Coronavirus photo thread

[Yokosuka Mike]

X-Pro3, Fujinon XF 50mm f2 R WR lens
Astia film simulation
Yokosuka, Japan - May 2020

All the best,
Mike

 

[Doug]

Off-kilter at the dental office...

Fuji GA645Wi, Fuji 800Z @ IE 500

 

[css9450]

This might be the opposite of "window shopping".

Nikon N90S, AF-Nikkor 35mm/f2 "D", Ilford Delta 100, Rodinal 1:50

 

[lynnb]

Thank you, Lynn. Also, for the first time in my life you have made me seriously consider getting an Instax. Have been enjoying your shots, which is not a reaction I have previously had to Instax shots, which, ones I am used to seeing, until now seemed mostly to be blurry photos of people at parties. So, not a crappy, pointless camera for teenage girls after all, in the right hands.
You have opened my eyes to the possibilities🙂
Now, which one? (Must resist.)

Many thanks Larry for your kind words. My Instax adventure started on impulse: I saw a half price Instax Mini 9 in Aldi and thought why not? Since then I've bought an Instax Wide 300 and an Instax square SQ6 (both were heavily discounted, reducing the risk factor), so I've got a foot in each of the Instax formats. If you like Polaroid I'd go with the SQ6. For Impressionist/watercolor look the Instax Mini. The Wide 300 is physically big (the image size is 62x99mm) and better for nature/landscapes/cityscapes.

I'm going to start a thread on my Instax experience in the next few days where I'll provide more detailed comments.

Here's a lone person yesterday enjoying the solitude of the local cliff walk, though she would be asked to move on by rangers and police if they spotted her! Sitting is not permitted under current regulations - exercise only. Taken with the Instax SQ6.

 

[peterm1]

This was shot on 28 February 2020 - just as the full weight of Covid19 was beginning to strike, but before the lock-down began.

As the old English records from Tudor times would have stated: “Hic incipit pestis.” - Here begins the plague.

My subject's T shirt is labelled "Anti Social Social Club". Very prophetic as it turned out though that is not why I took the photo - at the time I just thought it was interesting and rather amusing. (Truth is I still smile when I look at it because it really was just an innocent and light hearted T shirt motto being worn by a young woman.)

Member of the Anti-social Social Club by Life in Shadows, on Flickr

 

[BobCoRn]

Zenit-C, Mir-1 (2,8/37). Old film.

 

[raydm6]

~iPhone 11/Snapseed~


Hilltop View by rdc154, on Flickr

 

[Mlehrman]

 

[Out to Lunch]

Out to Lunch, on Flickr. Corona days -we stayed indoors between early February and late April, going out for grocery shopping, only. Schools were closed
for 3 months. Vietnam did very well in managing the pandemic with very few confirmed cases and no deaths.

 

[taemo]

great thread.

img829 by earl dieta, on Flickr

img824 by earl dieta, on Flickr

 

[Evergreen States]

Larry, count me as another who thinks your Coronavirus photos would go well in a book. I'd be first in line to buy a copy if you get around to making one. And for what it's worth, I think your style is strong enough, and your subject matter so consistent, that the individual treatments don't work against the aesthetic unity (even going between color and black and white).

One thing, though. It looks like you have a dust spot on your sensor about 1/4 from the left and near the top of the frame.

 

[Larry Cloetta]

Larry, count me as another who thinks your Coronavirus photos would go well in a book. I'd be first in line to buy a copy if you get around to making one. And for what it's worth, I think your style is strong enough, and your subject matter so consistent, that the individual treatments don't work against the aesthetic unity (even going between color and black and white).

One thing, though. It looks like you have a dust spot on your sensor about 1/4 from the left and near the top of the frame.

Thank you so much, that’s more than very kind. I’m too old to have book aspirations 🙂 I was happy just to be able to post some things here.
It’s funny you mentioned the individual treatments and aesthetic unity. I’ve got some contrarian opinions about styles which I have mentioned elsewhere, and I purposely did each of these as one offs, but if I were doing a book or a gallery presentation on anything I would probably stick to one consistent way of treating every frame. People just seem to accept things better that way, even myself, if it’s a book or a gallery show. That’s a whole nother interesting phenomenon of human nature.
I couldn’t do these in an identical style in a way that I found satisfactory, so I did them the way I did them, for better or worse.

And, yes, I know there is a spot of dust on the sensor, which I forgot to edit out of a couple of these. Sensor dust on my to do list🙂

Am still taking photos, if I ever get a book together will let you know, and thank you for asking. Made my day, even if undeserved.

 

[Larry Cloetta]

“Please don’t break our windows.” Yikes. Sounds like somebody has problems which might be worse than a virus. Not quite gentrified enough on that block.

 

[Larry Cloetta]

~iPhone 11/Snapseed~


Hilltop View by rdc154, on Flickr

Another unnervingly good iphone picture. The camera and processing software on the 12 is supposedly going to be even better. That’s just so annoying.

 

[raydm6]

Another unnervingly good iphone picture. The camera and processing software on the 12 is supposedly going to be even better. That’s just so annoying.

Thank you Larry, very kind of you!

 

[Out to Lunch]

Out to Lunch, on Flickr. Corona days, Binh Tan District, Saigon. During the lock down we were lucky enough to have a terrace so that we could see the sky.

 

[lynnb]

COVID-19 signs on the access steps to the cliff path, Freshwater, Sydney, May 2020
Instax SQ6 square iso800 colour film

 

[Godfrey]

Great series Larry, thanks for sharing them.

Manly beach, Sydney, May 2020.
Instax Mini 9

Excellent! And sad ... 🙁

I spent a week in Manly Beach back in 2001 ... just *days* before the events of 9/11. A lovely place, my hotel room was right on the frontage road overlooking the beach. I didn't want to come home. 🙂

G

 

[ThomasM]

 

[pushto1600]

R0007365 by Cole Turner, on Flickr

so much for these Graduation Lei and the class of 2020, poor guys... taken a couple of weeks ago