Angler’s Montage
This is another shot from latest roll of film out of the Olympus Pen which was having some problems advancing. I was shooting mostly fliptychs when the camera began advancing part of a frame with each shutter advancement.
This is an unintended montage of several (6?) shots of the Clover Point Angler’s Club building. I like this one – it shows many parts of this boat shed. There are parts of the back and front of the building, the gull-lined roof, the launch ramp skids, the main door with graffiti and the board & batten construction of the side and end walls. One of my very first posts is an early morning photo of fisherman launching their boats from this facility, I think it has stood the test of time quite well.
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I’m off doing some research in the field for a few days with uncertain access to the internet. If I am slow getting back to any comments you might choose to grace my blog with, it is only because I am not around and I promise I will respond to all of them. So, please comment in my absence, I like comments.
Olympus Pen, Half Frame, 28mm lens, Ilford Pan-F Plus 50, ISO50, Epson V700 Scanner
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Spectacular mistake!!!
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Thanks Mark, glad you like it.
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I like the unintentional panorama. (You can use that term, if you like). It has a nice surreal quality about it. The frame around it gives it some cohesion, too.
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Unintentional panorama would make a good blog name. I think I will use it for a post though (Melinda can take that as a warning not to set up another blog using that name!). I found that many of these half frame shots, intended ones included, benefit from a frame.
Anyways, I am glad you like how this one looks (I won’t say turned out as that implies intent).
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I like this a lot – it’s got a nice surreal, dream-like quality to it.
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Thanks Melinda. Dreamlike is a very good way of seeing this. Or an anglers nightmare – arriving to fish and finding no way in to get the boat, circling the building without end.
Can you tell I awoke too early and without enough sleep?
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Yes. Yes, I can.
I’d suggest coffee, but realize you’re not a coffee-dependent person….
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This is a very effective composition and makes me wonder if you could somehow control the flm advance mechanism so as to produce multiple overlaps at will. There are 8 notches per full frame, 4 per half frame so you could quantitate the amount of slippage by setting a “notch value” for each shot.
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Hi Val. It might be possible except I think what was going on was that the notched reel was pretty much disengaged and the take up reel was pulling the film until it met resistance. Between shots the film was loosening enough in the spool for the take up reel to pull a bit out. The amount of film advance is probably partly related to the amount of time between shots and how much room to expand exists in the spool. I have one series where I was testing filters and there is similar advance between shots where it took about the same time to change each filter.
The idea of pre-visualising the composition of this shot is very daunting. It would have to be quite formulaic for my brain to cope. But there probably is a formula with dark vs light areas, landscape vs portrait and the order in which they are done.
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