collections/116-616-film#:~:text=Kodak…)%20and%20roll%20your%20own.
I have seen the site, but as I don't have a place to rewind, store...much less develop my film, I am at the power of others to do this for me.
Thank you kindly.
You are surely welcome. I hadn't thought about it much, but I have a box of cameras that my wife's father brought back from Germany at the end of WWII. One of them was assembled by Karl Zeiss, though there is no provenance. It was kind of a funny story. When Berlin was divided up between the East sector and West sector John could travel between the two without papers because he was a Major. He went to Zeiss' home and asked if he could get a Zeiss Ikon camera. Zeiss said yes and that if he would come the next day he would have one for both Major Reynolds, and his driver. John went back the next day, with his driver, picked up the cameras and paid Zeiss whatever he paid him. When John died my wife was the executor so I set the cameras aside, more as a curiosity, and sentimental reminder. I guess I should get them out and see if I can round up some 620 film. I think that 620 and 120 are the same size, only the spool was different.
I'm interested in which models... I love researching.
The most interesting of the bunch was the Zeiss Ikon, which was one of the most sought after cameras in post war WWII. He assembled it out of scrap parts so none of the serial numbers match. His shop, and business, was in a shamble having survived Adolph the Awful and four years of Allied Bombing. John was just happy to get a camera that was a good one. He had crossed Europe from Normandy to the Potsdam Accord. He had made numerous images that were 6x9 format, many of the death camps - which are horrid. I have them stored in my darkroom storage and have it on my list to scan them "someday". But frankly, my stomach can't handle it. John would never talk about his experiences there, but it was awful. Near the end of his life my wife's oldest sister finally got him to sit down and she did kind of an oral history. He occasionally would remark about something humorous, but that was the extent of it. I think he was using an old Kodak 116/616 folding camera. I think that film was 70mm wide and the negs are 6x9 format.
Hey Dean. You can still get film processed commercially, I am sure. You also could sign up for a class at a community, or junior college as an audit. That would allow you to use the college darkroom and equipment to process the film. John was able to get the chemicals in theater across europe when he was there. He would set up helmets in a tent at night with the various chemicals and process his film at night, so he brought processed negatives back. Needless to say they are not pristine negatives.
That's an amazing story- you have a real piece of history on your hands!
What a wonderful image Nathan, so much depth and texture.
I must admit that I was not aware of Toyo cameras, but after looking into the same it seems quite a beast.
Thanks for posting and engaging in the discussion.
Thank you. I do enjoy discussions when they don't dissolve into heated debates on non issues.
That doesn't happen in this group.
That does make me happy. I enjoyed FB groups, but there was always that one guy or two that just couldn't control themselves, and every post or discussion turned into a confrontational digital fist fight.
On FB I had someone argue with me that my landscape photo should not have rendered to black and white and I shouldn't listen to what my community college photography teachers tell me.
I am unaware of how to edit Ilford Delta 3200 into color.
Hand coloring. An old technique. But yes, I get it. Simple though. Just cross process it in color chemicals. That is a marvelous technique and gives the thinnest negatives you would ever see.