Monthly Shooting Assignment - Sept/Oct 2014: Two

[Pelo78]

For my entry I chose something that, generally, comes in pairs...

 

[NedL]

For my entry I chose something that, generally, comes in pairs...

That's wild! If you manage to find one by its lonesome, there's a Nobel prize in it for you...

 

[StoneNYC]

For my entry I chose something that, generally, comes in pairs...

May I steal this idea for a student project? I still have some of these magnetic filings from when I was in grade school and did in electromagnetic project, and I was just thinking I could use them again for something really cool. Not for the MSA of course just for school and personal work.

 

[TheToadMen]

For my entry I chose something that, generally, comes in pairs...

Wow, high school all over ...
Excellent shot: science meet art.

 

[soncorn]

Lake of the Red Mountain Shadows

Lake of the Red Mountain Shadows

Fuji Superia 400
Contax G2 (28mm I think?)

 

[TheFlyingCamera]

Rolleiflex 2.8E, Ektar 100.

 

[StoneNYC]

Rolleiflex 2.8E, Ektar 100.

How are you getting these skin tones from this film? Mine are always orange...

 

[StoneNYC]

Lake of the Red Mountain Shadows

Fuji Superia 400
Contax G2 (28mm I think?)

Was this of a print or scan of the neg? It's very sharp looking.

 

[TheFlyingCamera]

How are you getting these skin tones from this film? Mine are always orange...

I've never had a problem with Ektar and skin tones, really. This one was shot in afternoon daylight, with a neutral white diffuser so they didn't have harsh shadows.

 

[StoneNYC]

I've never had a problem with Ektar and skin tones, really. This one was shot in afternoon daylight, with a neutral white diffuser so they didn't have harsh shadows.

"Neutral white" diffuser? Thanks.

 

[polyglot]

darkosaric and sly; both excellent.

 

[TheFlyingCamera]

Getting down to the wire...

 

[sly]

Thanks William. I might have one more for this MSA, if I get it developed and printed. I've had ideas that haven't been shot, or haven't worked out, but the mental exercise is good for me.

 

[NedL]

The one I was "working" on is gone. It was a 2 month exposure, looking up at the sky and a sign that says "Welcome to Two Rock Valley". I put it out the day the MSA topic was announced, well hidden in some grass at ground level. It was still there a week ago, but gone today.

Part and parcel of solargraphy... I almost grabbed it last week but decided to try to get closer to a full two months!

 

[TheToadMen]

I've got another contribution to this MSA by accident. I went out shooting with my pinhole camera. It's a 6x12 format loaded with 120 roll film. I made a nice series in a nice piece of nature close by my house. But I made a mistake. Winding the film is a manual thing, looking trough a tiny red window. So far so good, but I forgot to wind it correctly ... The normal numbering on the film backing paper is for 6x6 format so I should have winded it twice.

Still, it accidentally gave me some double exposures, together forming a nice double size panorama size overlapping of 3 images.



Sometimes our photographic accidents are nice accidents, aren't they?

 

[mooseontheloose]

The one I was "working" on is gone. It was a 2 month exposure, looking up at the sky and a sign that says "Welcome to Two Rock Valley". I put it out the day the MSA topic was announced, well hidden in some grass at ground level. It was still there a week ago, but gone today.

Part and parcel of solargraphy... I almost grabbed it last week but decided to try to get closer to a full two months!

That's too bad Ned -- would have loved to have seen that image. That being said, there are already so many good ones this round I have no idea how I'm going to pick a winner!

 

[sly]

Here's one of mine that didn't quite work. I meant for this to be a duo-tone print, but the toning got away from me, and it's a tri-tone. My other attempts mottled. This is the best I got from that session in the darkroom.

 

[Nodda Duma]

Hi folks, new apug member here. When I came across this thread I immediately thought of the submission I present below. It is just too coincidental not to share, but requires some explanation.

This shot had me chuckling when I first viewed the negative. It is entirely coincidental, unintentional, yet deeply profound in its own way. Little kids and grown-up kids spanning the decades and sharing a common interest.

This shot is from a roll of film which was owned by two people at opposite corners of the country. The roll was given to me along with a bunch of other film by one of my wife's old coworkers before we moved from California to New Hampshire. He had gotten out of film photography and had this stuff left behind. Unknown to me, this particular roll of film (Tmax 100) had already been partially exposed with pictures of a Renaissance Festival type of event and then rewound presumably for his use at a later date. I loaded the roll of film in a camera for my 8-year old daughter to take pictures with. This was her second roll of film, coincidentally enough.




This is a double exposure of two members of a "royal family" and their retainers viewing what appears to be a floating image of a unicorn (which I think is hilarious considering the subject of the earlier exposure). Judging from the hairstyles, the first exposure is at least two decades old. They seem very interested...at least as interested as my daughter in the realm of fantasy. That's actually my living room TV, where my daughter took a couple of shots before we headed down to the local lake to take pictures. While I'm not sure what camera the original exposure was taken with, my daughter was using my backup Olympus...you guessed it....OM-2.



