Fliptych Reflections
This in-camera diptych is of Thetis Lake from the bathing beach at the south end. The camera was flipped between shots, meaning that the headlands and their reflects are reversed, and the beach debris is both top and bottom. Kind of like a double reflection. Click on the image for a bigger version.
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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Olympus Pen, Half Frame, 28mm lens, Ilford Pan-F Plus 50, ISO50, Epson V700 Scanner
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Horizon(tal) in Negative
This is a follow up to a post from last week which had the same images in positive, with similar treatments. Today’s is the negative – the scanning mode I was in produced negatives which I had to convert, but I was quite taken by the difference between the negative and positive versions, and so processed both of them.
At the bottom of the post I include a gallery which has the other ones which first appeared in this post, and this one.
Click on any photograph to get a much larger version.
Easy Fliptych
More from my series of half-frame photos, and indeed it is also a fliptych. I like this shot for its minimalism, in fact it is one of my favourites taken so far with this camera. I took this in the same car park at Thetis Lake as the first of my fliptych series. Once again this is a single digital image scanned from adjacent frames on the negative.
Monumental Flip
Another fliptych, as I have come to call them, this one of a monument on Clover Point. This is also one of the instances where the frames slipped when advancing the film. Surreptitiously, just the right amount to eliminate the black band between frames. The challenge with this one was framing the two shots so that the monument was above itself in the two images. I like that there is a person in the lower shot, and not the upper.
Below is a detail shot of the monument, also flipped in camera.
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Half-frame Buildings
Another in the recent series of half-frame photographs. One thing I have experimented with is different modes of shooting building panoramas. Above is one shot on Broad Street where I walked along the block several meters between each shot trying to keep the center of each frame perpendicular to the building and the edges of the frames aligned as carefully as possible. Curbs can be very good for lining things up in one direction.
Thetis Lake V
Some more photos from my walk around Thetis Lake a couple of weeks ago with my daughter and granddaughter. I only took a few pictures with the Olympus Pen as there was not enough light in the forest.
This idea for vertical triptychs of a person is adapted from some very interesting street photography by Adde Adesokan which I found summarised here. You can find more scattered on his flickr site, with stories about the person and photos. So, this is an unashamed ripoff adaptation of Adesokan’s great idea. As soon as I saw his photos I thought they could be made to work on film as sequential half-frames, scanned as a single image.
The top image is the second one I shot because I thought the bright lake in the background of the first would not work well. The bottom shot is the first one; little did I know that I had caused the filter to steam up by holding my hand over the front of the camera (a disadvantage of a rangefinder is that you don’t look through the lens). Still, I like the ghostly quality enough that you get to see another of my mistakes redefined, by me, as presentable.
Clearly I need to think more about getting in closer, estimating focal distance, and the alignment from one frame to the next. It feels awfully strange taking a portrait beginning with someone’s feet. Perhaps if I held the camera the other way up I could start at the head, though I would have to think calmly with my eyes closed to try to visualise if that is actually how it works.
Click on the image for better quality – the top one in particular is nice with baby touching mum’s face.
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