Bessa L and the Voigtlander 15mm Heliar.

February 7th, 2010 by admin

This is a fun combo. I am not up to speed with it yet as you really just can’t imagine how wide it is until you use it. I am sure I will get shots with my gut in it soon :). I believe I was standing no more than 3~4 feet from the bike when this was taken.

Here is a shot of my Fat Boy taken last spring I believe. This is another of the rolls that were sitting on my bar for way to long. Bad scan from 4×6 print (OK I promise to stop doing this). Color looks really weird all of the sudden. It looked good on the machine I scanned it on??? I’ll have to give it a look…

Yes, my driveway needs repair :(.

06 Fat Boy

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I started my Wednesday shooting a few weeks ago

February 7th, 2010 by admin

I am planning on shooting downtown on Wednesdays this year. I have 185 rolls of film in my fridge and it is going to be gone by the end of the year I hope :). Anyway I had the Bessa L and Nikon F3 with me for this trip. I still need to develop the shots from the Bessa but I got back the roll that was in the F3. Most of that roll was shot up at Harpers Ferry WV and I will post those soon. The last shots on the roll were of the Uptown Theater on Connecticut Avenue. I had the 43~86 zoom mounted and some C41 B&W film. The lens and the film were not fast enough for the early dropping of the sun. I did get 2 shots that I kinda like in a weird way. Nothing special so I will just post them. Next Wednesday there will be more light and i will have something with a faster lens.

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A few random shots from Florida

February 7th, 2010 by admin

Well, I got 6 rolls of film back from Costco the other day. Not a bad experience at Costco by the way. They did much better than I was expecting. I am posting a few random shots here that were on some rolls that have been laying around a while. Sadly I leave many rolls in a bowl (actually a golf trophy from when I could play the game) that wait for developing. The first images a from Florida. My brother Tim, Cousin Joey, friend Bruce and I were going for a bike ride and I shot a few shots while we were getting ready. Nope, it appears Tim does not like getting his picture taken. These were done with my Canon T90. After the bike shots are some of my Mom’s dog Riley. I call him Horse cause he weighs 165 pounds.

Yes the T90 will end up on the classic page and I will post more images from it there.

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The big one….

February 5th, 2010 by admin

We are getting clobbered by a snow storm right now. Could end up being the biggest ever in the area. I fear we will loose power for the better part of a week but hopefully not. Here are a few shots of the snow. The last 2 are from a few minutes ago to show the snow coming down….. All I did was open the door and stick the G9 outside and pop….. :). It works. By the way I am a very hard headed manual shooter but these were done in the snow scene mode of the G9. If there was ever any scene mode that actually works in my mind it is this one. Canon got it right on I think…. I’ll post more shots tomorrow if I have power….

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I uploaded a few shots from my Canon AE-1 Program

January 30th, 2010 by admin

You can check them out on that cameras page under my classic camera page. Link above :).

Nice little palm

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Second classic camera uploaded.

January 29th, 2010 by admin

I was in Florida for the last 12 days and I keep a Canon AE-1 Program down there. If there ever was a classic this is it. Just a great little camera which is why it stays in Florida. I can count on it when I need it. I still have a few FD and FL lenses there as well. I know there is the FD 35~70 that is mounted on it as well as an FD 50 /1.8. I also have a FL 135/3.5 and FD 70~210 macro down in Florida as well. I snapped some shots of my bike while I was there and will scan them tonight and post them…..Griz

Canon AE-1 Program

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Happy New Year

January 2nd, 2010 by admin

OK, this is my first post of the year. I made a New Years resolution to shoot every single roll of film I have in the refrigerator this year. That is going to be a chore since I have around 185 rolls in there. The weather today is not cooperating and my hangover yesterday was a greater deterrent.  All I was able to do was play with the G9 and 420ex with Gary Fong Lightspere on it. Granted the G9 looks a little silly with all of that flash and modifier on it:

My G9 🙂

The Fong modifier actual does work. I found this used and do not think I could justify the full price for the thing. Here is a shot of Birdie my cat.

Birdie

She is about the only subject I have when I am stuck indoors and she does not like this modeling stuff one bit. I was just about 2 feet from Birdie with the dome cap on the lightsphere. G9 was set to Tv mode at 1/250 and the aperture became 3.2 at iso 80. All I did was a little cropping since composing Birdie is quite problematic, and a little white balance adjustment. The background is a mirror and is a little washed out since it was reflecting the flash. All in all I am happy with this result for a quick grab of a PITA subject. I like the 420/Fong combo and will be playing with it more in the future.

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First classic camera page added.

December 21st, 2009 by admin

If you go to my classic camera page you will see that I have started the first page there. It is for my first camera, an Olympus OM2n. Here is a picture of it. My pages are at the top of the blog.

My first camera. Olympus OM2n

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UUUUUUGH!!!

December 21st, 2009 by admin

Just finished shoveling and my back is killing me. This was shot with my trusty little G9. Great carry around camera. I will most likely do a post about my equipment at some point but the G9 is a super camera for quick grab shots. It has full manual control and will take external flash so it can actually be creative. Oddly I used the built in snow scene setting for this shot. I almost always shoot manual or aperture priority. But on a whim I tried this and was pretty darned surprised as to how well it handled what can be a very difficult setting (snow).

This sucked.....

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Test of lightroom flash gallery inside of a shadowbox

December 19th, 2009 by admin

Here are some images from Harpers Ferry West Virginia. I have added them to a flash gallery in lightroom and am trying to get the gallery to show in the blog within a shadowbox….

Click on this image to get to the gallery:

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