Monochrome (B&W Cult)

[last blade]

really love the 2nd one, 3rd one is super unique with the scope look

[weary pulsar]

oh yeah you have your Instagram in your profile

[distant bramble]

Yeah don’t ever feel the need to promote myself. If someone likes my work they can find me easy enough lol.

[weary pulsar]

Lol

[distant bramble]

The posse

[stable copper]

nice grouping

[marsh tusk]

Thanks haha
It was actually my first time shooting lol
I had the chance to shoot some lovely Czech guns so

Vz.58, CZ Bren 2 and CZ Scorpion Evo 3 A1

[stable copper]

Very nice.i miss shooting. Though i occasionally do archery

[stable copper]

X100T, scale focusing

[fossil sage]

'The Age of Bronze,' Auguste Rodin

[thick jewel]

Cool negative space

[marsh tusk]

Thank you!

[gusty linden]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1051696928376750140/1092102469695320114/Kodak_Tri-X_400_02042023_2-755.jpg

[kind charm]

this has a certain vibe to it

i like

[distant bramble]

How'd you find my house...

[sharp gulch]

Your house is an entrance to a void ☝️🔐 had to

[distant bramble]

Really dig this scene though, only thing I wish was different is those dumb branches in the top left were nice enough to vanish while the photo was being taken.

[sharp gulch]

Thank you. I think that would be nice. Unfortunately I was under another one of these across the street. If I could run in the street fast enough I could have probably taken it without the branches. I was sort of going for trying to keep the top of the trees around the middle of the horizon. Wouldn’t work out that way. Also, not experienced enough to edit the branches out 😅

[distant bramble]

You and me both I can't photoshop to save my life.

[sharp gulch]

I’m just getting started with Lightroom

We’ll get there soon. All part of the process.

[quasi cape]

with my Nikon Coolpix 5900

[stable copper]

Finally out on the streets again.

[sharp gulch]

I really like this. I’m normally into very simple things, but I feel like the sheer amount of “things” in frame adds a lot to the environment.

[quasi cape]

thank you!

[sharp gulch]

Mhm, no worries.

Also, what kind of camera is the coolpix?

[quasi cape]

it's a 5 Megapixel digicam from 2005 I got it as a gift

[distant bramble]

Working well.

[sharp gulch]

That’s fun! It looks great. I have a lumix digicam with a Leica lens. It’s so much fun shooting street stuff. Very discreet as well.

Good job on those

You should post them in #🎭・people if you haven’t already

[quasi cape]

that's true and it's small so easy to hide I'd like to see your photos with it!

[sharp gulch]

Indeed. I don’t have any with me at the moment, unfortunately. I can send you some once I’m home tomorrow. If you’d like you can add me as a friend

[distant bramble]

I don't generally like bird photography but this is a fantastic photo of some seagulls.

[fossil sage]

I hadn’t seen them til I checked the image in my editor, decided to leave them in

[distant bramble]

Honestly a really nice scene, the birds add to it, but overall love it.

[fossil sage]

Thanks! I’ve messed around with angles from that spot for a while, but hadn’t been happy with the sky until today

[mental cosmos]

An experiment with multiple exposures (from the archive)

[thick jewel]

Beautiful usage of Negative space! This looks like a very nice minimalism shot too

How did you get the super white background though

[frosty vapor]

i just overexposed the shit out of it

the water reflected the sun directly so very bright already

[stable copper]

where is this taken??

[steady marsh]

Downtown Chicago!

All my latest photos are

[steady marsh]

Sick

[stable copper]

woohoo just did streetshooting downtown last week

[steady marsh]

I was there last sunday

I only stayed for a day, I'd like to go back another day by myself

[stable copper]

very cool, i have bunch more i shot. decided to do it all on my x100T using ZONE FOCUS

[stable copper]

thanks

[steady marsh]

x100T looks fun, I got so many good pictures there, glad I went

[stable copper]

you live in IL it just passing through

[steady marsh]

I've only got one camera, I want to sell it and get an older camera

Nah I'm from michigan

So pretty close

[stable copper]

ok not that far away

[steady marsh]

About a 3 hour drive

Worth it

[stable copper]

it is

[steady marsh]

I had to go with family so I was just taking pictures while we were walking but I'll go by myself some day

[steady marsh]

I wasn't sure if I really liked this

[stable copper]

the bus s a little dark but some dodging in lightroom can fix that easy

[steady marsh]

Yeah I plan on going back to edit a bit

[stable copper]

otherwise is decent composotion

[steady marsh]

I like to think I had a decent idea at the very least

I'm also still trying to get used to doing b&w

[stable copper]

it is a little different if you only work in color but youll get the hang of it

[stable copper]

nice

lighting a bit better here, seeing the details in the bus makes these kin of shots for me personally, gives it a sense of location.

