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Hi,

Few images from out last trip to Europe, Eastern Europe and Malaysia.





Comments and critique are welcome

Hi Mikhail,
I like the top third one - on my monitor the middle top one looks a bit blown out around the light. The bike one intrigues me but I would like a less tight crop (actually of all the bottom 3). When did you head to Europe?
Cheers,
Lee

Hey doode - when was the trip ? Those bicycles look really ancient !

Just recently I scanned a large number of my old photos to digital (they were starting to fade) of Amsterdam. What a great place - was there for 3 days and thank god I took photos to help jog my memory of what I did there.

I'm sure it still rocks.

Great photos Mikhail... They invoke great memories of my 10 years in Holland...

I particularly like the symmetry of the last image...

Well done...

Wow! Some people like it Thanks guys!

We went there in April staying in Amsterdam for 4 nights but visited Den Haag and Brussel as well as some outback areas around

Lee, the blown one isn't really blown. There are details in the cloud and very few points with K=1% (something like RGB 254,254,254). Most white areas in the cloud are from K=3% to K=9%. That's situation when nothing can beat B&W negative film - Full details in black and full details in bright white. I cropped bikes tightly on purpose to completely fill the frame and impress viewer by sea of bikes

For me its the images of the bikes. Great b&w treatment and selective DOF.

beautiful work
i like your wide angle crop treatment
the sqaure ones look like it was shot on film because of the frilly borders

Thanks again, guys!

wendellt wrote:beautiful work
i like your wide angle crop treatment
the sqaure ones look like it was shot on film because of the frilly borders

Wendell,

They all were shot on B&W film with two different Hasselblad cameras - 503CX for square and XPan for panos. As XPan is panoramic camera (it makes 24x67mm frames on 35mm film), wide angles aren't crops - they are as they were shot

D70 now in the hands of a child:

amazing when did you switch over to hasselblad?
were you ever a d70 user?

wendellt wrote:amazing when did you switch over to hasselblad?
were you ever a d70 user?

I was and I am still a D70 user. In this trip Taya was using my D70 (photo above) but I'm still using it myself from time to time. With films, either colour and B&W, I'm just having fun, developing them myself at home. And sometimes it's a challenge to use fully manual, completely mechanical camera as 503CX