Retro Man

[Calzone]

Somewhat back to "Retro-Man"

The color slides I picked up last night indicated yet again that I such at shooting color and that I should stick to B&W.

First off the E100VS is a great film, but Velvia 50 kills. Anyways it seems I do better expressing myself in B&W and in terms of contrast. Although I was once a painter color does not serve me well in photography.

It seems if I ever get involved with digital, as impractical as some say a M9M is, it probably is the best camera for me over say a Pentax 645D.

Anyways a MD-Grip on a M9M would be a good camera for me. Hopefully my 28 Cron does not display acromatic distortions. I liked the simplicity of John's M9 when I handled it. The 28 Cron is my favorite FOV.

Cal

 

[Phil_F_NM]

Back when I was in school I tried to organize a photo project that was also a bit of performance piece. The concept was one of a guerrilla photo shoot on very large format paper negative.

We would have a tall person walking around with a cloth backdrop folded up who would be paired with a person that would talk to the subject.
When the subject agreed to have their photo taken, 3 or 4 people would swoop in, each with a part of a large box camera. One person would be armed with the front standard that had a 300mm Wollensak lens mounted in a giant shutter. A person would unfold the bottom and both sides of the camera and finally, another person would mount the film/paper back to the camera, take out a dark slide and the frame would be exposed.
Construction would be a simple tongue-in-groove and focus would be fixed at about 8 feet.
This never materialized but we always kept it on the radar.
There was another super secret photo project that is still in the planning stages I still have spinning in my head. Feel free to ask me about it in person, maybe I'll tell.

 

[Calzone]

Now I want to make a giant pinhole camera out of my apartment. All I have to do is black out all the floor to ceiling windows. For recording the exposure I'd have to use that paintable liquid emulsion over all the stainless steel appliances and the granite countertops and the white maple floors. Might take a while to mop all that fixer. Getting an archival rinsing might be a problem. Hmmm there's a fire hydrant on Lexinton Avenue...

The view out my window happens to be this pair of rather pretty row houses from a fourth floor view nested among a group of low rise buildings, but this toothpick of a gigantic high rise on 5th Avenue under construction looms in the distance.

The title of this piece is: Interior/Exterior. Anyone want to sublet an apartment to me? I'll be good: I promise. LOL.

Cal

 

[Phil_F_NM]

I directed this project 2 years ago in school:
http://walbertyoung.com/2010/04/the-william-rossky-lounge/

I love giant pinhole projects. It's why I need a good amount of light projected on whatever is outside my window.

Phil Forrest

 

[jsrockit]

John has me profiled well. He understands that I'm crazy about luxury products. Who else do you know that uses a Louie Vitton leather bag to carry his film in?

It looks like this by the way... 😉

He put black tape over the, uh, logos so now it just looks like a generic 70's bowling bag.

 

[Calzone]

Something about being a flamboyant Alpha Male kinda makes the women crazy. LOL.

Anyways it was when my girlfriend got her second Louie that I ended up getting one. One way to justfy expensive stuff is that if you live in Madhattan you don't have a lot of space so you might as well get just a few nice things.

Anyways the bag John displays isn't my color. LOL.

Cal

It looks like this by the way... 😉

He put black tape over the, uh, logos so now it just looks like a generic 70's bowling bag.

 

[Calzone]

I directed this project 2 years ago in school:
http://walbertyoung.com/2010/04/the-william-rossky-lounge/

I love giant pinhole projects. It's why I need a good amount of light projected on whatever is outside my window.

Phil Forrest

Phil,

You know I'm digitally inept. I can't open the link.

Cal