[steady marsh]

Yeah

[stable copper]

funny thing about street shooting is that there is no such thing as a straightline

especially in Chicago LOL

[steady marsh]

Yeah, I've never really done shooting in a city like that

The city I live in is pretty small and boring

[stable copper]

mine is pretty quiet too, im 30min from the loop myself

[steady marsh]

Small compared to Chicago at least

[stable copper]

indeed, i have done street shooting in my town, depending on the day interesting shots are to be had

took my TLR to a day of the dead festival once

[stable copper]

x100t was surprisingly responsive without using auto focus, and shooting straight to jpeg.

this was f/8 1/30th of a sec

ISO 6400

[steady marsh]

I like that a lot

Idk what it's called but how the lights are blurry almost

[stable copper]

LOL its a place called Ralph's Coffee

the lights are neon to they have nice glow

[marsh tusk]

Feedback Appreciated

[silent obsidian]

this could be eligible for the contest... just sayin' y'know

[silent obsidian]

I like those! looks like a fun day for sure! :b

[distant bramble]

I didn’t even know there was a contest again yet. Forgot to look, thanks for the reminder!

[silent obsidian]

You're welcome:D

[stray kernel]

on film

[kind charm]

Sheeeesh

What stock

[stray kernel]

thanks, can't recall but a lot of delta 3200

I'm pretty sure they're all 3200

[kind charm]

Wtf

3200 for daytime?

[stray kernel]

yeap, it's technically like a 1200/1600

[kind charm]

That's still insane for daylight

[stray kernel]

no ND either

[kind charm]

Why delta 3200 doe

[stray kernel]

I love the grain

especially on print, it's beautiful

[kind charm]

Like isnt it pretty costly to waste on daylight

Damn

[stray kernel]

3200 night looks meh.. unless I'm shooting in a well lit location but I'd rather use tungsten film for night shots

[kind charm]

Fair

I like pushed bnw for night shots

[stray kernel]

yeah, pushed bnw is nice for night when there's a lot of textures/patterns

gotta get extra creative!

[kind charm]

Crappy sample imma pull off of fb since I'm on my phone

[stray kernel]

Here's a night shot but it was pretty lit

[stray kernel]

motorcycle tings on B&W

[wise tartan]

This has to be Malaysia, right?

[kind charm]

it is

how tf you know from 1 image lol

[wise tartan]

where in Malaysia, if I may ask?

[kind charm]

Penang, Rifle Range

[wise tartan]

if you see my pfp, that's in Malaysia too! I've got an eye for your country

I visited Penang around 5 years ago, spend a week there. Lovely place, loved the food culture

[kind charm]

sheeeeeeeeeeesh

[wise tartan]

Georgetown is pretty cute too

I spend a lot of time in Sarawak, your photo looks like your typical kampung style warung you find everywhere 😄 great shot

[kind charm]

it be an apartment complex

i grew up in the complex for the first 9 years of my life

[wise tartan]

ah my bad, the sign in the background looked like a menu for drinks

Saya mau pesan satu kopi o ais, tanpa gula

koson

[kind charm]

lmao

other images from the set

[wise tartan]

nice work

is posting sets encourage here? I don't really hang out here that much

I also have a lot of work from all over the world in b&w, a lot of work from Borneo too

hanging out with the Dayak

[kind charm]

zamn

sets or not up to you

[wise tartan]

I do like the concept of 5-6 photo per set, more fun than single individual images

ok will share some, especially those of me riding my buaya down the sungai

HATI HATI ADA BUAYA

[kind charm]

tmr gonna go on another shoot

first day at work, the media comp is bringing me along for a shoot in penang

[wise tartan]

I'm well jealous, Penang is an awesome place to go shoot

[wise tartan]

just noticed the time, isn't it time for tidur? kau tidak lelah?

[kind charm]

need to wake up in 3 hrs

i slept from 5pm to 11 pm today because driving test

[wise tartan]

ouch

short set from a rugby game I shot last weekend

[humble temple]

may i yonk some b&w too?
4x digital zoom handheld on an old & broken motorola g3 (2015 phone with pretty much zero manual control) during my first days of learning photography on a phone
wasn't able to recover anything from the sky, but for all i remember, the sky might have been completely whiteout that day, as it is today
i still like the shot even tho it might be meh (they say art is subjective, so lie to me that it's not that crap)
since the shot, reconstruction work on the broken bridge is being done and the seagulls never came back, which is why they temporarily occupied it in the first place, no one cares

[marsh tusk]

Mostar 🇧🇦

[humble temple]

celebrating morning sun

[mental cosmos]

From the archive

[stable copper]

that time of year again

[mental cosmos]

From the archive

[modern vapor]

Nice 🙂

[stable copper]

Thanks. Took this couple years back. Look better in mono.

[modern vapor]

that's the kind of situation where I'd have a panic shot with focus on the front grass

[stable copper]

Lol yeah lol

[silent obsidian]

El Vocho! Nice picture

[timid copper]

This is an issue I ran into backdroping white onto white birds, it's hard to see the the outline of the bird

[modern vapor]

True, I don’t feel it is always something that deserves the image though. As you react to it, I must admit I got inspired by your owl for the editing style.

[wild sapphire]

if there was like

a darker outline around it

[frosty vapor]

i tried it too

[timid copper]

I'm still working on the owl ones and haven't fully refined them yet. The contrast is still lacking on them and it's something hard to fix. Creating exposure masks around areas that need contrast have been working for me

[timid copper]

That's prty cool, I'd widen the backdrop personally because it feels a tad tight right now

[frosty vapor]

i'll chuck it back into ps and do it later, might turn out nicer

the original was a detail shot so not much room without autofill

[heady ocean]

Does my photo here emphasized Loneliness/emptiness?

