Canterbury tombs

Various tombs around Canterbury Cathedral. All shot with a Pentax MX, SMC Pentax 'K' 50mm f/1.2 or 135mm f/2.5 (I doubt any were shot using my 28mm f/3.5 lens which was the other lens with me that day) on Fuji Neopan 1600, commercial dev and scan, tweaked in Lightroom 1.4.

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Best wishes, Kris.

Fascinating.
I always find it rather humbling to see the skill that carvers of a bygone age achieved.

Is there a significance to Henry Newsome?

regards
Bernard

Thanks Bernard. No, no significance, just a name a picked from the list.

Cheers, Kris.

Interesting set. Though I'd like to have seen some of these in colour (yes I know, it was on film) as often the colours of tombs and graveyards add a dimension. First is the best with that low DoF working perfectly.

I'd have to invest in a K5 to take these in colour, I was down to 1/30th wide open at 1600ASA! To be honest, there isn't a great deal of colour in most of them being mainly varieties of white/gray marble.

K.

I like them, and this is one occasion where I think black and white works really well. Even the graininess of them adds to them imho.
Very nice set.

I haven't been to Canterbury Cathedral for years. Last time it was overrun with French school kids which didn't add to the experience. Maybe I'll have to go again next time I visit my sister-in-law!

Thanks Gwyn. The place was almost empty when I was there but it was close to closing time.

K.

I like these - thought I had posted a comment earlier

I really like Newsome Henry.

I love shooting with my MX, did you scan these yourself?

I have a flatbed scanner and after spending an hour or so scanning each roll I spend at least the same tidying them up and cloning out all the dust and hairs etc do you have to do the same or do you have a better scanning technique?

I'm afraid my better scanning technique is to pay "the Darkroom UK" a fiver to do it for me. Only lo-res scans, but very good quality usually. Only if I need a hi res scan do I wheel out my neg scanner and do it myself. As you say, it is pretty slow and then the image usually requires some cleaning up.

Cheers, Kris.