MSA O/N January 2022: Your Favorite Things (2.0)

[Marttiko]

NEW
One more to the show - I guess it was on New Year's day.
A sailing vessel almost 100 years old - photographed in the Blazerhaven Workum, Friesland / The Netherlands.

I like this quite a lot, it has a nice quiet and silent feel. Wooden ships are my favourite thing too. We have lots of lakes here, but sadly lack people who are interested in boating heritage.

 

[peter k.]

Oh Marttiko, love this image of your sidecar motor cycle. Ready to go and take you away.
It brings back memories of when we had our old BSA, that we flew around on, as you stated, with the .. "hands on approach of experiencing the landscape", in the SF Bay area, when we were in the service.
Young, free and easy...
HeHawwww.
Ride em cowboy!!

 

[macfred]

View attachment 295618
... Ride em cowboy!!

Yeah, I love old motorbikes too, of course -
I have two old shots from 2021 that I would like to attach here. I just like old stuff ...

Old

A RT-125/3 from VEB Motorradwerk Zschopau (Nikon F2 Photomic DP-1 - Nikkor 35mm f/2 ai - Kodak TMAX 100)

and - don't ask me what ... (captured with the Rolleiflex 3.5F). Funny story behind: The owner of this bike had a note attached to the bike ... 'Goin' fishin for a week ...'

 

[peter k.]

'Goin' fishin for a week ...'

Wonder what he was fishing for, and what he caught

 

[Sirius Glass]

Wonder what he was fishing for, and what he caught

A parking ticket.

 

[Ivo Stunga]

Oooh, let me join in!

One of my favorite things are incandescent light bulbs.
I don't get the trend replacing them bulbs with LED's everywhere. Especially in cold climates - I fucking welcome the "waste" heat in my living room when it's -20C outside and the house isn't isolated that well/built up to the code. Especially when replacement is performed with flickering LED's with poor CRI - every non-specialty replacement bulb out there practically - do we OK this poor quality of light as photographers? LEDs that are faking incandescent and digital often faking analog, even to the level of built-in profiles - something's up with this picture.
I dig diversification. Going all digital isn't progress, it's utopia in my mind. Why should one bother installing pumps and smart control/apps for them, if coolant can carry itself with convection by knowing how to use pipes with various diameters and there's no moving parts to fail ever? Same for ventilation and AC that can be achieved entirely passively. Same I feel towards photography I guess - why ditch the old and rush towards digital when analog offers a set of properties unique just to it? I find these thoughts and the blind rush towards the "progress" somewhat entertaining.


Filaments. It's all in the filaments! I can easily underrun those beauties, macro the shit out of them and place everything in the latitude of the film. Those filaments are gorgeous - various gauges, various paths for them to run. Twisted filaments, straight filaments, spiraling ones or even spirals made out of spiraling filaments; neon plates, flickering candle neon lights; strange, alien-looking radio lamp filaments - what's there not to like?
And I got additional kick photographing them after reading the quite unique Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall years ago - a book I fell in love with for various reasons. One of them being the so-called "Light Bulb Fragments" - something I borrowed as the working title for the macro series, hehe.

So here's an OLD one. Light bulb with bokeh shape in front of the lens. Today am planning to scan new ones I shot last week.


300W, 230V by Ivo Stunga, on Flickr

 

[russljames]

Glad to see a recent flurry of activity on this MSA! I’ve been out of pocket for the last few days getting ready for the start of a new semester of teaching.

 

[russljames]

@Marttiko - great pictures of the motorcycle. There is something about this image, the mood created by the light , that makes it my favorite of the three. What was focal length of the lens you were using?

 

[russljames]

A sailing vessel almost 100 years old

@macfred, I concur with Peter k. that the woodwork on this boat is most impressive, and with marttiko about the atmosphere of the photograph. Seems as if a light fog had settled-in (or was beginning to clear) behind the boat, adding a mysterious quality to the image.

