My Slides from the 90's

p.giannakis said:
This is what I managed to bring with me this time. The rest when I go back to Greece next time. I will start the scanning tomorrow

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Hm. Missing from this is the glass of something pleasantly alcohol(ic) such as you had in an earlier photo. Essential AND necessary to get you thru all the scanning...

Mine would be a good 2016 Coonawarra or Limestone Coast cab-sav or shiraz, nectar for the gods.
 
DownUnder said:
Hm. Missing from this is the glass of something pleasantly alcohol(ic) such as you had in an earlier photo. Essential AND necessary to get you thru all the scanning...

Mine would be a good 2016 Coonawarra or Limestone Coast cab-sav or shiraz, nectar for the gods.
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Indeed, I was not well prepared for yesterday. From one point onwards I stopped scanning and started browsing through them. There are pictures I remember taking and are not in these boxes - there must be another box somewhere in Greece.

I have some beautiful portraits of my partners of that time which unfortunately I do not have their consent to share. Sad, I really like those portraits.

Anyway, shiraz it is.

Praktica BMS - Sigma 70-210 f/4.5-5.6
Kodak Ektachrome Elite 100

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p.giannakis said:
I have some beautiful portraits of my partners of that time which unfortunately I do not have their consent to share. Sad, I really like those portraits.
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“I apologize afterwards, if someone feels insulted, but I want the picture.” Peter Magubane, 91, Who Fought Apartheid With His Camera, Is Dead
Different situations, but I’ve always used the apologise but don’t ask approach too. I am impressed, if somewhat baffled, by you seeking consent before showing a plain portrait. I guess in the EU you may need to think that way.

Marty
 
Freakscene said:
“I apologize afterwards, if someone feels insulted, but I want the picture.” Peter Magubane, 91, Who Fought Apartheid With His Camera, Is Dead
Different situations, but I’ve always used the apologise but don’t ask approach too. I am impressed, if somewhat baffled, by you seeking consent before showing a plain portrait. I guess in the EU you may need to think that way.

Marty
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I wasn't very clear what I meant, it is more like let sleeping dogs lie situation where I wouldn't want a "why did you post our pictures without asking me" sort of argument. We parted in good terms and I wouldn't like any disagreements like that.

I might consider posting a portrait and delete it a couple of weeks later, I don't know, I will have to think a bit more.
 
p.giannakis said:
Indeed, I was not well prepared for yesterday. From one point onwards I stopped scanning and started browsing through them. There are pictures I remember taking and are not in these boxes - there must be another box somewhere in Greece.

I have some beautiful portraits of my partners of that time which unfortunately I do not have their consent to share. Sad, I really like those portraits.

Anyway, shiraz it is.

Praktica BMS - Sigma 70-210 f/4.5-5.6
Kodak Ektachrome Elite 100

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Good points here. In fact, several.

How to scan and still retain your sanity is a classic conundrum. I write this as someone who has 100,000+ images accumulated during a long lifetime and much travel. This even after several drastic culls during which I destroyed probably as many as I've kept.

Consider approaching it as an rolling project. Set yourself a realistic and reasonable goal. Say two boxes of slides at most, or even one box. Cull before you scan. If you decide any images you find are substandard, take out the scissors and consign them to the garbage. I kept all my images, good, bad and indifferent, for decades, and only after I retired eleven years ago did I finally wake up to what I had done and go to work with a massive cull. Which took me many months, and caused some angst, but when I eventually finished the job, relief took over from any anxiety I had been feeling as the "wanton destruction" of my beloved visuals. None of which I have been missed, BTW...

Reward yourself with a glass of something pleasant at the, say, two-thirds point of your scan session. Something to look forward to.

Keep any images you think may be worth rescuing with a little creative post-processing. But dump the out-of-focus, the trite, the less-than-passable duplicates. Make this a hard and fast rule.

Images taken of past partners can be a minefield. Part of us wants to share them, not only with the "exes" but the world, but principle stops us. My partner has been with me since 1997 when we met in Malaysia, but steadfastly refuses to let me use any of our "personal" images for anything other a print of my best one on our study room wall. I respect this rule as a basic principle in your relationship. And it has kept me honest.

Oddly, we also have a "rule" that I won't post any images of our cats or my cats, even the long-deceased ones. No rational reason for this, only a quirk. But a rule I respect. At least it saves me having to scan and post-process some 10,000 negatives...

Interesting that you used a Praktika in those days. And maybe still do. Which goes to prove, the photographer and not the camera makes the images.

Greatly looking forward to seeing more of your good visuals as you go. And my congratulations for having persevered with so much scanning...
 
DownUnder said:
Good points here. In fact, several.

