Posts for: unclebo1257
Sep 25, 2011 12:38:13 #
Sep 25, 2011 12:37:35 #
Hi All and Many Fellow photographers,
This is my first post. I hope their will be many more.
My name is Bo, a nickname given me at my birth by my father, because he did not like our given names. Any way I digress. He was a photographer the last 9 years of 20 in the USAF. I spent many hours in the studio and dark room with him. I got my first camera when I was 25 until then I used his Pentax SLR and Maymia portrait camera. My first was a Minolta with a 50 and 300 zoom. Of all the cameras I've used it had the best color rendition and saturation in both print and slides(my own opinion).
I've been following your post for a few weeks. Then this post came up about ghost pictures, and I just had to jump in. I have found all of this site most open and welcoming. I've been a member at DPChallenge for a few years now and never wanted to join in like I do with this site. You guys just seem more open and welcoming.
I've included 5 pics from an evening teaching my friend Tony about long exposures in the dark. The first thing we did was to go out into the wild of S Central Florida to a canal and set up the site before dark. We where on a small levee about 15 feet above the adjacent road beside a canal. I placed two pieces of paper on the ground
as references to walk between in the dark. They mark the edges in the frame of the camera. We set our cameras up on the levee with them set on Auto using the power of the modern camera and exposure set to B. The shots are about 30 secs long. When all is setup I go down in the dark with a small flash light and my speed light. I open the shutter with a remote and walk between the paper on the ground I used the flash in the first pic to expose my face in the others I use the flash light to write in light. In the fourth one I used PS to boost the exposure to show the ground in the dark, you can see the canal in the background. The yellow bits are the rocks on the edge of the far side of the canal. The paper can also be seen on the ground. The last one is a shot of the sugar mill in Clewiston from ten miles away with a 300 mm with VR.
There is so many things you can do with this technique. Play with it, digital pics are so cheep compared to what I had to spend on film processing. I hope these help, I don't know if these are what your group is looking for but it will be fun for a future project. I will join in when I feel I can be of some help.
Thanks for being you.
Unclebo1257
Bo Harrell ;-{)
"Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass.
It's about learning to dance in the rain."
"Boy is it storming now and my feet can't keep up !!!!"
This is my first post. I hope their will be many more.
My name is Bo, a nickname given me at my birth by my father, because he did not like our given names. Any way I digress. He was a photographer the last 9 years of 20 in the USAF. I spent many hours in the studio and dark room with him. I got my first camera when I was 25 until then I used his Pentax SLR and Maymia portrait camera. My first was a Minolta with a 50 and 300 zoom. Of all the cameras I've used it had the best color rendition and saturation in both print and slides(my own opinion).
I've been following your post for a few weeks. Then this post came up about ghost pictures, and I just had to jump in. I have found all of this site most open and welcoming. I've been a member at DPChallenge for a few years now and never wanted to join in like I do with this site. You guys just seem more open and welcoming.
I've included 5 pics from an evening teaching my friend Tony about long exposures in the dark. The first thing we did was to go out into the wild of S Central Florida to a canal and set up the site before dark. We where on a small levee about 15 feet above the adjacent road beside a canal. I placed two pieces of paper on the ground
as references to walk between in the dark. They mark the edges in the frame of the camera. We set our cameras up on the levee with them set on Auto using the power of the modern camera and exposure set to B. The shots are about 30 secs long. When all is setup I go down in the dark with a small flash light and my speed light. I open the shutter with a remote and walk between the paper on the ground I used the flash in the first pic to expose my face in the others I use the flash light to write in light. In the fourth one I used PS to boost the exposure to show the ground in the dark, you can see the canal in the background. The yellow bits are the rocks on the edge of the far side of the canal. The paper can also be seen on the ground. The last one is a shot of the sugar mill in Clewiston from ten miles away with a 300 mm with VR.
There is so many things you can do with this technique. Play with it, digital pics are so cheep compared to what I had to spend on film processing. I hope these help, I don't know if these are what your group is looking for but it will be fun for a future project. I will join in when I feel I can be of some help.
Thanks for being you.
Unclebo1257
Bo Harrell ;-{)
"Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass.
It's about learning to dance in the rain."
"Boy is it storming now and my feet can't keep up !!!!"
