Great stuff. A couple the pics with people are fabulous. Particularly
the tight one and the one with the car.
Paul
On Oct 4, 2009, at 12:22 PM, Brendan MacRae wrote:
I've offered up a couple of pithy aphorisms to this list by Will
Connell, Sr., the photographer who founded the photography
department at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. His son,
Will Jr., is married to my aunt and we've become fast friends
recently.
When Will Jr. was in college studying engineering in the late
1950's, he and his peers were big into rocketry. They built their
rockets, 7' long, 150lb monsters (some with two-stages), and
launched them in the high desert above Los Angeles. If you've seen
the movie October Sky about former NASA engineer Homer Hickam, well,
Will's is a similar story. After college Will went into the
aerospace industry and worked on the X-15 rocket plane among other
projects.
He asked me recently if I would scan some old 6x6 and 6x9 color
negatives of his rocketry launches. I don't know what emulsions were
used but it was some form of Kodak Safety Film from the late 50's.
There were also two (2) 6x9 color transparencies. I don't know what
kind of cameras were used for the 6x9 images, but the 6x6's were
made on a TLR of some type. You'll notice that the pressure plate of
this camera was not keeping the film flat at the time of exposure as
the edges are uniformly soft. The negs were scanned on my Nikon
9000ED at 2000 dpi. The photos were taken by a friend of Will's.
I asked Will if I could share these with y'all and he thought that
was fine. Enjoy!
http://www.primelensphoto.com/wills_rocketry_photos/index.html
-Brendan
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