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Oct 08, 02
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wow. i was expecting to come in here and see a bunch of silly point and shoot crap, but some of these are pretty neat.
some shots are kinda cliche. they might be "pretty", but they're nothing really special requiring any more skill than being able to get up early in the morning. i'm not down on scenery shots. :) but the rest of them, including the one with the bottle in the window and the books. wow. normally, i'd suggest something like that be done in black and white, but in colour it looks amazing. the contrast on the books, and that shade of blue. oh man, yummy. i am slightly curious to hear where you got the picture of the explosion from. it doesn't seem like an average everyday thing that a guy taking pictures of mist morning scenes would come across. you're not trying to pull a fast one on us, are you? otherwise, good shots. you have an eye for colour, and for good framing. although, i do see a few shots that would have lent themselves to b&w more. go buy an el cheapo old pentax and have it loaded up with b&w just in case. or just go for the ol' count n wind. 
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Oct 08, 02
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I just want to thank everyone who left some comments. I really appreciate them.
Inkster, I'm not pulling a fast one. That explosion was at an airshow in Red Deer. The only other picture from that airshow is #7. All the other aircraft photos are from the Abbotsford airshow. The lightning photos were from an incredible lightning storm from when I was in Alberta Number 66 and 70 were done with infrared film. I used a red filter on it too. The infrared film brings out certain objects brighter than normal. The red filter is key to make the sky dimmer. The film is Ilford SFX 200. It's really hit and miss when it comes to achieving a spectacular effect. I do have 2 camera that for special events I'll load 1 with B&W. One time I was going around with 3 cameras. The reason I don't use B&W more is that it's almost twice as expensive to process. I find that price difficult to justify when I can just do it on computer. In photo 10, that blur is a radial motion blur from photoshop. I do a bit with photoshop, but I don't like to spoil a good photo by making it unrealistic. Anyways, please post your comments, cause I will read every single one.
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Oct 09, 02
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in terms of just being able to convert colour to bw... sacriledge! you lose a lot of detail whenever you do that. and it's just like... wrong!
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Oct 09, 02
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just develop your own b&w film...the chemicals aren't that expensive.
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Oct 09, 02
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Okay, well first off, I'm not from Red Deer, but I spent a lot of time there in the summer of 2000.
Secondly, I understand that converting to B&W is sacrilage, but in my opinion using anything other than true B&W film is also sacrilige. Those of you looking for a good B&W film, I recommend Ilford HP5 400. You can push it up to 1600 asa or pull it to 200 asa. At 800 it is still fairly good. I'm not sure if it has enough contrast for me though. As far as developing my own, I've never had any formal photography training. With formal training, comes training in developing processes. I'm kinda embarassed about the fact that I don't do my own B&W developing. Some of those are from the Pitt river dyke. The pitt river at the Lougheed bridge has some of the nicest views. There's almost a garunteed gorgeous shot every morning.
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Oct 09, 02
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can't you push any kind of film?ooops...i always do. i used to push my stock b&w film from 400 to 16 and sometimes even 32. ohhhhhh welll...i didn't know some films you shoudn't push. learn something new everyday!
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Oct 10, 02
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Btw Jonsie Awesome pictures. I took photo(9,10, 11 &12) in school and I couldnt shoot anything that could even be as great as your pictures keep up the good work :170: Last edited by Lil Jenna; Oct 10, 02 at 10:51 AM.
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Oct 10, 02
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the glow from them are warm and
canadian feel.. is what I would like to say we are .. warm happy people
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