Sharing stories of the conversations that happen after being busted while doing street photography.
Aftermath: Reactions By Strangers After Being Photographed
Posts Tagged: Speed Graphic
Graflex: A Team That Can't Be Beat!
Graflex Camera ad. c. 1950
Film Based Sports Photography?
Today's topic: Sports Photography! Wait? Don't I shoot film cameras that lack motor drives and 300mm lenses? Don't I use crazy contraptions that won't focus for me and often require me to stop shooting while I empty it? Yes! Yes I do! And I'm proud to say that I enjoy shooting sports with them. I've... Read more »
Using Side Mount Range Finders on Press Cameras
How to efficiently use a side mounted range finder on 4x5 press cameras.
Grandma's Marathon `08
Seven hours of my feet. 18 photos with the Speed Graphic. 72 Photos with the 124G. 96 Color photos with my M3. 128 B&W photos with my M3. Longest single outing I think I've ever had, and the first where I got to wear an actual badge saying "Official Photographer" and I'm surprisingly not as... Read more »
Duluth Classic Photos
As promised, here are my results from the Duluth Classic bike race. Full set of keepers can be viewed in this set on my flickr page. More photos by clicking here.
Look at all those bikes.
So it seems that the course for third stage of the Duluth Classic Bike Race goes right in front of where I am living. I had no clue until about 9:30 this morning when I looked out of my front window and seen a massive swarm of bikes going past. I loaded up some grafmatics... Read more »
Bang! I just spent a dollar.
Ergonomic shutter release technique for hand held Speed Graphic shooting.
How Quiet Are Leica Shutters?
Testing of the noise of the Leica M3 against other focal plane shutter cameras.
Large format must be the slowest format.
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 »