yuwono's posts with tag: black and white
Posted by yuwono on Jan 13, '08 2:28 AM for everyone |  | Continuation of previous entry. 3 first frame are from Pasar Sunan Giri. And the rest were taken at Pasar Festival, durung e "battle of Harajuku" event, Bank Indonesia Museum, and Jakarta Kota train station. With billitone , Sisca JE , Diaz and other friend.
Taken with Konica Hexar RF, with M-Hexanon 50mm f/2, Trix 400 and ERA 100.
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Posted by yuwono on Jan 13, '08 2:10 AM for everyone | | From Bank Indonesia Museum to Jakarta Kota train station. That day Billitione took me to several places. Among them the train station is the most interesting site we visited. We snaped some picture, but mostly we just chit chat, and try some street food and drink there.
Taken with my newly discovered Konica Hexar RF with M-Hexanon 50mm f/2. I'm still not get use to this camera and focal length. 2 new rolls of B&W film were being "sucked up" by camera's auto rewind, so no film leader I can use to load the film. Only 1 more B&W film left. So, desperately I purchased this color Fuji Superia 200.
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Posted by yuwono on Jan 8, '08 10:25 AM for everyone | | Yes, I visited this place again... It's near my office and near Sim Lim Square. Just need to swing by, if i want to do snapshot.
Just dig the Wikipedia. This humble place actually has long history in Singapore. Dated from Raffles era, British colonial, Japanese occupation, post-war era and till now. Once this place called "Robinson Petang", meaning evening Robinson, and some people call it "Thieves' Market", Sungei Road flea market now remains only the die-hard street peddlers, displaying their wares on canvas sheets along the empty roads in the area.
I kept this negative for long, i forgot that I shot @ ISO400, and developed @ ISO100 instead. This is few negatives that (i think) survive from disasters.
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Posted by yuwono on Nov 10, '07 12:03 PM for everyone | | Alternative format is always amazing, specially panoramic. I have witnesses the great photo by Igor with his XPAN II or Wellington with his newly discovered, kodak V705. In clubsnap.com, I saw some members like weekh who use 16:9 format beautifully.
So, this morning when I passed by Cash Converter -- a second hand shop in Punggol Plaza -- I spotted a tiny pocket camera named Yashica Panorama-mini.
At first, I hope, it's real single exposure panoramic format, or at least some kind of movement lens. But when I open the back, I realize this is just a normal 135 camera with a masking mechanism to obtain panoramic format. It just crops the pictures.
And the shop attendance said, it cost only S$6. Wow... really cheap!!. I decided to give it a try and bought it.
I don't know how to operate the cam, nor i can find any manual in internet. I saw a little button just below the lens with mountain's sign. So I guess, I need to press this when i want to make pano shot.
After developing the film (ERA 100, D-76 1:1, 12 minutes), the result is ..... none of frames have panoramic format!!!
I'm not sure, is this because the cam is faulty or I didn't operate it correctly. The exposures are OK. Some non-uniformity here and there, typical a pocket camera, but generally is OK. Some vignette, soft, and low contrast.
Since, when i took picture, I used panoramic frame-line in camera for framing and composing, so I cropped back the picture around 40% on shortest side using Photoshop. :(
I guess I still need to wait, to get my dream real panoramic camera.
Below are some test shots taken around my block.
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Posted by yuwono on Nov 3, '07 11:18 AM for everyone I was lucky to spot this thread in Clubsnap, someone giving free lesson on black & white dark room printing! I'm always amazed by members in clubsnap, who quiet often they "give back" something to community.. Once I found member gave free film, or old camera, scanner, and just only last month member give his whole set of dark room equipment, enlarger, chemical and papers.. wow...  So, OK, get back to free printing lesson, or they call it "sharing session". This kind guy, named Ervine invited us to his studio, and taught us the basic printing technique until we confident enough to try ourself. In fact, through out the session, we actually did our own printing, he showed us how to setup and discuss how are we going to print our negatives.  At first, I expected, this was going to be a simple printing demo or something. But to my surprise, he allowed us to handle the enlarger from the first minutes. He showed us how to make test strips, and then how to justify them and came out with one straight print. Not only that, he continued to discuss with us on how to improve the print by burning and dodging. Wow! He helped us to make a timing strategy on how to implement those dodge& burn during printing, including the use of different grade of contrast filters. Only 2 guys came to this session on Friday night 2-Nov-07. Each of us gave $5 contribution which is nothing compared to cost of chemicals, papers, and his time! We printed at 6"x8" Illford papers from our 135 and 120 (6x6) negatives.  We took almost 6 hours in dark room, used up 20 sheets of paper to come out with 5 final prints. This is considered fast and efficient, according to him, since some "printing master" often took days to produce single high quality print. And of course, we can not turn ourself into print master only in one night, but at least this session has opened us to the world of B&W printing, and up to us, if later we want to refine and perfect our technique. It was fun and enjoyable experience. Hopefully someday I have my own simple dark room, or at least has access to one of rental darkroom here in Singapore. (***)
Posted by yuwono on Oct 9, '07 1:25 PM for everyone | | Two ATM machines and hundred of people queuing... That's best describe what i saw in one fine afternoon while I'm waiting for end of fasting that day. People seems don't bother... They lined up and chit-chat.. They don't care if a kilometer away from here there's another machine available.. It's not the money that matter anymore... They want to spend the whole afternoon here with their best buddy...
