Towards the end

Last roll?

Probably..

HP5 has wonderful tonality under the right light (sunny/directional)  It's has less contrast than Tri-X and the grain is tighter too.  I'll probably stick with Tri-X and FP4 for now, both seem to handle diafine better and is suitable for almost every lighting condition. 

FA's peer crit, where we have to tell our story to the whole class.  Nerve-wracking if you're doing it alone, like Dhikong...good thing I'm in a group.  Here you can see how poorly HP5 souped in diafine reacts to artificial lighting.  Very low contrast, and compensating for it in post exaggerates the grain.  Tri-X would be better in situations like this.

Definitely not the right combo for flat lighting..

Back to Tri-X..wonderful :)

Thumbnails for our FYP.  Acap, Adit and Ghazi handling the bulk of the drawings..lucky to have them cause I can't draw cartoons to save my life.

Maybe I really do need a 50 :)  A planar would be nice..

 My M6 is starting to act up, problem with the rewind knob where the film advance will jam whenever I reach midroll.  It seems others have faced this problem as well, and there are diy instructions on how to fix this.  Don't know if I would it myself..might send it to Solms and get an MP viewfinder upgrade as well.

Makes for some interesting scans though..

Studio session..

 And that's it.  I'll probably continue with my M8 for now..at least until I figure out what to do with the M6.

Cheers!

Break Pt.3

Last frames from the diafine roll.  Some bromide drag happening here, will need to increase inversions or start using a stainless steel tank.

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3200-4000 (can't remember)  Very thin, but certainly usable for scanning.

You can really see the contrast picking up from this point on, mainly because the roll is finally rated at 1250 (best speed for diafine)

Actually, there might be another part.  Still a few frames from this trip on another roll :)

Cheers.

KLIA

Raya post is on hold, these are photos from a roll shot during Farhan's last day here.

First frame from the roll, this was actually from a different day.  Paris Hilton exhibition/event at Pavilion, only reason I took it was because I heard on the radio that she cancelled all her promotional tours.  Must've been pretty embarrassing if true.

Met up at Mid Valley,  I know that it's quite packed during weekends but damn.  Sardine can.

It was too crowded and too loud so we went back to Farhan's place (well his grandfather's)

Some things never change ;)

Heading off to the airport.  Farhan's aunt was kind enough to let us tag along.

I've always enjoyed airports, mainly because they remind me so much of my childhood days.  Half of my life was spent travelling.

Baggage check-in.  Finally got to meet Farhan's girlfriend (well, more like see..didn't really have a proper conversation with her)

Spent the remainder of our time at McD.

Fahmi, Farhan's younger brother.

Fikri took this, not bad for his first time..even got the focus right.

All three of us.

Thought this was a nice moment.

And on the other end..

Finally, a proper photo of Fikri.

Getting ready to leave..getting their papers checked.

All clear! 

Took the train back, expensive but also fast..we needed to reach KL quickly.  Also loving the tones here, not too contrasty and not too sharp.  Maybe I need an older summicron, V3 perhaps?

Again.

It wouldn't be a proper blog post if it didn't have atleast one toilet mirror self portrait ;)

New laptop to replace the old one (which fried itself, literally)  Catching up on tv shows I missed out during work months.

Still need to work on metering the moon, can't seem to get it right...anyway, I'll end this post here.  Photos from raya will be up soon.

Cheers!