View of Niijima and Hanjima
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A view of the southern cape of Niijima with Hanjima sitting further to the southeast.
Could also be called Fun With Duotones.
I wrote previously about using new film — in this case 400ASA Fuji NeoPan — and not knowing how things were going to turn out. After seeing the results (only the b&w film is back; still waiting for the New Pro400 colour negs), I’m happy to report that I’m now a Fuji guy.
The grain is surprisingly smooth and fine. This next shot was taken by the light of a small gas lantern.
A bottle of sake given by some fishermen who were having a drink on the beach after work.
The NeoPan seems very responsive and balanced under various conditions, keeping its cool in full sunlight while bringing out highlights nicely on overcast days. It can never really be visible in images of the size I post here, but the tonal range is very solid at either end, and nice and thick in the middle. My shots could always use some work, but I can’t complain about the quality of the negs.
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Posted to Photographs • 2003.09.14 (Sun) • 11:30
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Posted by ak 2003.09.14, 11:40
beautiful.
the contrast is great, and the colors are perfect. the clarity is something to be marveled at as well.
excelent job!
Posted by gen 2003.09.14, 13:13
Is that the same as Acros 400? I use the Acros 100 b&w Fuji and love it. I wish they would put out a 400 version.
Posted by jh 2003.09.14, 22:20
Being new to Fuji, I’m not sure if the NeoPan is the same as Acros. The store where I bought the film had a handy chart plotting the various films in terms of tonal range, and NeoPan and Acros occupied different positions (although I can’t recall the relationship) so they’d seem to be different.
NeoPan is available in a range of speeds including (from memory) 100, which also makes me think they’re different.
Posted by Doug Wray 2003.09.26, 04:06
Heartbreakingly gorgeous photos all over your site! Thank you so much for sharing with us! The rock carvings are grand - can you provide translations of the ideograms? I think they’d mean more if I knew WHAT they were saying… are they religious? Scatalogical? What? grin
Posted by jh 2003.09.26, 12:57
Doug —-
Glad you like the photographs. I deliberately didn’t translate any of the carvings because I wanted to look at them simply as forms. Maybe this is a wrong decision and what I might do is go back and put what translations I can make out in title attributes on the images themselves. That way you could mouseover the images to see what they say.
Most of them are simply the names of the people, often with a short expression of gratitude for the existence of the hot springs (the “Kei-sen” characters —- “kei” means “bestowed” or something like “heavenly gift” and “sen” means “spring” —- occur frequently). There was nothing scatalogical that I could find. :-)
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