Owain Shaw
18th of June 2007 (Mon), 12:29
Morning,
This post is centre justified, just because I'm in a mood and feel like getting on your nerves. Do not adjust your sets.
Because I simply cannot wait to share with the world, this thread will initially be rather short of pictures but hopefully if I find more I actually like (rather than might wrongly be perceived as good) from the negatives, bodge more prints and stain my fingers a little bit more, some re-enforcements might arrive. Just thought I'd build everyone's hopes up ...
Anyway, in stark black and white contrast to my general tone, I actually really enjoyed this meeting. It was a two-day event but, I have an existing client relationship on a Saturday, in other words: I work from 6:30 in the morning at Tesco Express on Stonebridge in Frome. Once that was done, I set off for Norfolk and found out I'm allergic to the entire county!
As for Snetterton, nice enough track, produced some cracking motor racing in the Formula Ford and Saloon races (slipstream o-rama!) as well as the usual display of delightfully different cornering the in the Jaguar XKs. Still wasn't enough to keep me there all day, I finished my films and then buggered off to a very dear friend's house for some healing. No reflection on the racing, but there was Norfolk-in-chance I was going to go Suffolk-in-close to her and not visit!
Anyway, that's nearly enough writing to make up for the sore lack of content which at the moment consists of one badly scanned print.
A marshal shows Simon Diffey a book of his photographs from the 1970s, one of them shows his Chevron when it was shiny and new in 1974:
http://frome.digitalbrain.com/frome/accounts/pupils/owains/web/UKP/Memories.jpg
Canon EOS 3000V + 100mm f/2.8 Macro @ f/4 & 1/500sec. Ilford Pan 400 film (for the true gear nuts - developed in 1:9 Superol/Water developer solution and fixed with Hypam) printed on Multigrade Paper @ Grade 2.5 for 8.5 seconds using an enlarger with a return address in Czechoslovakia but is still of better quality than the scanner I used to digitise the damn thing!
Our second badly scanned wonder makes no representation of my careful dodging of the foreground and our hero whilst letting the sky blossum, because it's all become burned out. For shame!
Other known flaws include the man in the left of the frame, my own fault for not watching him closeley enough. Could have cropped but, I refuse to crop away my shortcomings and pretend they don't exist, rather make them blatent to all! The water marks I decided not to remove after fouling up one negative already, I decided to just leave them be.
Here comes nothing!
http://frome.digitalbrain.com/frome/accounts/pupils/owains/web/UKP/Superman.jpg
Equipment was all the same as above. Print time was 15 seconds for the bulk of the foreground, 10 seconds for our hero and 21 seconds for the sky.
Thanks for looking, you won't make that mistake again!
Yours, about to make a sandwich so good I'm going to dedicate it to someone very special,
Owain.
This post is centre justified, just because I'm in a mood and feel like getting on your nerves. Do not adjust your sets.
Because I simply cannot wait to share with the world, this thread will initially be rather short of pictures but hopefully if I find more I actually like (rather than might wrongly be perceived as good) from the negatives, bodge more prints and stain my fingers a little bit more, some re-enforcements might arrive. Just thought I'd build everyone's hopes up ...
Anyway, in stark black and white contrast to my general tone, I actually really enjoyed this meeting. It was a two-day event but, I have an existing client relationship on a Saturday, in other words: I work from 6:30 in the morning at Tesco Express on Stonebridge in Frome. Once that was done, I set off for Norfolk and found out I'm allergic to the entire county!
As for Snetterton, nice enough track, produced some cracking motor racing in the Formula Ford and Saloon races (slipstream o-rama!) as well as the usual display of delightfully different cornering the in the Jaguar XKs. Still wasn't enough to keep me there all day, I finished my films and then buggered off to a very dear friend's house for some healing. No reflection on the racing, but there was Norfolk-in-chance I was going to go Suffolk-in-close to her and not visit!
Anyway, that's nearly enough writing to make up for the sore lack of content which at the moment consists of one badly scanned print.
A marshal shows Simon Diffey a book of his photographs from the 1970s, one of them shows his Chevron when it was shiny and new in 1974:
http://frome.digitalbrain.com/frome/accounts/pupils/owains/web/UKP/Memories.jpg
Canon EOS 3000V + 100mm f/2.8 Macro @ f/4 & 1/500sec. Ilford Pan 400 film (for the true gear nuts - developed in 1:9 Superol/Water developer solution and fixed with Hypam) printed on Multigrade Paper @ Grade 2.5 for 8.5 seconds using an enlarger with a return address in Czechoslovakia but is still of better quality than the scanner I used to digitise the damn thing!
Our second badly scanned wonder makes no representation of my careful dodging of the foreground and our hero whilst letting the sky blossum, because it's all become burned out. For shame!
Other known flaws include the man in the left of the frame, my own fault for not watching him closeley enough. Could have cropped but, I refuse to crop away my shortcomings and pretend they don't exist, rather make them blatent to all! The water marks I decided not to remove after fouling up one negative already, I decided to just leave them be.
Here comes nothing!
http://frome.digitalbrain.com/frome/accounts/pupils/owains/web/UKP/Superman.jpg
Equipment was all the same as above. Print time was 15 seconds for the bulk of the foreground, 10 seconds for our hero and 21 seconds for the sky.
Thanks for looking, you won't make that mistake again!
Yours, about to make a sandwich so good I'm going to dedicate it to someone very special,
Owain.