Fotografi Analogue

What I want to be

2009-10-31T07:19:00.001-07:00

Paul Fusco editing pictures: Picture from Magnum blog.

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Nice

2009-04-11T02:39:00.000-07:00

Mild "McGangbang" spotted in Melbourne

2009-03-28T03:40:00.000-07:00

Beyond the daily grind...

2009-03-23T07:59:00.000-07:00

Tri-x 400

Ektachrome 100

D50 ASP-C

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Burning in

Work space

Make your own prints:

I looked up traditional darkroom printing, darkroom printing and the sorts online google and failed to find any readily available instructions on how to make your own print. So here it is-
the very robust way of doing your own silver halide prints.

1. Find a equipped darkroom
2. Chemicals
-Developer (no, you need a developer where the label reads "paper developer") as opposed
to film developer)
- Fixer ( Ilford rapid fixers fixes both film and paper and different dilutions- I use Agfa fixer)
- Stop Bath

3. Negatives
4. Photographic paper
5. Lots of time

For a full negative print fitting into a 8 x 10 Paper with slight border on both ends, a good starting point for exposure is 16 seconds @ f/5.6

Lights off, safelights on, make sure you're paper is kept somewhere safe.
The duller side of your negative should face the printing paper
The shinnier side of the Printing paper is the surface you want to expose. Use gloss paper
for maximum detail.

1.With paper kept away for now, turn on the enlarger and project the negative onto the easel.
2.Adjust enlarger height to fit the negative size onto the paper size set on the easel.
3.Focus onto grain with grain focus apparatus
4. turn enlarger light off
5. Slide paper on Easel
6. Adjust exposure at 16 seconds or whatever you please, aperture at 5.6
7. Expose
8. Timer goes on, the switches off enlarger at end of 16 seconds
9. paper goes into developer 1 min @ 1:7 dilution @ 20 degrees. You should see "stuff" materialising within the first 15-20 seconds. Any later might be an indication of underexposure, any earlier, overexposure. Prints tend to seem darker than they are under safelight conditions so bear this in mind
10. I agitate by just lifting up the ends of the tray.
11. More violent rapid agitation may increase contrast/developent
12. transfer to stop bath, repeat @ 1 min
13. transfer to fix @ 1 min
14. transfer to wash for 5 mins
15. transfer to secondary wash for whatver time. Replace primary water every 10 prints or so?
16. Dry

Enjoy

2009-01-11T02:35:00.001-08:00

2009-01-09T22:50:00.000-08:00

Slideshow of interesting portraits, The New Yorker

2008-11-15T22:38:00.000-08:00

2008-11-03T05:03:00.000-08:00

2nd Straight print! Here was the crummy original lo-fi digitized version.
The negatives finally coming into print after a year.

2008-10-28T15:06:00.000-07:00

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2008-10-01T06:02:00.000-07:00

Really Large Format Photography

2008-09-30T20:59:00.000-07:00

Check this link out, photography by John Chiara

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2008-06-14T17:55:00.000-07:00

A misty Melbourne morning, 1 week before winter

2008-05-25T00:36:00.000-07:00

Click and admire that tri-x grain and sharp Yashinon lens babe. resized and quality reduced to 80%

sample shot

2008-05-21T07:17:00.000-07:00

First time developing at prism. Bit disappointed with the quality level of developing as well as scanning.
Scanned at med. Res.

2008-05-20T06:59:00.000-07:00

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Gotta love work

2008-05-02T09:04:00.000-07:00

Notes:

Was browsing through flickr when I came across this , Pure Awesomeness.

JC

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Chinatown

2008-04-11T17:36:00.000-07:00

Gotta Love Taiwanese tourist groups!

2008-04-06T07:47:00.000-07:00

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2008-03-19T23:14:00.000-07:00

Soaped in DD-x, pushed 1 minute. 28mm Elmarit. Breathless

2008-03-18T22:48:00.001-07:00

Who says you can't shoot from the back and not call it street photography?

