Photos from Chiang Mai, Thailand

Voigtlander · 2nd January 2005

Dear Friends,

I have uploaded photos from Chiang Mai, Thailand at my PBase gallery http://www.pbase.com/kepha/chiang_mai Feel free to take a look and critique. Thank You.

Warmest Regards,
Peter

Incastasman · 2nd January 2005

Hi Peter, you have a great album there.. nice work..thanks for sharing.

Cheer!

Andrew

sequitur · 3rd January 2005

hi peter,

you did better with the nurse series. this one simply lacks soul as compared to the other one. you can't be blamed - you've been through more with the nurses than the thai locals.

overall it's still good, but just normally good... not outstanding. i guess we should expect better. (the nurse series just set a really high standard for yourself to surpass)

still, good stuff, i probably won't be able to emulate that.

all the best, keep shooting and hope to see more.

Voigtlander · 3rd January 2005

Thank you all for viewing. Admittedly the travel series could not compare to the nurses documentary as it is just tourist snap shots. No way I could get anything deep from 4 days of moving from one tourist attraction to the next.

sniperleow · 3rd January 2005

Hi, may i know what equipment to take your shots? do you convert photos to bw using ps? Cos i'm quite a newbie and need some help with it..haha, thanks

Voigtlander · 3rd January 2005

Originally Posted by sniperleow

Hi, may i know what equipment to take your shots? do you convert photos to bw using ps? Cos i'm quite a newbie and need some help with it..haha, thanks

Hi Leow,

All the photos in my PBase gallery were taken with Voigtlander Bessa R2 rangefinder camera. Film used was Ilford XP2 Super chromogenic B&W negative film. The negatives were scanned with Minolta Dimage Scan Dual IV scanner and editing was done with PS 7.

Regards,
Peter

wiki · 5th January 2005

just curious...most of ur pics are in greyscale...do you just do a straight conversion to greyscale or do u still do additional processing on the greyscale image? thanks!

zaren · 5th January 2005

Originally Posted by wiki

just curious...most of ur pics are in greyscale...do you just do a straight conversion to greyscale or do u still do additional processing on the greyscale image? thanks!

he already said he shot in B&W film which was scanned into digital. so there's no conversion to greyscale.

Wisp · 5th January 2005

Note: you still need to do some post processing after scanning in the neg. Often the output is often too flat.

One trick to get most out of the neg is to scan it in 16 bit color at first to get most of the tones out, then change it into grayscale via the channel mixer.
Tone and levelling comes next.

Cheers.

megaweb · 5th January 2005

Very nice shots esp the mood

Voigtlander · 5th January 2005

Thanks Megaweb, love your hamster photos! Used to keep hamsters when I was young and you bring out the nature of hamsters.

Kimura_papaya · 5th January 2005

Originally Posted by Voigtlander

Dear Friends,

I have uploaded photos from Chiang Mai, Thailand at my PBase gallery http://www.pbase.com/kepha/chiang_mai Feel free to take a look and critique. Thank You.

Warmest Regards,
Peter

u have a good sense of human emotion...most of your potrait photo has incorporate the feeling..i guess you are quite into portrait taking..arent u?

kimu.

Voigtlander · 5th January 2005

Originally Posted by Kimura_papaya

u have a good sense of human emotion...most of your potrait photo has incorporate the feeling..i guess you are quite into portrait taking..arent u?

kimu.

Thanks Kimu. In fact I am terrible at portrait but I am into environmental portrait, showing people in their environment going about their life. I like documentary photography and I am influenced by the humanistic perspective of Magnum photographers like Capa and Cartier-Bresson.

Kimura_papaya · 5th January 2005

Originally Posted by Voigtlander

Thanks Kimu. In fact I am terrible at portrait but I am into environmental portrait, showing people in their environment going about their life. I like documentary photography and I am influenced by the humanistic perspective of Magnum photographers like Capa and Cartier-Bresson.

hey..i guess i can share with you in future...me too also like some documentary shooting. do update me in Yew_ian@yahoo.com

a lot of thing we can share in near future cos i will commit more time to photography too.

kimu.

Voigtlander · 6th January 2005

Will do that Kimu. Do you have any documentary project coming up?

Incastasman · 9th January 2005

Originally Posted by Voigtlander

Dear Friends,

I have uploaded photos from Chiang Mai, Thailand at my PBase gallery http://www.pbase.com/kepha/chiang_mai Feel free to take a look and critique. Thank You.

Warmest Regards,
Peter

Hi peter, i would like to share wif u:http://www.cherylfan.com/gallery/tra...Mai/index.html

she's my fd's gf who i oso admire her work..hope u dun mind.

Cheers! keep shooting!

Voigtlander · 9th January 2005

Originally Posted by Incastasman

Hi peter, i would like to share wif u:http://www.cherylfan.com/gallery/tra...Mai/index.html

she's my fd's gf who i oso admire her work..hope u dun mind.

Cheers! keep shooting!

Not at all! Great photos too!

2nd January 2005	#1
Voigtlander Member Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Singapore Posts: 259	Photos from Chiang Mai, Thailand Dear Friends, I have uploaded photos from Chiang Mai, Thailand at my PBase gallery http://www.pbase.com/kepha/chiang_mai Feel free to take a look and critique. Thank You. Warmest Regards, Peter

2nd January 2005	#2
Incastasman Member Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: central Posts: 1,282	Great Album Hi Peter, you have a great album there.. nice work..thanks for sharing. Cheer! Andrew

3rd January 2005	#3
sequitur Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2003 Posts: 2,831	hi peter, you did better with the nurse series. this one simply lacks soul as compared to the other one. you can't be blamed - you've been through more with the nurses than the thai locals. overall it's still good, but just normally good... not outstanding. i guess we should expect better. (the nurse series just set a really high standard for yourself to surpass) still, good stuff, i probably won't be able to emulate that. all the best, keep shooting and hope to see more. Last edited by sequitur; 3rd January 2005 at 12:16 AM.

3rd January 2005	#5
sniperleow Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 180	how u do it? Hi, may i know what equipment to take your shots? do you convert photos to bw using ps? Cos i'm quite a newbie and need some help with it..haha, thanks

5th January 2005	#10
megaweb Moderator Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: East Posts: 8,106	Very nice shots esp the mood __________________ See my Photo Gallery at the Clubsnap \| Pbase

5th January 2005	#7
wiki Member Join Date: Sep 2004 Posts: 111	just curious...most of ur pics are in greyscale...do you just do a straight conversion to greyscale or do u still do additional processing on the greyscale image? thanks!

5th January 2005	#9
Wisp Member Join Date: May 2004 Location: Sydney, Australia Posts: 628	Note: you still need to do some post processing after scanning in the neg. Often the output is often too flat. One trick to get most out of the neg is to scan it in 16 bit color at first to get most of the tones out, then change it into grayscale via the channel mixer. Tone and levelling comes next. Cheers.

6th January 2005	#15
Voigtlander Member Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Singapore Posts: 259	Will do that Kimu. Do you have any documentary project coming up?