How to scan and still retain your sanity is a classic conundrum. I write this as someone who has 100,000+ images accumulated during a long lifetime and much travel. This even after several drastic culls during which I destroyed probably as many as I've kept.

Consider approaching it as an rolling project. Set yourself a realistic and reasonable goal. Say two boxes of slides at most, or even one box. Cull before you scan. If you decide any images you find are substandard, take out the scissors and consign them to the garbage. I kept all my images, good, bad and indifferent, for decades, and only after I retired eleven years ago did I finally wake up to what I had done and go to work with a massive cull. Which took me many months, and caused some angst, but when I eventually finished the job, relief took over from any anxiety I had been feeling as the "wanton destruction" of my beloved visuals. None of which I have been missed, BTW...

Reward yourself with a glass of something pleasant at the, say, two-thirds point of your scan session. Something to look forward to.

Keep any images you think may be worth rescuing with a little creative post-processing. But dump the out-of-focus, the trite, the less-than-passable duplicates. Make this a hard and fast rule.

Images taken of past partners can be a minefield. Part of us wants to share them, not only with the "exes" but the world, but principle stops us. My partner has been with me since 1997 when we met in Malaysia, but steadfastly refuses to let me use any of our "personal" images for anything other a print of my best one on our study room wall. I respect this rule as a basic principle in your relationship. And it has kept me honest.

Oddly, we also have a "rule" that I won't post any images of our cats or my cats, even the long-deceased ones. No rational reason for this, only a quirk. But a rule I respect. At least it saves me having to scan and post-process some 10,000 negatives...

Interesting that you used a Praktika in those days. And maybe still do. Which goes to prove, the photographer and not the camera makes the images.

Greatly looking forward to seeing more of your good visuals as you go. And my congratulations for having persevered with so much scanning...
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Wow, 10.000 negatives are quite a task to scan. I have left some pictures back in my parents home as indeed they were more experiments trying to understand how photography works. They are not that many, maybe a couple of boxes. There are some slides missing, they might have ended up with my brother's slides (he also has a lot of slides from the 90s but he has lost his interest in photography) - I'll have to go through these when I am back.

I realised something interesting in Greece - back then I was not great with keeping the pictures in good order, a lot of them were sorted some years later (and made some mess too). Going through my drawers I found this:

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It is the receipt of buying my Praktica! And I bought it in Dec 1993, not 1991 as I thought. This means that I have to probably push forward the dates for the earlier slides by two years. So disorienting...
 
p.giannakis said:
Wow, 10.000 negatives are quite a task to scan. I have left some pictures back in my parents home as indeed they were more experiments trying to understand how photography works. They are not that many, maybe a couple of boxes. There are some slides missing, they might have ended up with my brother's slides (he also has a lot of slides from the 90s but he has lost his interest in photography) - I'll have to go through these when I am back.

I realised something interesting in Greece - back then I was not great with keeping the pictures in good order, a lot of them were sorted some years later (and made some mess too). Going through my drawers I found this:

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It is the receipt of buying my Praktica! And I bought it in Dec 1993, not 1991 as I thought. This means that I have to probably push forward the dates for the earlier slides by two years. So disorienting...
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cheap if it came with the lens!
 
A box of old slides is what brought me to film and rangefinders. I bought a small light table and spent a winter scanning with a Nikon Coolscan and the project really got to me, looking into the eyes of friends and long gone family members and wondering how these images could ever have been created in the first place. Here's one of those scans.
 
p.giannakis said:
Indeed, I was not well prepared for yesterday. From one point onwards I stopped scanning and started browsing through them. There are pictures I remember taking and are not in these boxes - there must be another box somewhere in Greece.

I have some beautiful portraits of my partners of that time which unfortunately I do not have their consent to share. Sad, I really like those portraits.

Anyway, shiraz it is.

Praktica BMS - Sigma 70-210 f/4.5-5.6
Kodak Ektachrome Elite 100

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poetic, Pan!
 
Go for it! One of the greatest joys of our photography (I write this after a lifetime of image-making which I started as a teenager in the 1960s) is the ability to look at one's old pictures and be immediately transported to those moments in the past, the situations in which we were when we took the photograph.

I often take out boxes of my travel slides which date back to about 1970 when I first went to Bali, and find myself reliving those long ago days in Ubud, when I could walk into the royal palace or any one of the dozen or more traditional dancing schools, set up my camera and just take photos. Long gone they are nw, those heady times are, and sadly missed, but at least I can look at my old slides and relive some of those golden moments when I was young, the climate was something we just took for granted and not our enemy as it is now, my life seemed endless and eternal and every day was full of promises to come (a few of which even did).

So yes, cherish those moments when you pause to look at your images and reflect on the past.

But please, OP, do go on scanning and posting. Many of us are greatly enjoying your moments as much as I'm sure you are.
 
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