Getting the winter out

[mentok]

Over Christmas I took a trip up to CT. I got out to take some pics in the snow, here are some of the results:

...and these two were taken on the trip back down:

 

[forceofnature]

I like the pp done on these.

 

[MrX]

Nice work, I like the locomotive the best.

 

[hvp05]

Mentok, you have a nice vision that I can appreciate. Are you trained or self-taught? What are you shooting with?

I like the variety here, from the expansiveness and balanced exposure of the radio towers to the graininess and high contrast of the skyline shot. The power plant(?) is a good one too. Mind disclosing where that is?

You have started here with a bang. Keep posting!

 

[Jameo]

Nice work, I like the locomotive the best.

good shot

 

[mentok]

Thanks everyone

Mentok, you have a nice vision that I can appreciate. Are you trained or self-taught? What are you shooting with?

I like the variety here, from the expansiveness and balanced exposure of the radio towers to the graininess and high contrast of the skyline shot. The power plant(?) is a good one too. Mind disclosing where that is?

You have started here with a bang. Keep posting!

Thanks

Actually, I'm pretty much self taught, although I've done a lot of reading, in particular, I love night shooting so I've tried to read up on it a lot, and I try to get out and do it as often as possible.

I shoot with a variety of cameras. In the first few pics I shot w/ a Canon Rebel XT with a Tokina 11-16mm f/2.8 lens, which is not my ideal setup for night shooting, especially in 16 degree weather. The battery died pretty quick out there...but thats another story.

The last two shots were taken using a Canon AE-1 Program using a 24mm f/2.8 lens. I used Kodak Ektar 100 film, which I was rather surprised at some of my results. Otherwise I shoot with a Canon TX, a Mamiya RZ67 (mostly black and white) a couple of Holgas, and two Polaroids (SX-70 and 103)...and I just fixed up two Argoflex 75's for Stereographic photography, and I just cleaned and old Kodak Brownie Hawkeye for some medium format experimentation.

Probably more info than you wanted, but thats pretty much what I roll w/

Also, the power plant is up in Philly, if you want to know more go ahead and PM me...although at the moment, I think the power plant is being used for filming of a movie, but I do plan to make it back up there in the next few months.

Nice work, I like the locomotive the best.

Thanks

Yeah, I love steam engines, and I spent three nights while I was up there shooting that one...

 

[hvp05]

Actually, I'm pretty much self taught, although I've done a lot of reading

Whatever works.

I love night shooting so I've tried to read up on it a lot, and I try to get out and do it as often as possible.

I can tell. Shooting at night has given most of your photos a lonely, almost haunting presence; coupled with your choice of subjects (abandonded car; radio towers in the middle of nowhere), you have ended up with some effective, evocative shots.

The last two shots were taken using a Canon AE-1 Program using a 24mm f/2.8 lens. I used Kodak Ektar 100 film, which I was rather surprised at some of my results. Otherwise I shoot with a Canon TX, a Mamiya RZ67 (mostly black and white) a couple of Holgas, and two Polaroids (SX-70 and 103)...and I just fixed up two Argoflex 75's for Stereographic photography, and I just cleaned and old Kodak Brownie Hawkeye for some medium format experimentation.

I am familiar with most of those, even though I have not shot with any of them. That is awesome that you still shoot film, including medium format. Do you, by chance, develop your own or do you send it out?

 

[mentok]

Whatever works.

I agree, its always easy to figure out how passionate you are about something depending on how much time you spend thinking about it, reading about it and doing it

I can tell. Shooting at night has given most of your photos a lonely, almost haunting presence; coupled with your choice of subjects (abandonded car; radio towers in the middle of nowhere), you have ended up with some effective, evocative shots.

thanks I actually enjoy getting out shooting abandoned things a lot, as well as spending my weekends looking for abandoned things to shoot, but the night adds so much more to the atmosphere that I find I sometimes get bored shooting during the day.

I am familiar with most of those, even though I have not shot with any of them. That is awesome that you still shoot film, including medium format. Do you, by chance, develop your own or do you send it out?

awesome they are all fun cameras in their own way. I love tinkering with things, and so anytime I get an old camera that doesn't work I like to play with it. I love shooting film, there's just something to it that can't compare to digital. So many people that I shoot with who use digital are so critical of film, and try all the digital arguments, but there is something to using a good solid full manual SLR that is more enjoyable than using my digital rebel.

as far as developing my own film, I actually just recently started doing my own development because I got tired of having to go to Penn Camera (Ritz lost a few rolls of my 120) to get it done. So I've started doing B&W and have done somewhere around 10 rolls combined of 35mm & 120. I'm looking into getting some Diafine to experiment a little, as well as some E-6 chemicals to do slides...I'm hoping I can get away with room temp development. I still have yet to consider doing C-41 though, too much temperature dependence...

I'll post up some of my home developed pics in my next thread though