Quickie here – I finally got a chance to develop the last roll of film I shot, and scan a couple frames. Here’s one from my 8/30/07 report about P&W train NR-2 – a shot of the train crossing over the Thames River drawbridge back towards track 4 in Groton
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And if you’re looking for a report from Friday – I didn’t get a chance to head out at all. My boss took myself and our other coworker (yes, there’s 3 of us left) out for an early happy hour in honor of my birthday (Sunday the 9th). So I had to put as much time as I could in at the office for the first part of the day, so I could drink beer for the rest of it. Heh…
Thanks for looking!
Tom
6 thoughts on “Clearing the Backlog III – a scan”
Cool. Was the ‘antique look’ on purpose or did things just turn out that way…
Honestly, it just turned out that way. I had to use the last of the developer, which was starting to oxadize, so I think that had something to do with the way it came out. The weirdness along the side edges is just from the 60 year old camera not holding the film flat for the exposure.
I feel your pain – Why is it the shots you plan turn out OK, yet the quick snapshots turn out to be the better photographs?
So you accidently take a great ‘old looking’ photograph, and I have to send $100 on software to do the same thing. 🙂
Actually, the look of the phot and the way it is framed, the highway bridge looks better in this shot than any other. partially it looks like a train trestle that goes on forever, and partialy as the contrast makes it look like it’s own landscape-dominating artificial horizon. Plus the tonal ‘mistakes’ make the sky much more interesting than a regular blue/color sky would look.
Next time you do B&W on a cloudy day – have you tried a nice red or other colored filter to do fun stuff with the sky?
That’ll never change – the unplanned shots usually turn out better than the planned. 🙂 My problem is I tend to over-think the planned shots, and the off the cuff ones are all on instinct & experience. I just have to think less!
As for the filter – I’ve got a set of filters for the Graflex, but I don’t have a holder for the lens. The front of the lens and filters themselves don’t have threads, so it needs a slip-on adapter for Kodak Series VI filters (I got a bunch with the camera – red, yellow & green, if I remember correctly). I’ve always used a yellow on my 35mm setup when shooting B&W film, and I’ve been dying to do it here. I do have a yellow filter that fits the bayonet mount of my Rolleiflex TLR, but I really like the 6×9 format over the 6×6 of the TLR. I’ve been watching eBay for the slip on filter to no avail…
hmmm. Never used a yellow. Have RGB and orange. (and now, I just have software filter plug-ins. 🙂
Yellow increases the contrast of the scene by removing blue – it works great on sunny days with blue skies and white puffy clouds – darkens the blue sky to an almost black. and makes the clouds pop. Even on flat days it gives the scene some more contrast. Come to think of it, I think I’ve only ever used a yellow and a polarizer for filters. If I can find that adapter somewhere, I’ll give the others a whirl…