Photography Appreciation

Just a general photography appreciation thread, Feel free to add pictures. Here are some awesome folk art pictures I found earlier today.

Such an awesome looking radio face.

A less awesome-looking face:



(Maybe that will pull oVo out of the woodwork.)

East wrote:Such an awesome looking radio face.

i like that, do you know which exact radio model that's from? pre or after WW2 ?

The photo is of a 1936 Zenith Tombstone radio. Very similar to this one:



I wish America still produced things that are this cool today.

That Zenith is awesome. All walnut case. Beautiful.

Is this the photography appreciation thread or the clock radio appreciation thread?

Initially i had appreciation for the photograph of the vintage zenith dial, and well apparently others do too

Granted there are not a lot of techniques used in that photo but it looks awesome none the less. Maybe we need a vintage radio appreciation thread as well.

Iago wrote:Is this the photography appreciation thread or the clock radio appreciation thread?

Since when have you been a stickler for staying on topic?

Since when have any of us cared one way or the other?

Good point.

It is all a blank canvas.

Don't be trying to steer us back on topic . . .

Too bad you didn't have a photograph of bulls!

Close enough?

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Wow, Did you take those 2 your self?

I like the grain / static It gives the photo personality.

Some photos now in days are just too clear and perfect.

Those were shot on Kodak T-Max 400 B&W, which is the only film stock that I have used for over twenty years. It is extremely fine-grained. Combined with a Canon 50mm f1.2 lens, I can handle most situations without a flash, and can even get good quality 8"x10" prints. I rather like the grain. I will miss film!

(And yes, I took all of the pictures that I posted -- even the photo of Himeji Castle.)

A few more of my wife Eve:









The first is of her laying on a bench on Navy Pier in Chicago during our honeymoon. The second is of her with her sister Hannah on the beach outside of Boston after she ran the Boston Marathon -- I call it my "U2 shot," since it looks like a U2 album cover. The last is of Eve with her first dog Stanley. (You can tell from the latter two that I am also fond of back lighting.)

Has a date been set when film will no longer be commercially available? Is digital being forced on us?

Well, I can still buy T-Max, but it is getting more difficult to get it processed. And no, I really do not have the time (or a particularly good place) to process it myself. I am close to giving up.

Hmmm. It is a shame when someone is pushed out of a hobby because of something like that.

I will still pick up a digital SLR eventually, but you are right that much if not most of the fun will be gone for me. I took great satisfaction in having to plan and execute the shots better (as opposed to having a computer chip do it for me.) I also love B&W and really do not want to shoot in colour -- simply desaturating a colour shot is not the same thing.

Most digital cameras have modes for things like black and white and sepia, though how true those are I don't know. It may very well just be digital trickery.