 

[russljames]

One of my favorite things are incandescent light bulbs.

@Ivo Stunga This is a most interesting and intriguing image. Please do post another!

 

[peter k.]

Filaments. It's all in the filaments! ... Those filaments are gorgeous - various gauges, various paths for them to run.

Oh very interesting, an unlit light bulb, ... showing the element of its light, ... unlit.

Hmmm, ... somewhat like our abstract thoughts of composition, when looking at a scene, and then trying to compose those elements within it, to make an image of that light that it reflects.

But in this case, your doing the opposite, .. composing a single element, from the center of what it is, and focusing on what it can be, ..when given the energy that will ignite it, ... into light.

Cool ...

 

[Marttiko]

@Marttiko - great pictures of the motorcycle. There is something about this image, the mood created by the light , that makes it my favorite of the three. What was focal length of the lens you were using?

I'm not sure. I used Mamiya RB67 and Ilford fp4+. I only have 90mm and 180mm lenses and this looks 180mm to me.

I also like the light on this one. It was spring and quite early on the morning. I think it was april. Sun isn't very high and it shines through leafless trees.

 

[peter k.]

NEW ... (Referencing back to Post #17)
... My favorite hand tool, that is a very versatile molding plane that can use with multiple cutters. to make moldings and photo frames. .
Here is an image of the Stanley 55 Plane that my Uncle had given me, years ago, and we have used it to make several frames for some of our photo's to be mounted within, as an example the one in the background, with the three of the four cutters used, shown, to make it. The forth cutter is in the plane.
MF ~ 2x3 speed 101mm Extar ~ Arista 400@200 f16@30th developed in D-76 1:1 for 8 3/4 min

 

[russljames]

this looks 180mm to me

It has a mid-telephoto look to me also.

 

[Marttiko]

Oooh, let me join in!

One of my favorite things are incandescent light bulbs.
I don't get the trend replacing them bulbs with LED's everywhere. Especially in cold climates - I fucking welcome the "waste" heat in my living room when it's -20C outside and the house isn't isolated that well/built up to the code. Especially when replacement is performed with flickering LED's with poor CRI - every non-specialty replacement bulb out there practically - do we OK this poor quality of light as photographers? LEDs that are faking incandescent and digital often faking analog, even to the level of built-in profiles - something's up with this picture.
I dig diversification. Going all digital isn't progress, it's utopia in my mind. Why should one bother installing pumps and smart control/apps for them, if coolant can carry itself with convection by knowing how to use pipes with various diameters and there's no moving parts to fail ever? Same for ventilation and AC that can be achieved entirely passively. Same I feel towards photography I guess - why ditch the old and rush towards digital when analog offers a set of properties unique just to it? I find these thoughts and the blind rush towards the "progress" somewhat entertaining.


Filaments. It's all in the filaments! I can easily underrun those beauties, macro the shit out of them and place everything in the latitude of the film. Those filaments are gorgeous - various gauges, various paths for them to run. Twisted filaments, straight filaments, spiraling ones or even spirals made out of spiraling filaments; neon plates, flickering candle neon lights; strange, alien-looking radio lamp filaments - what's there not to like?
And I got additional kick photographing them after reading the quite unique Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall years ago - a book I fell in love with for various reasons. One of them being the so-called "Light Bulb Fragments" - something I borrowed as the working title for the macro series, hehe.

So here's an OLD one. Light bulb with bokeh shape in front of the lens. Today am planning to scan new ones I shot last week.

I like this one very much! In fact I thought about photographing different light sources about five years ago. I shot couple of bulbs but then I forgot the whole thing. After that I've been thinking about it sometimes and have gathered together some old light bulbs. Different light sources are quite interesting topic both historically and visually!

 

[macfred]

... Different light sources are quite interesting topic both historically and visually!

I agree! Great photograph by @Ivo Stunga

 

[Ivo Stunga]

Thanks for the compliments, guys!