[orchid field]

not really imo, would need to be wider

[frosty vapor]

that line of something in the horizon draws a fuckton of attention btw

[heady ocean]

So wider focal length and draws the focus more to the main subject i see

[wooden night]

im a sort of beginner the second one isnt my best but the arches seemed pretty cool

[humble temple]

i think they're pretty strong images (i'm no one to judge really) and very impressive if you managed to pull off that stair shot without cropping

[timid copper]

Both are incredible uses of black and white, can't say anything else honestly

[orchid field]

i agree with the previous statements but also don't be afraid of contrast

[wooden night]

I did crop the stairs a bit as it wasn't a perfect shot out the the camera (loads of tourists not letting me centre lmao), at first I tried high contrast and I felt like it was too punchy but maybe I'll try it again because it really highlighted the two bars at the bottom.

Thanks for the feedback

[orchid field]

doesnt need to be high contrast, but you can use the dynamic range better by just pushing the mids a bit higher and letting there actually be some highlights

[mental cosmos]

From the archive

[hollow gull]

Ther is something in the foreground

[humble temple]

yes, a leaf which i purposely left, but maybe shouldn't have
it's not a great photo, i'm still a white belt, thank you for pointing that out though

[digital phoenix]

Bro who is this guy he is in like all ur photos

[desert solstice]

I have like 2 friends

[digital phoenix]

Ah so u only post portraits

[desert solstice]

I have other photos, I just mostly post people

[digital phoenix]

Yeah ic

[meager lion]

I like yellow flowers because they lend themselves to B&W treatment. However, the background usually trumps me. Any comments welcome.

[wild sapphire]

get a color filter

also slight dodging and burning

[meager lion]

I've already done a lot of dodging and burning using layers, trying not to blow the whites and keeping the details of the lines.

What colour filter would you use @wild sapphire ? I assume you mean a colour filter on the lens?

I just took the Raw photo into Affinity 2 and pushed the yellow slider.

[wild sapphire]

yeah like a yellow filter

[meager lion]

Never used colour filter. I take everything in raw, then tweak the more promising photos in B&W. So, I suppose that the Affinity 2 filter would be equivalent to adding a filter to the lens.

[digital phoenix]

Btw when you convert digital to black and white the color sliders in post work just as well as the physical color filter

[digital phoenix]

Yeah u chilling

But yellow flowers and pushing the yellow slider means it will overexpose the yellow lol

U gotta pull back on the yellow

[stable copper]

color filters are a must, that will help loads.

[static badge]

this aint mono

[desert solstice]

i couldn't tell the difference when looking at the image preview

[jovial folio]

mono + yellow

[orchid field]

yes it is, just not bnw

[wild sapphire]

sepia

[heady ocean]

Is it better without the other tree at left

[scenic bane]

this guys in my classit’s so weird seeing his face on discord

[desert solstice]

Wait so do you know him IRL?

Cuz I thought you only saw him from my insta

[scenic bane]

i know him irl

[desert solstice]

Oh

[native pendant]

Here's my first attempt at a b&w photo. Any tips?

[heady ocean]

Straighten the photo

[digital phoenix]

Yeah thats hella weird

[junior smelt]

I got two photos, be as mean as you want

[marsh tusk]

Great photo but you need to fix the lens tilt

[lone owl]

Ive tried some B&W Architecture photography

[quaint grove]

how did you get a close-up of a pigeon :0? every time i try to take a photo of a bird they fly away

[kind charm]

by shooting with a longer FL lens

no need to get close and spook them

[strange pier]

^

[heady ocean]

Idk how to make the pole straight also one of my favorite phone pic

[kind charm]

zamn

this one's nice

[heady ocean]

True, however the digital zoom plus the pole kinda ruined the composition

[strange pier]

i tried doing a B&W edit of some dandelions

this was like my first attempt at doing some b&w stuff, so yeah

Fuji xt3 and TTartisan 35mm F1.4

Last one, i turned the lens around and just held it up against the camera

[heady ocean]

I liked the last one the motion blur gave me this interesting feeling to the image

[strange pier]

that was from me using my lens backwards lol

didn't crop it at all

[heady ocean]

Backward?

[strange pier]

yeah

[heady ocean]

Interesting

[strange pier]

so it would have macro lens abilities

[heady ocean]

Does the af work?

[strange pier]

otherwise it would have to be about 1.5 ft away

[strange pier]

it was manual focus

F16, 1/250 160 ISO i believe

probably not the best for my contacts lol

[kind charm]

💪 TTartisan

[heady ocean]

Preview doesn’t render sharpness correctly hmm weird

[mental cosmos]

From the archive

(posted in one of the galleries, but was taken down as it turned out to be the incorrect gallery)

🤷

[junior smelt]

Give feedback please!

[strange pier]

Carbon fiber 🥴

[undone sinew]

you'll need to open it fully the grain just looks like noise under compression

[frosty vapor]

looks like noise in full size too

[cursive pewter]

Maybe I'm wierd but I like the grain / noise look

[undone sinew]

oh the grain i added in post i like that too lol

[fervent hearth]

Hey 🙂

I love them!

Both of these!

