MSA - May/June 2015: Geometry

[mooseontheloose]

Back door. Hasselblad 503cw. Ilford hp5


RD290415BW140622-02.jpg by biotecbob, on Flickr

This is great! Not only do I love the subject but it's great just trying to figure out how many geometric shapes are represented in this photo.

Hopefully I can get out this weekend and find something as interesting to shoot.

 

[TheToadMen]

I'll be visiting the harbors of Rotterdam this Saturday for a shooting day out. Surely there will be some geometry there?
I'll bring my pinhole camera, the C330f and probably a Leica with 21 mm lens. Maybe some others too.
And lots of film.

 

[Bertus]

That's a good idea.

 

[peter k.]

Back door. Hasselblad 503cw. Ilford hp5

RD290415BW140622-02.jpg by biotecbob, on Flickr

oh beautiful... old building.. with all the trimming... jealously reigns supreme..

 

[Robclarke]

oh beautiful... old building.. with all the trimming... jealously reigns supreme..

Oh, I have to confess this is not my own back door but that of Hall Place in Kent!

 

[NedL]

I'm trying to submit one pinhole image for each MSA. I think the rest for "geometry" will be with a lensed camera and film.

This building was along the Petaluma and Santa Rosa Railway, which had passenger service to a steamboat to San Francisco. The stop here was more like a bus stop than a train depot, with just a covered bench next to this store. You can see a photograph of what this building looked like up until last year here. The photo at the top of the page in that link is about 1/2 mile from my house, and the photo on the bottom of the page is this building. It is in the process of being converted into a home. Yesterday I was driving home and noticed the shadows in the building, so I stopped and made this pinhole photograph.

 

[TheToadMen]

This building was along the Petaluma and Santa Rosa Railway, which had passenger service to a steamboat to San Francisco. The stop here was more like a bus stop than a train depot, with just a covered bench next to this store. You can see a photograph of what this building looked like up until last year here. The photo at the top of the page in that link is about 1/2 mile from my house, and the photo on the bottom of the page is this building. It is in the process of being converted into a home. Yesterday I was driving home and noticed the shadows in the building, so I stopped and made this pinhole photograph.

Hello Ned.
This is a fine image. I love the colours as well. What film did you use? Too often pinholes are shot with B&W film/paper, but colour film will also give you very nice images, like this one.

I think the rest for "geometry" will be with a lensed camera and film.

I forgive you
Bert from Holland

 

[NedL]

Hi Bert, it's FP-100C instant film, which is very fun to use in a "pinholaroid" camera. I want to try using C-41 color film in a pinhole camera, and I can imagine developing C-41 at home, but then things get complicated with scanning or printing or RA4.

The last MSA was all pinhole from me...

 

[I.G.I.]

Still life in the morning light.

 

[I.G.I.]

Some good cheer with (not so) simple linearity and primary colours.

 

[peter k.]

Welcome the Dragon ..


Given as an aside to Granddaughter, who just graduated High School.. as her new life begins.

 

[OptiKen]

This is the main window to the two story Grateful Hearts building by my work in Los Alamitos, CA

 

[I.G.I.]

Urbanscape relationships: geometric, volumetric, and chromatic; some planned some unintended. Enjoy!

 

[macfred]

Konica III Rangefinder - Hexanon 48mm f/2 - Kodak Portra 160

 

[macfred]

One more ...

Konica III - Hexanon 48mm f/2 - Portra 160

 

[NedL]

One more ...

Very cool!

 

[Malinku]

I'll join with this with one of my Yashica T3 shots.

 

[NedL]

Bike Geometry

 

[NedL]

So Scott, I have a bunch of inexpensive color print film in my fridge, and this MSA got me moving to get my dad's old Nikon N2020 working and I picked up a 28-70mm AF lens to use with it. That was fun and I also enjoyed using it a bit more like a "snapshot" camera and sending the film off to Dwayne's to be developed. They just came back in today's mail. So thanks for getting me to do something different! I definitely had fun!

Funny thing, I'm not so sure I like most of the color pictures and this one I did like could easily be a black and white photograph. I need to get some more neutral colored film, maybe I'll try porta 160 next... After only using B/W film for a long time, it was strange walking around with this camera, I was acutely aware of all the color around me... like moving in a colorful glowing world... just everyday life but it's amazing when you are more aware of it.

fractal pattern in the sand at the beach:

Three more coming... theme for those is my original plan "rural geometry"....

 

[TheFlyingCamera]

Just a thing to bear in mind - color was not a REQUIREMENT, but a suggestion. I wanted to push people to use color because A: it can be its own form of contrast, and can, when used properly, encourage abstraction, and B: we APUGians tend to heavily emphasize black-and-white over color, so I wanted to create a challenge that would push people a bit, get them out of their comfort zones. Not that black-and-white is easy, but it's "easy" for us because it's the fallback position - it's how we learned photography first, it's the easier thing to do at home (more wiggle room, times and temperatures don't have to be as short or as high, etc), and it's cheaper if you don't have the investment in development machinery (which can be a significant initial hurdle).

 

[TheToadMen]

Today is the last day of the month. I did get about 12 films developed but did not find the time yet to check & scan the results for this MSA. And I won't enter my darkroom tonight to scan: we're having a heat wave at the moment and it's 38 degrees Celsius in there.
(I will install an airco later this year ....)

 

[NedL]

I hope I did not unintentionally imply that color was a requirement! I took the suggestion in the spirit intended, and it certainly did push me out of my comfort zone

Here are my last three "rural geometry":

There's kind of a funny story about the 2nd one, but I might bias the judging somehow if I tell it, so I'll wait.

 

[TheFlyingCamera]

Today is the last day of the month. I did get about 12 films developed but did not find the time yet to check & scan the results for this MSA. And I won't enter my darkroom tonight to scan: we're having a heat wave at the moment and it's 38 degrees Celsius in there.
(I will install an airco later this year ....)

How much time do you think you'd need to get your submissions in? I'm willing to be a LITTLE bendy on the deadline (a couple of days at most) because you're a regular participant and I'd hate to see you get shut out of participating if you already have images in the can, as it were.

 

[TheToadMen]

How much time do you think you'd need to get your submissions in? I'm willing to be a LITTLE bendy on the deadline (a couple of days at most) because you're a regular participant and I'd hate to see you get shut out of participating if you already have images in the can, as it were.

Thank you for your leniency !! But it's 23:45 (almost midnight) and it could down quite a bit. So I threw open all windows and scanned a few images from a Fuji slide film. The rest will have to wait to another time for I have to get up 06:00 tomorrow morning.

I'll upload shortly (around midnight).

[ Edit: uploaded images at 00:02 local time ]

 

[TheToadMen]

Geometry of Nature

Here is my last minute contribution to this MSA: the geometry of nature.

I always love the forms of the wild fern branches unrolling their delicate leaves over a meter (3 feet) high.
They were a bit late this year. Probably due to a rather cold and dry spring time?

(Details: Nikon F4s, Nikkor 24-85 mm lens @ 85 mm Macro, expired Fuji Sensia II, May 2015)

Here are some more close-ups from the same roll.