TimSmith-Laing
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Nice work Gene! Nice work everyone actually...those are some beautiful photos. It really IS hip to be square.
A few shots from my very trusty Yashicamat, from a Roman holiday and a friend's birthday. TLRs are great for street photography, unweildy but somehow subtle.
Keep up the good work!
A few shots from my very trusty Yashicamat, from a Roman holiday and a friend's birthday. TLRs are great for street photography, unweildy but somehow subtle.
Keep up the good work!
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MelanieC
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Hey Ted -- thanks. The image I posted is a scan of a negative. I toned it in Photoshop, which is why it looks kind of brown. I like for photos to look a little bit warm most of the time. I don't actually like Solo's expression in that photo so much as he's listening to something off to his right (note the cocked ears) and as a result, he looks like his mind has wandered off a bit and his eyes are a bit blank. But he is fun to take pictures of since he always looks handsome.
(another Rollei photo)
He's also fun to photograph because he is excellent at posing. I can get him to sit, stand, look straight at me and cock his ears, look back over his shoulder, whatever. One of the reasons I have a million pictures of Solo and very few of Fly (my other Border Collie) is that she's hopeless at posing, unlike Solo.
(not a Rollei photo, but I'm taking a Rollei photo in the picture)
As Frank noted, Solo has yellow eyes (they are green-gold, and very feral) so they show up really well in black and white. Actually, red Border Collies are quite ideal canine subjects for black and white photographs, light enough for detail to show up, with nice markings that people find aesthetically pleasing, and yellow eyes that pop.
Solo's a big part of the reason that I started taking photographs to begin with. Like some humans, he looks great in every photo I take of him, including the photos that in and of themselves are crappy photos. When you have such a reliable subject, taking photos is a pleasure.
(another Rollei photo)
He's also fun to photograph because he is excellent at posing. I can get him to sit, stand, look straight at me and cock his ears, look back over his shoulder, whatever. One of the reasons I have a million pictures of Solo and very few of Fly (my other Border Collie) is that she's hopeless at posing, unlike Solo.
(not a Rollei photo, but I'm taking a Rollei photo in the picture)
As Frank noted, Solo has yellow eyes (they are green-gold, and very feral) so they show up really well in black and white. Actually, red Border Collies are quite ideal canine subjects for black and white photographs, light enough for detail to show up, with nice markings that people find aesthetically pleasing, and yellow eyes that pop.
Solo's a big part of the reason that I started taking photographs to begin with. Like some humans, he looks great in every photo I take of him, including the photos that in and of themselves are crappy photos. When you have such a reliable subject, taking photos is a pleasure.
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Frank K
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Great!! 
Now I have to start shooting with my new 2.8E.
Now I have to start shooting with my new 2.8E.rxmd
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Here's my Yashica-12. Got it on eBay as a project camera: the finder was completely dirty and had been glued on, the leatherette was hanging in shreds and the film transport didn't work. It's still a work in progress, but we've come quite some way together already NOT an unobtrusive camera, though
Philipp
NOT an unobtrusive camera, though Philipp
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Todd.Hanz
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Eco,
that second shot is great in square, I have a 635 too.
Todd
that second shot is great in square, I have a 635 too.
Todd
amateriat
We're all light!
Mel: Marvellous photo of you both.
Quick (and trivial) question: do you tend to take the Rollei out by itself, or do you have one other camera in tow? (Can't tell you why this question bubbled up, it just did.)
- Barrett
Quick (and trivial) question: do you tend to take the Rollei out by itself, or do you have one other camera in tow? (Can't tell you why this question bubbled up, it just did.)
- Barrett
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tedwhite
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GeneW
Mentor
I've had my Rolleiflex 3.5F since 1969. What a different world it was then. Here's a pic of me using it in 1973:
Still using that camera, though I've lost some hair and gained quite a bit of weight in the intervening years
Gene
Still using that camera, though I've lost some hair and gained quite a bit of weight in the intervening years
Gene
Oh Gene.
I have to be honest, seeing how active this TLR Forum is I was worried about its place here on RFF.
But that photo just makes it worth it.
I have to be honest, seeing how active this TLR Forum is I was worried about its place here on RFF.
But that photo just makes it worth it.
this is going to be a great addition.
Gray Fox
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Seeing shots like these it really makes one wonder why we work so hard with 35mm when 6x6 does it so effortlessly. I'm taking my Mat 124G and Moskva 5 to the N. Georgia mountains next weekend and hope to take some shots worth posting. Spring is beginning to bud all over the place and I hope inspiration comes along with it.
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tedwhite
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Gray Fox:
I am only speaking for myself here, but when I use a TLR I find myself in a quite different frame of mind - photographically speaking, that is - more relaxed, more contemplative, more inclined to compose slowly and thoughtfully. I particularly like doing portraits with a TLR (though most any type of camera will do, of course).
While I was going to grad school in San Francisco back in the late sixties the only camera I had for a year or so was a Rolleicord, and I learned to do street shooting with it. I also photographed motorcycle races for Cycle World magazine (the photo editor said, "Wow, you must have used a Nikon to get this kind of quality!").
So a TLR is rather more versatile than one would initially suspect. I guess my point is that if you were to leave everything else home and just live with a TLR for a month you would figure out a lot of work-arounds that would ordinarily be ho-hum stuff with a 35mm camera.
I am only speaking for myself here, but when I use a TLR I find myself in a quite different frame of mind - photographically speaking, that is - more relaxed, more contemplative, more inclined to compose slowly and thoughtfully. I particularly like doing portraits with a TLR (though most any type of camera will do, of course).
While I was going to grad school in San Francisco back in the late sixties the only camera I had for a year or so was a Rolleicord, and I learned to do street shooting with it. I also photographed motorcycle races for Cycle World magazine (the photo editor said, "Wow, you must have used a Nikon to get this kind of quality!").
So a TLR is rather more versatile than one would initially suspect. I guess my point is that if you were to leave everything else home and just live with a TLR for a month you would figure out a lot of work-arounds that would ordinarily be ho-hum stuff with a 35mm camera.
RicardoD
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Yes!!!! My Rolleiflex is turing out to be the only film camera I use now. Welcome friends!
jan normandale
Film is the other way
Gene, I knew about this shot.. but never did I imagine ... you have lived a full life!
DougK
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How did I miss that announcement? Very cool, indeed. I'll have to go find some of my TLR scans and post a few.
rolleistef
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I took my Rolleiflex out again, after it was quite seriously damaged and repaired with black tape to make it light tight - it worked, actually! I got perfectly clear pictures, without the slighthest fogging. It's cool to have this new forum - is rff going to turn into an alternative forum?
ndnbrunei
Established
Wow! ... RFF just gets better and better! thanks for the TLR forum!
Lemures-Ex
Jared S
YAY! I love my Mat G for street photos. When I lived in the Bay Area (I will again!) it was the perfect thing to take on the BART train. People notice it but they have no idea how it works so they don't realize that you are taking photos as opposed to just fiddling with your camera.
The still life is shot wide open with a crappy spiratone +2 close up set. Creamy
The still life is shot wide open with a crappy spiratone +2 close up set. Creamy
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tedwhite
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amateriat
We're all light!
You're onto something here. Thought-provoking images (and, yes, the third one works too, in its own way).Lemures-Ex said:YAY! I love my Mat G for street photos. When I lived in the Bay Area (I will again!) it was the perfect thing to take on the BART train. People notice it but they have no idea how it works so they don't realize that you are taking photos as opposed to just fiddling with your camera.
The still life is shot wide open with a crappy spiratone +2 close up set. Creamy
- Barrett