Missed it by THAT much! Dang!

[bmattock]

Went out this morning with the new/old Yashica Lynx 14e and a yellow filter and a 60mm push-on hood from a Canon 55mm f1.2 (figured it might work, might not, but it didn't block the rangefinder like the toilet plunger did). Loaded that stupid Arista.EDU 100 - I have three more rolls of that, but I'm not going to use it again. Arista.EDU Ultra is SO much nicer!

Anyway, found this old barn. Rainy day, yellow filter, I'm thinking I got a winner here. F8, 1/30, and bang. I think I have it bagged. Didn't take a second one, why bother?

Why, indeed:

1) Cropped off the top of the barn. Dad nab it.

2) That stupid Arista.EDU (Fortepan) does NOT like D-76 - I keep getting these little white spots wherever there are lighter shades of grey.

3) This 'coulda been' a contender otherwise.

4) I doubt I'll be able to find the place again. If I do, the conditions will never be the same.

Crud.

Best Regards,

Bill Mattocks

 

[ray_g]

Bill, looks like that canon hood (or the filter ring) is causing some vignetting.

 

[bmattock]

Bill, looks like that canon hood (or the filter ring) is causing some vignetting.

Yes, I believe it is. The hood is designed for the 55mm f1.2 Canon FL lens, and the Lynx is a 45mm f1.4. The hood sits at the end of the filter stack, so it is farther out than it would be without a filter. However, it does seem to stop the flare problem. I think it is close - I could take another hood like this one and trim it back a bit and I think that would do it.

I'm not entirely sure that I dislike the effect, though:

By the way, this is the Lynx at f 1.4.

However, given that I didn't know if it would vignette or not, it was worth finding out.

Best Regards,

Bill Mattocks

 

[Todd.Hanz]

Great shots Bill, I really like the car.

 

[ray_g]

Great shots Bill, I really like the car.

Me too. You can almost see Bonnie and Clyde in there 🙂

 

[Kin Lau]

Love the car shot too. f1.4 and a little vignetting plus the sepia completes the "look".

BTW, everyone else fess up... how many of you also thought this was about an auction 🙂

 

[Beniliam]

Very nice review in the other post and beutiful pictures Bill.

 

[bmattock]

Thanks, guys. But now I'm even MORE frustrated! It looks ok at 500 pixels wide, but no way could I enlarge this thing and print it at even 8x10.

Here is a 1:1 clip of the actual vehicle from the second image (the car). Notice the white spots? I got this the last time I processed a roll of Arista.EDU 100 as well. This is actually Fortepan 100, and I processed it in D-76 1+1 for 8.5 minutes. A couple of weeks ago, I went to a street fair in Wilson and shot a roll of the same stuff and got the same results - but did not get those results with other brands of film processed the same way. I don't know if Fortepan 100 does not like D-76 or what.

One thing I did notice that I've never noticed before - inside the box of Arista.EDU 100, the instructions say to agitate continuously for the first minute, THEN do several inversions every minute for the remainder of the time. I've never seen that before - I got my dev instructions from Freestyle or Forte, etc - none of them every mentioned continuous agitation for the first minute. Ever hear of that? Could my not doing that cause this problem?

Whatever the reason - I just tossed the remaining 3 rolls out of my brick - I can't risk this stuff anymore. And I love Arista.EDU Ultra - that stuff (Fomapan) is top notch!

Oh well, on with the show. Thanks for the kind words, hope I can recreate the shot!

Best Regards,

Bill Mattocks

 

[Sonnar Brian]

I hate "almost got it shots".

Try to find the place again, wait for a rainy day.

Shoot lots of pictures, the industry meeds you.

 

[smiling gecko]

great image...regardless of roof crop and vignetting. i like to burn- in the corners of some prints for the same effect...another way i get it using a bellows shade with vignette insert selected for the same result - usually on my rolleiflex 6002 - eeekk! not a rfdr !

when using my mamiya 6 and i find something that really visually "sings" to me i will take an extra frame or two and crop in-camera adding/deleting area outside/away from the main area i am most interersted in ...had to learn the hard way a few - hah! - times when i sliced/diced/chopped/over cropped my intended subject area...live and learn.

p.s. i really liked the old car...one of my feave subjects...and yeah, i originally thought your post was about an auction bid just missing th mark - happens to me more often than not - oh well...
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[RJBender]

Me too. You can almost see Bonnie and Clyde in there 🙂

That's weird. I also thought of Bonnie and Clyde when I saw Bill's photo.

R.J.