2008-03-18T22:37:00.001-07:00

2008-03-18T06:35:00.001-07:00

Chiang Mai; Portrait of a resting Buddha

Siem Riep- Portrait of a Photographer

2008-03-09T07:29:00.000-07:00

2008-03-09T04:48:00.001-07:00

Feature: Luang Prabang, Laos

2008-03-06T05:28:00.001-08:00

Luang Prabang; Alms collection on an early morning. The Ratpack seems to agree that Luang
Prabang was among the top 3 locations that we would return to within Southeast Asia. Though it is clearly flourishing as a major tourist attraction, the peripherals of the the town itself features peaceful walks with fresh air that overlook the mekong river.

2008-02-27T17:56:00.001-08:00

Ho Chi Minh- View from the Reunification palace

2008-02-11T05:58:00.000-08:00

For an instant I could not remember when or where I photographed this boy. But it all returned to me within the following minutes. I believe he and several other of his friends were making way to classes at Luang Prabang one early morning when I photographed him standing by the sidewalk. It must have been some 4 months now since the shot was taken and my first look at the negative. Looking back at , he hardly seemed as if he'd posed the way he appears in this photo.

2007-12-12T18:15:00.001-08:00

Tiger cave lookout at Krabi*[edit], Thailand.
Tri-X 400.

2007-12-10T23:49:00.000-08:00

"model" of an American chopper used during the Vietnam war.

2007-12-07T06:02:00.000-08:00

First 2 rolls look awesomely promising...in fact,
its interesting...looking at these negs nw, that were shot some 2 months ago.
I've was familiar with the trip photos taken digitally, simply because
I had been reviewing them constantly, but not these. "did I shoot tht?"

2007-12-01T18:24:00.000-08:00

Perving on blads...anyone take a hint what he's shooting?

2007-11-29T01:16:00.000-08:00

Tiger whisky + Rope-crane-entrapment over river=

More here

2007-09-20T05:23:00.000-07:00

Ok don't stop reading this blog...but if you've ever thought of learning a little something about film photography, Justin ouellette has just reposted an updated post on how to develop your own films at home for sub $50 at www.chromogenic.com/verba.

Make heads towards www.2point8.whileseated.org for more interesting bits on street photography. The guy's managed to compile some old interviews of Gary Winogrand and the sorts

Lo-Fi Digitizing of color negatives

2007-09-07T02:19:00.000-07:00

When I first started shooting B/W film, digitizing negatives was
a fun,awesome, quickie, cheap way of seeing the result of my work.
I would set up a digital camera to shoot the negatives against
my laptop screen, then import it into photoshop and invert it.
2 months ago I returned to my hometown (sabah) and found heaps
of old film that I used to shoot during my days as a kid. But I couldn't
find the prints. So I tried converting the negative. but you get this nasty
blue tint on it because of the color negative's orange tint.
I gave up. Every now and then I'd go back and give it another go.
Eventually...I managed to neutralize the blue tint...quite fulfilling to see
that "digital-color-print-negative". The two negatives above
were one's I discovered the shop had left out during its printing. What a
pain.

10 days in Singapore

2007-08-05T23:04:00.001-07:00

Man with tattoo on head, by Boat Quay

Orchard Rd.

Singapore's MRT station on Orchard rd., at 6am

2007-06-24T05:51:00.001-07:00

Silvia S15

Home sweet home

2007-06-17T08:33:00.000-07:00

Mt. Kinabalu?

2007-06-09T18:51:00.001-07:00

Queens Square, Sydney

2007-06-03T23:42:00.001-07:00

Newest member to the family; Holga 120N , Just arrived today!woohoo!! I can leave melbourne now....
From left to right : Nikon D50, Holga 120N, Yashica D TLR
Shot by yours truly; Canon IXUS 30

stikfas vs Jazz the transformer (RX-8)

2007-06-03T18:48:00.001-07:00

2007-05-31T19:50:00.000-07:00

test

2007-05-31T09:09:00.000-07:00

Stikfas enjoying works of art by photographerpundit. note- stikfast(bob) belongs to YC
at http://why-see.blogspot.com

2007-05-31T06:37:00.000-07:00

The real story behind Woodie's extremity injury: http://flickr.com/photos/collimation/486618790/

2007-05-24T19:30:00.000-07:00

2007-05-19T11:17:00.000-07:00

Chimping on analog photography; Negs drying in the bathroom

Ilford Delta 3200, Ilford DDX @11"

