Originally posted by Canada_Rockies I have a B&W print on my wall dating from 1962. It is HMS Bounty II under Lions Gate Bridge in Vancouver BC.
To bring this into focus for you: I used a #2 orange filter to turn the exhaust fumes from the surrounding little boats into mist.
Beautiful photo!
It has the same allure of pictures taken long before, in the golden era of photography.
I would love to see the original.
Competent use of the red filter, my best compliments.
I realise that when I shot B/W film I almost never used the red filter, rarely the orange, and more often the yellow.
In hindsight, I should have used stronger filters in more occasions.
Well done, my friend, well done!
When the picture was shot I was four years old, and of course completely unaware of photography.
Though I remember being the subject of a good number of pictures. My aunt loved to take photos, always strictly following the rule of having the sun behind her, which meant that I was regularly blinded by the sun (the ritual always took place on the beach, under strong italian sun).
I don't have a single picture where I'm not blinking!
Somehow I managed not being too traumatised
and after some time, at the age of 9/10 years old, I started roaming around with a Bencini 4.5x6 camera, with no light meter and no rangefinder, taking pictures of old men still wearing traditional cloths, old building, and anything else that attracted my attention.
I didn't know all that was part of a world that was rapidly fading. The old men with black capes were long gone before I reached 20.
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Originally posted by Jean Poitiers ... conversion kit for 135 film in a Pentax 67 ...
It's the twin of my 6x7.
No MLU, wooden handle, brassing on the bottom.
What a GREAT camera!
Used a Pentacon Six, a late Bronica 6x6, an Hasselblad... nothing comes close. Maybe just the Mamiya 6x7, but I always found the Pentax more practical.