Hello from Illinois, USA

shom · Jan 30, 2024

I'm a photographer who enjoys landscape and underwater wildlife while traveling and diving. I've been shooting film lately, 35mm and 120, and developing & scanning Black & White film at home (color soon). Film has reinvigorated my love for photography and I've found a great community online especially on the Fediverse (Mastodon: https://fosstodon.org/@shom).
I've read threads on photrio for years but haven't joined until recently, please pass along any etiquette or other feedback, looking forward to being in the mix!

I've been posting my film photos at https://film.shom.dev mostly with:
- Canon QL17 GIII
- Kiev 60
- Rolleiflex 3.5 Standard (1935)
- Voigtlander Bessa R2 + Canon 50mm f/1.8 LTM (recent acquisition)

Daniela · Jan 30, 2024

Welcome!
I lived in the Chicago area for a while. Nice work. I really like the underpass picture. Keep shooting and sharing!

Sirius Glass · Jan 30, 2024

Welcome to Photrio.

When I take wildlife photographs I noticed that herds and flocks know a lot about photographic equipment. They take one look and note the brand of equipment and the lenses. Then they move way from me to a distance at which I can only get photographs of large groups and never great head shots with an eye looking at me. If I then put on a 2X lens extender, they again take a look and relocate to be twice the distance away.

Konical · Jan 30, 2024

Good Afternoon, Shom,

Glad to see another Illinoisan here.

Konical

shom · Jan 30, 2024

Daniela said:
Welcome!
I lived in the Chicago area for a while. Nice work. I really like the underpass picture. Keep shooting and sharing!

@Daniela I love visiting Chicago, I'm a few hours south. I was just there this past weekend and it was eerily empty and foggy, looking forward to developing a couple rolls of Kodak Vision3 500T that I shot.
Thanks, the underpass photo was fun to shoot, I wish I had exposed it a bit more but I didn't trust handholding slower than 1/30th.

shom · Jan 30, 2024

Sirius Glass said:
Welcome to Photrio.

When I take wildlife photographs I noticed that herds and flocks know a lot about photographic equipment. They take one look and note the brand of equipment and the lenses. Then they move way from me to a distance at which I can only get photographs of large groups and never great head shots with an eye looking at me. If I then put on a 2X lens extender, they again take a look and relocate to be twice the distance away.

hahahahaa that's a great point @Sirius Glass! Wild life only comes closer when I have a longer lens that the framing I'd like. And somehow fish know when to turn their backs just before I click the shutter even though I've been pointing the camera at them for 30s already.

shom · Jan 30, 2024

Konical said:
Good Afternoon, Shom,

Glad to see another Illinoisan here.

Konical

Hello fellow Illinoisan!

chuckroast · Jan 30, 2024

Sirius Glass said:
Welcome to Photrio.

When I take wildlife photographs I noticed that herds and flocks know a lot about photographic equipment. They take one look and note the brand of equipment and the lenses. Then they move way from me to a distance at which I can only get photographs of large groups and never great head shots with an eye looking at me. If I then put on a 2X lens extender, they again take a look and relocate to be twice the distance away.

Yeah, and they are particular pests if you're using Hasselblad equipment, amirite?

kykr · Feb 1, 2024

Welcome to Photrio, from a northern Illinoisian!

images39 · Feb 1, 2024

Welcome to the community! And welcome back to film photography. It will pull you in.

I lived in Champaign, Illinois for a couple of years while attending school. It was a good experience. Migrated to St. Louis after that, then out to the big West.

Dale

shom · Feb 1, 2024

kykr said:
Welcome to Photrio, from a northern Illinoisian!

Hello early spring to you northern Illinois homie!

shom · Feb 1, 2024

images39 said:
Welcome to the community! And welcome back to film photography. It will pull you in.

I lived in Champaign, Illinois for a couple of years while attending school. It was a good experience. Migrated to St. Louis after that, then out to the big West.

Dale

Champaign is a cool college town! Yes, film does pull you in, being tactile through the whole process is awesome. I told myself I won't get into darkroom printing before I got started... but we'll see!

Sirius Glass · Feb 1, 2024

chuckroast said:
Yeah, and they are particular pests if you're using Hasselblad equipment, amirite?

That happens to me with Nikon AF SLRs too. They just know. Maybe because their lives depend on sensing and reaction to dangers. We do have eye that are lined up in parallel and that marks us as carnivores.

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