Old Alaska Panoramas.
May 9, 2017 10:48:59 #
Thanks again, Mike, for sharing those. You do have a way of bring out the beauty of an area that might otherwise be viewed as mundane. If I were to have to make a choice, I would pick #3, with the buildings by the water. Great stuff.
May 9, 2017 10:49:15 #
blacks2 wrote:
Have been busy scanning old chromes, these were made with a medium format German made Noblex camera which made a 6x12cm images on 120 film. It had a revolving lens like the large format panorama cameras of the early 21st century.
I enjoyed 1 and 4 most-the clouds and reflections.
May 9, 2017 10:58:01 #
Love your pano's. They are superb.
Do you by chance recall what color film you used? I'm asking because I just purchased a Fujifilm 'Texas Leica' with a wide angle 65MM lens (equal to about a 28MM length lens on a 35MM camera body). I enjoy digital, but really like going back to my learning years which were with film. Right now, I'm going to learn how to use this much larger film format camera by shooting b/w, developing it in a daylight tank and then scanning it to accomplish basic post processing on my Epson V600 scanner.
Do you by chance recall what color film you used? I'm asking because I just purchased a Fujifilm 'Texas Leica' with a wide angle 65MM lens (equal to about a 28MM length lens on a 35MM camera body). I enjoy digital, but really like going back to my learning years which were with film. Right now, I'm going to learn how to use this much larger film format camera by shooting b/w, developing it in a daylight tank and then scanning it to accomplish basic post processing on my Epson V600 scanner.
May 9, 2017 11:04:51 #
blacks2 wrote:
Have been busy scanning old chromes, these were made with a medium format German made Noblex camera which made a 6x12cm images on 120 film. It had a revolving lens like the large format panorama cameras of the early 21st century.
Beautiful shots ...love the lighting on them!!
May 9, 2017 11:05:43 #
Very nice. The pipeline is also in shot #2. Were these along the Dalton Highway?
May 9, 2017 11:16:14 #
May 9, 2017 13:06:04 #
Jolly Roger wrote:
What a fine set of images. Well done Mike.
Thank you very much,
Cheers.
May 9, 2017 13:11:21 #
Wingpilot wrote:
Thanks again, Mike, for sharing those. You do have a way of bring out the beauty of an area that might otherwise be viewed as mundane. If I were to have to make a choice, I would pick #3, with the buildings by the water. Great stuff.
Thank you very much Greg, I am scanning and scanning, it's such a slow process, the one you mentioned is on the old Denali highway, it looked like it was a float plane base in the old days?
May 9, 2017 13:12:36 #
photophile wrote:
I enjoyed 1 and 4 most-the clouds and reflections.
Thank you very much Karin, so glad you liked these.
May 9, 2017 13:23:38 #
Thank you very much, the film I used was Fujichrome, the edge reads RDP II. this was many years ago and I think Fuji only named them like that, I know it was not Velvia since it was to slow and they didn't have the 100 yet. You'll enjoy the Texas Leica especially with that lens, plus you live in a state that has such great photographic opportunities. In my younger days I used a 17" x 7" view camera for b&w panos.
May 9, 2017 13:27:03 #
merrytexan wrote:
Beautiful shots ...love the lighting on them!!
Thank you so much, glad you enjoyed them, I was lucky with the weather, as it can change within an hour up there.
May 9, 2017 13:29:00 #
Joker wrote:
Very nice. The pipeline is also in shot #2. Were these along the Dalton Highway?
Thank you very much, you got great eyes, these were taken along the Richardson Highway from Valdez to Glenallen.
May 9, 2017 13:29:38 #
May 9, 2017 13:31:54 #
blacks2 wrote:
Thank you very much Greg, I am scanning and scanning, it's such a slow process, the one you mentioned is on the old Denali highway, it looked like it was a float plane base in the old days?
I've been over the Denali Hwy a number of times and can't quite place exactly where that it, but I have a good idea. Likely it was either a guides's hunting camp or possibly a camp used by contraction crews during the construction of the road. At the time, the only access would have been by air, as it's doubtful that, at the time of construction, it would have been possible for vehicles to have driven over the raw road being built, to bring in supplies for the crews. Those are definitely very old buildings. Amazingly, many of those old cabins are still in use.
May 9, 2017 13:38:31 #
It was on a little side road, there was a gate so I didn't go in, but as it was late fall nobody was present I am sure.
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