Cottages & Symmetry

SO again, back to my typical documentary type shots of places I see in my travels or movements. Up on Cape Cod, below Provincetown there's a little spot named Truro. Compared to the celebratory, artsy vibe of P-town, Truro has a more subdued, down home, sort of working class feel. Some folks clearly live there, and others come to vacation. There are a whole slew of little bayside cottages, but there's one group pf them that caught my eye because there is a whole line of them and they are all almost exactly the same. Each cottage is named for a flower species as well! I was enthralled & enchanted by them & took a handful of photos in black and white, which I am presenting now - and a few in color as well (I am awaiting the scans from the lab, should have em in a few days). I've been waiting to show these to you all, but since I'm posting other stuff today, here goes.

Please let me know what you think. I shot them in medium format which is mostly what I have now and also in 35mm.

Thanks again!

PS: I dragged & dropped these. The file sizes are 3+ mb, just under 4mb. FYI, if you click on a photo you'll get the whole bit.

Cheers!

this next one (below) is a crop of a 6x6 MF shot

and one 35mm photo

SO again, back to my typical documentary type shots of places I see in my travels or movements. Up on Cape Cod, below Provincetown there's a little spot named Truro. Compared to the celebratory, artsy vibe of P-town, Truro has a more subdued, down home, sort of working class feel. Some folks clearly live there, and others come to vacation. There are a whole slew of little bayside cottages, but there's one group pf them that caught my eye because there is a whole line of them and they are all almost exactly the same. Each cottage is named for a flower species as well! I was enthralled & enchanted by them & took a handful of photos in black and white, which I am presenting now - and a few in color as well (I am awaiting the scans from the lab, should have em in a few days). I've been waiting to show these to you all, but since I'm posting other stuff today, here goes.

 

Please let me know what you think. I shot them in medium format which is mostly what I have now and also in 35mm.

Thanks again!

 

PS: I dragged & dropped these. The file sizes are 3+ mb, just under 4mb. FYI, if you click on a photo you'll get the whole bit.

Cheers!

 

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this next one (below) is a crop of a 6x6 MF shot

 

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and one 35mm photo

 

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Like the first shot and the 4th shot. The focal length is right, the patterns are more pleasing, and there is less distraction. Nice tones in all pics btw, Well done.

Pan F appears to result in much more pleasing tones and contrast than P30 - and than Superpan 200 too.

The Pan F Plus is my favorite for MF, so great. It’s amazing how different it looked to me in 35mm. Conversely, Superpan didn’t strike me in 120, but I like it in 35mm!

Hi everyone. Thanks for your critique, comments and kind words.

These cottages seemed to be pretty solidly booked, as you can see form the (unfortunate) cars out front. The cottages are basically right at the edge of the road, with only a bit of room to park and open a car door without it being swung into the traffic lane.

The road itself was surprisingly busy- hence the distance at which most of the shots were made. I had my MF camera on the tripod at kind of a low setting- what I was really trying to concentrate on was getting the camera level to eliminate the “converging vertical lines” type of distortion that seems so typical with shooting architecture- and never thought about perspective distortion!

I was kind of playing with the roadway space a bit, trying to minimize it to some degree- but in the end, I couldn’t risk being run over! I was playing around a bit with the crosswalk and in photo 5, (the 35mm shot which was hand-held) also with the double yellow line.

I did sneak out and get that single shot from the seaside of the cottages but then walked into a small store across the street - where the crosswalk is- to see if I might get permission to wander about. Unfortunately, the lady running the store was VERY stern about trespassing and said numerous times NO TRESPASSING! and NO! after I told her I was passing thru and taking photos of the area. She was not nice about it. At all. But, too, with the cabins being booked to some degree i was feeling a bit over-conscious and perhaps a wee bit voyeuristic in shooting these. I did draw at least a couple “looks” from folks who were coming and going!

Here are a couple 35mm color film photos of these cottages. I feel like the perspective distortion is minimized in these, but if anyone wants to chime in on this please do so.

Thanks again.