On Mar 12, 2013, at 11:29 PM, Jack Davis <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > > ----- Forwarded Message ----- > From: Jack Davis <[email protected]> > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2013 8:27 PM > Subject: Re: Doing Things the Hard Way > > > That's a nice image, Paul. However, I'd have to clone out that flash > reflecting metal strip coming out of the teacher's head. <G> Thanks Jack. You may have given that a <G> but i think I'll do it. It's a fireplace screen. I already cloned out some fingerprints on the black marble just above it. > > Jack > > > ________________________________ > From: Paul Stenquist <[email protected]> > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2013 4:51 PM > Subject: Doing Things the Hard Way > > Way back in 1975 a teacher at the Chicago high school where I taught English > asked if I would take a BW pic of her and her kids. Like many young > photographers, I had a penchant for doing things the hard way, so I decided > to shoot them with my Speed Graphic and 127 mm Raptor 4.5. I had jerry rigged > a cord so I could attach a Honeywell potato masher strobe. So I did that and > mounted the strobe on an umbrella that I had painted white. I had to tray > process the film. (Couldn't take it to a lab. That would be too easy.) > > I'm not sure if the lady specified that she didn't want to look at the > camera, but neither she nor her children are looking at the camera. The pic > was for a newspaper column she wrote. Maybe they just thought they should > look at the flash. > > I scanned it today on the V500. Just for grins. There's no 4 x 5 film holder > for that scanner, so I just > placed the neg on the scanner in the approximate position of the overhead > light. The scanning area is less than 4 inches wide, but I needed to crop it > a bit anyway. At 3200 dpi, the scan is 1.2 gigs. I may print it. Just for > grins. > > http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=17035692 > -- > 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. -- 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.