-Jason

 

[TheToadMen]

Hi folks, new apug member here. When I came across this thread I immediately thought of the submission I present below. It is just too coincidental not to share, but requires some explanation.

This shot had me chuckling when I first viewed the negative. It is entirely coincidental, unintentional, yet deeply profound in its own way. Little kids and grown-up kids spanning the decades and sharing a common interest.

This shot is from a roll of film which was owned by two people at opposite corners of the country. The roll was given to me along with a bunch of other film by one of my wife's old coworkers before we moved from California to New Hampshire. He had gotten out of film photography and had this stuff left behind. Unknown to me, this particular roll of film (Tmax 100) had already been partially exposed with pictures of a Renaissance Festival type of event and then rewound presumably for his use at a later date. I loaded the roll of film in a camera for my 8-year old daughter to take pictures with. This was her second roll of film, coincidentally enough.
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This is a double exposure of two members of a "royal family" and their retainers viewing what appears to be a floating image of a unicorn (which I think is hilarious considering the subject of the earlier exposure). Judging from the hairstyles, the first exposure is at least two decades old. They seem very interested...at least as interested as my daughter in the realm of fantasy. That's actually my living room TV, where my daughter took a couple of shots before we headed down to the local lake to take pictures. While I'm not sure what camera the original exposure was taken with, my daughter was using my backup Olympus...you guessed it....OM-2.
-Jason

Hi Jason,
A father - daughter photo shoot, your daughter's 2nd film, an OM-2 camera, two people owning & using the same TMAX film, double exposure spanning two decades .... and a unicorn as well!! Very nice interpretation of the theme of this MSA. This could be a winner as well.

 

[TheToadMen]

(...) That being said, there are already so many good ones this round I have no idea how I'm going to pick a winner!

Hi Rachelle,
My sympathies! I think is is a MSA with such a simple theme (TWO) and yet so many and so different fine entries. And only six days left to contemplate a winner.

So let me ease your burden. I doubted, checked and saw that my double exposure panorama pinhole image (see (there was a url link here which no longer exists)) was actually made in August, not September so outside the time frame of this MSA. I won't remove the posted image, since it fits the theme, but I withdraw it from the MSA contest and won't post it in the MSA gallery. (One down, so many to go.)

Just sit back with a nice pot of tea and honey, glance at each image while listening to this fine music and the winner will "unsubconciously" present itself to you. Just let it happen ... or ask a non-photographing-relative what he/she thinks ...

 

[TheToadMen]

The one I was "working" on is gone. It was a 2 month exposure, looking up at the sky and a sign that says "Welcome to Two Rock Valley". I put it out the day the MSA topic was announced, well hidden in some grass at ground level. It was still there a week ago, but gone today.

Part and parcel of solargraphy... I almost grabbed it last week but decided to try to get closer to a full two months!

Hi Ned,
Sorry to hear of the loss of your 2 month exposure solargraph. But at least you didn't get arrested for putting up a conspicuous/suspicious device in a public place ...

 

[NedL]

Hi Ned,
Sorry to hear of the loss of your 2 month exposure solargraph. But at least you didn't get arrested for putting up a conspicuous/suspicious device in a public place ...

Hi Bert, I'm used to losing my cameras; on average I lose about 1/8 of them every six months. It's just too bad that it was for MSA, with a deadline. We had that APUG thread about the "bomb scare" right about the time I put this one out, so I used a small drink can and I did not paint it black like I usually do. It looked like litter, but that also made it easier to notice and might be why it was found. I am surprised though... it was in a place where I did not expect anyone to notice it. Probably some well-meaning person noticed a glint of light and picked up the "trash". I wonder what they thought when they went to pick it up and found that it was tied tightly to a big rock!

As for the gallery, I think we've encouraged people to post to the gallery if they made a photograph for MSA but it was completed too late to be an entry. That's different from finding an older image that fits the theme, which I think we should encourage adding to the thread with a note that it is outside the MSA time period.... I really liked your panorama and would not want to miss seeing it!

 

[sly]

"Outlook For Two"



Could be my last entry for this MSA. It's been fun. I'm sorry your solar graph disappeared, Ned.

(Rachelle, my vote to win goes to Twoberts.)

 

[TheToadMen]

"Outlook For Two"

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Could be my last entry for this MSA. It's been fun. I'm sorry your solar graph disappeared, Ned.

(Rachelle, my vote to win goes to Twoberts.)

Beautiful combination of pinhole and lith, my two favorite photography thingies
And thank you for your vote, Sly.

(BTW: I like to nominate "Light Tribute" by Barbara Ann.)

 

[mooseontheloose]

Happy Halloween everyone!

While this is the last day of the month, I will accept any last minute submissions up until midnight November 1st (your local time) since I'll be out of town until the 2nd (Japan time).

Cheers.