billy_bunton

<p>Hi people,</p>

<p>I remember seeing a series of portraits by a photographer, he had made portraits of youth's in London, Tokyo, and I think Los Angeles and/or New York; possibly another location also. And what is striking is that all the youths wear the same style clothes - u couldn't tell where they were from by their dress style. Which is what the photographer was trying to point out.</p>

<p>Can't remember his name though so if anybody can recall it would be a great help :)</p>

<p>Cheers,</p>

<p>Billy</p>

<p>Thank you very much guys; brilliant :)</p>

<p>It's such a great photo!</p>

<p>Hey People :)</p>

<p>I've seen and looked at this particular photograph several times, and now as I am writing my dissertation it has come to mind and it will perfectly fit in I can't find it!</p>

<p>I've looked through my Magnum book, my LIFE book, my The Photo Book, 20th Century Photography book, and my How To Read A Photograph by Ian Jeffrey book - it's been hours looking, and what is so frustrating is I've come across it several times; hence why I believed it was in my book collection. If it weren't happening to me I'd find it amusing, so hopefully they'll be some of you out there that that will find my frustration amusing - a little bit of schadenfraude eh! ;)</p>

<p>So this photo; it's of a young woman walking down the street with a basket in Italy somewhere. She's at the corner and evidently in a rush to get past the men standing around objectifying her - one of the men is on a bicycle of scooter, I think it's from the 1940's or 1950's.</p>

<p>If anyone knows the photo it would be great if you could let me know, it would stop the pecking at my head!</p>

<p>Cheers<br>

Billy</p>

<p>Hi</p>

<p>Wondering if there is anybody out there who has had any experience with the Canon Tilt & Shift lenses, and if so how good they are? <br>

I'm wondering if art galleries would look down on digital images captured through digital and tilt shift, and would look more fondly on photographs taken with a view camera?<br>

I assume architects have no preference, digital being so immediate, and with more freedom to experiment with digital compared to film, more variety is given to the architect, and with greater speed no?</p>

<p>It would be great to hear from a photographer who specializes in architecture photography and has converted from view camera to Canon Tilt & Shift.</p>

<p>Cheers,</p>

<p>Billy </p>

<p>hi, i wanna start using reflectors for my portraits, and wanna get a stand - any reccomendations?</p>

<p>i was looking at a interfit that holds 3 reflectors p at same time if required</p>

<p>cheers</p>

<p>billy</p>

<p>Wow! Thanks for all your replies, you have all been very helpful, and hopefully I'll decide and make my purchase on monday :)</p>

<p>Thanks again people</p>

<p>Billy</p>

<p>Hi People,</p>

<p>I have a Hasselblad 501cm with the standard 80mm lens, which is fine for the portrait project I doing at present and for the rest of this academic year. However, I have possibly £1000 to spend on either a MacBook, but think I'd be better off investing in a second hand lens.</p>

<p>I am thinking either a 50mm or 40mm lens, and these are my options...</p>

<p>40mm f4 CF FLE - £899<br>

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<p >50mm F2.8 F - £349</p>

<p >50mm F2.8 FE - £750</p>

<p >50mm F4 C Black - £399</p>

<p >50mm F4 C Chrome - £449</p>

<p >50mm F4 CF - £499</p>

<p >50mm F4 CF FLE - £649</p>

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<p >I work part-time at a printers and when I graduate I will be looking for work through their client base, photographing local businesses such as golf courses, bed & breakfasts, hotels etc. So I am looking to purchase with this in mind. I was recently asked to photograph some food for a restaurant but I turned the offer down as I wish to concentrate solely on my degree, I am thinking 50mm would probably be wiser than the 40mm at the moment, but maybe some of you out there disagree?</p>

<p >I was also wondering, what is the difference between the "F", "FE", & "FLE" lenses?</p>

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<p >Thanks in advance,</p>

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<p >Billy</p>

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<p>I said once to a friend that if I were to take on a portrait project I'd choose black & white, I was thinking purely for aesthetic reasons. However, now I have a portrait project approaching I find myself leaning towards colour. I believe colour will transport more information to the viewer, for example the choice of colour the subject wishes to dress in, the decorations within the environment I will be photographing them in - such as their bedroom. I looked online for black and white pictures to compare with colour, I found many pics of Scarlett Johanssen, by various photographers. And one thing I noticed was that there is a lack of sexual energy within the black and white compared to the colour. Even when in colour the vibe is not sexual, I still find myself more sexually attracted than the black and white that have the intention of causing a sexual vibe. The black and white seem more statuesque, more delicate - "touch only gently, smooth softly", while the colour have more rawness to them.<br>

