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Lac Cornu - Massif du Mont-Blanc. Horseman SW617P Schneider SA 90mm XL - Ektar 100



David R Williams said:
Beautiful and emotive.

I'd like to understand the perspective of the image: could you advise what focal length, and any recollection you may have as to the approximate aperture, were used for the photograph.
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Thanks David. I’m pretty sure I used the 80mm Zeiss Planar. For the shallow depth of field I kept it pretty wide open - I think @f4, around 1/2s to blur the water - which was moving fairly rapidly. When I printed it in the darkroom, I taped the image to the base board and let the bottom curl up a little to increase the blur of the water. I burned in the water severely as well as parts of the sky and heavily dodged the strip of fog to make it really stand out.
 
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Sirius Glass said:
Good photographers crop in the view finder before taking the photograph. Any good slide shooter knows that.
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Sometimes good photographers find a different image within the one they originally photographed. And crop. I'd venture to suggest that the majority of photographers (even those who exclusively use film) have never shot slides.
 

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This is a fantastic image!
 

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Donald Qualls said:
I'd venture to suggest that the majority of photographers (even those who exclusively use film) have never shot slides.
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Depends on their "vintage". If they were active between ~1965 to ~1985, they may have shot more slides than anything else.
 

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"Stormy Over San Dollar Cove"
Big Sur winters are green.
This is a pinhole photograph from Big Sur, California.
Zero Image 4x5 Deluxe, Astia, scanned.

 
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There is a fundamental difference between striving for negatives or slides that minimize the need for after exposure cropping, and rejecting a photographic possibility because it cannot be satisfactorily fit into the frame without requiring some after exposure cropping.
 

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MattKing said:
Depends on their "vintage". If they were active between ~1965 to ~1985, they may have shot more slides than anything else.
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As a student at that time, I couldn’t afford the processing costs associated with print film, so it was always either B&W or Kodachrome (which was sold in Canada with a prepaid processing mailer).
 

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David R Williams said:
As a student at that time, I couldn’t afford the processing costs associated with print film, so it was always either B&W or Kodachrome (which was sold in Canada with a prepaid processing mailer).
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To be technical, the film was sold with processing prepaid, and there was a convenient pre-addressed envelope (with no inherent value) in the box, that Canada Post recognized and charged a favourable rate for. The film cassettes themselves and the edge codes on the film were what established that it was process prepaid.
Every once in a while, some enterprising miscreant would re-address and re-purpose those envelopes to send small plastic sealed and nearly waterproof cannisters full of contraband substances to a different address. Little did they know that Canada Post didn't actually read the address on those envelopes - they just put them in the big bin that went to the nearest Kodak Canada Kodachrome lab. Those envelopes would then be opened in complete darkness by the women - and they were all women - in the pre-splice area of the Kodachrome processing area, at which time they would be startled and scared by the contents they encountered!
I've never figured out why, but at the North Vancouver lab, it fell to my father, as Customer Services manager at that lab, to contact the RCMP and report the discovery. As I understand it, the RCMP would test the contents and if it turned out to be contraband, replace it with something that was similar and then have Canada Post handle it manually, with RCMP waiting at the other end......
 
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Sirius Glass said:
Good photographers crop in the view finder before taking the photograph. Any good slide shooter knows that.
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This rule has an exception: slide mounts that can be closed crossed, making a square opening for film. Gepe 7013 is an example of that, providing me plentiful of squares and post-cropping options to play around with.
 

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Negative scan from a print I sold some years back. TMX, 50 summitar, M5, kodak pakon scan. Moore County, TN.

 
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MattKing said:
Depends on their "vintage". If they were active between ~1965 to ~1985, they may have shot more slides than anything else.
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I was active, as a teen, through that period, and IIRC shot precisely three rolls of Ektachrome. First in a Baby Brownie (yes, they were exposed okay, but too wide to mount in 2x2 mounts which was all the processors had); second in a Brownie Hawkeye Flash (also exposed well -- sun over your shoulder, between 10 and 2, clear Eastern Washington summer days, didn't even really think about it), and came back as "super slides". The third was in a Kodak Reflex II and processed in my high school photography class, never got mounted but they looked great.

The next time I shot slides was in an Instamatic 314 at Yellowstone around 1987.

So no, I didn't shoot more slides than anything else. I mostly shot Verichrome Pan and Kodacolor (whatever version was current at the time) in that time frame, and a few rolls of Tri-X.
 

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Atypical, as usual Donald .
I was trying to point out that during those times there were lots of people who used lots of slides - some exclusively.
It was the heyday of transparency film usage.
 
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MattKing said:
Atypical, as usual Donald .
I was trying to point out that during those times there were lots of people who used lots of slides - some exclusively.
It was the heyday of transparency film usage.
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When I got my first serious camera it was a 35mm Voightlander Vito II later followed by a Minolta SR7 and I shot only slides for decades. Hence the need and desire to do my composition in the view finder and not crop except for a tiny minority which were masked between sheets of glass.
 

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Landscape of a valley at the foot of Mountain Kinabalu by stitching 10 of half frame photos taken with Olympus Pen FT (Using Kodak TMax 400 exp Jan 1997) in Lightroom.
 

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