On Sep 11, 2010, at 3:42 PM, Sasha Sobol wrote: > Nice set!
Thanks. > http://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/4979871787/in/set-72157624809385751/ > -- good one (I would crop a bit at bottom though). Good point. I cropped it a bit, and gave the tones and colors a little bit of love too. > http://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/4980491042/in/set-72157624809385751/ > and > http://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/4979896641/in/set-72157624809385751/ > are very cool > > --S > > On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 1:01 PM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: >> I brought my Argus C3 to burning man on a lark. I thought that it would be >> fun nostalgia to run a roll or two of film through. I grabbed my probably >> expired unshot rolls of film to shoot with. I wasn't too worried about >> image quality, it was more a case of just playing with an old toy that I >> hadn't shot with in about 37 years. >> >> By the time I'd get out of camp in the afternoon the weather was generally >> windy and dusty enough that I didn't want to risk the DSLRs so I ended up >> spending more time (at least during the day) shooting with the Argus than >> with my Pentaxen. Arguably, I should have put my 50/1.4 on the K1000 body >> that I brought along but I was having too much fun shooting with the Argus. >> I also like to think that I was learning a lot, being forced to shoot at a >> much slower pace where every step had to be done sequentially, and manually, >> to the point that winding the film and cocking the shutter were different >> actions. >> >> For your amusement: >> >> http://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/sets/72157624809385751/ >> >> I'm not going to claim that any of these met my goal of only taking >> excellent shots, but if you cut some slack on technical details like >> sharpness, I think I got a few good ones, but even more important I had a >> lot of fun taking them. Shooting film again is also giving me a renewed >> appreciation of shooting digital, where ISO 200 is considered slow, rather >> than moderately fast. >> >> >> -- >> Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. >> > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
