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Travelogues => Travel Diaries => Topic started by: David Paterson on August 02, 2019, 00:55:30
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I'm clearing out my archive of images shot on film - approx 70,000 colour transparencies, every size from 35mm to 10x8" (25x20cm). My aim is to reduce the archive to about 5% of its present size, keeping only those images which are worth scanning. And I'm doing a little scanning as I clear stuff out - here are a few images of Turkey, shot in 1987 on Kodachrome 64 using Nikon equipment. I hope you agree they were worth saving.
1. Central Anatolian plateau.
2. Early morning at Goreme.
3. Mediterranean sunset near Aydincik
4. Christian church carved in rock, Cappadocia.
5. Girls going off to work, Beysehir.
6. Mount Erciyes, dawn.
7. Women gathering for a wedding, Ihlara
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Awesome material.
2 and 5 are the best for me.
In Brazil Kodachrome has never been available. Only Ektachrome. But I don't miss them nowadays.
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Love #2 and 3. Also, any images related to people should be of priceless values: they can be important records of the endemic folkways of the time.
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Very nice old stuff, it’s worth saving , it’s your memories anyway keep them!
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David, I agree with Akira - thank you so much for sharing these with us.
Given the variation in your format sizes from 135 to 10"x8", how do you do your scanning? I need to cull my slides down to a more realistic number.
Love #2 and 3. Also, any images related to people should be of priceless values: they can be important records of the endemic folkways of the time.
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These are excellent pictures. Be careful, you might regret having reduced your archives.
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Some amazing images ;) Would really fit travel photography book on the destination!
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Excellent indeed. My favs are #5 and #7, specially #7 because it draws me into the scene and wonder what they are doing/ waiting for (ok, you told us).
Thanks for sharing!
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Great pictures ! What a change with today Cappadocia ! Precious archives.
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Some amazing images ;) Would really fit travel photography book on the destination!
Really worth saving, I agree with Erik regarding a book.
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Definetly worthy! So much I wonder why thinking about reducing it.
Thanks a lot for sharing this
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Thank you all so much - I never thought these images would get such a positive response; thank you again.
Given the variation in your format sizes from 135 to 10"x8", how do you do your scanning? I need to cull my slides down to a more realistic number.
Hugh - I have two scanners - a Polaroid SS120 film scanner which takes all medium formats up to 12x6cm, and 35mm, and an A3 flat-bed Epson Epression 1640 XL Pro which I use for 5x4", 5x7", 108" and 6x17cm (from a Fuji panoramic camera). I get good scans from both scanners by not using the max. resolution and by setting the scanner for multiple passes, usually 6 or 8.
About making a book - I don't have nearly enough good material from Turkey - these images were made during a short family holiday and so there are not many of them; at best 20-30 decent images.
And about being careful what I throw away - I twice had many hundreds of scans done commercially, once in India and once in the USA, plus, back in the days of film I was doing a lot of scanning myself. What I am keeping is all the images which have never been scanned but are good enough. So I will still have a onsiderable archive of my pre-2006 work but it will all have been digitised.
(In 2006 I switched completely to digital capture.)
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Fascinating photos, thanks for posting.
I visited Goreme around 18 years ago, but have not got round to scanning the slides.
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Thanks, Anthony.
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David, I've long appreciated the images you share, and these from Turkey are no exception. For me, your images are understated and accessible--they draw me in, help me see places I've never been, provide glimpses of lives you have witnessed. I'm probably inarticulate, but I am thankful and do enjoy.
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David, your work inspires and amazes me
Also the idea of reduction is great. I intend to sell / give away all books I do not intend to read/use any more in my life and all other items that will fall in the "Ballast" kategory like the 2/200VR .... I can easily imagine to keep only 100 Books and the Encyclopedia Britannica.
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maybe cut here and make new thread?