[heady ocean]

I like this slightly faded look

What did you do to achieve this look

[timid copper]

Matte in the tone cuve

[heady ocean]

Oo i love this perspective

It looks so tall

[tropic laurel]

Feedback is appreciated

[kind charm]

wut

#💡・open-feedback

also yeah that crop is just odd

random staircase but you put it in the upper left sector, just feels way too cropped in, assuming you cropped this at all

[viscid palm]

I think the composition is odd, I think it’d look better at a lower diagonal angle looking up at the stairs

[kind charm]

yeah

straight on shot like this is nice but >50% of the frame is just empty

there is almost geometry but not enough to dominate the frame

[viscid palm]

The leading lines lead….well nowhere in this shot as it stands

Just as a point of reference it’s a good idea to pin where to took shots, so after you get feedback you can go and retake it

[rich willow]

gotta make that human on the left stand out more

would make a good sense of scale for the foreground

people don't realize how big beach anchors are

[viscid palm]

Fucking massive lmao

I’ll re edit soon

Ty dev

[viscid palm]

Didn’t think I’d end up liking these but I did

[modern vapor]

@static badge I usually find that vegetation doesn't look good in bw but you've done it really well here 👍

[light crane]

lacks contrast maybe?

[heady ocean]

Still learning more about bw photography

[rich willow]

love the 2nd shot

it's everything I've ever wanted my film camera to do when shooting black and white

[viscid palm]

Thanks!

[rich willow]

could've used a tiny bit more sky definition

perhaps an orange filter, if that still keeps the dynamic of the contrast on the building

[viscid palm]

I tired but unfortunately I blew the highlights cause i didn’t have my histogram

This is the best I could do, since an orange filter would mess with the tone of the subject as the windows were blue

[rich willow]

ah

another cool look could be using a circular polarizer and maybe a midnight purple filter

[viscid palm]

Yeah

[junior smelt]

I really like this

[heady ocean]

Could've gone a little bit more to the side while taking this

But i liked the concept and the result

[ionic tree]

fairly new to b&w

[junior smelt]

Not sure how I feel about this photo, give some feedback

[junior smelt]

I really like the 2nd one

[orchid field]

the picture is really messy and doesn't have a clear subject or anything leading the eyes towards one either. my thinking when i want to take a picture of something usually goes 'what's my subject? -> how do i best compose the picture for the subject? -> how do i frame it so there aren't distractions?'

[orchid field]

good old rundetårn

[steel igloo]

fun with a wide angle

i think that was the last time i used that lens... in 2017 whoops

[orchid field]

last time i went i mostly shot the shadows

day with sharp light, so lots of harsh shadows on the mid collum

[steady marsh]

Some of my recent B&w!

[cyan hill]

Great stuff

[steady marsh]

thanks!

im just recently starting to try b&w

[cyan hill]

I especially like the one of the two spherical lights. It's a nice contrast. And really cool that you can see what's inside the building as well as the reflection

[steady marsh]

Yeah! It was a super old pic I took that I ended changing to bw

im fairly new to bw

This is one of my favorite

[heady ocean]

Idk if it looked dark or not.. it looks diff on some screen

[junior smelt]

Give feedback please 😄

[proper mango]

Very nice but his tamborine is clipped but overall good picture

[viscid palm]

I like this. The tambourine being clipped gives it a sense of motion the background gives a nice leading line all the way across the subject. Good work

[viscid palm]

Love The lines on this one

[fossil sage]

It was a fun location, very much an office park

[autumn iris]

Printed Kentmere Pan 400 to 40x40 inches.

Large format printer. I really need get my darkroom in order so I can wet print this large.

[kind charm]

zamn

[weary pulsar]

sheesh

[autumn iris]

I haven’t printed a 6x6 this large so I wanted to see how it looked. 4x5 I have tho.

[steel igloo]

thoughts? infared toning makes an otherwise silly flower shot interesting?

[steel igloo]

Another one saved by BW

[heady ocean]

I like this atmosphere so much

It feels very calming for some reason

[stable copper]

Sonic 25

[gusty linden]

Forgive the terrible compression 😢

[steady marsh]

Yeah! It was very foggy

I need to go retake this with a polarizer...

And align it better

[kind charm]

zamn

a little keystoning will go a long way to make it look like a mirrored shot

[steady marsh]

What's that?

[kind charm]

basically

distort your images but in desired ways

you can google samples, check the images

[steady marsh]

Oh right, I've tried it a bit, I only quickly edited this, I'll try to do that in a bit!

Got the 17-70 coming in 3 days!

[viscid palm]

That fourth one needs to be straightened and cantered

[junior smelt]

give feedback pleas

[viscid palm]

Need straightening. I also think trying to push the blacks the be a bit darker to contrast the sky more might look good.

[junior smelt]

Got two for y’all 🗣️

[fossil sage]

First one is quite nice, like a still from a film noir

[steady marsh]

Thoughts?

[steady marsh]

WIP

I think I've seen pictures like this before, just really wanted to try it myself!

[proper mango]

askewed;(

[silent obsidian]

I think this could fit here :b

[viscid palm]

Yashica Electro 35 with ilford delta 400

[steel igloo]

Any advice for picking LR B&W profiles? i'm never sure which looks best

Tried an IR one but not sure its an improvment

[sharp gulch]

make your own

[marsh tusk]

like @sharp gulch said, make your own
but photo 1 looks infinitely better
imho contrast > anything in b&w photography

[sharp gulch]

^

[marsh tusk]

i really like the editing and the idea but i think it would've looked better at a lower angle + symmetrical

[junior smelt]

So one critique I keep getting is that many of my photographs are "muddy" and I still cant figure out wtf that means

if anyone has any comparison images please @ me!

