At last I've finished my report! I think it was Depardon who said "wasted" time was often the better used (clumsy translation).. I'm happy to now have time to waste..
Anyway, I uploaded a couple scans from last night printing session:

[link]

How awesome is my full frame ? (cf last journal )
So, I now use a krokus3 color.. it has a red filter that rotates but it can't get the hell out of the printing area: there's a little chunk of it on the top right corner so my black frames are cut
Also, how do I get rig of the scratches on the hand area? is my negative ruined?

[link]

I like this one very much.. but what is the slightly brighter area in the black on the top center? I let a friend do the revealing and that part stayed white a long time.. developping or printing flaw?

All the best to emoland ()
O.

Hi there!

Finally.. it has been a while I was waiting for this magical moment.. and it was as good if not better than what I was expecting..
I wanted to show this to dA people because I asked many times for advice.

Printed [link] yesterday evening and [link] this morning.

Camera is a ricoh500, 45/2.8, hp5/400@800 developped in lab, Ilford multigrade paper (with no filters yet) in PQUniversal, stinky vinegar and RapidFixer.. that's about it!

Cheers
O.

(if you're going to Perpignan, I am too.. see previous journal!)

I've deleted almost 400 pictures from this account, one by one.. Was it more of a wast of time deleting or submitting? Anyway, it's done now..
I could list many reasons..
That ridiculous icon that appears on some friendly accounts In french we say: il me sort par les yeux.
The starsystem.. and the arrogance of those who get meaningless views, me included.
Maybe the time of posting pictures on the web is over for me.

.. I'm not leaving for good, just taking my distances.

On an other note, between the 5 and the 10 september, I will spend 2 days in Perpignan for the annual photojournalism festival ( [link] ). Anyone planning to go too?

Cheers

Zidane y va marquer

Zidane y va marquer

Zidane y va marquer

Oh Zidane y va marquer

Song and lyrics here : [link] I sung it before, while, and after the goal and red card

I took some pics, but I won't be able to show any before I finish building (and learning how to use) my darkroom.

A propos, I wanted to ask advice to those who do their own development. I think some of my football madness pics will be very underexposed. How important is the development I understand that depending on how hard you shack it, you can choose contrast..
worth buying stuff to do it on my own and risk ruining some film?

Emmanuel is a guy I met in Tanzania. He is a freelance journalist and speeks english well so I asked him to become my interpret, as I needed one for my research. Later on we became friends and today I receive a mail from him thanking me for the little I taught him in photography.. I actually feel I received much more than I gave..

Early on he was working in the transborder buisness, driving a truck and importing cheaper items from Zambia, Malawi.. like fuel. He was involved in a fatal accident in which his 5 coworkers died. A wheel burst and the fuel truck crashed on rocks and exploded. Only surviver, Emmanuel was left in the coma badly burned. After 4 years and a few surgical operations, he was back on foot and determined to earn his life being a photojournalist.
When I met him he was doing benevol(?) work for an NGO helping orphans: 'Oak tree Tanzania'. He said it would be good for his CV and experience..

To document his occasionnal articles in local newspaper, he uses a very slow compact digital camera that he borrows from a german development worker.. The conditions are so hard that I was amased to see how good some of his pictures were: no electricity at his home, no device to recharge batteries, no computer or knowledge in computers. I showed him some technics, compositionnal rules ect.. He is less interested in aestetics than in the information that can be contained in a picture. Plus helping me a great deal with my own work, he taught me a lot about how everything works overthere, culture and society issues.. and he gave me glimpse of what real photojournalist is. In his mail he told me he is succeeding in making sensationnal pictures, and I am so happy for him.
Before leaving, I helped him make a blog to promote his stories. ([link]) It's just a start of course, I hope he will be able to update it. I should suggest him to upload on dA, maybe easier..

I lately went to Paris a couple days.. the sight of all those tourists picturing NotreDame with their almost professional material disgusted me a little.. so unfair.

Anyway, here's a portrait of my friend Emmanuel: [link]