MELBOURNE APUG OUTING No. 3: NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2012

[SMBooth]

I just wanted to fit in with you all..

That's fine Bob, being a Canadian is almost like being a Australian.
Your welcome to come to thee next outing.

 

[Poisson Du Jour]

You need to buy another P 6X7 that way you can have B&W loaded into one and V50 into the other...

Ah, as you might well note, I have quite enough trouble hauling ONE P67 about, much less the expected success lumbered with two. BUT it does have merit for car-based swaps.

 

[LJH]

So, where are the photos??!!?

 

[Poisson Du Jour]

So, where are the photos??!!?

PATIENCE, m'boy. We don't live in an instant era...
I'm collecting a roll of Vaudeville Velvia from Melb. this morning, which will have on it, among a trove of delightful little nooks and crannies up Toorongo River Sanctuary way, a precious two frames from the Cape Woolly wander.
The other roll is still being guarded by Pentaximus. I might finish it this weekend when I head down to Johanna Beach.

So...where are yours?

 

[Oxleyroad]

I have processed my film, but yet to make prints. Been busy with other stuff.

Spent too much time trying to get a scan that works to post up here. For what ever reason I can not get b&w neg scans to work. Hence why I have a wet darkroom. Once I have a print I will have something to scan and post here for all to see.

 

[SMBooth]

A pinhole is back a couple of pages, but here is one from similar position but on a 270mm. If you click on photo the colour Pigface shots are there as well, although not that impressive small.

B&J 810 270mm on Shanghai 100 in Xtol.
Split tone in PS, V700 scan

 

[LJH]

I live vicariously through these shots, Gary!

 

[Poisson Du Jour]

My first scene of a profusion of pigface and granite on the way to The Pinnacles.
This scene has been cropped from a 6x7 tranny beacuse I could not see the value of the scattering of boulders in the lower frame.


• Coastal Pigface, Cape Woolamai beach, nr. The Pinnacles, Phillip Island
Velvia 50, 55mm f4 1/4 f11 SKY1B, TTL metered. Epson V700 scan











And just to return briefly to Toorongo River..


• A rainforest stream, Toorongo River Sanctuary (Oct 2012)
Velvia 50, 45mm f4 10sec f16, polarised. Multispot/additive weighted mean average metering with baseline and filter-factor compensation. Epson V700 scan


There is an unfinished roll of RVP in Pentaximus holding at least 7 images of Cape Woolly.

 

[LJH]

Love the second one, Gary! Well seen and captured.

 

[Poisson Du Jour]

Love the second one, Gary! Well seen and captured.

The troubles/niggles I am having with myself about The Pinnacles at Woolamai is that all the scenes have been photographed many thousands of times before almost the same as we have, so the effect of WOW! is a bit tempered by familiarity. That said, Boots' typically atmospheric mono image (above) certainly gets the message across dramatically and with pizazz, but there is still an undercurrent of "seen it before" feeling. Even my own are likely to be passed over as I was just about in the same spot wasn't I. We'll see...

Lachlan's much earlier suggestion post-trip to attempt to picture this area from the seaward side (if that is at all possible) where the rockpools are has merit as it would show The Pinnacles and general landscape in a new, unseen, unexplored perspective. That is what I think would lift the images we see from the pedestrian to the unique. None of the foregoing commentary is a criticism, by the way, but an observation of the need to attack this place in a new and totally different way.

 

[Joachim_I]

Shane: great photo of the Pinnacles. Looks very dramatic. Need to go there myself.

Gary, I like both of your shots. I saw you got the 45mm lens for the P67. Good choice, this lens was one of the main reasons for me to buy into the P67 system.

 

[Poisson Du Jour]

Shane: great photo of the Pinnacles. Looks very dramatic. Need to go there myself.

Gary, I like both of your shots. I saw you got the 45mm lens for the P67. Good choice, this lens was one of the main reasons for me to buy into the P67 system.

Hi Joachim, I have a photo of you squeezed up against the P67ii with a 45mm stuck on the front; this was at Toorongo Falls; I shot an image there with the 55mm, but wanted a slightly wider shot. No harm done and the framed end-product is a joy to look at.

