#42

Curious about this vinegar soak! Did you dilute it? How long did you let it soak? Or really any details about it :slight_smile:

#43

Iā€™ve experimented with longer soaks (12-24 hours) followed by a ā€œrinseā€ in water, but this particularly one was 30 minutes and a quick rinse before I developed it. The vinegar wasnā€™t diluted at all and I developed the next day.

#44

It turned out great. Those greens! Are the results dramatically different with the longer soaks?

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#45

Fellow photographers, iā€™ve got a question. do you find similar threads or themes between your music and photography? iā€™d love to dive into the creative relationships between my two favorite mediums on our little thread here.

for me i find a lot of my work in both sound and visuals deals with space, and the relationships between objects/sounds within spaces. but iā€™m curious as to what themes you guys work with and if there are ties between your music and photography (or anything else you might create)

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#46

Iā€™ll admit that Iā€™m more of a ā€œjust photograph anything and hope it might look coolā€ photographer, but I do notice that Iā€™m drawn to decaying structures, especially old gas stations, and I think my music has a sort of decaying society feel.

Whether thatā€™s deliberate, subconscious or coincidental Iā€™m not sure

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#47

Messing around with a film scan for the artwork for the first in a series of monthly releases:

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#48

Really like thisā€¦stared at it for quite awhile, went away and then stared a bit more.

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#49

I am kinda relentlessly amateur in everything I do. The common themes I find are messiness (and messy ambiguity), intensifying of ā€œmistakesā€ , a tendency to semi-purposefully conflate figure/ground and a(n unfortunate) sense of pervasive anxiety/claustrophobia. Like everything is taking place in some really dense hazily transmitted dream world. At least to me. Been in hermit mode for quite some time, so I dont get a lot of feedback on stuff.

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#50

When you soak for longer durations you get wildly different results. Here are some links to a few blog posts I found upon a quick Google search.

Red Wine, Bleach, and MORE!

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#51

Bought these in our local shop! Isopan from 1974! Will share the results here :slight_smile:

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#52

Iā€™m part of an organization called ā€œanalogicaā€ (some may remember the festival I posted about). This year we are organizing this thing here:

https://www.36exp.org/

36 EXP is a call for unprocessed (analogue) film. How it works is basically that you shoot a roll, wrap it in an evenlope and send it in. More info at the link above.

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#53

Thatā€™s really cool that the negatives are returned.

#54

gosh iā€™m tempted to just pick up a cheap body for one of my manual lenses and wing it for this

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#55

Fortunately itā€™s very easy to find decent bodys if one knows where to look.

#56

like my wifeā€™s side of the bed? (canon ae-1 found in a grandparents basement!)

but yeah I went down a delightful hole of finding cheap vintage lenses for my digital body when I got into it a few years ago.

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#57

Prime lenses kick ass! 40 year old $50 lenses looking better then some of the ā€˜state of the artā€™ new lenses they come out with and want a thousand bucks for.

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#58

@baleen: yeah exactly! :slight_smile:
@quixot: yep it actually applies to new lenses as well. A zoom lens will be extremely expensive or very crappy. On the other hand you can find some pretty great prime lenses for totally good prices.
And then itā€™s as with all things, just because something is technically better, doesnā€™t mean itā€™s better for what you want to do with it.
My wife made some really great photos with a cheap (canā€™t remember how much, but it was really cheap) toy lens on a really not so great Olympus PEN digital camera.

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#59

So true! I have a weakness for those little keychain digital camerasā€¦can get some pretty rad images off those with a ghostly or painterly like qualityā€¦tons of character.

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#60

yeah i found a grip of beautiful primes for under $50 ea. one was $15 and is great if a little quirky (minolta me 45/2), but the two pentax i found are incredible. for a fraction of the price of a modern manual lens!

never shot with zoom lenses. :man_shrugging:

#61

+1 to that. I picked up a 100mm Super Takumar for something like Ā£60 and itā€™s way more fun than my cannon zooms:

https://www.pentaxforums.com/lensreviews/Super-Multi-Coated-MACRO-TAKUMAR-100mm-F4-Macro.html

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