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Shadows of myself and a friend projected on to the beach below us, in a little town outside Dunedin, New Zealand. I like to think there's something ethereal about the image, but at the same time strangely comforting. It's quite an abstract picture.
Date: September 2001
Camera: Olympus OM4, 50mm lens
Film: Ilford FP4 Plus (ISO 125), self-processed
Post-processing: Negative scanned using a Nikon Coolscan III and levels normalised. Adjustments were uniform across the photo.
Critical comments always welcome.
19 Feb 2006 22:57
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[Skip to the latest comment]Oooo Dunedin sounds like Dunedine (spelling). And Dunedin is in New Zealand. How coincidental… ?
19 Feb 2006, 23:14
Thats a great photo! Really nice :)
19 Feb 2006, 23:19
Am liking the photo Mr Young, most excellent (radical dude etc etc).
20 Feb 2006, 01:01
I like it. It's good to have memories with photos…
20 Feb 2006, 01:43
Cool, I don't think you can beat good old film to give a photo real style and depth.
I think the ethereal nature of the image comes from the patterns formed by the shadows, the absence of the light.
It's kinda like an abstract self-portrait! =)
21 Feb 2006, 11:49
Steven Carpenter
FP4 takes me back; I remember spending ages in the darkroom trying to load 35mm film from 10m bulk rolls into canisters and those spiral things used for wet development, when I worked as a photographer in Physics. We used to use rolls and rolls of FP4 and HP5, although I always preferred HP5 for that arty 'grain' effect.
22 Feb 2006, 23:15
John Emerson
Nice image Simon. It's got a moon-landing feel to it, those shadows could so easily be part of a Lunar Module!
See you on Saturday, feel free to start your track walk if we're in the lead ;-)
22 Feb 2006, 23:36
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