Challenge FREE SUNDAY February 12, 2017
Feb 13, 2017 00:34:22 #
Feb 13, 2017 00:34:50 #
PAToGraphy wrote:
Seems to be almost as deep here. Thanks for another free Sunday. Away for weekend so just stopping in. Blizzard and 24" due to start tomorrow erly afternoon. Really been hit this winter. Very cold but we went to an ice harvest demonstration today. Usually, horses are involved but with the slippery roads, too risky to trailer them in. A small turn out but very interesting. We didn't stay till the first big block was extracted. What a lot of work!!
I remember them doing that on lake George NY. They stacked the blocks in the foundation of an old barn and covered it with saw dust. They would still be pulling ice out of there most of the summer.
Feb 13, 2017 02:07:38 #
PAToGraphy wrote:
WOW, RichardQ. I'd say you met your effect and got it. I don't know the camera of which you speak, but it sounds large, few pix per roll and would take a lot of skill to set up for the image one wants to create. Rules? Well, back then ...some of the rules may not have been "invented" and if they were, so what! You got a super image that lasts the test of Time.
Thanks for the comments, Pat. Actually, the Veriwide 100 was a very compact rollfilm camera, all-metal body so it was heavier than it looked but VERY sturdy. The photo I posted was handheld and took about five minutes to frame and shoot, once I found the right angle. This was for my own enjoyment, since I was just walking around Manhattan. If I shot a commercial view camera photo I would make two exposures on 4x5 inch film, using a monorail view camera with a large bellows and tripod and focusing cloth and selection of lenses, but the Veriwide was basically a point-and-shoot that was capable of startling effects if you knew what you were doing. Only 2,000 of them were built. I bought mine at the factory in Frankfurt in 1963 and used it on quite a few assignments. You can gauge the size by the height which encloses an ordinary spool of 120 rollfilm.
Brooks-Plaubel Veriwide 100 for seven 2-1/4" x 3-1/2" frames
Feb 13, 2017 05:48:51 #
Feb 13, 2017 20:27:18 #
RichardQ wrote:
Your "left overs" are much richer than many "main courses," Bill. I don't know where you find those colors and subjects! 
left overs are my way of life to look around my square of Earth
the light makes the color of objects work (small/frame) 16x20
or less is enough room for subject found around (@Earth) ...
objective focus of subject and LED/flash/light, 30/sec, f32 (or/max)
so all I do is look flat and wave lights around a subject (like a copy/stand)
it's the long exposed moving light that creates the subjects color/range and
it's impossible to duplicate but replicate the effect/idea, thanks
Bill
Feb 13, 2017 20:33:38 #
RichardQ wrote:
Thanks for the comments, Pat. Actually, the Veriwi... (show quote)
the gear was all you got to work with
and took more thought, not now when
you tell the camera what to do now ...
ago is super/cool to go but today is what's
the ability to cross many paths blocked before
Feb 13, 2017 20:46:40 #
high/schooled photographer's gear Minolta-101, Mamiya-330
Calumet/view/Nikon F-1 and H/S darkroom to learn the way
to learn the lens is most of what photography is about with me
Calumet/view/Nikon F-1 and H/S darkroom to learn the way
to learn the lens is most of what photography is about with me
Feb 13, 2017 20:57:30 #
Feb 13, 2017 20:58:46 #
RichardQ wrote:
Thanks for the comments, Pat. Actually, the Veriwi... (show quote)
your knowledge of the gear it took is the beast of what is forgot today
the new/age jockey never sweats like you did to do the tech like now
and you went to the effort it took to shoot/print a perfect picture of life
things have changed and you know what ... things must change for progress
Feb 13, 2017 23:42:02 #
dane004 wrote:
:RichardQ Outstanding
Three thumbs? Holy cow! Many thanks, Dane.
Feb 14, 2017 21:40:11 #
RichardQ wrote:
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Three thumbs? Holy cow! Many thanks, Dane.
Three thumbs? Holy cow! Many thanks, Dane.
is my guessthat stands between us UHH's
Feb 14, 2017 21:45:19 #
R/Q is where we UHH's cross over a lucky guy ...
whose lens expertise is defined and awed by (UHH)
Free Sunday is a pure tradition of ideas (past/present)
Bill
whose lens expertise is defined and awed by (UHH)
Free Sunday is a pure tradition of ideas (past/present)
Bill
Feb 14, 2017 22:39:16 #
Hal81 wrote:
I remember them doing that on lake George NY. They stacked the blocks in the foundation of an old barn and covered it with saw dust. They would still be pulling ice out of there most of the summer.
I've seen pix, but had never seen the process. Labor intense!
Feb 14, 2017 22:41:01 #
RichardQ wrote:
Thanks for the comments, Pat. Actually, the Veriwi... (show quote)
Thanks for taking the time to show me and further explain.
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