If you have any thoughts on portraiture photography in regards to black and white versus colour it would be good to read them.<br>

Thanks,<br>

Billy </p>

<p>Hi</p>

<p>Thanks Michael & Starvy for replying, sorry it has taken so long to write back I fell off my quad!!</p>

<p>All is ok though.</p>

<p>I use photoshop to scan the negs in, I have the settings on...</p>

<p>mode: professional mode<br>

settings name: current setting<br>

document type: film<br>

film type: colour negative<br>

image type: 24 bit colour<br>

resolution: 300</p>

<p>the film i used was kodak 400 NC, not slide as far as I know, i thought it was colour negative?</p>

<p>Cheers,</p>

<p>Billy</p>

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<p>hi people,</p>

<p>i recently bought myself a scanner, and have now got myself photoshop and my first 15 rolls of film processed - yay!</p>

<p>however my scans are coming in with a weird blue hue to it. i thought at first it was the film - kodak - but then i got the same with the fuji i also experimented with.<br>

i've managed to get my first of the bunch looking realistic, however i think maybe something is wrong with my scanner settings - does anyone have any ideas please?<br>

here are the pics for you to check for yourself, cheers</p>

<p>billy</p><div></div>

<p>FUJI RTP T64 120 Tungsten & KODAK EPY 120 Ektachrome 64T ..... I was wondering if anybody had used these films with tungsten lighting and had some pics on there gallery i could check out before buying.</p>

<p>Cheers</p>

<p>Billy</p>

<p>"I'd use a flash instead of a lantern. Get a lantern. Put a flash inside it. You'll know have a much more controllable light source."</p>

<p>ah, interesting!!! i'll try that.</p>

<p>i bet , now that you mention it, that diCorcia done the same thing with the photo of the fridge and the guy looking in it aimlessly. at first i thought he must've had a really wide aperture lens. </p>

<p>cheers mate :)</p>

<p>cool, thanks nathan.</p>

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<p>it would probably help if i explained what we trying to do....</p>

<p>we all went camping but a few of our mates cancelled. and then once we got set up for the night and it was dark, we started hearing noises and we got scared, well i never but the rest of us did. and it was our mates who had cancelled, they had followed us and planned to scare us all along.</p>

<p>so i want to have my girlfriend and her friend hugging each other by this lantern lamp that we dont have anymore, so we have to buy a new one. i want the photo to look low light, a little scary if you know what i mean.</p>

<p>cheers</p>

<p>hi :)</p>

<p>me and my friends want to set up a scene from when we went camping last summer, we then want to photograph that scene.</p>

<p>we want to use a lantern for lighting but i am thinking i might need my metz for fill-in.</p>

<p>so, my question is, what type of lantern should i look to buy in regards to the colour temperature? as mixing these light sources - i imagine - will not give me what i am imagining in my head! </p>

<p>hope you can help,</p>

<p>cheers,</p>

<p>billy</p>

<p>cool!!!!!!!!!!!!</p>

<p>thanks nadine, i'm off now to photograph a friend of a friend today with natural light again so when i get back i'll follow up your links.<br>

i'm actually quite excited :)</p>

<p>thanks again!</p>

<p><em>"However, you don't change the shutter speed, you minus compensate the flash by any of the methods I mentioned above."</em><br /><em>"You can adjust comp by changing the ASA or changing the aperture on your lens, or setting a wider or smaller aperture on the flash than on the lens." - </em>Nadine.</p>

<p>cool, think i understand that now. thanks Nadine. so your saying, with experience, i'll be able to control the light by telling the flash that i am using say, 400 ASA when i am using 300 for example etc? i think i'll take notes from this thread and keep a little notebook with me.<br>

i went to photo my friend yesterday but my sync lead is dodgy so i gotta get a new one, had to shoot with natural light. is there a good book with easy to understand guide to using flash correctly? as i am getting the feeling that there is a lot more to it than taking a light reading and then shooting?<br />i dont have a lot of money see and i cant afford to make to many mistakes with it costing £4 a time to get film processed!<br>

maybe i should just shoot with the light meter and then maybe experiment by knocking down one setting at a time. for example if it says 1/60th at f/8 with a ASA of 400. i try taking the aperture to f/11 and see where it takes me.</p>

