Underneath the Arches

If you go down to the river today, you are sure for a big surprise…

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Definitely had to meter for the shadows otherwise it would be a silhouette. The ‘corpse’ was being pushed about by the wind too hence its lack of sharpness (f/11 at 1/4 second). Works for me though.

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Embedded trolleys, wheelbarrows and other crap litter the mud, sinking slowly.

Further back at the breakers yard the beach changes all of the time

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I’ve often photographed this timeless gap and I’m never that happy with the results for some reason. This is getting there though.

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Clambering round here my sense of scale is often warped. The whole side of a boat is just tossed aside. Yes there are cranes, but a couple of days ago I don’t recall seeing this hulk (just the anchor). However, it looks like it has been here for ever.

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Closer…

Meanwhile Mr Incredible (aka Gizmo) spent a happy half hour ripping discarded tyres to pieces and relocating various pieces of junk and detritus over the beach. That dog has a lot of projects going on down here and as a by-product stops me being bothered when snapping.

Camera & dev
Rolleiflex 3.5F Model 4, HP5+ EI 200, HC-110 1+63 (Dil H) 8 minutes

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Martin Smith8 February, 2010 - 18:52

Great series, perfectly suited to B&W film. In particular the wheelbarrow shot.

The results you get are fantastic. Even the full size images show hardly any grain. You must have a really good scanner.

I’m so tempted to move to medium format after seeing this.

skinnyvoice8 February, 2010 - 19:38

The full size images are between 50-100Mb tiffs! The images on the site are saved as 1000px square jpegs at 80% quality and average 200-400kb. The scanner is an Epson Perfection V750. Its about the least expensive 120 option available – the Nikon film scanner would be optimal but its about £2.5k :(

I use the V750 with the holder from Betterscanning, the Epson holder is very flimsy and doesn’t inspire confidence.

If you can, make the move to MF, I don’t think you would regret it. You will need a scanner though!

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