Where are you shooting this weekend?

[Pherdinand]

mayube you should stay there, Honu.

Well, i'm back from last night bowling. It was a so-called "disco bowling" with lotsa projected eighties-nineties (mostly) disco clips on the walls and very loud music (not really to my liking). Also, the many seminaked girls in the clips distracted our attention and the two girls that were there with us were abusing this fact. We guys lost badly.

And the light level was so low, there was no chance for the Kiev and iso400. But it was fun.

 

[Socke]

Yesterday I shot on a Techno Parade in the afternoon and on a festival at our main pub location later.

Hm, I don't have an english name for it, it is a roughly 500 yard long backyard/deadend street with lots of pubs and a club. On April 31st and the last Saturday in Juli they close the entrance and every pub has at least a DJ and there is an open air stage in the back. This year they had a band from Rio de Janeiro.

 

[jan normandale]

mayube you should stay there, Honu.

Well, i'm back from last night bowling. It was a so-called "disco bowling" with lotsa projected eighties-nineties (mostly) disco clips on the walls and very loud music (not really to my liking). Also, the many seminaked girls in the clips distracted our attention and the two girls that were there with us were abusing this fact. We guys lost badly.

And the light level was so low, there was no chance for the Kiev and iso400. But it was fun.

Hi Pherdinand

Disco - bowling??? That sounds craaaazzyy ;-) and no photos? Next time take IR film and try and show us some of this new bowling craze. joke/smile

cheers Jan

 

[Pherdinand]

Yeah, everything flashing, projected clips right above the puppets on the wall, very low continuous light...
Maybe i should have tried with some looong exposure times, just for the fun...

 

[dmr]

Well, this was a very interesting weekend for shooting. I and a friend went originally to take some afternoon and setting sun shots at a recreation area, and we ended up shooting not only the lake, but an abandoned country store, some old abandoned cars, a burned down building that you could still smell, a collapsed barn, and a real live steam locomotive all ready to go, I think I actually captured the steam hissing out of the machinery. I just picked them up and I'll post some tomorrow, but I'm too tired to read them in and post them tonite.

Oh, this is also the bake-off between my "real cameras" and his Kodak Easy Share point and shoot digital, taking many of the same exact shots.

And ... I tried to create that "3D" effect in one shot, I can't find the thread, but I'll post that tomorrow.

 

[Doug]

I had some fun shooting at the computer club summer picnic today. I kinda wimped out and only took the little Canon ELPH Jr (in professional black finish!) with its fixed 26mm f/2.8 lens that shoots APS film. I had some Kodak chromogenic B&W in it.

The club president was shooting away with his Motorola cell phone, though I know he has a better but older Olympus digital. Convenience, I guess, in both our cases.

He noticed what I was shooting, so I handed him the Canon. He looked it over and asked the golden quesiton, "How many pixels does it have?" I couldn't help laughing. I showed him the extra roll of APS film I'd brought, and he wasn't the only one there to be amazed it was a film camera.

 

[parks5920]

It was 105 at my house today, so mostly it was my kids and my in-laws in the pool with the Praktica and a roll of high def. Yesterday, same thing, only with the GSN and a roll of B/W. I wish it would cool off, this summer is gonna be HARSH!

 

[Trius]

Well, we are back from Taste of the Danforth, and it was a wonderful trip. The ride on the Cat (the "fast ferry" betwee Rochester and Toronto) was very nice, though I can't say it is as "awesome" as some seem to imply. It's like a smooth, comfortable train ride. For two people (sans voiture) it's more expensive than driving. For some the frustration of the QEW and other highways means the ferry is a bargain, but I've never had a big issue with driving to/from T.O., so I have to say for me that's not a big issue. Speed of crossing is an illusion. 2-1/2 hours. BUT... by the time you get your ticket (even if you've resrved online or on the phone, that' sjust a reservation, you still have to go through ticketing, which means a line), security, waiting to board, customs/'immigration at the other end, etc., the time savings may not be there. Only if you're in a long traffic jam at a bridge (esp. on a holiday weekend) is the time savings a reality. Anyway, on to other, far more important things.