<p>p.s. i got black and white Ilford 400 film at present so gonna use that up and then try some colour. i ad my eye on fujifilm pro 400 H, though for no other rewason than it being 400 ASA, fuji and cus i liked the purple colouring on the box - wrong reasons for choosing film i know but gotta use something. would u agree this a good film to have a go with?</p>

<p>ah, your fantastic the both of you. thanks very much :)</p>

<p>the camera itself feels really solid, compact, i like it. guessing by the name hasselblad are german, it feels german as well, as in reliable...i keep looking at it and holding it ?</p>

<p>thats quite interesting stuff about the 1/60th, in regards to the light i mean. So if i liked a scene and the way it was lit with the lighting that was available, but needed a little flash to get a correct picture, i minimise the flash influence by increasing the shutter speed - for which i need a tripod and a still subject - and that way i would get a photo of the scene the way i saw it? it would also be best to bounce the flash i'd imagine cus its a pretty powerful light?! ! !</p>

<p>thanks again :)</p>

<p>billy</p>

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<p>p.s. in regards to the shutter speed in sync with the flash - what are london camera exchange on about? they a nationwide business over here in engerland, you'd think they should know better.<br>

its ridiculous, you'd think in a credit crunch customer services would improve. but no, not a chance of that.... you should've seen the burger i got from my local chip shop the other day, just a bap with a burger in batter in - no butter, no lettice or mayo, cucumber or tomato. why should we give them our money?</p>

<p>thankyou Nadine :)<br>

i'll try that out and download the manual.<br>

p.s. i dont feel very lucky, i'd rather have my grandad back, he was the only one who ever cared for me, took me out of care after my parents died. now all i have from my family is this camera equipment. if it had been won in a competition, i'd probably sell it but due to the emotional connection i wanna have a go at photography.<br>

there are two little loops on the head of the metz, would that be to fasten a umbrella?<br>

sorry, i dont mean to go on!<br>

thanks again for replying :)<br>

Cheers mate<br>

Billy</p>

<p>Hi people,<br>

My Grandad died recently and in his will left me Hasselblad 501CM, a tripod, and a METZ 45 CT 4. I don't really know much about photography, so the flash is a bit alien to me even though it looks like it will be relatively simple once explained.<br>

I have visited metz website and they allow downloads of the manuals but the 45 Ct 4 is not on there, and when I called they just fobbed me off to London Camera Exchange. Who, amazingly, seem to think that I cannot shoot any faster than 60th second with flash! I dont know much about photography but that seems not very accurate advice to me, its a leaf shutter after all. So yeh, dont trust them anymore - plus they never had the manuals. Although they insist they are simple to use.<br>

On the head of my Metz are a load of numbers and two spindles to set the settings. I've worked out that the small blue numbers are the film speed, however opposite the ASA numbers are numbers that I don't recognise, they are blue like the ASA numbers, and when i set the indicator to 400 ASA on the opposite numbers the indicator there is on number 27. Other numbers that are there are 30 (to the left of 27) and 24, 21, 18, and 15, I have not a clue what they are for but next to 15 is ''DIN'' - what ever that means?<br>

On the outskirts are aperture numbers,... 2.8, 4, 5.6, 8, 11, 16. So I take it once I have a light reading I set the indicator to the aperture I am shooting with. <br>

The numbers that between the ASA and aperture numbers I'm not sure about, I think they are for the distance my subject is but with only two indicators I dont see what they are there for - maybe just a guide?<br>

When I turn the flash on it goes to auto, and have to move the big indicator to manual for the light to go from auto to man on the back of the flash. So moving the indicator to manual means I am no longer telling the flash what camera I am using?<br>

I'm hoping someone here can help me out with this stuff, or maybe someone knows where I can get an online manual from. It would great if I can work it as then I can start taking some portraits of my friends.<br>

Anyway, hope I have been clear enough with my problems, hope you can help.<br>

Cheers all,<br>

Billy :) </p>