Way nice,creative capture, love the way the background is rendered!
-----Original Message----- >From: Paul Stenquist <[email protected]> >Subject: Ektachrome, 1978 > >Here's a 1978 Ektachorme that has largely resisted fading although it was >stored in the dark. I should add that some of the Ektachromes that I shot with >my Brownie Starflash in the fifties have faded a lot. This shot was taken for >J Walter Thompson, and it was probably my first paid photo assignment that >wasn't part of a journalism job. I used my Vivitar 20mm 3.5, which wasn't very >sharp, but I probably had it stopped way down in back. That's my undergrad >alma mater, Roosevelt University in the background. Brooksie spent some time >there as well. It's in Adler and Sullivan's late 19th century Auditorium Hotel >building. The building next door -- I think it's called the Fine Arts Building >-- is even older. Back then it housed the Studebaker Theater and a coffee shop >on the lower level frequented by students and the artsy set. The race car is a >jet powered dragster with some nice body work by an aluminum craftsman named >Lee Austin. > >I suspect Ektachromes formula changed over the years. I think all of mine from >the seventies are in good shape. (I know the processing chemicals changed in >the mid seventies from E4 to E6.) Gamma Labs on the west end of downtown >Chicago processed all of mine. > >http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=16963163&size=lg >-- -- 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.
