christmas in ukraine....

[climbing_vine]

Finally! First shots back from the Fed-20 with I-22. Scans are small from a crappy ca. 1999 CanoScan, from bad 1hr prints. But there's a still a quality there that I like. I'll be reprinting a few of them at a quality joint. Pics are of my little sis.

http://coleridge78.livejournal.com/ for more info, as well as a pic or two from the Hi-matic 7 that I rehabbed recently.

 

[Tom Harrell]

The pix look very high in contrast. I was curious because I just mounted an I-22 on my IIIf to try it out. I'm anxious to see what sort of results I get. Thanks for sharing your photos with us.

Regards,
Tom Harrell

 

[Ash]

Damn... maybe I should be going to the Ukraine to find some models!! 😀

Nice pics 🙂

 

[climbing_vine]

Damn... maybe I should be going to the Ukraine to find some models!! 😀

Nice pics 🙂

Thanks. 🙂 They were actually taken in Minneapolis, Minnesota, but with the digicam left at home and the FED in my hand it was feeling more like Kiev. Sometimes, it makes me feel like I'm carrying a prop, like I'm the kid in 'Goodbye Lenin!' if anyone has seen that movie. Funny things, historical objects.

 

[climbing_vine]

The pix look very high in contrast. I was curious because I just mounted an I-22 on my IIIf to try it out. I'm anxious to see what sort of results I get. Thanks for sharing your photos with us.

The contrast is nice in the originals. I bumped it a bit in Photoshop, but that was just to compensate for the scan--I tried to get it to look as much as possible like the tones in the print. The I-22 seems to do a nice job on that front, without going overboard--haven't had problems with blown highlights or anything like that so far.

 

[Uwe_Nds]

Thanks. 🙂 They were actually taken in Minneapolis, Minnesota, but with the digicam left at home and the FED in my hand it was feeling more like Kiev. Sometimes, it makes me feel like I'm carrying a prop, like I'm the kid in 'Goodbye Lenin!' if anyone has seen that movie. Funny things, historical objects.

Was the film shown in the US?

I love both the film and your pictures!

Best regards,
Uwe

 

[climbing_vine]

Was the film shown in the US?

I love both the film and your pictures!

Thank you!

Yes, it was shown in the US but only in the small independent theaters (same as most non-Hollywood films here). Most DVD rental places carry it now. It was one of the more popular foreign films that year.

-Brian

 

[lubitel]

by the way christmas in ukraine is on the 7 of January 😉 (assuming the majority of religious Ukrainians is Orthodox)

 

[Will]

Her smile made my day, thanks...

 

[dadsm3]

Yup, going to my sister's for a traditional 12 course Xmas eve dinner this Sat....and we're "Greek" Catholic (now called Ukrainian Catholic). I think we're supposed to be on the Gregorian calendar (Dec 24th), and just use the Julian as an excuse for another party. I'm reading Subtelny's 'History of Ukraine" now....pretty complicated history, but it looks like the date you celebrate depends on whether you ended up in the Austro-Hungarian Empire or Imperial Russia.

 

[climbing_vine]

Yup, going to my sister's for a traditional 12 course Xmas eve dinner this Sat....and we're "Greek" Catholic (now called Ukrainian Catholic). I think we're supposed to be on the Gregorian calendar (Dec 24th), and just use the Julian as an excuse for another party. I'm reading Subtelny's 'History of Ukraine" now....pretty complicated history, but it looks like the date you celebrate depends on whether you ended up in the Austro-Hungarian Empire or Imperial Russia.

Great book that I've been meaning to re-read. Was a little pressed for time on the first go-round, when I read it for a history course in college. It's also a favorite of a friend's father, who is half each Ukranian and Polish, and was a translator at the UN in the 70s (Russian, Polish, and German, iirc--he's fluent in about six languages and familiar with a dozen more).

 

[Uwe_Nds]

Thank you!

Yes, it was shown in the US but only in the small independent theaters (same as most non-Hollywood films here). Most DVD rental places carry it now. It was one of the more popular foreign films that year.

-Brian

It's a great movie, but I think you have to know a bit of German history in order to fully comprehend.

 

[climbing_vine]

It's a great movie, but I think you have to know a bit of German history in order to fully comprehend.

I'm sure. I'm always aware of that when I'm watching a foreign film. Even in something ahistorical, there are still the elements of language and cultural difference. When it deals with interpretation of history, even more so, as you point out. I always feel like I'm missing something, but try to get what I can from it and enjoy it anyway. And read later to try to fill in the edges. 🙂