Yashica Lynx 14E-Black And White Car

 Automobile Photographs, Photo Share  No Responses »
Feb 062013
 
Yashica Lynx 14E by Mind the Mix
Yashica Lynx 14E, a photo by Mind the Mix on Flickr.

This classic car looks buttery smooth and sexy courtesy of some Kodak T-Max 400 and HC-110 developer. This image goes to show that an “old” film camera can take some fantastic shots!

Way to go and thanks for sharing this on the MarksPhotographySpot flickr Group

Project 365 Day 336-Needs Work

 Manmade Objects, Photographs, Project 365  No Responses »
Dec 012012
 

After 5 years of riding by this slowly decaying/collapsing house, I finally made the drive out to it to photograph it:

Day 336-Needs Work

It is located in a rural/suburban area that is surrounded by subdivisions. There is a chicken coop behind the house that I didn’t get to today, but maybe next time. I think what motivated me to get out and shoot this was the fact that I have the Rolleicord, which seemed like the perfect tool to document this piece of local history that is slowly fading away.

I took this about 30 minutes after sunrise this morning and developed the roll around lunchtime today. I used Ilford Delta 400 b&w film and developed it for 7 minutes in Ilford Ilfosol 3. By 5PM the negatives were dry and I was able to scan them in.

Tagged Manhole Cover

 City Scene Photographs, Manmade Objects, Photographs  No Responses »
Nov 302012
 

Last Friday we visited Piedmont park in Atlanta. I shot a roll of Ilford Delta 400 film as I wandered around the park. We were walking along the “wetlands trail” when I saw this:

Tagged Manhole Cover

It looks like a regular, ordinary, manhole cover but I guess it must be really important because someone took the time to tag it with some graffiti.

I guess all “taggers” need to start somewhere :-)

  • Camera: Rolleicord Va
  • Film: Ilford Delta 400
  • Developer: Ilfosol 3 for 7 minutes

Architecture Photos-Rolleicord Film vs Canon Digital-Three Columns And Stairs

 Building Photographs, Photographs  2 Responses »
Nov 262012
 

Our office building has some neat features that I figured would look pretty good in black and white. Back in early October, I took a photo of the space between two of the buildings with my Canon S95 and converted it to B&W using Silver Efex Pro. Here’s that digital Image:

Three Columns And Stairs

When I got my Rolleicord I immediately knew that I wanted to re-take that photo using black and white film to see how it came out. I went out to the building on a Saturday and tried to replicate the shot from my digital camera as best as I could. I recently got back the negatives from the lab and here is the result:

 

Three Columns And Stairs-Rolleicord Version

As you can see, the perspective isn’t quite the same as with the S95. That’s because the Rolleicord shoots a square frame and as well uses a 75mm lens (about 49mm on a 35mm camera). I used Ilford HP5 Plus film (400 ISO) and mounted the camera on my tripod.

As far as “post-processing” goes, here’s what I did:

I scanned the developed negative at 2400 dpi and at 16 bit gray using my CanoScan 9000f. The resulting file was 51 megs. I imported the image into Lightroom and tweaked the contrast, highlights and shadows a little to get the reflections in the building windows to come out a little better. I also had to clean up a few dust bunnies that somehow made it onto the negative.

Overall I’m very happy with the final result. I need to get better at using the scanner and at doing adjustments in Lightroom but that will come with time. I will pobably also go back and re-shoot this image again to see how it comes out with me doing the developing, instead of a commercial lab.

Which image do you like better, the digital image from my S95 or the scanned film image from the Rolleicord? Let me know, I’m interested to see what everyone thinks.

Happy Shooting!

Trash Sentinel

 City Scene Photographs, Photographs  No Responses »
Nov 192012
 

Here is one of the good black and white images from my first roll of film that I developed myself a couple days ago. Its not much but I’m happy I have a few usable images from my 1st attempt:

 

A trash receptacle stands guard over a parking lot

I have a couple other images from this roll that I plan on posting. Be sure to follow my on Google + or Flickr to see pretty much every image I post.

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