Upon first inspection, the negatives seemed rather thin(underexposed). No surprise here...
..was shooting under pitch black conditions; only
lights from street lamps and buildings etc...don't really know wht the canon is metering on...
..4:22am..going to sleep

2007-05-18T07:07:00.000-07:00

At long last

2007-05-15T06:08:00.000-07:00

2007-05-05T23:48:00.000-07:00

Tried this over the weekend, using a piece
of red transparency as a filter, then converting to
BW in photoshop via channel mixer, red (100%).
Not bad for 94 cents. And it actually gives
the photo a bit of a soft look whilst changing
the the overall tones. quite interesting result.

2007-05-01T02:12:00.000-07:00

2007-04-26T07:27:00.000-07:00

self glorification shot by YC

2007-04-26T05:20:00.000-07:00

Cleaning the insides of Yashica D.

2007-04-12T09:42:00.000-07:00

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1st test roll of Ilford FP4+, ASA 125.
Developer: D-76, 11"@20 deg.

1/250, f/11

1/60, f/8: fully shaded by building

1/125, f/8: Full shade and full sunlit sky

1/250, f/11

2007-04-05T06:33:00.000-07:00

2007-03-31T15:17:00.000-07:00

Experimented with developing a kodak color film in normal black and white chemistry (D-76, at 20 degrees for 9:30 minutes) with a little home bleach after the fixing stage. The negatives came out denser when compared to otherwise properly developed color film. Shot with a medium format Yashica D; the 35 mm was balanced in the middle of the camera's back.

Straight inversion of color negs, black points set accordingly from curves function.

Straight inversion without setting black point.

2007-03-23T18:08:00.000-07:00

Woke up this morning to find the negatives had dried quite
nicely without much obvious watermarks/dust. Hung this neg over
my white laptop screen, shot it and inverted it. Looks fairly
low in contrast, i suspect the contacts prints should look nicer...

2007-03-23T10:12:00.000-07:00

Success! well as far as developing negatives
are concerned. 4:18am. time to sleep.

2007-03-23T09:42:00.000-07:00

Making up D76

cooling the developer temperature to 20 degrees. I gave up waiting
and went with 25 degrees. I suspect the thermometer wasn't
very accurate either.

The wash

Note to self: maybe wear gloves next time. Hands starting to feel unsually dry. Hmmm.

30 minute frustration

2007-03-23T07:57:00.000-07:00

Bloody long backing papers

"get in there you bitch"

I can only phantom the joy of seeing your prints "develop"
in the developing bath after overcoming a half hour of mega frustration
trying to load my roll film onto the developing reel.
It started when I removed the roll in the dark, and suddenly
I couldn't tell which was head and tail. The harder bit was
telling which was film and which was backing paper. I thought
what I was feeling felt utterly weird; unfilm like texture...but the piece
of backing material was so long, I was going..shit that's gotta be the film.
So I spent 2o mins trying to load the stupid backing into the reel..which is virtually
impossible. Until I decided to scavange through the whole
role did I come accross something that felt more like film. Loading
took 5 minutes from then. Joy.
Now, onto developing.

2007-03-21T06:13:00.000-07:00

someone help...I'm seeing doubles...

2007-03-17T18:18:00.000-07:00

So you want to shoot a nightclub scene, or any action scene with supernatural low ambient lighting? here are some of your options...

a) you don't.
b) you use that magic green button
c) you play around with different color balance, keep your noise level down,
sacrifice sharpness and play around with your flash strength

The ones below were shot at ISO 200 with "shade" as white balance
and a slow/rear flash sync ( basically flash that fires at the end of the
exposure and superimposes a sharp image over all that handshake motion)

Aperture Priority, 2.5" with Manual Flash at about 1/4th strength,
but, with an ISO of 800 that explains the short shutter speed
and blown highlights. Though it renders cathy quite cute as a
one of those comic character drawn without a nose though,lol

Ok.- ISO was too high so I dialed down to 200.
There goes 10" of my life, and Steven's and Cathy's.
Manual flash 1/4th strength at largest aperture. Good
thing about the hand shake and motion blurring is
that it rendered a soft-ish look with hard lighting? Uber coolism.

a 6" shot. Anyone see the ghost on the lady's shoulder?

