If you go down to the river today, you are sure for a big surprise…
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.
Embedded trolleys, wheelbarrows and other crap litter the mud, sinking slowly.
Further back at the breakers yard the beach changes all of the time
I’ve often photographed this timeless gap and I’m never that happy with the results for some reason. This is getting there though.
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.
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.
by skinnyvoice
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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.
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!
Loving these great B&W medium format pics of SE London from @skinnyvoice http://bit.ly/dg36AC