MSA Sept./Oct. 2016 - YOUR FAVORITE THINGS

TheToadMen · Sep 3, 2016

I'm posting this new thread for the MSA September/October 2016 on behalve of barbara ann, the winner of the previous MSA, who will be the host & judge in this new MSA.
Her theme for the next installment of the MSA is:

YOUR FAVORITE THINGS.

There is a song that says

"Cream colored ponies and crisp apple strudels

Doorbells and sleigh bells and schnitzel with noodles

Wild geese that fly with the moon on their wings

These are a few of my favorite things

When the dog bites

When the bee stings

When I'm feeling sad

I simply remember my favorite things

And then I don't feel so bad"

So show me YOUR FAVORITE THINGS.

Whatever makes you feel better

when things aren't going your way…

Here are some rules for this MSA:
* All images must be taken between September 1st and October 31st 2016.
* You can post the results here and in the MSA Gallery not later than October 31st.
* After that date the entries will be judged and a winner will be announced.
* The winner may host the next MSA.
* You can find all the Monthly Shooting Assignment Guidelines here:
(there was a url link here which no longer exists)

Happy shooting!

mooseontheloose · Sep 3, 2016

Great theme! I really hope I can get some images taken and printed for this round!

Marttiko · Sep 3, 2016

It's very nice theme indeed. I have few thoughts about this already!

barbara ann · Sep 3, 2016

mooseontheloose said:
Great theme! I really hope I can get some images taken and printed for this round!

Please do!

barbara ann · Sep 3, 2016

Marttiko said:
It's very nice theme indeed. I have few thoughts about this already!

Good! It will be interesting to see what folks like...

barbara ann · Sep 3, 2016

I will not be posting any "sample" pics this round because I think the responses will be very
personal and I don't want to influence them.
I hope you will be honest about what things make you feel good!

nsouto · Sep 5, 2016

Excellent! I'm on it!

barbara ann · Sep 6, 2016

nsouto said:
Excellent! I'm on it!

Great! Have fun with it...

barbara ann · Sep 16, 2016

16 days and not one entry for "Your Favorite Things". Sorry if I selected a difficult topic.
Any suggestions on how to improve it would be most welcome.

NedL · Sep 16, 2016

It's a fine topic and I'll make a contribution... last two weeks just were a busy time!

Marttiko · Sep 16, 2016

I also like the theme. I had a plan to take few pictures for this last wednesday, but then I experienced - and am still experiencing - some technical difficulties...

Marttiko · Sep 16, 2016

...double post

TheToadMen · Sep 17, 2016

Don't worry. Thinking about the theme, shooting, developing, reshooting, scanning, ... takes time.

barbara ann · Sep 17, 2016

Thanks, everyone. I'm just anxious to see what makes you happy!

Marttiko · Sep 19, 2016

In fact Sound of Music is one of my favourite things. I watched it yesterday.

LAG · Sep 20, 2016

"Light" . Kodak Tmax 100 [135]

OptiKen · Sep 20, 2016

I have a feeling we are going to see a lot of pictures of cameras here

barbara ann · Sep 21, 2016

OptiKen said:
I have a feeling we are going to see a lot of pictures of cameras here

You may be right! But that's OK. Whatever "floats your boat"!

peter k. · Sep 22, 2016

LAG said:
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"Light" . Kodak Tmax 100 [135]

Oh my... LOVE it!
Not only the clarity of the image, but the meeting of the hidden LOve behind it!

NedL · Sep 28, 2016

Couldn't get the angle for the light, and then I thought of TheToadMen's recent awesome photo, so I handheld it. I hardly ever do that with pinhole, but maybe will try more now.

TheToadMen · Sep 28, 2016

NedL said:
Couldn't get the angle for the light, and then I thought of TheToadMen's recent awesome photo, so I handheld it. I hardly ever do that with pinhole, but maybe will try more now.

I like it very much. Good scene and colours for this type of pinhole shooting. Welcome to the club!

LAG · Sep 28, 2016

peter k. said:
Oh my... LOVE it!
Not only the clarity of the image, but the meeting of the hidden LOve behind it!

Excuse me Peter k.

Sorry I'm late to answer. Thank you very much for your comment, and also grateful for your "Look". Reward enough!

macfred · Sep 28, 2016

One of these days that make me happy ...

One of these days ... by Andreas, on Flickr

FUJI GW670iii - FUJINON 90mm f/3.5 - Kodak Ektar 100

TheToadMen · Sep 28, 2016

macfred said:
One of these days that make me happy ...

FUJI GW670iii - FUJINON 90mm f/3.5 - Kodak Ektar 100

Very, very nice. I can see the twinkle in your eyes

TheToadMen · Oct 1, 2016

barbara ann said:
I'm just anxious to see what makes you happy!

Hi barbara ann,
Here is a thing that makes me happy. "I love it when a plan comes together". I love to experiment with my cameras and try something new once in a while. I have a beautiful old camera - an Olympus Pen-F - that takes half-frame pictures (72 shots instead of 36 on standard 135 film). So the negative size is 24x18 mm instead of 24x36 mm., thus the camera shoots in portrait style (not landscape) when you keep the camera horizontal.

So I thought I'll try to make an in-camera-multiple-exposure-panorama-landscape-image again. I loaded the Pen-F with Kodak Portra 160 and tried it at the long bridge over the sluices near Lelystad, The Netherlands. It's important to stand firm, take a good look at the corners of the prism finder to know to turn how far. So take your stand, look through the view finder and decide where to start. Hold your breath, keep looking through the finder, shoot, transport, move, shoot, ... and breath!

All images are exposed at the same settings- even the middle image, almost straight into the sun. And it worked out pretty well:

This works because the camera is portrait orientated! You have to remember to move the camera from left to right to get the images in the proper sequence, since the film is transported from left to right (looking at the back of the camera) and the lens inverts the image (upside down). Like this:

Then you get this:

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