4/28/2006
4/27/2006
Union Square - Infrared
Union Square, People
Sprial, Union Square
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A couple of tech notes: this film really wants to curl. I never had such a curly film to deal with. Almost everything was shot at f11, 1/100 sec with the red filter (I think its Wratten 25). Exposures were made with my handheld sekonic digital meter. The film was processed in Ilfotec dd-x just as if it were Tri-X.
Kodak Infrared
Shot one test roll (though often stuff on my test rolls is better than my normal rolls) with the Kodak Infrared film. I picked it up at Adorama, and also picked up a changing bag. I stopped under some scaffolding and loaded the M3 in the changing bag. That is one thin film. (No anti-halation backing). Anyway - put the 2-stop red filter on the 35mm and shot around Union Square Park. Then some shots on the subway just for the hell of it. Outdoors, I just shot around f8 or f11 and zone focused so I don't think the infrared difference in focus will matter. Inside the subway - that's another story since I was shooting wide open.
I don't think there is anything that amazing on the roll, so I'm going to just do it Ilfotec like I normally do Tri-x. I picked up some D-76 in case this roll is completely out of the ballpark.
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The strip is drying. Not bad. The only thing I can see for sure so far is that there is not much infrared light in the subway, i.e. those those shots are about 50 stops underexposed :)
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I don't think there is anything that amazing on the roll, so I'm going to just do it Ilfotec like I normally do Tri-x. I picked up some D-76 in case this roll is completely out of the ballpark.
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The strip is drying. Not bad. The only thing I can see for sure so far is that there is not much infrared light in the subway, i.e. those those shots are about 50 stops underexposed :)
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4/26/2006
Untitled
I think I'll leave the phone at home for a while now. This was shot in one of the crevices in the Alice statue. The flare was added in PS.
4/25/2006
Magic Garden, Empty
I was lucky enough to get this yesterday as the reflecting pool was being drained and fallen petals covered everything. Central Park.
4/24/2006
Good Vibrations
Biopsy results from the colonoscopy all normal. Phew. I think I have too much imagination for my own good.
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If you haven't been up to the formal gardens in Central Park - 5th avenue and 105 street- now is the time. I was blown away this morning. Not the greatest lover of tulips but with puddles left over from the rain - man - that sort of took my breath away.
I continued with the "phone in nature" series. Found some sand - buried phone in it and then excavated as if I had just found it. Even tried to float it in the pond (I would need to tape up the holes from the inside for it to float).
If you look at the pictures on this site I don't think you can find a single (well I know one) shot that I would consider pure nature photography in the sense that it is bereft of human artifacts. I noticed this about myself a long time ago. I wonder whether the insertion of the phone and possibly other objects into otherwise mundane nature shots stems from prediliction. Of course the phone - even in this retro-version - seems to be the gadget for everything in the future:
The Phone: still camera, movie camera, planner, blood-pressure device, translator, small massage unit, e-mailer, text messenger, price-evaluator in the supermarket, accupuncture machine, garage door opening, music player, mapping navigation system, and possibly a program to tell me what's in the fridge - oh and you still may be able to use it as a phone to call people.
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If you haven't been up to the formal gardens in Central Park - 5th avenue and 105 street- now is the time. I was blown away this morning. Not the greatest lover of tulips but with puddles left over from the rain - man - that sort of took my breath away.
I continued with the "phone in nature" series. Found some sand - buried phone in it and then excavated as if I had just found it. Even tried to float it in the pond (I would need to tape up the holes from the inside for it to float).
If you look at the pictures on this site I don't think you can find a single (well I know one) shot that I would consider pure nature photography in the sense that it is bereft of human artifacts. I noticed this about myself a long time ago. I wonder whether the insertion of the phone and possibly other objects into otherwise mundane nature shots stems from prediliction. Of course the phone - even in this retro-version - seems to be the gadget for everything in the future:
The Phone: still camera, movie camera, planner, blood-pressure device, translator, small massage unit, e-mailer, text messenger, price-evaluator in the supermarket, accupuncture machine, garage door opening, music player, mapping navigation system, and possibly a program to tell me what's in the fridge - oh and you still may be able to use it as a phone to call people.
4/23/2006
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