Congrats. Great pics of a cool band. My favorites are 07, 27, 10 (in this order). Did you see how hard is to photograph a drummer? Regards
Albano --- Maciej Marchlewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OK. I thought that I won't make a "I have a new toy" > statement but to make > this story full it would be necessary. > I have a new toy. Or even two. Four days ago I > finally got mine MZ-S with > FA24-90. It took me almost two months to buy it in > Poland. I needed Polish > invoice so I had to go through a path of pain caused > by current Polish > Pentax distributor. But enough about that - I > finally have it and I'm really > happy. > At thursday we had a holiday in Poland and I went to > my parents for dinner > taking my new camera with me (it's strange that I > didn't took to bed with me > <g>). After that a friend invited me to a > Apocalyptica concert. Apocalyptica > are couple of cello players from Finland, along with > a drummer right now, > that play heavy metal (they started with cello > Metallica covers). > I'm not their big fan but I got a free ticket so > decided to go. Took the > camera with me as I didn't want to leave it in car > and figured out that I > can find some semi-peacefull place that it would be > safe in my bag. At the > entrance however there was an unpleasant surprice - > I coudn't take the > camera inside and had to leave it at the desk. > Fortunatelly my friend was > sitting there so I had someone I could trust the > MZ-S. > But soon after the concert started my friend called > me and handed me a PHOTO > pass. And there I was from a guy that couldn't bring > the camera inside to > someone that had official permission to shot. Having > that decided to give a > camera a try. I only had HP5+ 400 with me but on the > package there was the > development time for 1600ASA in ID-11 so that's what > I had to use. > Universal Music Poland insisted that no photos were > taken during the show > except for authorised people and only during the > last three songs. I could > enter the space between audience and scene and > exposed whole roll from there > which almoust used all my time. How it all turned > out can be checked here: > http://www.kajko.wdb.pl/apocalyptica/ > All shots taken with MZ-S + FA24-90, mostly spot > metered from face. > The film was developed in ID-11(1+0), 9:30min, 25C. > I had to use the high > temperature as it was hot here for almoust the month > and that what the room > (or rather bathroom) temperature was and didn't had > the idea how to cool the > dev down since it wasn't to be mixed with water. > Unfortunatelly it further > boosted the contrast. I scanned everything at work > at a bit crappy Agfa > Duoscan but I quite like the result. > > After all it was a really nice experience. > > Thanks for reading, > Maciej > ===== Albano Garcia "El Pibe Asahi" __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com
