a nice moment frozen in time. do you, by any chance, have a version with the front bucket not cropped out? i can't decide if i would like that better or not.
also, when you take shots like this and the ones you've been posting recently, do you ask the people to pose for you or do you just take them?
The original has the whole front bucket in it. It is, in fact, a full-length portrait; I cropped the bottom half because I found the girl's shadow to be very distracting. Maybe I will at some point make a version with the whole front bucket in it, but when I was playing around with different crops, this one struck me as being the most dynamic
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Heh. No, I don't think I remember you ever posting anything black and white. Although some of the pictures on that one very expired, very damaged roll of film seemed to be rather grey.
Actually, it's kind of funny you should mention the black-and-white conversion. In many cases, I can see immediately when a picture is going to work better in black and white than in colour; in this case, I couldn't. I made quite a few colour versions of the photo before I finally settled on monochrome. It struck me as the perfect rhapsody in green: green grass, green bushes, green skirt, green collar, the works. Only the greens didn't quite match, and I had trouble getting the skin tones right, so in the end I decided to go for black and white. And while I really, really like this version, part of me still weeps for those lovely shades of green. :-)
Anyhow, thanks for the compliment! I'm really glad you enjoy the portraits.
i haven't done much black & white, just a couple in the last months ( one, two) and i had done some before, with the digital camera.
but -oh surprise- i have shot a couple of b/w rolls, but i can't have them scanned because i shot them with the isoly, and the frames aren't regular. the scanner in the lab is automatic, so it can scan & frame the overlapping pictures. i'm planning to buy a scanner this summer.
btw: the guy from the lab is back again, and i'm starting to pressure him to scan my stuff.... wha-ha-haha!
The portraits I've posted so far have been nothing but snapshots -- nice ones, but snapshots all the same. I hope to take some "real" portraits later this year, starting this afternoon. I've found a willing model for a crazy photo shoot!
i haven't done much black & white, just a couple in the last months
Ah yes, I remember those now. Very nice. See, you can do black and white if you put your mind to it!
As for the scanner at the lab not being able to deal with the films you put in your Isoly, surely you've posted Isoly pictures before, in colour? I seem to remember a number of them. Does black-and-white film somehow behave differently in your Isoly? Or did you have the same problem with the colour films, and just showed us the few scans that did come out well?
btw: the guy from the lab is back againDamn. Looks like you'll beat me to posting your first Holga pics. I'm not going to get mine scanned this week; it will be next week at the earliest, and I still have to ask
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also, when you take shots like this and the ones you've been posting recently, do you ask the people to pose for you or do you just take them?
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you know i love colours and i almost can't be forced to make a picture b/w ;)
you do it wonderfully.
your portraits are great, i really enjoy them all.
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Actually, it's kind of funny you should mention the black-and-white conversion. In many cases, I can see immediately when a picture is going to work better in black and white than in colour; in this case, I couldn't. I made quite a few colour versions of the photo before I finally settled on monochrome. It struck me as the perfect rhapsody in green: green grass, green bushes, green skirt, green collar, the works. Only the greens didn't quite match, and I had trouble getting the skin tones right, so in the end I decided to go for black and white. And while I really, really like this version, part of me still weeps for those lovely shades of green. :-)
Anyhow, thanks for the compliment! I'm really glad you enjoy the portraits.
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i haven't done much black & white, just a couple in the last months ( one, two) and i had done some before, with the digital camera.
but -oh surprise- i have shot a couple of b/w rolls, but i can't have them scanned because i shot them with the isoly, and the frames aren't regular. the scanner in the lab is automatic, so it can scan & frame the overlapping pictures.
i'm planning to buy a scanner this summer.
btw: the guy from the lab is back again, and i'm starting to pressure him to scan my stuff.... wha-ha-haha!
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Aw, you flatterer...
The portraits I've posted so far have been nothing but snapshots -- nice ones, but snapshots all the same. I hope to take some "real" portraits later this year, starting this afternoon. I've found a willing model for a crazy photo shoot!
i haven't done much black & white, just a couple in the last months
Ah yes, I remember those now. Very nice. See, you can do black and white if you put your mind to it!
As for the scanner at the lab not being able to deal with the films you put in your Isoly, surely you've posted Isoly pictures before, in colour? I seem to remember a number of them. Does black-and-white film somehow behave differently in your Isoly? Or did you have the same problem with the colour films, and just showed us the few scans that did come out well?
btw: the guy from the lab is back againDamn. Looks like you'll beat me to posting your first Holga pics. I'm not going to get mine scanned this week; it will be next week at the earliest, and I still have to ask ( ... )
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