09-01-10 – Waterscapes

When was the last time we had this many entries in one contest?

Assuming we don’t get a ton of new entries, “Sunrise… Sunset…” in January. But Trees 2 a few weeks ago wasn’t far off.

*shrugs*
The title is evocative, however the theme description does say ‘Landscapes with a Water Feature’ – and I always read the description and check the discussion thread, because I’ve been caught off guard a few times by some detail about the theme that I didn’t know about and now all three of my planned entries are no good and I have to search the archives and upload to the image host … not my idea of fun.

Yeah, I need to be more observant about the descriptions. I saw this was coming up a few weeks ago, then didn’t realize it was here until I saw the thread post to TF and just thought “Hurry, Waterscapes!”. 😳

I think you have no worries with your waterfall shot; I like the perspective of it.

Thanks! And if I would’ve paid attention to ‘the hopper’, I might have held it back for the waterfall contest. 🙂

Noob question. On the last page of the contest, the 30 day exposure; I can see a fence, but exactly what is being taken in that picture? It’s friggin fantastic, surreal even (it should be in U-Man’s theme next week), but I’m too lame to know what it’s a picture of (but if it’s water–it gets my vote.)

In case you have never seen it. Some of these are six months exposures or more.
http://www.solargraphy.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=16&Itemid=18

NBD Neva hoyd of it–but very very cool. *sigh* yet another thing I want to learn to do, if I ever have the time (and it seems that particular project would take lots and lots of time.)

It’s actually quite fire and forget.

I don’t understand how unprocessed film could last 6 months exposed without losing something of it’s photographic properties.

It will! But film (well, negative film anyway) is pretty resilient stuff, really. It’s surprising what you can get a usable image out of sometimes….

I have a whole box of expired film in the basement that I’m planning to use for various fun things. Everything so far has developed flawlessly, barring for error on my part. Now I just need to convince the kid at the local walgreens that cross-processing won’t ruin his chemicals, since I just put 100 feet of fujichrome velvia 100 into my bulk loader.

That six month stuff is intriguing. Do any of you have experience with it? Is photo paper or film the way to go? Why isn’t the paper/film completely exposed?

http://www.pinholephotography.org/Solargraph%20instructions%202.htm
http://www.pinholephotography.org/

http://www.solargraphy.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=13&Itemid=14
I haven’t done it yet, but have read some stuff on it. You use paper (which is roughly ISO 6), but don’t develop it. There’s so much exposure that the image visibly burns onto the paper. If you were to look at it in a darkroom, you’d see the image as soon as you took it out of the canister.

Any how in hell do you do THIS? http://www.pinholephotography.org/gallery/mouth/index.html

I have a pinhole and homemade camera book that features this guy. He made a pinhole out of a 110 cartridge with roughly 10mm focal length. He uses ISO 100 110 film, puts it in his mouth, opens the shutter with his tongue, then fires two sychronized flashes from either side of his face.

Also: Every time you post something, your avatar makes me want to listen to Gigi D’Agostino.