Kenny and Goliath

Into the belly of the beast!

This actually happened a couple of weeks ag, but I forgot to post about it. I got a chance to get inside of the Goliath crane in Quincy, MA just days before they were going to begin tearing it down. I had honestly never been that close to it. My initial response was, "Oh sweet. I'll need a wide angle." I brought an 18mm. A 10.5mm fisheye would have been more helpful. Massive was an understatement.

The day was ectualy EXTREMELY hazy. The shots below were shot with a circ polarizer twisted to as dark as I could possibly get the sky. I find that any time I'm going to shoot something impressive the conditinos usually suck. However every time I just happent o have a camera and nothing is planned, the weather is fricken awesome. I would have killed for some nice fluffy cumulus clouds.

These were shot on a Nikon D200 as opposed to film. Lens was an 18-70mm only shot on 18mm I beleive. In some cases, convenience helps.

None of these pictures have yet to be manipulated in any way aside from the UV filter over the lens for protective purposes. I would have Photoshopped them, however aside from Elements, I lack the great tool (Elements is far too limiting).







Heh, Mom.

Masters of Old

I found myself back in the subway for the final shoot for the Old Master's Cup competition. These were taken at Park Street Station along the Green Line. I had previously taken one inside one of the Red Line cars, but I'm not sure if I like it better or not. This shoot was intended to be the final shoot. The money maker as some would put it (even though there's no actual money involved in the contest albeit entry fee of a couple dollars).

These were shot on Ilford Delta 3200. I forgot to look up development times earlier on as I was using a Kodak developer with Ilford Film. I ended up pulling the film slightly, but I think it turned out for the best. I'm fairly happy with the results achieved. The biggest surprise was seeing how little of the grain shows up on MF when using high speed film. I was versed in the ways of high speed film with 35mm, but not MF. Well, I suppose upon closer inspection and zoom that it proves to have just as much, but given the size of the negative it's not as much of an issue.

New Camera

I found a Hasselblad 500 C/M from a wedding photographer over in Peabody, MA who was looking to part ways with it. I'd say I got a really good deal for the condition it's in. I've wanted a medium format SLR for quite some time now and only until recently have I been able to muster up the courage and dough to get one (there's also finding the one that you're sure isn't going to come to you all screwed up).

This is what I'll be using to shoot for the "Old Master's Cup" over at Worth1000.com.

Central Massachusetts

Went camping the other week. I got some slides back the other day from Hunt's. It cost less than I thought it would. Then again, they probably don't get many requests for "Develop the film ONLY!" Absolutely no post processing occurred with these pictures. They were shot on my Yashica MAT 124 TLR.





Self shot! :D

Park Street Station

Went downtown the other day to do some scouting shots for a photo contest coming up here mid June. I've been wanting to experiment with high speed films for a while now and finally managed to find someone who sells some locally.

As for right now I'm waiting for my Hasselblad 500 C/M to come in. I managed to find a photographer who was getting rid of his film stuff (digital conversion more than likely) and was able to get one that had been recently serviced (AKA, good as new). Money well spent if you ask me. Consider that a complete (Body, lens, film back) Hasselblad costs about $4,500 if you want to buy new. If you want to go digital, you're looking at prices that rival most brand new luxury cars.

The theme behind the contest is transportation. One relates to the contest and the other was just a capture of the moment. Both of these were shot on TMAX P3200 on my Nikon N80. The set rules were no editing other than curves and spot editing for dust. All submissions must be shot with film. I develop and scan my own work so this really isn't any kind of issue.










I generally shoot medium format, but for scouting a shoot for later on, 35mm works fine.

In the beginning...

First post. I'm generally bad with keeping up with blogs as my last three previous attempts on other sites will show. Lets see if I can get this one to go further than two or three posts.

Here goes nothing.