Have a beaut Christmas and Year wherever you are or going. I'm heading off to NZ on 7th January +6d for a bit of walkies on the wild side...

Commander at the comms, over and out!

 

[Colin D]

A late contribution to this excursion, but here are some digi shots I took up above looking down on you lot scrambling around on those boulders waiting the IT shot. Enjoy.

 

[Colin D]

Here's the only 4x5 shot I have from the day's excursion. A typical sea scape shot.

 

[Kevin Caulfield]

Great shot, Colin. Nothing wrong with that.

 

[LJH]

When/where's the next one??!!???

 

[Oxleyroad]

Aussie weekend. Is this a possibility?

I still got to post something I took from this exchange. It will be soon I hope...

 

[Poisson Du Jour]

My unloaded 120 film for this shot was misplaced during a sortie in north-east Victoria, only to turn up (by the grace of God...) on the floor behind the backseat of the car! It goes in for processing this week, along with several other rolls. I will post my view of the outing here in dew course.... (would you believe I and the cameras got all dewy and cold and wet camped at Victoria River near Cobungra a few hours before the temperature soared to 42°c!? Incredible...)

Where are we going on the Australia Day weekend? A picnic/BBQ at Hanging Rock maybe...? I'll dress up as Miranda and we'll all get lost!

 

[Oxleyroad]

Where are we going on the Australia Day weekend? A picnic/BBQ at Hanging Rock maybe...? I'll dress up as Miranda and we'll all get lost!

Scary thought here. Ugh shiver...

 

[Poisson Du Jour]

Where are we going on the Australia Day weekend? A picnic/BBQ at Hanging Rock maybe...? I'll dress up as Miranda and we'll all get lost!

Scary thought here. Ugh shiver...

I forgot: there is likely to be a huge crowd there for the Australia Day Races at Hanging Rock. Therefore, we would not have the place to ourselves or our celluloid treasures.

Next suggestion...

 

[LJH]

Too close/soon for me to be able to get there; off to Portland for a 90th birthday.

In addition to any outing on Shtraya Day, perhaps we need to consider a new thread for an outing some time in March? With the last two being in the East, perhaps ¤´¨)
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(¸.·´ (¸.·`¤... .::Mirandah…¤ should come up with somewhere in the South West for us to go to?

 

[SMBooth]

Be at Lakes Entrance all Aust Day weekend, hope to get out behind Thurra Inlet into the sand dunes one day of it.

 

[Poisson Du Jour]

Too close/soon for me to be able to get there; off to Portland for a 90th birthday.

In addition to any outing on Shtraya Day, perhaps we need to consider a new thread for an outing some time in March? With the last two being in the East, perhaps ¤´¨)
¸.·´¸.·*´¨) ¸.·*¨)
(¸.·´ (¸.·`¤... .::Mirandah…¤ should come up with somewhere in the South West for us to go to?

Sorry chappies, but today I received an invite to attend a reunion of old cycling friends in Beechworth on the Australia Day long weekend. "Beechy" was a much-loved and cycled-to destination in the 80s. Some of them I haven't seen in 20+ years, so I'm definitely on the blacktop up the Hume Freeway *again* on the Sat'day of the long w/e.

March long weekend: maybe a trip away, rather than just a day outing? Start new thread. Catch up some time during the week when I've returned (briefly) from the NE.

 

[Oxleyroad]

Two things. First I just finished developing my colour (C41) films from the trip. Yes it took a long time, but ... Yes like the B&W pictures I will post some here in the future. Second, have we a new thread that I might have missed for the next outing, and we are talking march now correct?

 

[Oxleyroad]

Here are 3 of the 4 pictures from the Kodak Panoram on Portra 160 film. The first image was a double exposure and copped the bulk of the leaked light.

Light leaks from when I took the film out and the film had not wound onto the take-up spool tightly. I forgot I have to remove the film in a changing bag or the dark room, A real shame.



All in all not a bad for a 109 year old camera.