Old Skool photography

[dinkel]

A friend does these with a huge 60cm negative camera. He's not the commercial one but I'm thinking: big prints have amazing detail and will suit a livingroom nicely. effing sell 'em!

These prints are on very nice paper and printed with the charcoal as seen on the pics!

What do you think?

[burriana]

looks a bit sombre for my tastes - has he tried using infra red film?

[CY88]

unfortunately its difficult to see the "detail" from these scans, dink. They also seem a little dark?

reminds a little of WW1 trench photography

[blueyonder]

How about a bit of hand tinting to give them a little touch of colour. My mate Burriana hand tinted a B&W photo I took of the Lighthouse on Marthas Vinyard and it looked great and didn't detract from the feel of the photo!

[dinkel]

If you see those for real you get sucked into for detail.

[andybuk99]

I assume you mean they were shot on 10x8", if so they are wasted on the web. I still shoot with 10x8" occasionally and you really do have to view the trans/prints to appreciate the amount of quality they contain. They do appear a little dark for my taste though and very grainy as well, are they crops from a larger image?

[dinkel]

The film used is 60 cm wide, that's about 24 inches!

The camera is custom build in Austria . . . awesome stuff.

[Bacardi]

dinkel said:

The film used is 60 cm wide, that's about 24 inches!

ah, small format then, he needs to get one of these...

Edited by Bacardi on Monday 30th July 11:54

[burriana]

blueyonder said:

How about a bit of hand tinting to give them a little touch of colour. My mate Burriana hand tinted a B&W photo I took of the Lighthouse on Marthas Vinyard and it looked great and didn't detract from the feel of the photo!

aaah, when I had time for such things as hobbies :wistful smiley:

[stigmundfreud]

what do I think? I think it dont matter how big a camera is if an image is dull (the 3 you provided) then they are dull.

No offence meant but those are not exactly shining examples

ah just read more and see its an issue with the scans

Edited by stigmundfreud on Monday 30th July 12:10