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1963 Massey Fergusson
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Well you know I don’t do landscape-
I take my life in my hands every time I post something here-
No doubt, the Coke Bottle police will be around to move this one along-
if they can-
Thank god it’s not like the old days…Anyway, I found myself out in the Mournes with a new camera to test,
along with a film processing and printing system.I spotted a couple of nice mountains, and decided to do a picture-
I’m really disappointed in myself for not spending longer in this location,
I only took a couple of pictures-I have my reservations about this one as a picture,
but as a test it worked out (mostly) ok-Scan from print-
I was brought up on a farm & we had an older Ferguson 20 tractor. We also used to live in a house like that with similar walls & gates. This works as a photograph for me. I felt I was back there when I viewed this. I like it.
Well done & thanks for posting.
John.Ha Ha . . .
Another result from the Arca Irish, Looking good!
Joseph there seems to be a kind of light green hue to this
and I think the contrast could be pumped a bit to make the
whites whiter and mid tones clearer.And a conversion to B&W to get rid of that green hue.
Look’s like it was a really nie place for snaps.
Alan
Thanks everyone for the comments-
Alan, I tried to match the colour of the print-
however, I upgraded my OS recently, so I lost my custom profile-I do have some new calibration software and targets,
and I have to do some more scanning, so I’ll load it up and see if I can get it closer-This was printed on Ilford Warmtone fibrebase paper,
developed in multigrade developer-
It will have a tone (the one I tried to match) and I have heard it described as greenish-
though I did reduce the saturation right down, it’s probably impossible to replicate consistently.It could also be argued that the subject might warrant a cooler toned print…
Thanks wirepic, that’s a scan of the print- the frame wasn’t added.
I must make a mask so that the black border is smaller,
but making a contact print will leave black outside the image area.Cheers John- glad it meant something to you-
that’s the part of the picture that concerned me most,
so it’s good to hear that it resonated with someone-Thanks again for the detailed comments, appreciate them-
joseph
Lovely print Joseph, very pleased to have a copy…
1963, a good year for tractors and Robs…
JB agree with Rob it makes a lovely print just have to find a nice frame for it.
Mick
Hi Joseph,
I find the posts after mine very interesting. I have a little knowledge about the technical aspects of imaging & yet while observing your image my brain totally ignored this & homed in on the scene which I obviously really liked.
Later posts homed in on aspects (quite rightly) that did’nt even register with me when I looked.
I have looked again a few times & I am still so taken with the image that my brain ignores the other things.
Probably nothing to do with your post but I found my reaction interesting.
John.Thanks for the comments, Rob and Mick and John-
John, those are comments that I might make myself about an image presented on the web-
Perhaps if I had scanned the negative I might have presented it in greyscale,
but then again, perhaps not.Black and white paper and developer combinations are seldom neutral,
and I was trying to represent the colour of the print on my monitor-
It does match mine, can’t speak for others,
but I wouldn’t have thought it was toned to a great degree-
However, it is definitely not grey.I’ve got to admit, my viewing conditions for the print are not standardized for correct colour rendition,
to say nothing about the lost monitor profile I mentioned…The border-
borders are often added in ps as an indication of how the image might look framed-
in this case, I might not have had a border at all if I had printed on 8×10 paper,
but the paper was 9×12.They are useful for a few things-
they allow the print to be handled around the edges, so that fingerprints are kept away from the image,
and they allow a good surface to attach the print to a mat-
and also, they absorb some of the curl that’s inherent in air dried fibre prints-One of the reasons I chose this format was so that I could make contact prints.
Contact prints are quite rigorous in one regard-
they force you to compose using the whole frame, everything up to and beyond the rebates is reproduced.
If you decide later that a cropped image would be better,
then perhaps it wasn’t a suitable candidate for contact printing…There is always the option to scan, crop, enlarge,
(and remove dust, as many of you might have noticed)
but in this case, the intention was to produce (and reproduce) a print-Thanks again for the comments-
joseph
Its an excellent photo, although I think the scan doesn’t do it justice….it loses a bit of its ‘luminosity’, if that makes sense….but i guess thats always the case with scans.
A detail I like that I only spotted yesterday evening looking at it again is that the footprints in the foreground are dog footprints (not someone’s big boots) which look much nicer and more natural in the snow.
when i saw your image with the tape, i had to remember my darkroom days, the smell and excitment about it. i miss that to have it ON PAPER but i still celebrate the freedom of digital files, experiments…
I love the light in you image….well i have no idea about tracktors so that doesn’t freak me out, but it is a typically winter light with all the emotions which belong to it. Well done. Madeleine
Very good, Joseph.
Although, I much prefer looking at the print. I’m glad I have one to look at.Sinead
Thanks Liam, Madeleine, Sinead-
Liam, time to get your print uploaded-
very enjoyable it is too-
Mark has a link in the Print Exchange thread…Thanks for the coment, glad you liked the print-
Madeline, not so sure what you mean by ‘the tape’?
This whole process is an experiment, I haven’t done it before at this scale, and I’m enjoying it.
It’s good to smell the fixer again, to control a print by waving your arms around-
there’s a certain freedom in that too.I don’t mean to make it seem like exposing a piece of film is in any way a threat to making digital files,
that would after all be stupid,
but I don’t really get how your preference for digital files is a comment on this particular picture…I don’t have any particular attraction to tractors either,
but this little slice of an anachronism merited a snap-
and as you say, all because of the light, and what it was reflecting off.Sinead, glad you like the print, and thanks for yours, I’ll treasure them!
Here’s one of your namesake-
as Liam mentioned, the dog in the tracks above-Not as successful as the first, for a few reasons, but it was the other one I took, so I may as well post it-
Still need to work on quite a few things to get it right-
but the mistakes are much more evident on the neg, so I’ll mostly put it down to experience-I profiled my scanner, so the colour in this should be less subjective than the first- (I think)
Thanks again for all the comments-
Very nice Jb, this is with the 10×8 i presume?. A Lot of work even to carry it about, that’s even before the processing.
Sean.
Jess the Border Collie! What a lovely dog she was too.
Would this be more of an environmental portrait, than a landscape?
I think there is a lot of emotion in this picture. The farmer looks so proud, in front of his home, which is,
so well kept. And his 1963 tractor, in perfect working order. And, Jess, the dog, looking up at him, with
such a loyal expression.He is obviously a man, who takes a lot of pride in his work. I think you’ve done really well to capture that.
I’m sure he’d be, pleased as punch, if he were to have a print. Maybe the kind of thing you’d like to deliver,
in person, should you ever find yourself back in the Mourne Mountains.If I did have a niggle (I’m sure you know where this is going) it would be about the back end of the tractor,
missing from the picture. But, then again, it does kind of line up nicely, where it is, if you know what I mean?
If it were further into the frame, it might not look just as pleasing as where it is now.I guess these are the challenges of working with a 8×10, expensive film, and making contact prints.
Pretty much, just the one chance to get it right.Anyway, nicely done. I really like it.
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