New York August NYC Meet-Up

[Calzone]

Cal, has Maggie's spot aired yet..if so tell us the date so we can look at it online.

MFM,

So far no. I will post it and PM you personally with any updates.

My gal was invited to be publically interviewed in Montreal by a newspaper reporter that published a profile on "Maggie" three years ago when we were on vacation. Their Fashion Week begins this weekend.

I'll be at home developing and testing films. At the end of August will be the three year anniversary of her blog. When we were in Montreal on vacation she had not started it yet.

Also part of this trip will be getting dressed by a designer friend of Lolita, the Fashion Journalist, and a photo shoot.

Good thing that this feature is an "Evergreen" that will be utilized as fill on a slow news day. Sadly so much bad news that needs to be reported.

Cal

 

[dshfoto]

Cal,
Thanks for the info on Diafine and Ilford. After the meetup, I looked over my scans from a couple of yease ago, and found that I had come to the same conclusion, that Tri-X at 650 was the sweet ISO, esp with the Imacon scanner.
Steve

 

[Calzone]

Cal,
Thanks for the info on Diafine and Ilford. After the meetup, I looked over my scans from a couple of yease ago, and found that I had come to the same conclusion, that Tri-X at 650 was the sweet ISO, esp with the Imacon scanner.
Steve

Steve,

This weekend I will be testing Delta 3200 at 1600 ISO; Delta 400 at 400 ISO; Tri-X at 400 ISO; and HP5 at 320 ISO all in the same tank. The time for all is 8 minutes at 20 degrees C in DDX 1+4 dillution.

The idea here is to be able to do a mixed tank to save time.

Cal

 

[Calzone]

Steve,

Lately I have been pursuing films that have film speeds around 200 ISO. I like shooting at F5.6 and high speed films in 35mm I run out of shutter speeds, especially on M's, secondly on old SLR's, and only the F5 I still have payed Joe for in prints has mucho high shutter speeds to avoid having to stop down into diffraction.

FP4 at 160 ISO in Diafine has become a staple, and Kodak 5222 at 400 ISO in Diafine has a distinct look of an older emulsion with a lot of silver content. I develop both 4+4 in Diafine with my minimized aggitation.

The next time we meet-up I'll give you a roll of 5222, expose at 400 ISO, and I'll develop that exposed roll for you. I wonder how it will look scanned. The contrast is high, yet there are mucho mids. A little gritty in the grain, but a nice texture. Looks very old school.

I already exposed that roll of P30 at 80 ISO, and towards the end of the roll I lowered the ISO to 50. I'll be processing that and a roll of 120 Bergger Panchro 400 in Diafine 4+4. With the Bergger Panchro 400 they recommend a presoak, so my guess is that it is a thick emulsion. My pre-soak will have to be the 4 minutes in Part A to wet the film. I'll first try box speed (400 ISO). I like testing in 120 because using 6x9 it is easy to shoot eight shots.

Maggie will be in Montreal for their Fashion Week.

Cal

 

[dshfoto]

Cal,
This is great! I was looking at Kodak 5222 as a possibility. Also, I got some Diafine yesterday, and will be mixing it up today. So, I will be able to develop some FP4 in it. There was a thread going at http://www.rangefinderforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=162367
And I added a comment about how I tested on one roll using a number of ISO's and a Kodak Gray Card. I add a white board in the shot to keep track of camera, film, ISO, fstop, etc. Mostly I did this, because I wanted to know how ISO exposure was working with the Imacon scanner.

Too bad you are not going to Montreal Fashion Week.
Steve

 

[Calzone]

Cal,
This is great! I was looking at Kodak 5222 as a possibility. Also, I got some Diafine yesterday, and will be mixing it up today. So, I will be able to develop some FP4 in it. There was a thread going at http://www.rangefinderforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=162367
And I added a comment about how I tested on one roll using a number of ISO's and a Kodak Gray Card. I add a white board in the shot to keep track of camera, film, ISO, fstop, etc. Mostly I did this, because I wanted to know how ISO exposure was working with the Imacon scanner.

Too bad you are not going to Montreal Fashion Week.
Steve

Steve,

Other possibilities of travel are plenty. Maggie has a probable gig in Mad-Rid. Pays for a guest in business class for flying and all 5 star accomodations, but I need to keep my day job for a while and can't take vacation on short notice.

Also know that my sister worked for TWA and I enjoyed flight benefits. Basically I have traveled enough to have everything bad happen to me when flying, except a plane crash or being hijacked. Been stuck in other countries, missed connections, have run through airports like O.J., have had my luggage lost (never recovered)...

Interesting to note that I used a catalog case as my carry on which made me mistaken as a pilot by the stewardess. Basically since I would be the last person to board the plane and I sat with the flight crew. Would of been very easy to hook up. LOL.