With QL17 on TriX 400, D-76 1:1, 7 mins @ 24degC
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Posted by yuwono on Oct 8, '07 1:49 PM for everyone | | Mount Putuo (Simplified Chinese: 普陀山; pinyin: Pǔtúo Shān) is an island located to the south-east of Shanghai, in Zhoushan prefecture of Zhejiang province, China. It is famous in Chinese Buddhism, and is considered the bodhimanda of Avalokitesvara (Guan Yin), a revered Bodhisattva in many parts of East Asia. Mount Putuo is one of the four sacred mountains in Buddhism, the others being Mount Wutai, Mount Jiuhua, and Mount Emei (Bodhimandas for Manjushri, Ksitigarbha, and Samantabhadra, respectively).
The name Putuo derives from "Potalaka" the mountain residence of Guanyin in the Avatamsaka Sutra, as does the Potala Palace, the former residence of the Dalai Lamas.
[Text is taken from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Putuoshan ]
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Posted by yuwono on Oct 3, '07 12:55 PM for everyone | | Friday praying, during my recent trip to Shanghai... Nikon D50+12-24mm f/4
Pudong Mosque is situated near where Yuanshen Road and Shangcheng Road meet, and is also called "Pudong Islamic Church". In August 1935, Pudong Mosque was built in Fenshanwu, south of Wujiating, with the money raised by Imam Hong Changjin and the Huis of Pudong. And in 1954, it was extended with the money donated by Shanghai Mosque Council. In 1984, the government earmarked fund to renovate the church. Occupying an area of 1665 square meters, the mosque is a 3-story building of Arabic style. Religious geometrical shapes are used in the design of the building. A round dome with a diameter of 9 meters and a height of 25 meters from the ground has a symbol of crescent on its top with three round domes nearby echoing with it, formig a orderly arragement. The minaret on the south measures 40 meters high, kissing the sky. The building is decorated with the color of blue, giving off a strong flavor of Islamic culture. The Mosque has a capacity of several hundred people for worship. In 1985, at Lesser Bairam, religious activities were resumed. It is the only Mosque in Pudong New Area.
[Taken from http://www.pudong.gov.cn ]
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Posted by yuwono on Oct 2, '07 11:13 AM for everyone | |
I guess i have to keep doing it... whenever i get chance...
QL17 with ERA100, developed using stock D-76, 8 minutes @ 20degC
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Posted by yuwono on Sep 22, '07 10:04 AM for everyone | | Thank to Brian Web with his review on Shantou ERA100 that make this brand known to me. So, bought some rolls during my recent trip to Shanghai.
Few shot using R2A + Nokton 40mm f/1.4, and also on Leica Summicron 50mm f/2.0, borrowed from good fella Benjamin Leong for one of the shot (champagne bottle).
On D-76 7 minutes @ 22degC
So, what do you think of this film? To me, I even can not differentiate this to TriX 400... just slightly less contrast... wow...
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Posted by yuwono on Sep 18, '07 6:14 PM for everyone
Posted by yuwono on Sep 16, '07 2:48 PM for everyone | | This is second roll of ISO400. And I still didn't learn. It's jammed when I loaded the film to developing reel. It's looked because i haven't cut the film leader. And because of mechanism on this Bessa, it's slightly curled. Therefore jammed the thing.
The worst thing, I crazily opened the changing bag, to inspect the reel... so got some light leak.. got some hazy effect :( and even superimposed pictures, sigh!
Anyway... I posted most of them here...
There's special guess in this series. The last exposure was not taken by me. It's from my sifu: ticer, the teacher himself http://wandererjourney.blogspot.com. He is famous with, when he want to make exposure, some moment will appear magically... and when he want to test the foreground/background rendering (and bokeh), don't know from where, a cat passed by... wow.... [ Pardon me teacher... the light leak is also strike your frame. :( ]
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Posted by yuwono on Sep 14, '07 1:23 PM for everyone | | It was once famous with their medium format TLR and 35mm SLR, Seagull of Shanghai.. Now, with the fast pacing of Digital era, they don't seem able to keep up.