I really overestimated the amount of film I would need for snapping. I consumed one roll of APX 100 and part of a role of Elitechrome 100. Partly that's a result of not really spending an entire day at the festival. We got hot and tired. We wer eaccompanied by friends from
Brampton, so it was a social time as well, and that means photography takes a back seat. Also, since I haven't done "street photography" for awhile, getting into the menta. swing of things, took a while.

However, the 35SP was very nice to handle. Because of crowd noise, music, etc., there were several times when I thought something was wrong... I couldn't hear the shutter! With the OM that wasn't a question!

Our hotel room overlooked the back of Maple Leaf Gardens, so I took a few shots at various times of day, including early morning which was a good test of the SP's flare resistance.

At one point during the day a young-ish man passed me with an RD or RC around his neck. I didn't catch which model, and he was gone before Ihad a chance to stop him. If it was someone from here on RFF, speak up!

Don't know when I'll get the film processed and scanned, but I'll try and get to it soon.

Trius

 

[JoeFriday]

I spent yesterday wandering around Millennium Park in downtown Chicago with a rather attractive friend.. assuming I learned how to read my Gossen meter properly, I hope to have at least a few good shots from the 3 rolls of Scala slide film that I used up.. the only problem is that I don't have a slide scanner... yet

 

[dmr]

I spent yesterday wandering around Millennium Park in downtown Chicago with a rather attractive friend.. assuming I learned how to read my Gossen meter properly, I hope to have at least a few good shots from the 3 rolls of Scala slide film that I used up.. the only problem is that I don't have a slide scanner... yet

Hey, is "The Bean" uncovered and on display again? The last they told me it was covered and they were working on it. If so did you get some pics of if? Did you get arrested when trying to photograph it? <semi grin> I'm going to be going there in a couple months and I was wondering how it's coming along. If it's on display I'll try again to get confronted shooting it. 🙂 🙂

OBTW, the avatar I'm currently using here is a rather strange self-portrait of me in the reflection of "The Bean" blown up to extreme as I was seeing what the film scanner would do at maximum resolution. You can see the film grain clearly, as well as almost see I'm using the Olympus and that it was kind of a breezy Bad Hair Day<tm>. 🙁

As to what I shot this weekend, I tried out my new (to me) Sigma 18mm lens, with some shots of the bright blue ironwork at the local baseball stadium, then a railway bridge I like to shoot (I better watch doing that, the TLA is probably watching me), and then an abandoned building by the tracks. I'm gonna take this to the good indie lab so I won't have to clean crud off of the negatives to scan them. 🙂

 

[JoeFriday]

nope, the Bean is still covered.. at least most of it.. there's maybe a quarter of it still visible, and yeah I shot about 5 shots of the crowd admiring it.. but it would have been so much nicer if it had been fully accessible

 

[Kin Lau]

Well, we are back from Taste of the Danforth, and it was a wonderful trip.

At one point during the day a young-ish man passed me with an RD or RC around his neck. I didn't catch which model, and he was gone before Ihad a chance to stop him. If it was someone from here on RFF, speak up!

I was there too, Saturday afternoon till evening. Shooting with the Oly XA and Leica IIIa. I was in the middle of loading the Leica when I saw the guy with the RD/RC... unless you it was you with the SP?

Did you see the guy with the Nikon's? A black F around the neck and another one over the shoulder + a large camera bag.

 

[dmr]

nope, the Bean is still covered.. at least most of it.. there's maybe a quarter of it still visible, and yeah I shot about 5 shots of the crowd admiring it.. but it would have been so much nicer if it had been fully accessible

Thanks for the update. Hopefully it will be all or more uncovered by October. If there's at least a shiny surface, I'm sure I can do something with it. 🙂 I'll probably wander over there during a break in the action to see how it's coming. Thanks. 🙂

 

[MrRanger]

It's been a hot, sticky weekend in Southwestern Michigan. Lot's of yard work and field mowing got done, took all day Saturday. Sunday, the wife and I decided to take it easy, lounge around and enjoy each other's company - didn't even think about cameras!

I just happened to look out the bay window in the kitchen tonight and saw the sun going down, all orange and red and yellow with some cloud formations starting to come in. Grabbed the Bessa with the I-61 and loaded some Fuji 400 Superia in it and headed outside.

I hope some of them come out! 🙄

Mike 😀