F1GTR: From the East

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Spent the weekend in Paris:

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Queue outside Louis Vuitton:
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Inside:
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At a fast food place:
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That tree spoiled the shot, but hey the shot itself is interesting enough:
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Killing time at around 1am in the Eurotunnel customer waiting area:
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I'm also halfway through a roll of Ektar 100 and Tri-X 400, should see the results soon. :)

C&C welcome as always.
 
Amazing shots as usual dude. The inside of the Louis Vuitton shot (#4) in particular is stunning.
 
Subscribed to this thread ;) 👍

Jolie Travail!

PS: coming from Paris, i really your photos of the city of light on the first page... i myself try to captures those sort of photos everytime i am home ;)
 
Quite a large update here. I spent the holidays in Manila this year. The last time I visited was in 2007, which was before I had any interest in photography, so it was interesting to see the Philippines from both a more mature and artistic view.

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These are print scans so I tried my best to clean them up. A film scanner is next on my list of things to buy.

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Film used: Ektar 100, 400TX (either shot at stock speed or pushed one stop).

Cameras used: Canonet QL17 GIII, Nikon F3HP + 50/1.8, Rolleiflex 75/3.5 Tessar, Hexar AF
 
Arise, dead thread!

From my first ever self developed roll, aside from a few drying marks I'm pretty pleased with the results! Ilford Delta 100 in ID11 1+1 shot through the trusty Hexar AF:

Walking the tree:
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(Just testing out the bokeh on the lens)

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My favourite shot on the roll, love how part of the London skyline has been reflected on the window.
 
Thanks! :)

Thought I'd post these here since I only posted them in the premo forum:

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It is time I drop a comment here... Your candids are fantastic overall. You really deserve that M4. 👍

By the way, how's 500px? I see it's the new big thing...
 
You make me terribly jealous lol. 👍

I know, eh? Geez.

Uni starts soon, gonna ask a few more of my friends to model for me. ;)

It is time I drop a comment here... Your candids are fantastic overall. You really deserve that M4. 👍

By the way, how's 500px? I see it's the new big thing...

Thanks :), I'm still trying to get a hang of using a camera without a meter, but I feel that a Leica was the right choice in terms of equipment for me (used a few cheaper compact rangefinders before moving up to the big one), it isn't the fastest camera out there but it inspires confidence. As for 500px, I quite like it. The userbase is quite small at the moment, but it just means that the more serious photographers use it so the standard of work tends to be higher. Community wise it isn't so good as you rarely get any constructive crit, but that happens with flickr as well anyway. Regardless, it's a nice way to display a portfolio online since their portfolio templates are iPad friendly. I have a flickr (or three) but I hardly update them (in fact, one is just sitting there completely empty, I have the intention of reprocessing all my best shots and putting them up there but I keep forgetting).
 
A quick update, stuff I shot a few days ago plus a rescan of some older Ektar shots that I posted before:

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Rescanned some older negs. These were from late Spring.

Kodak Ektar 100 + Hexar AF

Shots from Thursday, Ilford HP5+ @ 400, Leica M4

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Friends, pretty happy that I managed to nail the focus at 1.5 while they were joking about.

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Headgear
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Very nice set of pics here. Really like your style of photography... Feels like I'm there seeing what you see through the lens. :)
 
Thanks, I'm about halfway through two rolls so expect more at the end of the week.

In other photographic news, I may be shooting more music related stuff if the interviews with James Blake and Jamie xx go ahead. In addition to that I've got a few fashion shoots to do, so I'm going to be rather busy this Winter!
 
Some photographs from today's strike action:

Blocking my uni's main entrance:
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Students meet another group of protesters:
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Have to say I am loving the shots coming from the Leica. Solid contrast and the 400 grain adds just that extra touch for many of them. Generally solid use of DoF as well.

Also, if I ever come to the UK, you must introduce me to some of your friends :D
 
Thanks Az, and yeah I know plenty more. ;)

I finally got some shots I took a few months ago developed. I wanted to test two things, the first being how my dev+film combo held up (Diafine+Tri-X @ ISO1250/1600) and secondly if shooting street with a TLR is as good a rangefinder. I think it is, the first shot wouldn't have been possible if I just used a smaller camera, at least not without being shouted at. The camera evoked curiosity rather than paranoia.

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(shot into the sun, this old 50's glass flares up in a nice way)

Also, an alternate shot of smoking guy. I did some practice dodging and burning on this, apologies if it looks weird. Since scans always come out flatter than usual (more so with diafine and tri x) some extra processing is required to really make the highlights pop:

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EDIT: another from the Fuji S5 from yesterday morning, some builders having their breakfast:

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This I like a lot, wonderful composition and exposure. The sunlight falls perfectly onto his head and hand.

Thanks man. 👍

I'm currently getting through quite a film backlog at the moment. I'm halfway through developing 11 rolls of film, it's not a lot compared to some photographers I follow (some of which hit a hundred in a fortnight!), but so far there are a few interesting shots. I'll post a full set once I've gone through them all and picked the best shots.
 
The last set in general is pretty damn good. Great exposition... I know the low light helps, but I've seen lot of those with the brightest parts all burned up. I really like the first picture.
 

Thanks Cano! Good to see you around these parts again.

Big street update, they were either shot on the Hexar or Leica over the past three months or so, enjoy:

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The Hexar's AF doesn't focus through glass sometimes, so you often end up with a ghostly blur behind the glass

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Analog vs. Digital

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Camden scooterbar. This same shot has probably been taken hundreds of times.

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Synchronised smoking

Waiting in Heathrow
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There were severe delays on the Central line that day

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Two different uniforms

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Got caught!

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Heimlich manoeuvre

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I'm being watched. Didn't notice the sign until I scanned the shot in, coincidences like that make me smile a lot.

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She's either really funny or he fancies her a lot.

That's it, I've got another seven rolls to develop now. All shot on Kodak Tri-X, developed in Diafine at around ISO 1250-1600.​
 
^ There are several gems among those. Excellent candids.

Do you shoot at waist-level? On some of the shots I get that impression.
 
Thanks DM, none of those were shot at waist level, the ones that do look like that are probably due to me crouching or already being seated. I only shoot at waist level when I use my TLR, although I do have a shot on one of the undeveloped rolls that I did take from waist level.
 
The weather's been getting better over here so I decided to take my Rolleiflex out for a few walks.

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Mile End, London

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I took three shots of this girl, the first two were of her looking into the distance, but they were very out of focus. This is the very last frame I shot of her, and all the elements just fell into place.

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I often take shots that I wouldn't usually take whenever I shoot squares:
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Thanks for looking! I've ordered a bunch of colour film (Velvia, Ektar and Portra) since Spring/Summer is for colour.​
 
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