[fossil sage]

do you have one that's been called this to show?

[frosty vapor]

Muddy often means greys where there should be clean colour or blacks

Eg raising your blacks for some reason

Or putting greys in your colour tones

[fossil sage]

This feels muddy in that it’s unsharp

[frosty vapor]

There's also just a lot of middle grey

Very little black or white

[viscid palm]

I agree it kinda just feels washed out with little to no contrast.

[sharp gulch]

that is what muddy is

[steel igloo]

feedback please! I edited this one wayyyy too many times

[steel igloo]

Yeah I was a bit limited where I could shoot from, but maybe shooting lower could have helped. Interesting idea. I was trying to capture the dramatic angle of the path up to the corner of the frame, but the left side is a bit distracting. I can try a crop to a different aspect ratio or just move on

[marsh tusk]

i was replying to a different photo

[steel igloo]

Whoops

[marsh tusk]

dw

[viscid palm]

I made all of mine, I’d say the default one and edit it

[steel igloo]

I need to tweak one to fit. I grabbed a few packs of presets ages ago that had some nice ones I usually use but I end up getting decision fatigue after like 10m

[marsh tusk]

is that film?
seems a little too... overexposed?
i think

[neat musk]

Is a automatic Noir filter. Ur right

[jovial folio]

the birds head would be a cool album cover

your brain automatically is drawn to the eye

[neat musk]

Coincidentally sent it to a free album covers channel haha

[jovial folio]

great minds think alike

[gusty linden]

Gonna put this one on my Insta sometime tomorrow, thought to throw it here first 😋

[junior smelt]

I love feedback so let me know if you have any

[kind charm]

so i started blasting

visited the hualien tribal festival at taiwan

[viscid palm]

I feel like I’m developing a style

[steel igloo]

Finally just turned on monochrome mode on my camera to actually “see” in b&w

EVF advantages

Pretty wild to actually shoot with that perspective

[autumn iris]

Nice. I wished I could have a monochrome vision.

[steel igloo]

Not sure about this one as mono vs color

trying out the wide crops for the contest

[sharp gulch]

That photo is awesome! Definitely am now addicted to 18:6 crop

[steel igloo]

Worth submitting? I have imposter syndrome on here

[sharp gulch]

I’m still new to photography but I’d say it’d definitely be good to go. I usually add a small thin border around the edge for the photo like this:

I think it makes the photo look nice

[autumn iris]

I do 6x17. I’m hindered to image circle on some lenses

[steel igloo]

That one dude he like 👀

[steel igloo]

Submitted here goes nothing

[sharp gulch]

It’s not for the contest

[sharp gulch]

I should try that out

[autumn iris]

I love panos.

[steel igloo]

I submitted mine to the contest

[gusty linden]

Me got a Hasselblad 😋

[steel igloo]

💀

[regal wave]

Amazing

[stable copper]

Thank you 🙂

[slender dew]

Almost surreal

[stable copper]

i got really lucky that night. took some great images last week but these are the “money shots”.

[steel igloo]

I kinda wish there was one with no people but the second one is nice

Just the dock and the birds

But that one person walking is surreal

[stable copper]

Lots of people were walking on that strip as it was close to sunset. I think the people kinda tell a secret story. I will review the ofhers from that night soon. Im finally back to the mainland

[steel igloo]

Makes sense. I meant it only as constructive

[stable copper]

all good 🙂

[marsh tusk]

Brother dropping bangers one after another 🔥

[stable copper]

thanks!

[stable copper]

little back story, this guy was sitting on top of Waikiki pier, no idea how he got up there, and then proceeded to leap into the ocean!

[steel igloo]

If you edit out those people on the bottom you could make this a truly epic image — or was this on film?

Very cool shot

[stable copper]

thanks but sadly this is digital. was tempted to bring my leica to hawaii but refrained.

[fossil sage]

That’s quite nice

[stable copper]

Thanks!

[fossil sage]

never was a better fighter made

[stable copper]

Agreed! i love this plane to death and i got to touch one LOL

[fossil sage]

it's good seeing them displayed, given what happened to most of the fleet

[stable copper]

agreed

[regal wave]

Came back to say this is incredible

Im a big fan of aaron brimhalls work n i get the same vibes, especially from that last shot

[sharp gulch]

Did some studio stuff today

[sharp gulch]

The F-15 disagrees

i digress

[fossil sage]

Wings are stationary

Sad!

[stable copper]

the f-15 has the tomcat on speed. but the design / styling of the f-14 has it beat. plus its got that phoenix missle! lol

[sharp gulch]

the F-15's W/L ratio makes my opinion what it is

the 14 is one of the sexiest of all time but not the best IMO

[stable copper]

Ill post my F-15 images once i get back into lightroom. They had one there as well.

and two Migs

[sharp gulch]

dopeee

[sharp gulch]

umm

[gusty linden]

oh weird

previewed fine on my phone, strange

Strange, Oh well, its out there on the interwebs if you feel like finding it... Discord sucks

[sharp gulch]

followed ya

[gusty linden]

thanks 😊

[stable copper]

As promised the F-15

[sharp gulch]

mmf

[stable copper]

slick eh? the red filter really does a number on these

[sharp gulch]

right

[marsh tusk]

Red Filter?

