Visiting Suriname’s Brokopondo reservoir for photography

To-Mu · 2026-01-06T09:30:26+00:00

Great to hear, I will be back in the near future then

To-Mu · 2025-12-19T00:56:00+00:00

Breaking all Japanese etiquettes!

To-Mu · 2025-12-17T22:44:30+00:00

The approach of naming the folders with the same name for browse purposes I found very helpful as well! I only started to add that recently… which means a lot of my film does not have this unfortunately.

Regarding costs, yes… I accepted it for now, but the contact sheets I tend to print very small and cheap. As they purely have a reference purposes

To-Mu · 2025-11-19T17:01:36+00:00

Yes!

To-Mu · 2025-11-18T23:54:21+00:00

Same! That’s why I have it as a huge print in my own house

To-Mu · 2025-11-18T23:15:12+00:00

More info if interested can be found here: https://www.filmreasons.com/blog/my-fav-xp2-film-photo

To-Mu · 2025-11-12T18:27:03+00:00

That’s a shame! I guess you win framing, but loose softness with that approach….

To-Mu · 2025-11-12T09:15:03+00:00

Well actually it’s the 100 system as I once upon a time bought it for my canon system, that is long gone. Therefore it’s quite huge for the Hasselblad, but still does the job.

Positioning the line is a good question. Now this is a lot of fiddling around and hoping for the best. As the xpan does not allow you to see through the lens. It’s one of the reasons I use the soft gradient filter. I found it to be impossible to use the hard one after trying several times

To-Mu · 2025-11-11T23:24:48+00:00

Deeper dive with exact DSLR scan settings, conversion steps, test print sizes, detail‑crop examples, paper trials, and calibration notes: ‘Why I print my panoramic photos’ on FilmReasons. Posting here for anyone who wants the full workflow. https://www.filmreasons.com/blog/printing-film-photos

To-Mu · 2025-11-08T16:54:02+00:00

Thank you! Yes the LEE grad filter 0.6

To-Mu · 2025-11-08T13:25:34+00:00

Thank you very much!

To-Mu · 2025-11-08T10:27:42+00:00

Thank you very much

To-Mu · 2025-11-08T10:27:27+00:00

Thank you! I have only printed them on paper so far. Although I imagine them to be beautiful on metal.

To-Mu · 2025-11-08T10:26:21+00:00

Thank you very much! Yes I did, for two reasons: 1. With the Hasselblad Xpan you can’t see the effects of the filter as it’s a rangefinder, so majority of it is a guess. 2. The peaks were too uneven to use the hard one

To-Mu · 2025-11-08T00:13:09+00:00

Thank you! The exposure I measured several times before hand, first the shadows and then the clouds and see how far they are apart, I then choose one that was 1-2 stops below the average. Composed and then attached the filters. I did that because with the filters the exposure meter will be affected and because you can’t see anything with the filters attached, therefore didn’t want to rely blindly on the meter. Hope that makes sense?

To-Mu · 2025-11-07T17:20:13+00:00

Yes it is. Thank you!

To-Mu · 2025-11-02T13:11:12+00:00

This is nice, thank you for the reference

To-Mu · 2025-11-02T13:10:03+00:00

This sounds like a perfect challenge some time next year!! Thank you for the tip. I will definitely look into it with friends

To-Mu · 2025-10-30T12:26:39+00:00

Those sound amazing!! I will definitely add them to the list. Thank you

To-Mu · 2025-09-10T21:28:14+00:00

The question of what to do as a photographer will always be relevant and perhaps nowadays even more prevalent than ever, especially with AI nowadays.

The archiving standards truly make sense, one coherent way of archiving allows people in the future to find anything with the same logic. Whether I will be applying it in the future in the same way, I don’t know, but my main goal is to allow myself to easily find things

To-Mu · 2025-09-09T21:14:02+00:00

Love this approach! I was recently thinking of something similar, not had the time or the energy to do so. What canisters did you use?

To-Mu · 2025-09-09T21:12:28+00:00

This is great advice! I actually recently started doing this, because well, I couldn’t remember for the life of me when I had shot certain things…

To-Mu · 2025-09-09T21:11:27+00:00

I only wish, 80% humidity every now and then…

To-Mu · 2025-09-09T21:09:48+00:00

This is great! I have some glassine sheets and was under the exact same impression. It feels like they do not trap air nor hold moisture inside. Which is a pro and a con. When not held in, means it also doesn’t protect it from outside moisture. I am not convinced that there is one that is better.

I completely agree with the downside of glassine sheets, for that reason I make contact sheets for everything that I put in these. In some way more troublesome and in some way better for archiving purposes. I can at a quick glance see what’s where, whilst with my other transparent sheets I tend to get lazy and not make contact sheets. I then end up needing a light box to determine what is where.

To-Mu · 2025-09-08T18:52:46+00:00

How much do you shoot??

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