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I was inspired by G.Marwitz to take my Vivitar PN2011 to the Spring car show in Las Cruces this morning, loaded with Western Family 100 (aka: Ferrania, I think).     I've seen these little plastic cameras at the local Goodwill selling for a quarter; I think their performance is astounding. Also shot a roll of Fuji Neopan 400 in the Ikonta 520, and have put those pictures in a folder on my web site. |
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« Reply #1 on: March 25, 2006, 10:04:52 PM » |
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You are on a roll these days, Mike. Prolific quality output. I like all the color shots but was really blown away by the Main photo to your website. That is really nice.
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« Reply #2 on: March 25, 2006, 11:11:50 PM » |
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Cheap film? What is Cheap Film? All film is priceless. LOL
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Film photography and the Soviet Union are not dead. Just downsized.
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« Reply #3 on: March 26, 2006, 03:49:41 AM » |
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Very nice... good eye.
The frontpage shot on your website is beautiful. Great use of lines & shadows.
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I started with nothing... I still have most of it.
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« Reply #4 on: March 26, 2006, 04:41:18 AM » |
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Those are just great.
Ferrania seems to be the last widely available cheap 35mm
film still around now that Agfa and Konica-Minolta are history.
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« Reply #5 on: March 26, 2006, 09:31:29 AM » |
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ohhh...the red in the Pontiac (third photo)!
Some of those Studs still run up the streets in my city.
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« Reply #6 on: March 26, 2006, 11:13:57 AM » |
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Nice! Is that a blue Avanti? Haven't seen one of those around in a while.
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Glenn from Wyoming
"I reject your reallity and substitute my own"
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« Reply #7 on: March 26, 2006, 11:25:33 AM » |
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Nice catch of the 'ghost flames' on the Champion. Tough to shoot.
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« Reply #8 on: March 26, 2006, 11:59:53 AM » |
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Nice! Is that a blue Avanti? Haven't seen one of those around in a while. That's not an Avanti (in the second shot); the Avanti is slightly asymmetrical (hood crease is well off center), and looks like it belongs in the 1990s, which is a neat trick for a car introduced before 1960. It looks like a Hawk, to me, the first car sold to American consumers with a modern type automatic transmission (Chrysler had a semi-automatic -- 2-speed auto behind a 2-speed manual, including clutch pedal -- in 1947-48, but the Hawk had a 3-speed clutchless auto in 1951). |
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Never let yourself spend 25 years away from the darkroom...
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« Reply #9 on: March 26, 2006, 12:11:28 PM » |
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Nice catch of the 'ghost flames' on the Champion. Tough to shoot. Yes indeed! I have to share this uniquely Los Angeles experience with you. Last Sunday, I was driving on the freeway and saw a new convertable Rolls Royce. This isn't unusual but- it was painted with bright orange, yellow and red falmes all over! And... the driver was wearing a white tuxedo with white bow tie, with a big white cowboy hat... and... he had on white face makeup that also made his moustache all white! It was surreal! I wonder if he's Marylin Mansons chauffer? :shock: |
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« Reply #10 on: March 26, 2006, 12:27:57 PM » |
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Nice! Is that a blue Avanti? Haven't seen one of those around in a while. I was into abstraction that day, and didn't do a lot of whole cars. At the time, I thought it was a lightly customized '53 Studebaker coupe like this one. |
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« Reply #11 on: March 26, 2006, 03:58:47 PM » |
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lovely shots. Gotta get me one of them.
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« Reply #12 on: March 27, 2006, 05:38:58 AM » |
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connealy I just love the third shot of the red one!! Awsome - it just does something to me! You almost can't stop looking at it! I would even go as far as saying.. clean it up a bit and that's a portfolio shot!
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« Reply #13 on: March 27, 2006, 05:59:12 AM » |
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connealy I just love the third shot of the red one!! Awsome - it just does something to me! You almost can't stop looking at it! I would even go as far as saying.. clean it up a bit and that's a portfolio shot! Thanks. It is a challenge to take clean shots of cars on a sunny morning. Between the dazzling glare spots and the reflections, I passed by a lot of potentially good ones, and lost a few others. I photoshopped my own image out of the last shot in three different places. |
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« Reply #14 on: March 27, 2006, 06:35:55 AM » |
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Nice job controlling the reflections. That's a real problem at car shows. I find sometimes I have to walk clear around a car to minimize the distractions (like my own image hunched over behind the camera) that are waiting in the reflections to spoil the shot. I've tried circular polarizers to chase these demons away, but with only sporadic success. Not something you are likely to do with a cheap plastic camera, though. Another common problem I've encountered is the big ID forms and/or "for sale" signs that they place in the windshields.
As noted above, that lead in shot to your website is wonderful. The tonality you captured is perfect, just perfect! I also like the positioning of that vent coming in from upper left. Helps me enjoy the picture a lot, but I can't explain why, balance I guess.
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