Interesting photographs.

mikemcfc said:
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Some from 1963 when the CIS building was being constructed in Manchester:
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And our own version of the New York one:
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nimrod said:
Thought this could be an interesting thread, any subject.

Here's a picture of Frank Sinatra at home in Palm Beach.
I like the look of his HiFi and notice all those cigarette packets in the bowl.

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Three speaker cab's and a power amp for each by the looks of it, and the left & right speaker look slightly toed in. With the speaker positioning and that massive reflective surface in the middle of the room, that really expensive hifi system might as well be a wind-up gramophone.
 
flook said:
Ektachrome went back into production a couple of years back, but I think it was kodachrome which was available as an iso 25 film, always preferred fuji for the colour stuff and ilford for black and white, haven't shot film for 20 years though
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I've got around 40 unexposed rolls of various (Ilford, Kodak, Fuji) in my fridge including 3 rolls of Kodachrome 64, 4 rolls of Kodachrome 25, 8 rolls of Fujicolour Press 800, and various FP4/HP5. They're all out of date, but I'll still worth using (if I ever get round to it). I've also got about 15 rolls of exposed, undeveloped images. IIRC one of them has some shots of me stood next to Kate Adie from about 20 years ago.
 
Trevor Morley's Tache said:
I've got around 40 unexposed rolls of various (Ilford, Kodak, Fuji) in my fridge including 3 rolls of Kodachrome 64, 4 rolls of Kodachrome 25, 8 rolls of Fujicolour Press 800, and various FP4/HP5. They're all out of date, but I'll still worth using (if I ever get round to it). I've also got about 15 rolls of exposed, undeveloped images. IIRC one of them has some shots of me stood next to Kate Adie from about 20 years ago.
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Ive got an exposed roll in my fridge from 12 years ago. I keep wondering what's on it but don't want to develop it now as it may be disappointing :)
 
sir baconface said:
Those were the days. Waiting 2 weeks to get your prints from Boots, only to find every one turned out shit.

The beauty of digital is instant results, no waste plus the facility to edit. Any of you guys feel - like me - just a bit of a cheat every time you edit?
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No. It's your image and you just have more control over the editing process these days. Dodging and burning has been around for as long as film.
My wife has a photo of her great grandfather and if you look closely you can make out where his pipe has been "airbrushed" out of the picture. If you don't wish to edit or to mimimise the edit it's down to your own preferences. Good editing is a skill in itself but not everyone likes it.
 
DrBlueBob said:
No. It's your image and you just have more control over the editing process these days. Dodging and burning has been around for as long as film.
My wife has a photo of her great grandfather and if you look closely you can make out where his pipe has been "airbrushed" out of the picture. If you don't wish to edit or to mimimise the edit it's down to your own preferences. Good editing is a skill in itself but not everyone likes it.
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About the most I ever did was cropping, a bit of dodging & burning, and I also occasionally used Ilford VC paper with filters to alter the contrast.
 
DrBlueBob said:
No. It's your image and you just have more control over the editing process these days. Dodging and burning has been around for as long as film.
My wife has a photo of her great grandfather and if you look closely you can make out where his pipe has been "airbrushed" out of the picture. If you don't wish to edit or to mimimise the edit it's down to your own preferences. Good editing is a skill in itself but not everyone likes it.
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Never really thought about it before but, yes, digital editing is a sort of new wine in old bottles. It does bring technology to the masses though.

Personally I’m happy to do minor editing to cut, enhance, erase blemishes, etc. Why waste what was essentially a decent shot? Where it radically alters the original, in effect re-creating a shot, I’m much less comfortable with the idea.
 
Trevor Morley's Tache said:
About the most I ever did was cropping, a bit of dodging & burning, and I also occasionally used Ilford VC paper with filters to alter the contrast.
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I used to develop my own b & w photos back in the day and was chuffed just to get a passable image much less edit like that. Nowadays I like to tweak a shot to bring out the image to what I perceive to be how it looks best. Hugely subjective and no one size fits all.
 
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sir baconface said:
Never really thought about it before but, yes, digital editing is a sort of new wine in old bottles. It does bring technology to the masses though.

Personally I’m happy to do minor editing to cut, enhance, erase blemishes, etc. Where it radically alters the original, in effect re-creating a shot, I’m much less comfortable with the idea.
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I agree but some people have a different view. Often time I may not like a finished image but I can appreciate the artitic / technical skill involved.
I like to try and play with white balance and curves etc but draw the line at replacing skies or that sort of reworking.
 
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