I’ve received the scans of my second film roll about a week ago and still haven’t posted the photographs. There are a lot of good shots again. I found these the most interesting. The most processing I’ve done on these was cropping and straightening in Photoshop. Nothing else.
Arosha was reaching for something up high and I asked Alena to look up as well. It’s not very sharp, but it just works on this photograph.
I walked up to these guys and asked permission to take a photo. No response followed. Then one voice said — the silence means agreement. I took a shot and thanked them. No reply followed — they are all in the game.
There are a lot of seagulls all around Sheepshead Bay canal. Each pole is occupied.
The daughter of our friends Vika and Ignat — Alisa — playing in one of the local parks.
Our Shublik is beautiful even in black and white. With age he’s got much easier to photograph even with a manual camera. He’s not a kid anymore.
Verrazano-Narrows Bridge — even to this day every time I see it I’m amazed by it’s beauty and sheer size. Whenever I have somebody come over from overseas this is the first spot I take them to.
Roll & Roaster is one of the oldest places on Emmons Avenue. This antique car looked very fitting in front of it.
I was sitting on bench at the end of the canal when I saw this man going somewhere in a suite and old style hat. It’s a good place to take photographs of people going on about their business without intruding.
On the last warm day of the year people were coming out from synagogues on a day of Yom Kippur to enjoy the passing summer.
That’s all for today. A good set, but I probably won’t be doing more film anytime soon. The age of instant gratification has ruined me.
Arosha was reaching for something up high and I asked Alena to look up as well. It’s not very sharp, but it just works on this photograph.
I walked up to these guys and asked permission to take a photo. No response followed. Then one voice said — the silence means agreement. I took a shot and thanked them. No reply followed — they are all in the game.
There are a lot of seagulls all around Sheepshead Bay canal. Each pole is occupied.
The daughter of our friends Vika and Ignat — Alisa — playing in one of the local parks.
Our Shublik is beautiful even in black and white. With age he’s got much easier to photograph even with a manual camera. He’s not a kid anymore.
Verrazano-Narrows Bridge — even to this day every time I see it I’m amazed by it’s beauty and sheer size. Whenever I have somebody come over from overseas this is the first spot I take them to.
Roll & Roaster is one of the oldest places on Emmons Avenue. This antique car looked very fitting in front of it.
I was sitting on bench at the end of the canal when I saw this man going somewhere in a suite and old style hat. It’s a good place to take photographs of people going on about their business without intruding.
On the last warm day of the year people were coming out from synagogues on a day of Yom Kippur to enjoy the passing summer.That’s all for today. A good set, but I probably won’t be doing more film anytime soon. The age of instant gratification has ruined me.
November 2, 2011 @ 12:31
Awesome pictures. I don’t understand why you’re not gonna deal with film any more.
November 2, 2011 @ 12:46
Good pictures.
November 2, 2011 @ 12:54
Thank you very much, guys, for the comments. Always much appreciated.
The film is too hard. I require instant gratification.
But then it’s always more interesting to see results.
Maybe I will try some color film as you suggested. Only I need to find something that will get me a vintage look. Getting regular color photographs is not interesting. Any suggestions for film brand?
November 2, 2011 @ 13:07
Great stuff. Definitely would like to see you work with film every once and a while, just b/c the results have so much character. Something about film and B&W feels right though, not sure if color would have the same flavor, compared with what you can do with digital + color already.
November 2, 2011 @ 14:04
Nice pics!
If you wanna experiment with color, try this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kodachrome
…Although I doubt anyone would process it, even if you can find the film.
November 2, 2011 @ 14:20
Thank you very much for the comments!
The lab that I used for these rolls (TheDarkroom.com) should be able to process pretty much anything. They offer cross-processing, pushing and pulling film and different formats.
The problem with Kodachrome will be finding the film I think, as you said.
November 2, 2011 @ 15:40
Photos are very good!
November 2, 2011 @ 16:14
Thank you, Ignat.
I wonder, guys, if you had to pick, say, 3 out of the these, which ones would you pick and in which order?
November 2, 2011 @ 16:26
1. Chess
2. Silhouette
3. Flying saucer
4. Shublik
November 2, 2011 @ 16:53
Pic 1 (with AR)
Pic 2 (chess)
Pic 7 ( Roll & Roaster
November 2, 2011 @ 18:49
1. Chess
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2. Flying Saucer (name © Ignat
3. Shublik
Silhouette is an interesting composition, but it needs… less stuff.
November 3, 2011 @ 12:58
And what are the photographer’s favorites in this roll?
November 3, 2011 @ 14:22
1. Alena & Arosha
2. Chess
3. I really can’t decide.
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