It was almost a month doing office work in this city... too bad didn't have much time to take pictures.
Just a glimpse of everyday life, street and tourist spots. On Canonet with Tri X 400 film.
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Posted by yuwono on Sep 13, '07 1:47 PM for everyone
Posted by yuwono on Sep 13, '07 6:35 AM for everyone | | It was Ansel and other friends brought the idea to have outing for RF users in Clubsnap. The outing was not merely to take pictures, but also for equipment discussion. We all brought and showed our equipment. From various Russian rangefinders, Bessa R, R2A, R3A, R4M, many lenses, and Epson RD1-S.. I didn't see any Leica, tough.. :( So, in one morning, 17-June-07, after taking breakfast, coffee and chit-chat, we walked in a group and did shooting.
Related thread in clubsnaps:
http://clubsnap.com/forums/showthread.php?t=288922
Canonet GIII QL17, Roll-1
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Posted by yuwono on Sep 12, '07 2:45 PM for everyone | | It was helping friend to buy this set of camera, and she is kind enough to let me use it first for 2-3 weeks. It was my pleasure holding this range-finder and did some street test using Tri-X 400. Unfortunately, there's a little accident when I load the film to developing reel. It was jammed, and when I force it, it scratch most of the frame. Below are exposures that think still usable.
The film was developed using D-76.
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Posted by yuwono on Sep 5, '07 12:14 AM for everyone | Start: | Sep 7, '07 11:00a | | End: | Sep 17, '07 7:00p | | Location: | Basheer City Room, 231 Bain Street, #04-19, Bras Basah Complex, Singapore |
Circle of Light presents…… THE BLACK & WHITE EXHIBITION OF THE YEAR. Date : 7 to 17 September 2007 Venue : Basheer City Room, 231 Bain Street, #04-19, Bras Basah Complex Opening Hours : 11am – 7pm The Grey Matters Photo Challenge was inaugurated on 25th March 2007. This new annual Black and White (B&W) photo competition was launched by Circle of Light (COL), a local photographic community that shares a common interest in traditional film and digital B&W photography. The goal of COL is to promote and advance the understanding of B&W photography and its fine art print production. To this end, COL actively organizes competitions, workshops and seminars to stimulate interest and share knowledge, providing the platform for the B&W genre enthusiasts. The Grey Matters Photo Challenge is the first of its kind in Singapore, in that the outstanding work of the winners and participants will be showcased in an exhibition. This competition offers a truly unique opportunity for photo enthusiasts to challenge their ability to consistently compose creative and captivating images under stringent conditions. The participants were given a roll of B&W film (either 35mm or 120mm format) and 3 topics at the beginning of the day of competition. The topics were Light & Shadow, Lines & Texture and Reflection. They were given 3 hours to capture 3 consecutive images which must be presented in the order of the topics given to them. The judges for the competition were Dr P N Chong, Mr Bernard Teo and Mr Wayne Umehara. The prints were assessed and judged on their merits as a set of 3 prints, not individually. The criteria of the assessment were: visual communication of ideas, composition, creative expression and demonstration of overall coherence and cohesiveness with the 3 topics given as a set. The winning entries and some outstanding pieces from the event will be showcased in the Grey Matters Photo Challenge 2007 Exhibition. The photos were enlarged and hand printed in the traditional darkroom and they represent the best of the series in this unique and challenging photo contest. Grey Matters Photo Challenge prides itself in its devotion to B&W photography, a way of promoting it locally as an art form. The photographers participating in this exhibition are: Jeffrey Yap, Daniel Neo, Nicole Quek, Annette Buchan, Christina Chen, Yuwono K. Rahman, Robert Tay, Benjamin Leong, Chew Kee Seng and Phoa K M.
Posted by yuwono on Jul 7, '07 3:28 AM for everyone | |
Wakuba is another fishing village near Semporna. This village famous for their handcraft: fishing cages.
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Posted by yuwono on Jun 15, '07 7:18 AM for everyone | | Crossing bridges is an annual event of photographer community between Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia and Vietnam. This time round we visited Tawau and Semporna, cities in Sabah, Malaysia. The trip was organized by Malaysian photo-community.
Tawau has a traditional harbor/market where every morning boat come and go , delivering fruits, fish, petrol and LNG. There is also fish market near by and water station, where people can find a boat to go to other island or country.
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Posted by yuwono on May 1, '07 11:04 AM for everyone | | I have to do routine visit to this place, when my mom in-law visited us. You know... lady bag, shoes, etc.. so, in between hours walking from shop to shop, I requested for a cigarette break. And the cigarette break become a short photo session when I saw the afternoon light beautifully fell into pedestrian.
Another roll of PAN400, pushed to ISO800 D-76 1:1 for 16 minutes.
Scanned using CanoScan 8600F.
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