Darkest time of the year, Helsinki B&W street photograph

[Esox lucius]

Yesterday I spent an afternoon and a good proportion of the evening in discussion with Gavin Watson, a highly skilled photographer and man of expression. His view on the essence of photography was eye-opening and gave me inspiration to overcome a phase of low productivity I have suffered from lately.

I think photography today has become too focused on technology and too little on intuition, just grab your camera and shoot what you see, how you see it.

So, I decided that I'm not going to participate in any photography discussions (tech or art) on internet forums for at least a month. To take further distance from gear worship and tech talk, I'm going to deliberately focus on using lenses at their technically weakest aperture and focusing distances.

First: Flektogon 4/20 on Ilford Delta 400









One summer shot to cheer up an otherwise dark mood

[Katastrofo]

Love all of these and you got some great results with the Flek 4/20! Need
to take mine out again using BW film. Really like the last shot of the guy
playing an alto recorder.

[Nesster]

#2 especially has Presence Looming

I agree re what you say - often why I go out with just a meterless, sometimes focus-aidless camera and shoot with "confidence"

[poilu]

great series! my fav is the last

[shauttra]

dramatic! nice grain, tonality

[Esox lucius]

Zeiss Ikonta 524/16 Zeiss-Opton Tessar 75/3.5 on Ilford SFX 200

[cooltouch]

Whoa! Loads of contrast you're getting with the Zeiss/Ilford combo. Was there that much density on the negative or was the heavy contrast due to PP?

[Esox lucius]