Holdovers from the Film Camera Days (Page 8): I'm glad you looked. You've validated my opinion. I appreciate what you've said; it's poetry. Thanks! "She is an artist with a camera." I...

Chuck_893 Loc: Lincoln, Nebraska, USA

BBurns wrote:

I see your point. This is exceptional work. Rarely do you find someone like this. I do not believe this is something she learned, this is in her soul.
She sees the nuances of both the light and the lack of it. Most of all, she knows how to make them dance together. The result is an optical ballet.
It may be safe to say, she is not a photographer per se. She is an artist with a camera.

I'm glad you looked. You've validated my opinion. I appreciate what you've said; it's poetry. Thanks! "She is an artist with a camera." I wonder if I should somehow share this with her. She's halfway around the world but I don't want to seem stalkerish. :shock:

BBurns Loc: South Bay, California

Chuck_893 wrote:

I'm glad you looked. You've validated my opinion. I appreciate what you've said; it's poetry. Thanks! "She is an artist with a camera." I wonder if I should somehow share this with her. She's halfway around the world but I don't want to seem stalkerish. :shock:

If she is not on UHH, you could just say that you shared her site with some fellow photographers and the commented on her work.

houdel Loc: Chase, Michigan USA

Happened to find this on another site, thought it fit well into this thread....

"Despite all of the advances in photo technology, the human factor still reigns supreme. More than 99 percent of the world's cameras are capable of taking publishable pictures, yet most of the world's photographs aren't of publishable quality. At least half of the problem is due to basic human error, the kind of 'little' mistakes that cause pilots to crash jumbo jets and photographers to shoot unrepeatable moments without film in their cameras."

Galen Rowell, Galen Rowell's Inner Game of Photography, New York: W.W. Norton Co., 2001, essay 'Visual Reality,', p54.

Peterff Loc: O'er The Hills and Far Away, in Themyscira.

Chuck_893 wrote:

I'm glad you looked. You've validated my opinion. I appreciate what you've said; it's poetry. Thanks! "She is an artist with a camera." I wonder if I should somehow share this with her. She's halfway around the world but I don't want to seem stalkerish. :shock:

If it is a public site, then sharing is what it is for. Chuck, you haven't shared any private details that couldn't be found by other means. It is nice work and I'm sure many of us will be glad to look.

Stalking is a very, very different thing, it is predatory and intrusive. Nothing in your comments (Chuck) or sharing of a public (as opposed to private) site could be interpreted that way. I know a couple of women that have been subjects of stalking, cyber and otherwise. It's the quality of the attention that matters. Funnily enough I had lunch with one of those women today, and I know she would be happy with the way you are positioning things.

You are just showing appreciation and are positively supporting her. I think she would appreciate your support and interest. As was said, you participate in a photography forum, mentioned that you liked her work, people asked to see, and the responses were positive.

anotherview Loc: California

Incorrect. A circular polarizer cuts haze and causes more saturation to appear in an image for filtering out the highlights and glare off surfaces, especially plant life.

This discussion may help to inform you re a CP:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polarizing_filter_(photography)

Joanna27 wrote:

Thank you for the information. I have been told that you don't need polarizer so except for reflection off water. True?

Peterff Loc: O'er The Hills and Far Away, in Themyscira.

houdel wrote:

Happened to find this on another site, thought it ... (show quote)

Excellent quotation from an excellent and missed photographer.

BBurns Loc: South Bay, California

Peterff wrote:

Excellent quotation from an excellent and missed photographer.

Absolutely missed. Other names that come to mind are George Lepp & DeWitt Jones.
I remember the great workshops & seminars back in the late '80's & '90's. And, those incredible automated slide presentations long before computer control was available.

speters Loc: Grangeville/Idaho

blackest wrote:

maybe iso, how many of us stick to base iso when we can have a fair degree of latitude these days.

I always "stick to base ISO" just like in the film days, if I wanted/needed a different "ISO", I switched films, now I can change in camera, but overall it's still the same!

Peterff Loc: O'er The Hills and Far Away, in Themyscira.

speters wrote:

I always "stick to base ISO" just like in the film days, if I wanted/needed a different "ISO", I switched films, now I can change in camera, but overall it's still the same!

Always a good approach, I guess the difference is that in the film days you could buy the camera, and then buy film to best match each specific use case / desired result...

Today it seems that we have to identify a sensor/camera combination that matches our most common use case / desired result, and then compromise on other things or buy another camera....

We used to have purpose optimized film for our camera, now we have purpose optimized cameras...

anotherview Loc: California

Fundamentally, not much has changed. After all, photography functions as a craft that may rise to art in the right hands.

Joanna27 wrote:

What equipment, techniques, skills, etc. used in t... (show quote)

Joanna27 Loc: Lakewood Ca

[quote=Chuck_893]I don't know why not. Flickr is public. https://www.flickr.com/photos/angelicamischa/

Her name is Angelica. I think she has an amazing eye.

Wow, that is awesome art.!

Chuck_893 Loc: Lincoln, Nebraska, USA

[quote=Joanna27]

Chuck_893 wrote:

I don't know why not. Flickr is public. https://www.flickr.com/photos/angelicamischa/

Her name is Angelica. I think she has an amazing eye.

Wow, that is awesome art.!

Thanks for looking and commenting, Joanna. I sent her a private message via Flickrmail to let her know that I shared her (what Flickr calls the) "Photostream" with folks. She is really extraordinarily talented! :thumbup:

JBuckley

Good question.
What comes next?

My real question (to myself), is what to do with all of the film format cameras
that I have collected since 1963 when I first bought a Yashica 35 mm.
In my collection, there are Canon, Sony, and a few others that my wife
has purchased for herself.
I also realize that several of them have onboard batteries that have, no doubt,
died. With the ones that I can remove the batteries, I have done that to keep
the from leaking into the camera.
For the most part, I hate to just let them sit in their cases and rot.
Does anyone know what I can do to recycle or offer them to someone that can
use them or the lenes?

I hate to just give them to the Thrift stores in town.

I'd love to see them repurposed to someone that can use a film camera.

houdel Loc: Chase, Michigan USA

Interest in film photography has been slowly increasing over the past few years. With that in mind, you could try contacting the fine arts departments of local community colleges or universities to see if they would be interested in accepting donations of film equipment you no longer want.

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