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Hellos from Somerset....well Bristol anyway!
Hi there. I'm doing it the old fashioned way (monochrome that is, everything else...) and use a Pentax 6x7 with medium format film. Though I do then scan and use photoshop!
Based in Bristol but travelling the UK for my normal job as an archaeologist, I get to visit some stunning places and of course my Pentax comes everywhere with me.
Taken black and white since I was a kid but getting more serious now and have a weekly market stall on Saturdays (great fun but not very profitable!).
Good to find a forum of like minded monochrome lovers and inspired by Martin to improve my work (big thanks to him for doing my printing for me too).
Tracey 
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Re: Hellos from Somerset....well Bristol anyway!
A Mole? Good grief....A different kind of mammal completely...they prefer rangefinders!!! 
Yep, its true, I have put that up, hell anything that helps! Though it has to be said sales from said site are about as rare as a mole with sunglasses!! 
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Re: Hellos from Somerset....well Bristol anyway!
Hello Random...if you is diggin' holes - professionally... might see you up here...but now lets look at yer piccies
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Re: Hellos from Somerset....well Bristol anyway!
Welcome Tracey, glad to see you here, lots of info and images to view.
As Bill as pointed out I have been printing some of Traceys work, all medium format scans. the scans are excallent and prints are super. in fact, looking at the prints has pushed me to make a full page comment about that medium on the digital-monochrome worker E-mag. Film regeratably seems to now taken a back seat, but there is something very special about the look of scanned negs that make you want to get your old film cameras out and give them a go, dare I say it that film still has that edge even against high end high meg DSLR cameras especialy for landscape and portrait work. I am ranting now so will stop suffice to say that Traceys work is top notch and she will teach us all a thing or two
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Re: Hellos from Somerset....well Bristol anyway!
Heres a link to one shot (not sure how this url linking works, may take you to my website too!!)
Would love to dig in Shetland Crimbo, closest I have got is Bara a couple of years ago and then only for a week, though we were up in Mull about three months ago, again only for a week. Scotland is wonderfull, though you can keep the midges, I get eaten alive!
Martin im sure is being kind about my images, Im generally a bit unsure as to how good any of them are. Big thanks to Martin though for making the prints look so good, he does have the magic touch!
Cann't believe I haven't found the forum before but glad to be here now and to be bringing a bit of medium format film back to B&W thinking!
Anyone else out there using film too?
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Re: Hellos from Somerset....well Bristol anyway!
Ooo I just read Martins page in his October issue of the magazine. Its fascinating to read his reaction to film scans, the number of photographers gone digital that I talk to on my stall who go dewy eyed about their old film cameras is amazing. They always seem to think that once they've gone digital they cann't go back!
Iv'e never understood that. I went all digital for about six months with a chunky Nikon D1x but missed film so much I took it up again. Now I shoot 100% medium format on the Pentax and never touch the digital! I seem to be going backwards!! However, I found film more adaptable to light conditions and feel somehow the craft of taking a picture when you can only get ten shots to a film suits me more than belting out a hundred shots on a memory card. Seeing the developed film hanging there drying off and trying to see whether I have captured what I wanted is great.
Scanning the negs though has taken a lot of trial and error. The film height from the glass, the scanner settings, the programme used ect all have taken time to work out but I am finally happy with using vuescan pro and a home made neg holder, cut from a dvd case believe it or not!
So to echo Martin, go out and shoot film. Its wonderfull and really does make you slow down and think. Plus theres nothing like trying to change film on a frozen bench on a snowy day while your hands are cold!! 
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Re: Hellos from Somerset....well Bristol anyway!
Okay Tracey ...the image doesnt appear and eventually links to you interesting website...when doing a post to the forum click on the second button <Insert image> and put the url of the image in...
As for your film scanning...how about an article for Martins e-mag?
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Re: Hellos from Somerset....well Bristol anyway!
Welcome Tracey, and yes this is THE place, thanks to martin and the growing band of experts,to get better at mono
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