What photography related thing are you doing this fine evening?

[coelacanth]

Here is an idea of a thread: What photography related thing are you doing this fine evening?

No matter you are a pro or a hobbyist, working with film or digital, evening/night time is often the time to do on some photography related activities. It could be hours-long Lightroom image manipulations, running two-hour stand development, or spending a sunday evening in bathroom darkroom developing the next masterpiece. Maybe you are still out shooting?

So what are you doing this evening?

To start off:

I'm developing a couple of Arista Premium 400 shot at 1600. One is a test roll with my new Summicron 50 v5 that I took to a motorcycle ride on Saturday. The other roll is another test roll checking out the MP that just came back from Youxin with brake tension adjustment.

They are being washed off as I type this. A few snaps with X2.


Don't do this at home, kids! Photo chemicals are bad for your health.


Oh someone called cops on the crackhead living across the hall. They are kicking in.


Fixer is kicking in as Trader Joe's Cheapo Zinfandel is kicking in. Browsing RFF is great when you develop pushed rolls which take longer.


As I start washing the film, the cops were escorting the dude out.

This has been one fine Sunday evening in ever foggy San Francisco. How's yours?

[mgilbuena]

Quite an overcast evening out here in Alameda county as well!

Today was a great day in Pleasanton, California where I walked around with my Leica M8 and Summilux 35 ASPH and Tele-Elmar 135. I stopped by the historic downtown area first, then went on to the Alameda County fairgrounds to get some tantalizing night shots.

This evening? I spent some time processing the DNG files with the Adobe RAW engine and organized the files within Aperture. Several nights ago I souped four rolls of Tri-X in Rodinal and spent the rest of that night scanning. And scanning. And scanning.

Here's some digital shots from this afternoon's escapades.

[valdas]

I plan to develop one APX100 film and maybe scan the same night.

[Michael Markey]

Well its 8.50 in the morning here in the UK and I`ve just dev a roll of HP5 from the M3/Sonnar.

[maddoc]

It will be soon 18:00 so I hope to be able to finish work by that time, go home (maybe have to pick up my son) and develop a roll of DELTA100. The first time ever I have used this film so keen to the results.

[coelacanth]

Now I'm scanning them in. Here is a shot from the roll this evening.

[Red Robin]

With the selection of Canon RF's I have I spend a bit of each evening preparing for the next day. I like to rotate my choice of bodies and lenses. Never been able to force myself to One Camera, One lens, as Johnson suggests. Oh well , I'll have fun anyway.

[Keith]

Nothing that active but I am trying to decide what photo gear to take with me tomorrow. I'm off to spend three days with a friend in a little country town a couple of hundred Ks north of Brisbane.

I can drift off to sleep tonight contemplating my choices ... better than counting sheep for sure!

[paulfish4570]

we traveled all evening, got home just before dark. only photo things i did were put a finished roll of film where i will see it to remind me to develop it, then check RFF before going to bed ...

[rxmd]

Originally Posted by Keith

Nothing that active but I am trying to decide what photo gear to take with me tomorrow. I'm off to spend three days with a friend in a little country town a couple of hundred Ks north of Brisbane.

Same thing here, almost. I'm going to spend five days at a "lazy art" festival in a yurt camp by the shore of Lake Issyk-Kul here. I intend to do some lazy photography and am now basically packing up some clothes and photography gear.

[Keith]

Originally Posted by rxmd

Same thing here, almost. I'm going to spend five days at a "lazy art" festival in a yurt camp by the shore of Lake Issyk-Kul here. I intend to do some lazy photography and am now basically packing up some clothes and photography gear.

I was going to pack the photography gear tonight ... but historically I will have changed my mind by the morning so why bother!

[kshapero]

Same thing as always, "Looking for the Shot."

[gavinlg]

Test driving my new voigtlander cloth strap around the house. I was afraid it would be too short or too long (as it's the same as the artisan/artist 102 cloth strap - unadjustable) but it turns out it's absolutely perfect. May be my favorite strap i've bought so far, and also one of the cheapest!

[rxmd]

Originally Posted by Keith

I was going to pack the photography gear tonight ... but historically I will have changed my mind by the morning so why bother!

Know Thyself

[zauhar]

Get my heat bath cranked up and finish processing some E-6 slide film (Velvia). I finished four rolls last night, but at 12:30 AM was too wiped out to do the last two.

I am steadily working through 24 rolls of film from a recent trip, a mix of color and black and white. Plus the scanning, I will probably do some of that tonight too.

