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the horse, the pig and the peacock
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This is a little open farm place near where I get my picture framing done. Really brilliant selection of animals running around,
well worth a visit if you find yourself in Warrenpoint. Annetts Garden Centre. Nice little coffee shop there too.Edit: Holga 120s & Kodak Portra 400 VC. I adjusted the contrast in PS, as my scans tend to come back very flat.
The popular pig, Norman. Very friendly little fellow. And, the peacock, didn’t catch his name, but he was a bit of a pain in the arse after a while. lol…
Sinead
The peacock is exceptionally good… with her feathers on full show and the Holga’s added specials it really works well and is a
totally different spin on what you’d normally see when it comes to a peacock.The exposure on the horse is pretty exceptional too… I like horses but by God are they hard to photograph… well, for me anyway.
The pig is a bit neither here nor there for my liking.
How do you go about getting your colour film developed? Have always liked the look of that Kodak Portra… well, the Lightroom preset version that is
J
Cheers…
The horse was really quiet, friendly big fellow, I gave him a half an apple which might have helped.
The peacock was easy, he practically followed me around the place, there were loads of wee chicks running around that I was trying to shoot and he just kept chasing them off.
The pig is a lovely wee thing, but very hard to shoot, I think pigs in general are difficult to shoot, they spend an awful lot of time with their snouts in the ground. The focus is on
the hay in that picture.
I might go back there today, there was a cow just ready to calf last day I was there.I just send the film to a lab in England for processing and scanning, the scans are about 1100 pixels. 4MB. Best I can afford.
I like the VC in the Holga, but prefer the NC in the Mamiya. I think anyway…
Fuji Pro H is quite like Portra VC, I think. Cheaper as well.
Love the vignetting Sinead. Craigavon Photographic Services ( CPS ) process 120, but I think it’s about £12 or £13. What’s your lab in England charging? I develop my own B&W but I haven’t currently got a scanner that carries 120 negs, just 35mm, an Epson 3490. I did have the 4490 which I managed to smash. I’ve seen people recommend scanning negs in ordinary flatbed scanners, but when I tried that the results were little better than useless. I have a Seagull TLR which I’ve just put a roll of film through, must try the flatbed scanning again and see if results are any better than before.
Alex.Hi Sinead,
I second johns comments there!
The horse image is great, and the peacock is special too
with thost tail feathers and the holga effects.Nice set
Alan
Cheers bigal, the edges of the lens in this Holga are scratched (by the previous owner) so that really adds to the vignette.
I use a place in England called The Darkroom, http://www.the-darkroom.com/fastcart/index.html about £7-00 for C41 process and 4MB scans to CD.
I can’t afford or justify the cost of a scanner at the moment, so it’s just easier for me to send them off. I do my own BW too and would normally just
scan prints, but I don’t have any darkroom access over the summer, which is why I’ve been doing a bit more colour.I’d be interested to see the results from your Seagull, they look like fun little cameras.
Alan – Cheers. Thanks for that!
HHHmmmmmm,
Might do a bit of scratchin’ meself, I really like that edge effect.
I know you mentioned the scrathcing before, but I never really
thought too much about it until now!!I like the horse one, good portrait-
I wouldn’t be a big fan of the scratches though,
while I like the blur from a soft lens towards the edges,
I tend to draw the line at flare-
intentional or not.I think I might have mentioned this already,
so I’ll keep quiet now,
and won’t go near your very alive horse with a stick…However, if you ever feel like a different look from your lens,
you could try filling in the scratches with black ink…As an option, that is…
joseph
Worth a try Alan… What’s the worst that could happen?
Yes Joseph, you did mention the flare from this lens before, more than once. Flogging a dead horse? :wink:
It is inclined to little bit of flare, but, I’m inclined to like a little bit of flare.Black ink, never would have thought of that. Interesting. Not sure I’d be keen to try it at the moment, but I’ll keep it in mind.
Thanks.Sinead
The horse for me too. Like swans, horses are notoriously difficult to
photograph in any sort of interesting way, but you’ve managed quite
a nice portrait here. The flare? A pity in a way…Like the peacock too, nicely framed…
Pigs are like children (or should that be the other way around?); you need
to be at eye level for a decent shot…Cheers Rob.
Rob wrote:
Pigs are like children (or should that be the other way around?); you need
to be at eye level for a decent shot…lol… Yes, eye level would have been better, but he was a difficult wee skitter to shoot. Moved very quickly.
I’ll try that next time.I could tell Zoltan was waiting in the shadows to
say that :lol: :lol: :lol:I have taken the Sharpie permanent marker to me
Holga lens . . . see what that does . . . :lol::oops: hope the chemicals in it dont melt the plastic :shock:
Do you have a scratched lens too?
The idea is that filling in the scratches stops the light scattering,
and reduces flare…maybe I should have kept quiet…
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