-all shots straight from camera.

2007-03-16T17:56:00.000-07:00

2007-03-12T07:13:00.000-07:00

F8, 1/100s at iso 200. 3 Steps
below S-16, overcast 5pm, with
custom white balance of the
lady's top. No Levels/Curves adjustments.
Nikon D50, (sRGB I)

2007-03-12T06:10:00.000-07:00

YC testing out the SB-600
on the Yashica D. Turns out the bodies flash
holder wasn't sturdy enough to support the weight

Me attempting to load a Kodak Tmax 100, before
reading the following "load in subdued light".

Loading film into camera under "subdued" light. Hey it was
12 noon at the park, where else was I going to find subdued light??

day 1; Testing the Yashica D with Kodak Tmax 100.
Above, a nice red house just 5 minutes walk from
my place.

Yashica Modded Nikkor AF-S 18-55mm

2007-03-11T06:11:00.000-07:00

2007-03-11T01:56:00.000-08:00

Jordan X, spotted on his 1995 comeback from retirement,
although he failed to bring the Bulls past the Orlando magic
at the conference finals. They came back the following year,
storming through the regular season with a crunching 72-10 record
finishing off the Seattle Sonics 4-2.

2007-03-06T17:08:00.000-08:00

The morning 10 boxes arrived in my front door

Unsalted baked beans. Yuck

2007-03-06T02:13:00.000-08:00

Lampster

Overture

gas heater

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2007-02-22T23:23:00.000-08:00

1/2500 at +0.7 compensation in Aperture priority

Me taking the D50's exposure metering for a spin. In most cases it seems an exposure compensation of 1 stop seemed to produce a histogram shift comfortably to the right without blowing out the highlights.

2007-02-21T02:43:00.000-08:00

"maroon socks?"
Guy & Special walking outside the train station

Note-
Hope you're enjoying the temporary absence of black and whites from the
site. Reason being that I've been messing around more, trying to obtain
a certain "color" for my shots. Shots that appear muted yet still punchy whilst
a bit on the soft side. Enjoy

2007-02-21T02:22:00.000-08:00

Outside Moreland train station, Coburg
3pm
f16, 1/100S iso200

2007-02-11T06:29:00.000-08:00

St kilda fest.

The rush

St. Kilda Pier

rooftop party

Shades and ice cream

2007-02-05T17:10:00.000-08:00

Realto Tower, Melbourne CBD

2007-02-05T03:29:00.001-08:00

Port Melbourne

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2007-01-27T13:21:00.000-08:00

Note-
I've been asked before why I was constantly using manual to shoot
on my D50 and not aperture priority or program mode. The answer
actually stems from my experience within radiography, though at
the time I used Manual exposure on the D50, I must admit
I had little clue on how to set the right exposure. As with Photography,
Radiography too allows for Automatic Exposure (something call Automated
Exposure Control;AEC). The AEC basically comprises of 3 calibrated
chambers(they sit behind the patient) that cut off once the "correct" density is reached. Though
like anything else, it can be very inaccurate for two reasons.
Poor patient positioning and Patient body habitus- a good reason to go manual-
reliability. Though, like all things else, radiography too is well within the digital age,
and the Medical Imaging site I will work soon too be converting to CR (computerised radiography).

On a separate note* Tripod rules
-the general rule of thumb states that to attain reasonably sharp images(hand held),
the shutter speed should be no less then the reciprocal of the focal
length in use. Though I wonder If this rule was with regards to Film or Digital.
So say I shot at 80mm, this would be the equivalent of a 128mm on a 35mm
camera due to the smaller digital sensor. So would it then be safe to shoot
at at above 1/80th...or 1/160th shutter speed?

2007-01-27T13:01:00.000-08:00

Plain BW conversion on gradient map

House outside the house- f/8, ISO 400, 1/80 Shutter speed-Handheld at 80mm(128mm equiv for film).
Shot under extreme overcast conditons early in the morning. 4 1/3 stops under sunny-16 exposure.
PS: square format cropping, minimal levels, curves & doddging. Gradient Map to convert BW.

2007-01-26T14:35:00.000-08:00