Great falls, Potomac

October 1960,

Photographer:
novista
Uploaded:
2016-11-20
Camera:
Canon Ftb
Film:
Kodak Kodachrome
Lens:
canon fd 50mm 1:1,8
Country/region:
United States
Albums:
Analogica

3 Comments

  1. lin-yutang
    lin-yutang ·

    cross?

  2. lin-yutang
    lin-yutang ·

    (^-^)So beautiful

  3. novista
    novista ·

    Thank you. After the first 17 scans went online, as is, I started doing post-editing. It takes a lot of time to hopefully recreate something like the original color values.But there were those 5 Ektachromes whose chemistry had changed so drastically that I left them 'as is'.

    Cross? What? I know I should have answered your last message; I get obsessive about my prokects and just let other things slide. Two photo essays, the Coral Sea battle memorial and Wallaman Falls took a lot of time, not to mention getting the right sequence onto Lomo. That back-to-front upload makes no sense to me. And my Daguerreothpe lens finally arrrived!

    So, to your questiob, PAN and Colour films. I remember working with Kodak Verichrome when it was still orthochromatic. My father found a box of assorted darkroom items in a second-hand store so I taught myself the basics when I was about 13, My first prints were contact type of 120 (or maybe it was 116) and quite some time before I saved enough for a second-hand enlarger.

    I didn't get around to colour processing until around 1978. All my photos from Samoa were film I developed and enlarged. Yes, I'd set up a darkroom in the corner of the bathroom and could ojnly work in the mornings when my wife and kids were out and about.

    For me, for many years, the choice of film was limited by cost. Every colour frame was a conscious choice. I didn't use much Kodak over the years, alternative brands were cheaper.

    As to aesthetics, I believe both have their uses but some subjects are better for one than the other. My set of night cruise on Cairns harbour were technically bad, camera shake. Handeld was no worse than placing the camera on the structure of the boat -- engine vibration. Wwhen I first saw those photos, oh no. But a dozen years later, all I saw was beauty, the essence of pure light. And coincidentally, after that I saw some B/W attempts at the same subject that had no visual impact at all. The B/W vs colour argument is the same as film vs digital - an arbitrary state of mind.

    I have found one subject, though, where film will always out perform digital, the rainbow! I'm sure there are others. And it's not as easy to get B/W shots on digital as, say, screwing an 85B filter on my Canon Ftb to get those dramatic skies.

    And, finally, we NEVER see film on Lomo, everyting is digitized.

    Maybe you should shoot a few subjects in both pan and colour, compare the results. Let me know how that experiment works out for you.

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