[stable copper]

i used a mono/red filter profile

[marsh tusk]

i never heard of doing that
but it does look awesome

[stable copper]

color filters are big in film photography but the concept carries over to digital. it is used to tone donw certain colors and amplify others when working in monochrome

[fossil sage]

Delta 100, Nikkor 50/1,8, Nikon FG20

[viscid palm]

Trying to get better at portraits

[sharp gulch]

you want feedback?

[viscid palm]

Always

[sharp gulch]

#1's subject is really dark and hard to see, and it's overall not that interesting. pretty well framed, but just piss poor lighting. #2 however, great lighting, good framing and posing, visually eye catching subject and a good background. #2 is a good shot

i do wish #1 had better lighting because this frame is really really cool

you're very talented

[viscid palm]

That sounds about right, #1 was actually really impromptu with a stranger. He was working on a portrait of Nietzsche and I knocked on the window to ask. The place where he was working was dark with outside being super bright

#1 isn’t a great picture lighting wise but I really like it anyway haha

My exposure was changing a lot cause all the lighting was coming in from the windows. The raw is actually much darker and I tried my best to make it better

[viscid palm]

Thank you!

[sharp gulch]

yeah its got amazing framing and a strong subject just needs more light

[viscid palm]

Here’s the piece he was working on

[viscid palm]

Yeah all the light was behind him T.T

[sharp gulch]

yep

[sharp gulch]

dopee

[viscid palm]

Yeah he’s an incredible artist

Maybe I’ll go back when the place is more lit for a reshoot

[lime yarrow]

found some odd lighting... would love your thoughts

[sharp gulch]

p cool... i'd drop the highlights, the lady's face is too strongly illuminated

[regal wave]

Love the lighting though

[lime yarrow]

something like this?

it's a very slight decrease in highlights since everything else ends up looking too dark

[marsh tusk]

I'd greatly appreciate any feedback on these

[modern vapor]

I like the first one, you did a good job at separating the forest into different layers.
On the second one, I find the branch in the foreground distracting. I think I wouldn't go to bw for this one.
On the last one, I find the ducks a little bit too dark but it may be my screen. I think there's too much background here and I would cut at top of the forest above the house as the mountains behind are already partly cropped and not as interesting as in the first pic.

The thing for the last one is that the background is too bright compared to your subject so I tend to naturally look more at the cropped blur mountain than the lovely 🦆 you wanted to show

[marsh tusk]

thanks
i shoot with color in mind so I tried experimenting with B&W too
On the second photo i tried using the branches to frame the people on the beach
but it doesn't quite work in B&W it seems
You hit the nail on the head with the third one
It took me soo long to edit it cause it never looked quite right

these are the color versions
@modern vapor

[modern vapor]

For the duck one in bw, it's less dark on my computer screen than my phone screen so it's less disturbing, even if the point is still valid.
I prefer the second one in colour even if it would be better without the people on the beach and I think you're right to try to hide them with branches 🙂
I don't have preference for the third one, mainly because the issue is the same in bw and color, you have too much of out of focus background.
And for the first one, I really like your bw conversion. 👍
I encourage you to continue diving into black and white photography, it's a lot of fun.

[autumn iris]

Some XP1 Super developed in ECN 2 because I thought it was Kodak Vision 2 250D

[marsh tusk]

i've started shooting a year ago on my phone and i was shooting mainly B&Ws
but then i did color photography exclusive for 6-7 months
and ever since i got a proper camera i haven't got around to do it again

i'll hopefully go out shooting this weekend
i'm hoping to get some B&W street photos
though i haven't done it in a while so my expectations aren't high

and thanks a ton for the feedback!

[stable copper]

something fun

[stable copper]

First time trying one if these shots

[autumn iris]

Dry flower study. Ilford FP4+ pushed 1 stop in developer.

[steel igloo]

lovely

[autumn iris]

Thank you.

Low Key with Delta 100

[steel igloo]

Dang you’re making me want to skip 35mm entirely

[autumn iris]

I love my 4x5. Is just relaxing, but challenging at the same time. I had to do front swing and rear tilt to get everything I wanted on the flowers. Only thing is it takes a while to set up. I think I spent 20 minutes playing with moment and lighting to exposure the sheet.

[steel igloo]

Totally worth it

Great shots

[autumn iris]

Thank you. Someone told me it reminds him of Maplethorpe work. I googled him and now I found a new inspiration of a photographer.

[stable copper]

Maplethorpe sadly got boxed boxed in by his controversial works. Which is sad cause his work is fantastic.

[autumn iris]

Yeah. Some people really don’t like his fine art work.

I think is really good.

[autumn iris]

Today I met one of the great car photographer for advertisement and try convince him and car and driver magazine to do a spread in film.

He likes Kodak tri-x. Maybe they will one day. If car and drive wants to spend money.

[stable copper]

nice!

[autumn iris]

Yeah. The car and driver magazine guy was looking and the film stuff on IG and it must have brung him back to the old days because he really liked the idea

[stable copper]

i hope it works out!

