Rollei Crossbird and XA3

[Rob MacKillop]

You never know what you are going to get with the "Creative editions" from Rollei. Lots of greens and yellows with this one, good grain. I like some of these shots! Apologies for putting ten or so shots in one post...but all are unedited. In no particular order:

1. I should put this one in the self-reflecting thread: The door was off-white.



2. Interesting to compare this one with the Merrill DP1 shots I took the other day: HERE for colour, and HERE for black and white.




3. Edinburgh Castle in the distance. From my local park.





4. Cramond Beach.





5. Princes Street Gardens. I love the greens here, but the blue sky just looks odd by comparison:





6. Edinburgh Castle with strange yellow outline. How could this happen?





7. "Set the controls for the heart of the sun"





8. First of three shots of a homeless-persons shelter in Princess Street Gardens:





9. Bars





10. Beds

 

[Pete Askew]

Very good set, Rob. No idea what that shadow is though - I'd have thought it too big to be some sort of anti-halation artefact. Is it on the transparency itself? There's a bit on the upper left of shot of the gardens.

Those greens and oranges in the last couple are gorgeous and I really like the compositions, especially the last. The heart of the sun is another stunner I reckon and I really like the colours in the shots of the beach and the park. All-in-all a success I reckon. What do you think?

 

[Rob MacKillop]

Like you, I'm impressed with the last two - the deep greens and beautiful reds. If not for those, I would have bemoaned the fact that the film achieved for me the same effect as when I left a yellow filter on a lens while shooting colour. It's all a bit much. But there are good moments here and there. Nice to be shooting film again, though.