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| The Harpist, on HP5+, Adox MCC paper, partially toned (sepia) |
Monday 17 February 2020
The Harpist
At the launch of my friend's exhibition the other night the wife of another member offered to play the harp - a beautiful instrument. I snapped her up a few times as I wandered past and this was the best of the bunch, achieved by holding the camera down low and hoping for the best. I like the shot but I think there's a better print in it, if I can get my act together:
I like a bit of context in photographs and the young girl looking on makes the shot, I think - what with her natural inquisitiveness and a little bit of awe etched on her face. The prints on the wall look better here that they did in real life - for they were colour prints. 'Nuff said...
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Wow. Fightin' words, brudder. :) But I think this photo works well in black and white because the colours of the prints and clothes might be distracting.
ReplyDeleteIt has become something of a standing joke in the Club, Marcus - my affinity for B&W and my disdain for all things colour. I do play up to it (and am expected to). All good fun.
DeleteWhen I posted this I was preparing a short presentation for the Club on my Italian Travels. The joke was on me though, as somehow I'd shot a roll of Velvia whilst in Sorrento, so I ended up showing some of those slides as well as a few B&W prints.
Even monkeys sometimes fall from trees, as Koreans say. :) I'm sure the club enjoyed the photos, whatever film they were made on.
DeleteOh, it's a very nice snap indeed, Michael.
ReplyDeleteI'm really glad you saved the HP5 for this moment, and left your Velvia back home. I would love to see your club members faces whan you pulled colour film up on the wall. That would have raised a few eyebrows me thinks!
Funny thing you mention Velvia as it happens, as I just brought three rolls of the sorts over to the US from my "bunch of film never seem to be used" storage back home. There is E6 developing facilities on board the ship these days, so I might just shoot them off into some general direction and see if anything stick onto those old rolls. I'm not exactly too sure about vintage positive film though, and certainly not Velvia... but there you go. We might find out some day.
Oh... and I'm back in blog land for a moment. Don't know for how long of course, but we will see. You got a lot of posts I need to get through, and I also need to check the few other blogs I'm following. You might even find one or two new things over at my side if you bother to take a look :)
See ya, mate!!
Good to hear from you, Roy - glad you are back with us. I shall take a dander over to filmphotographymadesimple.blogspot.com and see what you are up to.
DeleteYou have E6 on board? Wow. That's some ship you have, my friend! And B&W too, I guess (?). Velvia was very nice on transparency...kind of reminiscent of that famous slide film from Kodak. Or maybe it was just the slides themselves that reminded me of that. I've one film left...sitting looking at me every time I open the fridge. Hmm. One day soon, I think ;)
We got E6, B&W of different sorts, and C-41 as well should you prefer that... which we don't of course, we old dogs. The young guys seem to prefer colors though, so that's why it's an option in our wee lab.
ReplyDeleteAt least we found a nice way to recycle the american milk bottles... they are quite perfect for putting chemicals inside.
Amazing. Well done you for getting that little room inside that ship geared up for a bit of film developing. I think you might a something rather unique in the world, there - a floating developing facility :)
DeleteI might need to whisper loudly into the direction of Kosmo photo or somewhere similar? :)
DeleteWell... thinking about it you could actually develop film more or less anywhere for that sake. With all the new X-ray scanners killing film at the airports around the world these days it's actually a great thing to have on board if you ask me. It's got a dedicated purpose in addition to being fun and something to play with in my spare time on board.
You can of course read everything about it in my brand new blog post if you got the time and a huge cup of tea ready at hand. It's a long one even though you'll probably wonder in the end why all these words were written and still nothing much was said.
But that's OK... at least it's a time killer of dimensions! :))
Kosmo or Emulsive or one of those places would love a few words from you, I'm quite sure of that (and a few photographs, too, of course).
DeleteI shall wander over to the usual place shortly, Roy... :)