Posts marked with the tag “scan”
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Millennium Dome, London
Friday, 24th July 2009 • Individual photographs, Landscape photography, Photography • 2 comments
Continuing in the series of individual photos along the Thames which I took in 1999 for a City and Guilds photo course.
Stock Ghyll Beck, Cumbria
Tuesday, 21st July 2009 • Individual photographs, Landscape photography • No comments
One of the many hundreds of gems which lie in folders in my cupboard; one of the thousands of frames taken over the years with traditional film cameras.
Ponte Vecchio
Sunday, 29th March 2009 • Individual photographs, Landscape photography, Travel • No comments
A gem from the couple of hundred 35mm frames I’ve scanned today: the Ponte Vecchio bridge in Florence, Italy.
Dieppe in winter
Monday, 2nd March 2009 • Photography, Travel • No comments
It seems that even back in the 1990s, I still knew a thing or two about timing when it came to "street" photography. On arrival in Normandy during a trip to visit a French camera club for the weekend with friends from Yateley Camera Club, this was the scene which greeted us when we pulled up in the beach-side car park. The photo is a scanned 35mm negative, retouched to remove scratches but otherwise largely unchanged.
Medium format scan
Wednesday, 25th February 2009 • Geek stuff, Photography • No comments
In the absence of ready cash to buy a new scanner, I’ve finally found a photo shop which is capable of decent, low cost medium format scanning. Photo Vision, in the Marktgasse in Bern, offer 16 bit TIFF files for Fr 3.50 each, scanned at a purported 4,880dpi to produce 80 megapixel files. This is an example of an uncorrected scan I’ve just collected. A tip, though: make sure that you specify that the automatic dust, colour and sharpening correction is OFF, otherwise the quality of the image at full resolution is noticeably compromised.
The photo itself is about ten yers old, taken of strangers on the northern bank of the Thames in London, opposite Battersea Power Station.
On the Thames
Wednesday, 11th February 2009 • Individual photographs, Photography • No comments
Almost ten years ago – in November 1999, if memory serves – I was still living in England and I took part in a City and Guilds photography course. Before leaving the course (as I was teaching the tutor new techniques instead of learning anything), I made it through to a project towards the end of the first term. We were asked to take a set of photos for assessment. I decided that I would take a series of photos along the Thames, starting at Hampton Court Palace and Richmond Park, and working my way east to end up at the (then new and since re-branded) Millennium Dome near Greenwich at dusk. This is the first of a series of shots I’ll be posting from the series, of the Houses of Parliament photographed from the southern bank of the Thames. All of the pictures were shot on medium format film using a standard lens on a Bronica ETRSi.