Docs from Scoo

Mean foggy streets

nobody@ipernity.com (Scoo) — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 18:31:04 +0000

A pipe had burst beneath the street and warm water was being diverted/pumped onto the street, at 7°C in the air it turned into steam quickly, making a nice photo opportunity.

Fleeting time

nobody@ipernity.com (Scoo) — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 18:02:21 +0000

This was taken not even a month ago. Now it's all gone, winter looming over the horizon.

Some solace atleast

nobody@ipernity.com (Scoo) — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 17:49:35 +0000

Was going to be ambitious today and do a depth-of-field "panorama". That failed miserably however. Too much wind I suppose, too many non-static objects.

Here's some solace, a couple of "normal" shots (if you can call a wide angle shot at its closest possible focussing distance and wide open normal...).

A study of pink II

nobody@ipernity.com (Scoo) — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 18:46:05 +0000

For those who think I upload nothing but roses in my stream, no worries, they won't last (must get a couple of frozen ones shot in the morning).

Cathedral colour separation test

nobody@ipernity.com (Scoo) — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 21:29:18 +0000

A test shot taken today using two green and blue filters in an attempt at getting stronger filtration (placebo for me at the scanner maybe...).

A bit too red, but still something.

f/2.8 and one second exposure.

Matti Vanhanen

nobody@ipernity.com (Scoo) — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 21:06:06 +0000

Not that awe inspiring shot I think, I'm not used to having to use two windows (one for the rangefinder, one for framing). The follow-up was crap, wasn't quick enough.

Zorki-1E with Industar-61LD (55mm f/2.8), should have removed the yellow filter for this one as it flared a bit. Fomapan 200 in rodinal 1+100 for 60 minutes doesn't look nice. Not at all.

On the steps of the cathedral

nobody@ipernity.com (Scoo) — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 19:12:43 +0000

Today several Finnish institutions celebrated their bicentellial existence. On 5th of October 1809 the then Finnish government (of the Russian Grand Duchy of Finland) convened for the first time. The Finnish judicial system also counts this as its starting date (of course the geographical entity Finland had a governing body and had a judicial system before this, but now Finland constituted a political entity of its own too).

At noon I got some shots of our controversial PM Matti Vanhanen as he led a delegation to uncover a plaque commemorating the site of the building where the first meeting was held in 1809. I used my Zorki-1 so I wasn't that quick but got some shots after beeing shooed further away by his security detail. Would have gotten better shots from the other side of the river but I didn't have a telephoto with me (nor own one in m39 mount). And of course I ran out of film while still having plenty of interesting subjects.

Here's former Finnish president (1982-94) Mauno Koivisto (born 1923) seen exiting the Cathedral of Turku after a jubilée mass. He was the first president to finally replace Urho Kekkonen as president (Kekkonen acted as president between 1956 and 1982...).

I got a better shot of Koivisto on Kodachrome though, had a 135mm mounted on my FE.

Graveyard shift

nobody@ipernity.com (Scoo) — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 18:54:59 +0000

Something from the archives, yours truly many years ago when I did my national service. This was in the middle of the night, still bright thanks to the Nordic light during the summer :) Apparently I didn't have time to get in place before the self timer counted down, the camera probably fell over or something and I had to upright it.

Back then I was a fresh abitur and in NCO school, several years onwards I'm still not done with my university studies and a reserve sergeant and now lastly, a father. Shot with my first digital camera and the first camera I shot a lot with, a Canon Digital IXUS ("Mark I"). In hindsight I wish I had been more into photography before this, would have been many interesting photo opportunities when serving.

A study of pink amidst green and blue

nobody@ipernity.com (Scoo) — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 19:44:04 +0000

Shot at waist level (as TLR's are in a way supposed to be used) or a little lower than that.

The Kodak E200 slide film I used expired in 2007 so I got it for 2€ a roll. As it has been refrigerated I don't complain at all (in fact, I'm happy I got several rolls to capture my growing daughter and the autumn colours, would have had the latter cross-processed if the film would prove to be bad). More than anything, the entire roll show me that the acquisition of a handheld external light meter was well worth the investment.

Tall Ships Race in Turku 2009

nobody@ipernity.com (Scoo) — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 20:25:59 +0000

Ran out of film as things got interesting (this is the second last image on the roll).

Didn't have time to visit the event really (and we didn't fancy bringing the baby to the crowd).

5:2 crop of the middle of the frame.

Softness is a feeling

nobody@ipernity.com (Scoo) — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 19:24:58 +0000

Taken at the rosary at Åbo Academy University in Turku, Finland.

Bench by a 70-year old

nobody@ipernity.com (Scoo) — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 19:07:12 +0000

A bench near the Cathedral. Shot with a pre-war Welta Weltix (see one being used for money laundering [grossly overpriced] here), 35mm folding camera equipped with an uncoated 5cm f/2.9 triplet (this one is unfortunately fungi-infested, adding to loss of contrast and flare in side- and backlit situations, the shot is processed during scanning for more contrast).

Framing is so-so [well, to be honest, it's rubbish] in this shot, I'll blame the tiny uncoupled viewfinder ;)

This camera is the one my father got started into photography many many years ago.

Heather

nobody@ipernity.com (Scoo) — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 16:42:48 +0000

Maybe the lab dropped the film canister before processing it so that the world that I captured on film got tilted a bit ;)

If only colour negative films weren't so bloody difficult to scan...

Golden minutes

nobody@ipernity.com (Scoo) — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 13:22:53 +0000

Ostrobothnia, Finland.

I know, sunsets are something of a cliché, still fond of this shot as it doesn't usually get any better than this in my stream :)

Taken with a mid 1950s vintage folding camera using Fujifilm's Velvia 50. Amazingly the shutter speeds were quite accurate without even an extensive cleaning of the shutter, just some "excercise". I think I used it wide open at f/3.5.

Gulf of Bothnia seascape

nobody@ipernity.com (Scoo) — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 18:52:53 +0000

Camera balanced on rocks. Vignetting added for the mood :)

A tango for two

nobody@ipernity.com (Scoo) — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 12:45:27 +0000

The somewhat famous vessel Arctic Sea went past these lighthouses off the coast of Jakobstad, Finland on her way south.

Want to explore gorgeous nocturnal colours you could not otherwise pick up? Get some kind of remote or other gadget to enable longer exposures than the typical 30 seconds that cameras usually offer, works well with slow/slow-ish lenses too! (this was stopped down to f/11 or f/16)

Fruit of love

nobody@ipernity.com (Scoo) — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 19:08:22 +0000

Due in about two weeks.

Tri-colour beach at sunset a.k.a the Duck

nobody@ipernity.com (Scoo) — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 16:33:26 +0000

One of the less successful colour separations/trichromies. Amazing though that the duck stayed in one place during the session (of taking three shots and swapping filters in between).

For more of this, see this flickr group.

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