I can also imagine to keep only three lenses (no, joke!)
let's see:
the 1.8/35G ED ... I do use only as backup lens for work
the 1.8/20G ... a real love affair
the 1.4/35 Ai-S ... I really do not use it other than in rare cases where it is the one go to everywhere lens with my beloved D500
the 3.4/24 PC ... I do not warm to it alt all, I guess it needs new greasing to make operation silky smooth
1.8/85G ... love of my life, this and the 20G on the first two of three positions
1.4/58G ... number three????
2/200VR ... lovely but impractical, could justify it if I would do more sports
4/300PF ... essential lens, every Nikonshooter should be required to own one
1.4/105E ... essential workhorse lens, has a lot of qualities the 2/200VR features but at a barable weight for hiking mountains
2.8/60G ... essential workhorse for shiploads of applications
4/200 Ai-S Micro ... unmatched color fidelity for small food jobs, great price performance and weight
.... to be continued
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David, your work inspires and amazes me
Also the idea of reduction is great. I intend to sell / give away all books I do not intend to read/use any more in my life and all other items that will fall in the "Ballast" kategory like the 2/200VR .... I can easily imagine to keep only 100 Books and the Encyclopedia Britannica.
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maybe cut here and make new thread?
I can also imagine to keep only three lenses (no, joke!)
let's see:
the 1.8/35G ED ... I do use only as backup lens for work
the 1.8/20G ... a real love affair
the 1.4/35 Ai-S ... I really do not use it other than in rare cases where it is the one go to everywhere lens with my beloved D500
the 3.4/24 PC ... I do not warm to it alt all, I guess it needs new greasing to make operation silky smooth
1.8/85G ... love of my life, this and the 20G on the first two of three positions
1.4/58G ... number three????
2/200VR ... lovely but impractical, could justify it if I would do more sports
4/300PF ... essential lens, every Nikonshooter should be required to own one
1.4/105E ... essential workhorse lens, has a lot of qualities the 2/200VR features but at a barable weight for hiking mountains
2.8/60G ... essential workhorse for shiploads of applications
4/200 Ai-S Micro ... unmatched color fidelity for small food jobs, great price performance and weight
.... to be continued
So far as the photography tools are concerned, thanks to the fact that I'm not professional photographer, I only need a standard lens. :D Also, thanks to the abundant megapixels, I can crop the image to achieve some short-tele look. AND, I can do stitches whenever I need to go wide!
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Many thanks to everyone who has posted here, and this time especially to Tim and Frank. Comments such as yours are one of the main reasons I continue to work, and if I inspire you that makes us equal, because you also inspire me.
Frank - I deduce you are not a fan of zoom lenses. My total kit comprises D600 and D800 bodies, a couple of close-up attachments and the following lenses -
1. 18-35 AFS G
2. 70-200 f4 AFS G 1, 2 and 3 always in the bag.
3. 50 f1.8 AFS G
4. 28 f2 AIS For astral photography
5. 200-500 AFS G When I'm feeling strong.
Later.
I started to wonder if I had thrown too much away so, I did a quick check. All the images shot on film and scanned are kept in a separate archive which contains roughly 2700 files. There are many other smaller groups of scans, usually single-subject, here and there on my disk-drives. The total number of scans will certainly exceed 3000. I will be keeping another 3000+ unscanned transparencies from my clear-out, making the total number of images surviving from the film era something like 6500. This number makes me think I am not editing hard enough. :D
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Since these shots are not part of a commercial job with specific content requirements or deadlines at hand, the culling process can, and probably should, take more time. Go slow, walk away and then come back later to reassess the 'rejects'.
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Since these shots are not part of a commercial job with specific content requirements or deadlines at hand, the culling process can, and probably should, take more time. Go slow, walk away and then come back later to reassess the 'rejects'.
Good advice, Keith - thanks. I have already put it to use.
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Awesome material.
2 and 5 are the best for me.
Agree. Very impressive series with these colours.
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Thanks, John, and Aguinaldo too.