[autumn iris]

It always comes down to money. I wouldn’t be able to do it, but the photographer is interest going back to film. Maybe I could learn a few things about photographing cars. The photographer I met was Jame Lipman. We chatted for a bit.

[stable copper]

nice

[autumn iris]

When black and white comes out beautifully.

[fossil sage]

nice and crisp

[viscid palm]

Love this!

[autumn iris]

Scanned in. Delta 100 on the 4x5

[gusty linden]

Shot this recently.
Shot with a Hasselblad 500cm
Scanned with a Nikon Coolscan 9000

[regal wave]

Thank you 🙌🏽

[regal wave]

Classy

[modern vapor]

thanks 🖤

[iron minnow]

Took this the other day!

[regal wave]

Nice quality

[sharp gulch]

Absolutely stunning.

[autumn iris]

Thank you

[autumn iris]

I been on a search for really old expired black and white film. That will give me a unique old look. Well after searching and going through several stocks. I think I found what I was looking for. 1958 Kodak Royal Pan.

[gusty linden]

Now I'm no scientist, But if you ask me. I believe that there may just be, probably is, and could be a, hear me out, a Canon AE-1 Program 🧑‍🔬

Also awesme shot. I love how the "Made in Japan" is highlighted 😊

[sharp gulch]

Astute observation!

[sharp gulch]

Haha thank you. I just set the AE1 on top of my pc since the light was pretty clean, and snapped that

[sharp gulch]

taken by me

taken by a friend, of me (w permission to share)

[regal wave]

Very nice

What focal length are these shot at

[sharp gulch]

35mm

i prefer it to 50 in the studio

well my ff is FFEQ of 85 i think

[viscid palm]

The monk was. Split second photo as I was talking to him

I’m glad it turned out okay

One day ill get good at this

[sharp gulch]

i love the monk. very heavy frame though, it kind of distracts from the beauty of that man and the beautiful linen on his robe

your photo though :D

[viscid palm]

Yeah this is the Instagram version. Since I had to put a border to get it to fit in the frame properly

[sharp gulch]

Oh wow that is even more beautiful. Now I notice the depth in the photo. Truly stunning!

[viscid palm]

Thanks ☺️

[steel igloo]

@autumn iris what are the spots in the sky from on those two shots?

[autumn iris]

It could be fungus or mold.

[autumn iris]

The film was probably not store in an ideal condition. I’m hoping by freezing it will help stop the spread. And maybe reduce some of it.

[languid agate]

First step into B&W photography. Hoping to take more soon

[sharp gulch]

That’s what I do

[autumn iris]

I think freezing it and iso 3 is best for the film. Specially since it’s 56 years old. I didn’t get that much fungus spots this time.

[autumn iris]

Scanned.

[sharp gulch]

Jesus christ is that effect your scanner?

[autumn iris]

The file is large and the compression is what cause the effect. Discord, Facebook and other sites don’t like 60 plus size jpgs.

[sharp gulch]

Well this server does

Try sending the full res jpg

if you want

[autumn iris]

Yeah. Tour talking about the Dust removing software. It sucks. I forgot to turn it off for black and white scanning

[sharp gulch]

Gotcha, it is extremely noisy

And low quality for such a large format shot

[autumn iris]

Yeah. The film is from 1968. I don’t think it’s going to get better. I’m just happy I got most of the fungus to stop going on it.

[sharp gulch]

Rip. good shot tho

[autumn iris]

Thank you. Here on the window. The silver was coming off the film sheet. It might have been better if I tray develop it instead so I can be a little more gentle on the negative.

[sharp gulch]

Good idea

[wheat egret]

this is great

[stable copper]

need to shoot this stock more…

[autumn iris]

Thank you.

[autumn iris]

What stock?

[stable copper]

Sonic 25

25 ISO

35mm

[autumn iris]

Nice.

[wheat egret]

Bro ascended to heaven 😭

[regal wave]

💀💀

[abstract raven]

Oh hey guys. I can't believe I'm only just finding this. I legit only take BnW film photography 😊

[sharp gulch]

Show us sum!

[abstract raven]

Oh, ok. Gimme a sec

Just two recents

I've also bleached a bunch of rolls of film and messed around with different developer applications for prints. I love BnW film

[regal wave]

I love it

[lapis glen]

Hey everyone I am a new photographer professionally and would like some opinions, any advice or even just a little love and support #🏭・human-made #🌳・nature

[fossil sage]

Who is paying you to do what?

Knowing that will guide a lot of advice

[proper mango]

^

[fossil sage]

praise be unto lämp

[sharp gulch]

shitty random grab of an old friend

[stable copper]

P-80

[fossil sage]

perfect sky for it

[sharp gulch]

stunning shot. i need to go grab some at my local air museum

[stable copper]

thanks my late grandfather trained in one before Korea

[sharp gulch]

thats dope. my grandpa was a marine in korea

[stable copper]

he flew the f-84

[sharp gulch]

baller af, the F-84 is one of my favorite post war aircraft

[stable copper]

flew both the staightwing and the swept wing

and was one of the first pilots to do in air refueling

[sharp gulch]

that is very cool

[steel igloo]

lit this one with a red headlamp -- which works nicely as BW (still needs denoise)

I still can't figure out the fuq to focus on stars when its that dark tho

[sharp gulch]

live view or a bahtinov mask

[steel igloo]

It’s mirrorless everything is live view

I turned on night view and focus peaking but it was still very hard to see anything

Tried the starry af mode for a few shots and then manual override for a few

[sharp gulch]

turn everything to max exposure (30“, Brightest aperature, Max ISO) and zoom in on the brightest sky object you can, venus works well

[vale warren]

should’ve played DOF here but oh well

[steel igloo]

This was a wide angle lens so I couldn’t really zoom in… ISO was 6400 I could go higher I guess

[sharp gulch]

with the LCD screen

[steel igloo]

Yeah I have focus zooming on

Maybe it’s better without “night vision” it added lots of noise

[sharp gulch]

interesting

[steel igloo]

The night vision + focus peaking was a bit hard to read

Starry sky AF got it close tho

[steel igloo]

Dang guess I need to go back!