After a while traveling gets boring when you do enough of it. For me I much more like adventure like going for a simple bike ride alone without any destination, or I'd rather drive cross country and meet people wandering around.

When I lived in the Santa Fe National Forest by myself I got use to solitude. I would do dumb things like wander around the wilderness by myself, sometimes "rock crawling" in 4 wheel drive low in my Jeep. Which was dumb is that I didn't have a winch, and luckily I never suffered a breakdown or got stuck.

Part of me is anti-social, and I love my time alone. I'm more for moving to another country like you did that just visit. Spain is a possibility.

Diafine is suppose to be great for scanning. The two sheets of negatives I bought to the last Meet-Up indicated that 100 ISO was on the fringe of too dense, and 200 ISO a bit thin. I happen to like the denser negatives for the bigger midrange and added shadow detail, but that is for wet printing. Pretty much like HDR film. With Diafine, "When in doubt overexpose."

Cal

 

[dshfoto]

Cal,

Yah, flying gets old. The best one was when I was in grad school at Minnesota, we went up in a school Piper in the afternoon. Came back to the apartment, started making supper, turned on the news. Lead story was that the same Piper had just crashed. Some other people took it up after we finished with it.
That sort of ended my desire to fly small aircraft.

I was just thinking about the access you get at the fashion events, not the travel involved.

Steve

 

[Calzone]

Steve,

At Grumman we had a "Flying Club" that had four small planes. I think two were dual engine. Pretty much if you wanted to get your pilot's license this was the cheap way to do it.

My sister wanted to get her pilot's license and wanted to find out if she could join the Flying Club without being a Grumman employee, she got in, and eventually got her pilot's license and was working on her "Cross Country Certification."

It is said by a few that a drive a car like a fighter pilot, and that I am a crazy driver. I don't need a plane to challenge or display my understanding of physics. Back in the day when I raced bicycles I was considered dangerous, especially on a mountain bike. LOL.

The way I like to travel is mostly by myself and in a car without any real plan or even a destination in mind. I drove cross country by myself three times.

Like taking photographs, I do my best work alone. Can't do much adventure, or my kind of adventure with a woman.

Cal

 

[Calzone]

"Maggie" got an e-mail from the producer at 4:00 PM yesterday that her segment would be aired.

Two facts were wrong. She started her blog three years ago and not two years ago, and she is a clinical professor and not a full professor. Oh-well fake news. LOL.

https://www.nbcnews.com/nightly-new...-professor-becomes-fashion-star-1031906371872

I am seen for a blink of an eye. No photo credits, but you see some of my work and work from some of our friends.

Very much like a dream. Very crazy.

Cal

 

[Range-rover]

Great video Cal, tell Maggie congrads!

 

[Calzone]

Great video Cal, tell Maggie congrads!

Bob,

Will do.

Tomorrow Maggie jumps on a plane to Montreal for their Fashion Week. She was invited to be publically interviewed by Lolita, a fashion journalist, we met three years ago before Maggie started her blog.

Maggie will also meet-up with some designer who will dress her for a shoot.

I'm starting another project that involves printing. I'll also be printing a fine art book. I am able to develop film while Maggie is gone.

Cal

 

[jsrockit]

Interesting Cal... saw you shooting in that video... reminded me of the bread photo for some reason! 😉

 

[Calzone]

Interesting Cal... saw you shooting in that video... reminded me of the bread photo for some reason! 😉

John,

"Maggie" got lots of exposure, but then got spammed with all these people wanting advice, to meet for coffee, go shopping...

Not sure it helped with her "branding."

So Montreal revisited was a great trip and a great way to celebrate her third anniversary of starting her blog. Flew first class and was put up in a 5 star hoten near Montreal's 5th Ave. She went shopping at a high end boutique, and wanted to wear a Canadian designer's clothing. The two owners are followers and they gifted her the clothing. Later at the fashion event she met the designer of the clothes she was wearing.

BTW the Canadians loved her for wearing and promoting their designers clothing. I was told the photo shoot went well. The Photog is kinda famous for her lighting. She shot film with a Hassleblad.

Today is high end shoot in NYC. 244K followers.

Cal

 

[Red Rock Bill]

caught it the other night I believe Lester Holt did the intro for the segment... fun rooting for someone I've never met ,introduced to the forum by someone I've never met ...all great fun...keep it going as long as you can....regards,Bill

 

[Calzone]

caught it the other night I believe Lester Holt did the intro for the segment... fun rooting for someone I've never met ,introduced to the forum by someone I've never met ...all great fun...keep it going as long as you can....regards,Bill

Bill,

All the best to you also. Hope we cross paths sometime. BTW I live once, alone, in the Santa Fe National Forest in La Cueva, not far from Fenton Lake. When Ronald Ray-Gun was President I worked on a Star Wars project at Los Alamos. I miss New Mexico.

Cal