{"id":11047,"date":"2020-07-06T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-06T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=11047"},"modified":"2020-07-05T11:00:42","modified_gmt":"2020-07-05T11:00:42","slug":"beginning-1987","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=11047","title":{"rendered":"Beginning 1987"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\n\"Forge<\/a>\n<\/div>
Forge Place, Malden Crescent, Kentish Town, Camden, 1987<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I’ve just begun to add black and white pictures from 1987 to a new album in Flickr, and am rediscovering quite a few pictures I had forgotten, including most of those in this post, all from the January pages of my filing sheets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n\"Eros,<\/a>\n<\/div>
Eros, Piccadilly Circus, Westminster, 1986-7<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Probably that means they were taken in January 1987, though a film I loaded into the camera in December might not be finished until the following month, and I suspect that the picture of Piccadilly Circus with boarding around Eros was probably made before Christmas. Some statues get regularly boarded up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n\"Window<\/a>\n<\/div>
Mansfield Rd, Gospel Oak, Camden, 1987<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I’d been waiting to start this album for a few months, as I’d got fed up with using my film scanner (too slow and now with an unreliable Firewire interface), my flat bed scanner (not quite sharp enough) and a bellows and macro lens on a Nikon D810 where I couldn’t quite get even lighting across the frame. The Nikon film holder that comes with the bellows works with mounted slides which crop the frame, but try as I might I couldn’t get even lighting across the full 35mm frame.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n\"Dove,<\/a>\n<\/div>
Dove, Southampton Rd, Gospel Oak, Camden, 1987<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

While it was fast and easy to photograph negatives, every one needed to be worked on in Lightroom and Photoshop to try and correct the lighting fall off, and I couldn’t find a way to do so automatically. I experimented with different light sources and made some slight improvements, but couldn’t solve the issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n\"Stairs,<\/a>\n<\/div>
Stairs, Malden Rd, Gospel Oak, Camden, 1987<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I decided to buy Nikon’s more recent kit for digitising images, the ES-2, and ordered one in early March, but dealers were out of stock and I only received it a couple of weeks ago. Fortunately, although not perfect, it is a great improvement in several ways. The ES-2 connects to the front of the 60mm macro lens with a short tube, and one advantage is that unlike the bellows it retains auto-focus. With the bellows I had to focus in live-view at the start of each session and then firmly lock it it place, remembering to exit live-view as this crops the image.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n\"Generations,<\/a>\n<\/div>
Generations, Geoffrey Harris, sculpture, Maitland Park Villas, Kentish Town, Camden 1987<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

But the main advantage is that the ES-2 is almost capable of giving even coverage across the whole 35mm frame and has a proper negative holder which takes a strip of up to 6 negatives, with click-stops to move from one to the next. It isn’t perfect and seems ridiculously overpriced but it is a great improvement, making the digitising of negatives easier and faster. For the moment I’m concentrating on black and white, but I think it should also make working with colour negatives much easier, and the workflow I’m using to batch process the files (more about that in a later post) should also work with them. Most images just need minor tweaks and fortunately most of my negatives from 1987 are quite clean.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most of these pictures speak for themselves, though perhaps I should admit that the ‘cross’ is the shadow of a parking sign. You can see these and more in my album 1987 London Photos<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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All photographs on this and my other sites, unless otherwise stated, are taken by and copyright of Peter Marshall, and are available for reproduction or can be bought as prints.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I’ve just begun to add black and white pictures from 1987 to a new album in Flickr, and am rediscovering quite a few pictures I had forgotten, including most of those in this post, all from the January pages of my filing sheets. Probably that means they were taken in January 1987, though a film … Continue reading Beginning 1987<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,3],"tags":[2256,2258,1344,249,298,2260,2259,17,1343,2112,2257,2244,2100,2261],"class_list":["post-11047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-londonphotos","category-my-own-work","tag-2256","tag-60mm-macro","tag-b-w","tag-black-and-white","tag-camden","tag-gospel-oak","tag-kentish-town","tag-london","tag-london-photos","tag-mural","tag-nikon-es-2","tag-north-london","tag-sculpture","tag-shadow"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11047"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11048,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11047\/revisions\/11048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}