[sharp gulch]

for sure

[sharp gulch]

What film stock was this shot on? the grain is very fine and beautiful

[gusty linden]

Ilford Delta 100 on 120

[elfin timber]

Nikon p7100 bw mode

[sharp gulch]

Well

[sharp gulch]

nice shot, it compliments b&w well

[fossil sage]

Thanks

It isn’t bad in color either but the contrast works better mono

[weary pulsar]

Kitty

[sharp gulch]

Yeah with the harsh lighting its nice

[fossil sage]

I may up the contrast some and see how that looks

[vague pier]

#🌳・nature message opinions pls?

#🏭・human-made message this one too

[sharp gulch]

needs more headroom but very good

[sharp gulch]

meh

[compact swan]

could have gone for a better company name but nice shot

[regal wave]

Fr 😭

[elfin timber]

The lower one slaps

[elfin timber]

Feelin the atmo in this one. Reminds me of a moment many years ago

[compact swan]

I love this photo there's a lot going on in the composition but that's what makes it special very interesting

[wheat egret]

fr a bunch of birds just doing shit

[compact swan]

Peak

[sharp gulch]

love this one as usual big doggy dog

[sharp gulch]

o gawd its barely misaligned

that gets on my nerves

[sharp gulch]

rip harambe

[silent obsidian]

I also have those 2

[modern vapor]

Nice 🖤

[sharp gulch]

love the one on the left

and the ones before that

[sharp gulch]

i like this photo but the weird line at the top and the gradient on his body is throwing me off so hard

[silent obsidian]

Thank you very much 😄

[modern vapor]

Too many colours on this cat

[sharp gulch]

shit why did i pur that here lmao

[silent obsidian]

https://tenor.com/view/point-hehe-haha-smiling-i-see-what-you-did-there-gif-21567119

[sharp gulch]

that was accidental LOL

[silent obsidian]

https://tenor.com/view/bob-ross-painter-painting-talk-we-dont-make-mistakes-gif-17574947

[sharp gulch]

real

the fact that the gif says "painter" instead of literal bob ross in the link is downright criminal

[river tinsel]

Hello everyone i'm new on the serwer 🙂

[minor panther]

is this really a BW cult? because if so where do i sign up

[sharp gulch]

post here and ur in

[minor panther]

no blood draw initiation? sweet

[stable copper]

love delta great shot

[stable copper]

https://tenor.com/view/homer-simpson-bart-simpson-join-us-sit-here-gif-15631014

one of us one of us

[kind charm]

you are fuji

the innitiation is that you never shoot mono in camera and only acros from this point onwards

[minor panther]

is that suppose to be a threat?
the differences are minor and I’m not a pixel peeper anyways, if there’s no color regardless it’s b&w in my book

[kind charm]

there is actually some differences specifically for acros SOOC on fuji bnw

out of all the film sims its the one that mimics the original the best

it also has a custom mapped tone curve that increases a film grain overlay thats seperate from the film grain settings in camera

ie. it has a tone map and a grain curve map that is determined by set iso

https://www.imaging-resource.com/news/2020/08/18/fujifilm-film-simulations-definitive-guide#classicneg

check it out

fuji documents their most unique parts of their system like dogshit so this is the only resource online for it

on the topic of film sims https://fujixweekly.com/

i really like the acros push process sim on trans iii, i tried it once one day and havent shot anything else since lol

some SOOC samples

[minor panther]

cool thanks.
Don’t get me wrong imma use acros for sure because i feel it looks better, im just not a science guy about it. Im a daido moriyama fanboy so it could look completely horrible but as long as the content of the photo means something im happy.
I read this art bout some differences not sure if the same.

https://kylewurtz.com/2016/10/05/comparing-fujis-acros-and-monochrome-film-simulations/

[kind charm]

i cant explain why, just everything using acros sim in bnw over the direct mono i like more lol

[minor panther]

maybe it’s the fuji spirits guiding us

[kind charm]

same but in the post he's more of comparing the spectrum sensitivity of acros sim compared to actual bw film

[kind charm]

this one more or less is about reverse engineering what all the sims do

[minor panther]

cool, i’ll check it out

[kind charm]

its useful to know if you for some whatever reason get very into colour grading

also just details some stuff that isnt documented anywhere else

Imagine Resource no longer exists so :( this is probably the only and last resource we will ever get on film sims

[sharp gulch]

this shit is a goldmine

i'm reading up on the acros stuff right now

ts very helpful

[kind charm]

Pretty sure this curve a lie

Fucking useless graph lmao