W/NW Pic-O'-The-Week # 27

ZM, Arthur 25mm

Yes, I have the 35mm biogon. My 25mm is a voigtlander (though, they both come from the same shop, cosina). The 35mm is a sparkling lens; the 25mm is a bit patchy at times. Your shots are good. Take some credit; don't blame the lens for your vision (some people see things; some people have vision). Regards, Arthur (apiarist1)

Fezziwig's Diner, Philadelphia

 

M240, Canon 50mm f/1.4 LTM Lens

 

Bertliang, great shot. Such texture. Good.

Thank you Arthur/apiarist1...I always enjoy reading your posts and seeing the images you capture.

viktor_gruber. The colour. It seems to me a bit 'flamboyant'. Did you do this on purpose? Tell me about it. Regards, Arthur (apiarist1).

For those pictures I used b&w film Fuji acros100. I always scan b&w film as color positive film to get the best from the negative and also that gives an ability of color manipulation with b&w film. I intentionally chose this color to give these pictures special look.

victor_gruber, that's right out of my ball park. I see a conversation looming here. Scanning b&w as color? Tell me a bit more. The shot's are arresting, to my mind, and 'flamboyant'. And, if you could, map out your workflow (I hate this gibberish, 'workflow'; used to be 'tell me how you did it'). Regards, Arthur (apiarist1)

 

Riot of Color....downtown Austin, Texas

Kodak Ektar

 

This is from last year....I believe this place has been demolished to build more condominiums. One 'man's' art park is another 'man's' eyesore.

victor_gruber, that's right out of my ball park. I see a conversation looming here. Scanning b&w as color? Tell me a bit more. The shot's are arresting, to my mind, and 'flamboyant'. And, if you could, map out your workflow (I hate this gibberish, 'workflow'; used to be 'tell me how you did it'). Regards, Arthur (apiarist1)

 

Film scanners were designed with main intend to scan color positive film (slide) and color negative. On that time photographers were using dark room for printing b&w and scanner b&w mode was an additional and did not produce the best quality scan. There are many articles on internet with the sample images comparing these scanning modes. I did my own test with the similar results. You do not get full tonal gradation of the film using b&w mode. Also, as a benefit of scanning as a slide film, you get all color channels and that gives you an opportunity to color b&w film and you can make color print. It is the same technique like a hand painted b&w prints.

 

The procedure is:

 

Set up the scanner in color positive film mode.

 

Make a scan. You get a color negative.

 

Invert in Photoshop or other programs the negative image to positive.

 

Make required manipulation. Using color channels get the best tonal gradation.

 

Convert color image to b&w if you need it.

Commercial jet, but it does not look so big here...

 

Leica Monochrome, Type 246, and 90mm f2 APO Summicron.

 

I've gone to do some photography after a long hiatus in Gibbs Gardens (see more pictures under the Travel forum) about an hour north of Atlanta, GA. Leica M9, 35/2 Summicron ASPH. Very pretty place.

 

Reminds me of the Japanese Garden at the Fort Worth Botanic Gardens.

Rats, I lived in Ft. Worth briefly and I never found out about those either. This garden claims to be the biggest, but Golden Gate Park's garden is pretty amazing too.

I make it to the one over in Fort Worth 4-5 times a year. Pretty place to photograph, whether the middle of winter or summer..

 

 

 

 

 

The second to last of the Fort Worth shots with it’s odd angle is interesting because typically japanese gardens are designed to promote peace and tranquility and that composition tends to work against that by making it a bit more dynamic. Nice use of the single deeply orange tree as a sort of anchor for the image too. Also if you are taking pictures of a japanese garden, you want to give it an eastern look. Otherwise it just looks like a regular garden. The architecture of the house and the bamboo rail does that rather nicely here.

Light was poor, so out on the town with just the Leica D-Lux 109 - improved drastically, then one of my favorite shops was having a going out of business sale - so arms full of packages as well.

A parting shot (as the Parthians would say). Greg M. your B&W shot is great (took me a minute to find the plane). It's a good shot - did you use a filter, or post shot process, to get the clouds so well done. And the colour shots are great. Well done. And carbon_dragon, that's good; you've captured an 'ambience' (a real glow'). It's a good look. But for my money, Uhooru's opening shot takes the cake: the colour, the timing, the framing. Now that's something to emulate. Regards, Arthur