Forum: Photography

Subject: Yeeehaaaa....finally contol of Kodak !

Rork1973 opened this issue on Feb 18, 2002 · 12 posts

Rork1973 posted Mon, 18 February 2002 at 7:15 PM

Yessssss.....finally after all this shooting, I got Kodak on a leash! =) I'm finally getting where I want to with all this grain. Somehow it's giving my scanning software a hard time, but I'm doing it with ScanVue (nice stuff, geeze...hamrick.com). Well.....I'm sooooo happy......I've send this first one in for this month's texture contest.

Rork1973 posted Mon, 18 February 2002 at 7:17 PM

And this one.....I'll scan more tomorrow. Now it's time for a cigar and some Olympics ;)

PunkClown posted Mon, 18 February 2002 at 7:19 PM

Good image Rork, I like the grain...the texture of clouds! now that's something I wouldn't have thought of!

Michelle A. posted Mon, 18 February 2002 at 7:23 PM

I agree these are beautiful....did you use a red filter on these...? They are so dark and gorgeous!

I am, therefore I create.......
--- michelleamarante.com

Finder posted Mon, 18 February 2002 at 8:01 PM

OK - give it up, Rork. Tell us how to make pictures like that. Joe

Finder posted Mon, 18 February 2002 at 8:06 PM

Oh man! That top one is amazing.

Rork1973 posted Mon, 18 February 2002 at 8:27 PM

You take a sunny day, with lots of clouds. You put it together with a few rolls of Kodak Portra 400 b&w. Mix it together with a 50mm 1.8 Nikkor on an F4 at f16, and drink it when the sun just about comes back from behind the clouds. The strong wind and the grain makes it a bit fuzzy. The sun makes the contrast. But I'm going to start a PETA for film, cause they abused my negatives! They took them out of the fuji machine with their hands, no gloves or anything....hung them against a wall! No wonder some have scratches running from 'coast to coast'. Criminals....

Finder posted Mon, 18 February 2002 at 9:06 PM

Nikkor, huh? I have a roll of tri-x in the old Minolta now.. I can't wait! But I'm takin'm to a pro lab! Joe

Antoonio posted Tue, 19 February 2002 at 8:10 AM

I agree, first one is stunner. Nice shots. .n

doruksal posted Tue, 19 February 2002 at 4:56 PM

Well, those sweet grains are superb, and I liked them better in the second one (I'm a fool for obvious grains..!).

From the photographical point of view, I still like the second one better somehow...
...Probably for its "wilder" composition, for the "flowing" blackness, for the rich greys, and for a few more possible features that I cannot name at this time of the night... :)

Regards...

doruksal posted Tue, 19 February 2002 at 5:01 PM

Well, I think the second image is "open" to enclose me in, while the first one is quite contented in itself that it leaves me aside (outside)... Was it a too weird comment..? :)

Rork1973 posted Tue, 19 February 2002 at 6:00 PM

No, not at all....very interesting actually =)