Different light sources are quite interesting topic both historically and visually!

Oh, absolutely and them being a tech on a phase-out gives additional kick indeed!

Please do post another!

Hehe, here's another one I shot this december. It's a quite powerful projection bulb with Edison base - underrun.


Projection lamp by Ivo Stunga, on Flickr

 

[russljames]

... My favorite hand tool, that is a very versatile molding plane that can use with multiple cutters. to make moldings and photo frames.

Wow, how cool! I can see what you meant by it being a project to set this up. But well worth the time I would imagine to get beautiful picture frames such as the one displayed here.

 

[russljames]

Hehe, here's another one I shot this december. It's a quite powerful projection bulb with Edison base - underrun.

A very captivating photograph! What camera/lens/film set-up are you using to "macro the **** out of them" to get these images?

 

[Ivo Stunga]

Thank you! This one was taken with Vivitar 80-200 f/4 at max macro and CFL backlight from an old monitor as the filling light source. Won't shoot macro with this lens again if possible as the sharpness stuffers - the filament has no business being this muddy as it was shot on a tripod with Mirror Lock-Up, Self-timer and viewfinder magnifier. Aah, the old thruths about Primes vs Zooms - I'd better use that extension tube I've converted from a tele converter (body with aperture controls sans optics) + a prime lens.

Olympus OM-1n

 

[peter k.]

Wow, how cool!

Yes, ... and its wonderful in that no rush can be used. in its use.
And the cadence and rhythm of the plane is an experience that has a fulfillment of its very own, like the image it will eventually show!

And then after all the fun, focus and time, ... of that one sequence, ... there comes a time for the changing and set up for a new blade.

Then the sequence starts again, and takes place with another observation of the facts of events, .. as the fine shape of a new cut of planed wood spirals up and away from the source of what it once was, and falls to the shop floor.

Ah.. yes and in the end, .. all is rewarded by what was once a flat, .. four sided piece of wood, which is now molded and shaped into a configuration that can be cut and made into a frame, where within, .. can be mounted a favorite image of an event taken away in the memory of a moment, a day, week or lifetime ago.

Much like photography .. one step at a time, that becomes in time, a process that unveils our creativity.

Heehaw .. Ride em cowboy...

 

[Roger Thoms]

Yes, ... and its wonderful in that no rush can be used. in its use.
And the cadence and rhythm of the plane is an experience that has a fulfillment of its very own, like the image it will eventually show!

And then after all the fun, focus and time, ... of that one sequence, ... there comes a time for the changing and set up for a new blade.

Then the sequence starts again, and takes place with another observation of the facts of events, .. as the fine shape of a new cut of planed wood spirals up and away from the source of what it once was, and falls to the shop floor.

Ah.. yes and in the end, .. all is rewarded by what was once a flat, .. four sided piece of wood, which is now molded and shaped into a configuration that can be cut and made into a frame, where within, .. can be mounted a favorite image of an event taken away in the memory of a moment, a day, week or lifetime ago.

Much like photography .. one step at a time, that becomes in time, a process that unveils our creativity.

Heehaw .. Ride em cowboy...

Sounds like the makings of a YouTube video. Nice image too!!!

Roger

 

[Sirius Glass]

Can we keep this on a level plane, please?

 

[peter k.]

Sounds like the makings of a YouTube video. Nice image too!!!

Thanks Roger, ... and

Can we keep this on a level plane, please?

HaHaHa .. and Noooooooooooooo! .. the tripod will not work with this plane ,,,

 

[Ivo Stunga]

There's another thing I like doing - making these slide collages, invoking creatures straight out of Tripland; Pareidolia and ink blots.
Making these I never know if and what creature will emerge, so I'm always impressed and surprised. This is a collage of two mirrored slides in a single slide mount - it projects like this too. It's a macro of a beautiful piece of moss.


Smagvakarā by Ivo Stunga, on Flickr