Plus it is past the first of the month and I have a stack of bills to pay. ;-(

Randy

[japancamerahunter]

Just got a new scanner, which I am going to have ti figure out. And I have a number of cameras to clean and check. But I have a rotten cold, so I am going to head to bed and do it all tomorrow

[jsrockit]

Make a blurb book... or at least start...

[Calzone]

Pick up 4 rolls of 120 color slides and a roll of 220 slides that I dropped off Saturday for processing. Images are of the Mermaid Parade shot with a Pentax 67II using a 105/2.4 wide open.

Cal

[fotomeow]

Inspecting the gear I need to sell to pay bills! Double checking the serial numbers, functions, cleanliness, of lenses and cameras
that I have posted and will be posting in the classifieds. This is always more time consuming than I expect, and it gets me frustrated,
but in the end I do enjoy fiddling with the gear and fine-tuning them to sale.

Of course when I am trying to sell gear, I end up buying a Canon RF with lens from the RFF classifieds! But its a nice kit, thanks Jack!

[dct]

Originally Posted by zauhar

[...]
Plus it is past the first of the month and I have a stack of bills to pay. ;-(

Randy

You too? How this?

But, jokes apart, when I have done my payments I will pick the next scanned roll from my big backlog file stack and start rating and post processing the 36 images.

[Mackinaw]

I took a bunch of pics (B&W 120) of my buddy's very pregnant wife yesterday so I'll spend part of the evening processing film.

Jim B.

[daveleo]

I will be playing with two new toys:

1. a new NikonD5100 I got two days ago and am still sorting out the menus to minimize (let's call it) the "invasive features" they install in cameras these days.

2. my tried and true Nikon FM3A that I just today mounted a 24mm lens on and rediscovered how cool that setup was (hoping to shoot a roll Wednesday)

[RichC]

Writing an essay for my MA degree in photography - just starting the introduction (have omitted all the references and footnotes below, in case anyone notices their absence)...



‘It was a dark and stormy night …’: photography through the lens of the Gothic

This tower, patched unevenly with black ivy, arose like a mutilated finger from among the fists of knuckled masonry and pointed blasphemously at heaven. At night the owls made of it an echoing throat; by day it stood voiceless and cast its long shadow.

Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan, 1946

Introduction
Gothic. The word conjures up clichés – Victorian novels about pale heroines lost in labyrinthine castles, lurid Hammer House of Horror films, gloomy black-clad youth listening to even more gloomy music, a perky blonde American teenager slaying vampires…

It’s easy to sneer at the Gothic, and Williams pithily sums up the attitude of many critics to the genre when she calls it ‘the uncanny's campy, embarrassing cousin’, but, after two centuries of derision, the Gothic demands to be taken seriously, concomitant with its acceptance by contemporary artists: vilified, the Gothic lurked in the shadows after its creation in the 18th century, but underwent a revivification in the late 20th century, and shambled into the 21st. Like the monsters it portrays, the genre just won’t die. That the rise in popularity of the Gothic is coincident with postmodernism – characterised by its appropriation of the past and the popular (in contrast to modernism) – is no accident, and, as a marker of its increase in status, Gothic studies emerged as a discipline in the 1970s.

The Gothic has also escaped the confines of its origins in literature, and today can be found in all forms of media – including photography. It is the aim of this essay to examine the appropriation of Gothic tropes by contemporary photographers.

This discourse aims to examine Gothic tropes in photography through genre. First, the term ‘genre’ is explored, and its meaning within the context of this essay clarified. This is followed by an exposition of the Gothic, from its creation in the 18th century to the present day, tracing its evolution and transformation through time – notably the supplanting of its original setting within a romanticised medieval Europe by the contemporary suburban environment. Key notions such as the uncanny and terror, and the cultural, psychological and psychosocial underpinnings of the Gothic, are also examined. Next, the Gothic and photography are considered, including how the genre manifests itself in contemporary photography, and how the medium changes and impacts the genre. Works by contemporary photographers such as Todd Hido and Gregory Crewdson are used as illustrative examples.

[ghostwriter69]

My wife's gone this week.... time to convert the laundry room back into a darkroom for a few days! I have lots of film to develop (120, sheet film)!

[StenSture]

I try to fix some pictures. I was trying shooting street for the very first time yesterday. In the old town of Stockholm I bumped into some street performance groups. It was great fun, and I am having a ball tonight!