W/NW: medium format street photography

gabrielma said:
A little back on topic...


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Rolleiflex Automat-IV, Schneider-Kreuznach Xenar 75mm f/3.5
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Very nice Gabriel, I like it !

Cheers,
Ruben
 
Maybe stretching a bit for street photography but in the time it was built it would have been a very busy "street scene"...

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Shrah Srang, Angkor Wat Temple Complex, Cambodia 2001
Plaubel Makina 670
 
rool said:
I am usually not a big fan of posed street portraits, but those I quite like, Todd.
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thanks, I understand too, most people like street work to be candid. My approach here is to engage people in conversation and actually ask permission to photograph them, I'm looking to be repectful to the subject and hoping it comes across on the film.

thanks,
Todd
 
fgianni said:
Simon, how about some technical delais about your pictures
Is it a sort of duotone?
Is there some photoshop work?
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Most of the images posted here in this thread are straight scans from prints either lith prints or b/w prints. No photoshop work as these were taken directly from my site posted online 2002-2003.

Recent b/w work in my galleries "Tabula Rasa" and "Beyond the Edge" were all negs scanned on a Nikon Coolscan 5000 in BKK (my darkrooms back in the UK) , some curve modification and dust removal etc but nothing that wouldn't be done when making wet prints. Does this answer your question fgianni ? if not i'll supply more info 🙂
 
This was taken with my old Yashica 124 MAT G before it was stolen. While in Taegu, Korea, about 1975, I was waiting for my companion who was shopping elsewhere in the market (if I were along the price would go up). I spotted these three venders in front of their shop visiting with each other while waiting for customers. I looked for another spot about the same distance, focused on that, composed on a lot of things before setting the camera down with the self time on, tripped it and studiously looked elsewhere. So no, I didn't ask first. Sorry about the scan. The print looked a lot better.



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Todd & Simon,

Great stuff thanks for posting. Makes me want to run home now from work and load up some film in my Yashica Mat. I have a feeling I am going to end up using this camera more than my Bessa R.
 
Hi Ricardo thanks and good luck with the Yashica Mat. It's not a camera i'm familiar with is it a twin lens a bit like a rolleiflex/rolleicord?
 
Simon,

Yes, its a poor man's Rolleiflex, but with a very good reputation, and about 1/5 of the price of a Rolleiflex. I bought mine based upon the reviews of it here on RFF and elsewhere on the web.

Click Here for a nice picture of a Yashica Mat 124G.
 
ruben said:
Very nice Gabriel, I like it !

Cheers,
Ruben
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I like the shot of the girl in the phone stall. It has a nice dimensional quality. And the tones are very realistic.
 
RicardoD said:
Simon,
Yes, its a poor man's Rolleiflex, but with a very good reputation,
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A poor mans Rollei ?Don't get me wrong, Ricardo, I do not suspect you to mean it in a derisive sense because you use a Mat124G yourself , but I am always amused about how common this saying is among the English speaking photogs.
I once read in another forum "...it's easy, if you are rich, buy a Leica. If you are poor, buy a Bessa" (sic !) 🙄

Every TLR , if not Rollei, is a poor mans Rollei, and every RF camera, if not Leica, is a poor mans Leica.

In my own mother language (German) this would be taken as an very derisive remark ( "Rollei für Arme") because over here nobody is considered automatically as beeing rich just because he owns an expensive camera , well, let me say at least not among grown ups. 😉

BTW my personal experience gained in photo courses I have held myself is also the other way round, those with the most expensive stuff are very often the poorest of the crowd. They live in Grandmas house, eat her food, no cars no kids, don't go to dentists and have therefore any probs with girlfriends, and they wear their Jeans until they must get removed by an emergency operation. But to the course the came with a huge back filled with finest assortment of cameras and lenses, often worth ten-thousands of Euros !

This shall not be understood as any kind of cricticsm, just an observation I have made, of an linguistical phenomenon. MY English is too poor to really know if there is an derisive element at all in the English "poor man "saying and if so, how serious it is.

I myself used and still use rich AND poor makes, and I hope this excludes the assumption I would suffer from the "Sour Grape Syndrome" 😀


Regards,

Fitzi
 
fitzihardwurshd said:
I myself used and still use rich AND poor makes, and I hope this excludes the assumption I would suffer from the "Sour Grape Syndrome" 😀


Regards,

Fitzi
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"SGS" Nice one Fitzi you made me smile 🙂
 
fitzihardwurshd said:
In my own mother language (German) this would be taken as an very derisive remark ( "Rollei für Arme") because over here nobody is considered automatically as beeing rich just because he owns an expensive camera , well, let me say at least not among grown ups. 😉
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It's not derisive at all in American English. In fact, you're more likely to be looked down on for being a rich wanker with all the toys that you don't know how to use than if you know how to use respected but older less expensive equipment well. Sure the rich wankers may look down on you, but this type of person is best off left in their own little world.
 
MF street photography...

1. "Unsure" Paris/Autumn 2005
Pentacon Six - Carl Zeiss Jena DDR Sonnar 180/2.8
Fuji Neopan 100 ACROS

2. "Friends" Saint Malo/Autumn 2005
Flexaret IIIa TLR (1948) - Meopta Mirar-II 80/3.5 in AGC Prontor-S
Fomapan 400

3. "Living Rough" Prague/Autumn 2005
Pentacon Six - Carl Zeiss Jena DDR Sonnar 180/2.8
Fuji Neopan 100 ACROS
 

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