M8 wedding

[Ascender]

you just don't get it do you?

you just don't get it do you?

You spend so much time to make it look like film, why not shoot on film straight away? for 5000 us you can buy alot of film and chemicals, very strange people, in general people are getting strange....
(excellent pictures btw) 🙂

You know, this is the reason I no longer post to this site. Here is a guy that took the time to share what most would consider to be wonderful work and the most that you can offer by way of response is the assnine comment above. You just don't get it do you?

-Charlie

 

[Ororaro]

You know, this is the reason I no longer post to this site. Here is a guy that took the time to share what most would consider to be wonderful work and the most that you can offer by way of response is the assnine comment above. You just don't get it do you?

-Charlie

Be honest, please! You can't have *that* thin skin! I mean really!

 

[dmr]

You know, this is the reason I no longer post to this site. Here is a guy that took the time to share what most would consider to be wonderful work and the most that you can offer by way of response is the assnine comment above. You just don't get it do you?

I have very few peeves against this site, but one of them is, and it's not limited to this site, is that some insist that "my way" is the only way to do things. Not to be a total snot here, but a few weeks ago I asked for some recommendations for color film for my first MF tries. I REALLY appreciated the suggestions, and I walked into the camera shop well informed. However, even though I said I wanted color (sorry guys, I really hate discouraging you, but ...), many of the responses came back with suggestions for B&W film, and threads after that went on to suggest not only B&W but processing it myself, which I have absolutely no desire to do.

Now as to this thread, the original linked photos were some of the absolute best imaginitve non-cliched wedding photos I have seen in a long time. They ain't broke, they don't need (to be) fixed! 🙂 The guy has his style and does it well, and uses digital effectively for it. If anything, please learn from it, not try to teach him how to do it your way! (Yeah I know, bitch-bitch-bitch!)

There's a time and a place for digital. There's also a time and a place for the SLR.

I'm also afraid to post this, fearing that next time I need some adivce I might not get any. 🙁 However, this attitude bugs me too.

Sorry, gang. 🙁

 

[harmsr]

To the original poster. - Very nicely done photos. I love the non-traditional approach. Great compositions, effects, intimacy, & emotions.


Nach - I like your work and a lot of your posts, but please lay off of the digital vs. film crusade. People can use both to good effect.


Ascender - Good to see you, although I have to say that you just might be a bad influence on me. Since the last time we talked the Nikon gear has layed dormant except for some product photography. All the time has been spent with the M8 or even some time with B&W film in the old iiif. Did you ever get the 75 Cron?


Best,

Ray

 

[graphicjoe]

Riccis,

Very nice work, very nice indeed. Kudos for keeping things basic and using a single lens. It's a good way to work. I only own two M lens, a 35 and 50, and have been able to do what I want with them. I am going to add a 24 to use with the M8, but with the extension factor it's really a 32 mm.

I am curious as to what ISO settings you were using.


thanks,

Joe Stephenson

 

[atelier7]

Great photos! Inspiring with what can be done with a single focal length.

 

[morgan]

Great shots Riccis.

 

[Riccis]

Thanks again, folks. BTW, the ISO settings I used were from 160-640 and I believe the one in total darkness was shot at 1250.

 

[weser]

Outstanding photos. Absolutely brilliant. Not just speaking here as a photo geek but also as an art director. Consider yourself bookmarked.

The 'problem' I see here and on other forums is in my opinion that people have a hard time acknoledging digital photography as a new AND different medium. Film and digital photography have both their pros and cons but the one is not supposed to copy the other. For some strange reasons a lot of people have a hard time embracing both for what they are. To compare them with each other is like comparing apples with oranges.
Digital photography opened a door to immense possibilities that film simply can't offer (unless you start moving it over into the digital world - or, if ones stays analog, is willing to risk destroying the original negative/slide/film).

Anyhow, I congratulate you, Sir, for walking through that door, exploring the possibilities and coming back with some really wonderful results. Kudos.

(I apologize if I may sound a bit grumpy. Didn't get much sleep last night.)

 

[-vin-]

BUT... why are you now trying to sell your M8?

 

[Riccis]

Vin:

I actually acquired 2 additional M8s and a used M7. I'm just trying to sell my 35/2 since I finally acquired a 21, 35/1.4 and 50/1.4...

I'm in Finland after shooting this weekend's wedding (again with the M8s, and Holgas) and couldn't be happier...

 

[GoodPhotos]

Most excellent and artistic work Riccis!

Any tool to get the image that you want and that your client will be elated with for a life time and her family beyond that.

It seems to me that most of the folks I've met who equate digital capture photography with laziness are usually the same who have the luxury to shoot only for fun and art and don't realise that those of us who also shoot for fun and art AND are making our living with photography now relish having back the control of our images that we had had to relinquish to prolabs in the past IN SPITE of the tremendously increased workload.

To those with the 'film is the only pure medium' mentality, I can only suggest that they should give up the oh so convenient roll films that their Leicas and Ikons take and shoot and process only wet plates for the truly pure artistic experience. (Of course, you'll need to create the Collodion Solution from the raw chemicals...Anything less is sheer laziness!)

<sigh>

 

[ZlatkoBatistich]

It's very encouraging to see professional work with the M8. Certainly makes me want to buy one. I find the textures distracting, something like the canvas competing with the painting. But I appreciate the effort to do something different. There's enough sameness already.