This weekend I set up my darkroom in the basement of the place that I moved into in September. I spent the past few hours cranking out random 5x7 prints from my archive of 35mm shooting. Seeing these images on paper, some of which are four years old, is like cracking open a fine bottle... Read more »
Last night I was out at Sir Benedict's Tavern having some drinks, and there was live music being played on their stage. One of the performers in the group just happened to be using a double bass. While watching him play, I thought about what would happen if I went up to him, in the... Read more »
So I went and picked up the first roll of slide film that I shot with my Yashicamat 124G today. It was from a twilight/night photography outing I did last week. I wasn't all that impressed with the light conditions that were present during dusk, and just as I suspected, none of the photos from... Read more »
Remember the Yashicamat LM that I mentioned a few weeks back? Well, I went ahead and acquired a Yashicamat 124G as well, and last week I put it to some good use. On Thursday I loaded it with some Provia 100F and stomped around the shores of Lake Superior at dusk to do some night... Read more »
About fifteen minutes ago I was out doing some night photography with my Speed Graphic. The main part of the scene metered at 5:30 minutes exposure after factoring in reciprocity. The darkest parts that I wanted to register where pretty dark, so I needed to use my flash to build up some density. I opened... Read more »
Here is my new fangled idea. I haven't made a contact sheet since 2000. I have an entire binder of pseudo organized 35mm negatives from that point to the present. I want to ultimately contact print everyone and put the contact print in a page right behind the set of negatives. Its really annoying having... Read more »
Today I finally got to get some paper wet after doing the calibrations mentioned in this post. I've only ran one so far, but it is very exciting to see a strait print holding full shadow detail, and highlights, without having to do endless dodging and burning. I feel so liberated having a completely usable... Read more »
May 17th - 20th, 2007 by the numbers: 1008.8: Number of miles added to my car's odometer. 100: Number of dollars spend on take home beer which isn't available to me locally. (Westmalle, Orval, Ommegang etc. . ) 4: Number of rolls of hp5+ that my Olympus Trip 35 chewed through. 6: Estimated number of... Read more »
Say hello to the newest member of my equipment line-up, Mr. Yaschicamat LM. I picked it up this weekend at an estate sale that I crossed paths with while driving around looking for random garage sales. Everything appeared to be in great shape, and the price was right, so it has found itself a new... Read more »
To compliment my old article about modifying an Olympus Trip 35 to use the 1/200th shutter speed while shooting manually, I have posted the first part of a guide that will allow for both of the camera's shutter speeds to be used while in manual mode. See it here.
