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Post by minoltaman on May 6, 2008 8:15:05 GMT -5
I've lived in NYC all my life but in the past I rarely ever took a camera with me anywhere......probably because I was always going out partying every night and too hungover the next day to ever go out and take pictures. But since I've been married now 5 years, I now take my camera out much more often and feel like a tourist in my own little town. My wife thinks I'm nuts. (She loves the results though and hangs them up in the house on one of those French board thingys.) Go figure. All shot with a Minolta Maxxum 430si, Ilford Delta 3200 film, Vivitar Series 1 19-35mm and Vivitar Series 1 28-200mm lenses, various filters. No post processing. Empire State Building Top of the Rock Observatory Time Warner Building at Columbus Circle The Cloisters Museum, Upper Manhattan
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Post by mickeyobe on May 7, 2008 3:22:50 GMT -5
Tommy,
I can't say I blame your wfe. Your pictures are outstanding.
What is a French board thingys? My high school French never mentioned such a device.
Mickey
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Post by minoltaman on May 7, 2008 7:46:17 GMT -5
Hey Mickey, thank you very much!! I love Ilford Delta 3200, first time I've ever shot it, but definitely not the last. I took French for 4 years myself and I never heard of a French board thingy either.....until I started living with a woman. Then you learn about a whole lot of things you never knew before! A French board: They're really great for rotating pictures. I'm so domesticated now!!!
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Post by GeneW on May 7, 2008 13:59:19 GMT -5
Tommy I really like these! I've a roll of that film in the fridge and will be trying it out before the end of the summer!
Nice work!
Gene
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Post by vintageslrs on May 7, 2008 15:53:13 GMT -5
Tommy
Love your NYC photos.......
Gotta love the wide angle!
;D Bob
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Post by minoltaman on May 8, 2008 9:56:19 GMT -5
Thank you Gene!! Have fun shooting the Delta 3200. I look forward to see your shots! I've learned from this recent shoot with 3200 that shooting this speed of film, highlights can easily get blown out. Bob, thank you!!! To me, wide angle is a normal lens. I'm addicted. I shoot 85% of the time with it. Here's one more with the wide angle and Delta 3200. The famous Chelsea Hotel on W 23rd Street. Arthur C Clarke (recently deceased) wrote most of the epic 2001: A Space Odyssey here at Chelsea Hotel, later one of the greatest films ever made by Stanley Kubrick. Also Sex Pistol's bassist Sid Vicious stabbed his girlfriend, Nancy, to death at the Chelsea in 1978. Shortly thereafter, Sid committed suicide by overdose. The hotel was built in 1883. There's been a year long protest at the hotel because a big corporation that took over managing the site wanted to turn the hotel into condos!! Well, the latest news I've heard is that the management corp has just been fired and Chelsea Hotel will remain.....a hotel!!
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Post by camerastoomany on May 8, 2008 11:18:30 GMT -5
Great shots Tommy. The view in number two is incredible. I think the tallest building in my town is three stories.
The 3200 is impressive. I haven't tried it even though I have forty rolls in my film fridge. Why do I have forty rolls? The fault lies in the convenience of that b#@@%y auction site. A bulk purchase of fresh film and it worked out to $1.40 per roll (including shipping from the US), compared to $10.95 per roll in my little town.
Never could resist a bargain!!!! Of course, with the cost of b&w d&p where I live (posted out of town), it may not be such a bargain unless I process it myself.
Anybody know if diafine is a suitable developer.
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Post by minoltaman on May 8, 2008 12:07:34 GMT -5
Thank you Geoff, I'm glad you liked them!! Hope you get to shoot some of your 3200 soon, I'd love to see some B&W shots from Down Under! And what a bargain you got on them, nice going!
The cost up here in NY for B&W processing at a local pro lab for a roll of 36 exposures runs about $14.50 for processing the negatives only. If you want 4x6 prints they run about $.40/ea, but 5x7's run $1.00/each.
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Post by Andrew on May 8, 2008 19:03:10 GMT -5
indeed Tommy i concure with Geoff (and everyone else) they very much relay to me the awe inspiring size and height! of NYC...iv'e seen it in movies but these do a much better job.
i also find The Cloisters Museum picture very interesting, the grain, structure, compostion and the actual content...i would like to same the same shot with fine grain if only for comparison as there seems to be so much texture in the rocks, street and wall and building it just intrigues me...GREAT PICTURES!!
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Post by camerastoomany on May 8, 2008 23:32:00 GMT -5
Tommy - Not a lot of difference costwise, as I've been quoted about $6.00 for film development and 75c per print plus postage.
Developing the film myself won't mean a huge saving. Perhaps I need to throw off the dark age shackles and go high tech. If I scan the negs and view the results on-screen I can burn a cd of those I want printed.
Of course, I'd need a new scanner and I suppose software which converts neg to pos. Always the expense!
Still, with winter a month away, the extra speed of 3200 will be useful.
We'll see. Keep watching this spot, etc.
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Post by minoltaman on May 9, 2008 10:59:45 GMT -5
Thank you Andrew!! I appreciate your comments and I'm happy I can bring a little NYC to you Down Under. Yes, everything's vertical in Manhattan, it's still awe-inspring for me personally and I'm here everyday.
Thanks for your ideas about The Cloisters. It's a museum specializing in all Medieval Art, some of the doorways in the museum are from 13th and 14th Century castles from France. I live just minutes away from the museum, so next time, when I have a slower speed B&W film, I'll see if I can get the same shot and compare the two films.
As for Australia, man, I'd go crazy with photography if I ever visited there, especially that gigantic aboriginal rock in the Outback....forgot the name of it, but on some travel shows, a camera time exposure sped up reveals all the different colors of the rock from early morning to dusk. Absolutely amazing!
Geoff, I bought an Epson V100 scanner on sale brand new for $99 a few years ago. It might even be cheaper today.
It comes with everything you need to scan photos, documents, 35mm negatives and slides up to 4800 dpi, I think. The software lets you adjust tones, saturation, contrast.....everything.
But be aware that this model scanner does not have the rack to scan 120 negatives....that's a different and more expensive model scanner. But I don't shoot 120.
Good luck mate, happy winter shooting Down Unda!! Let's see some pics soon!
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Post by John Parry on May 9, 2008 18:34:16 GMT -5
Hi Minoltaman
As you say - Arthur C Clarke is dead now. What was that all about (2001 I mean). I know all about the sub-plot, and I think most of us have had some experience of computers going mad, but the main theme just wasn't there (although the cinematography was brilliant). Think Kubrick and Clarke had just been smoking something, and someone said "Hey - let's make a film!"
Regards - John
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Post by minoltaman on May 11, 2008 7:36:18 GMT -5
Well I guess Kubrick can be discussed here. I think he knew a thing or two about film! He used special lenses and filming techniques in all his films. In his 1975 masterpiece "Barry Lyndon" he used a specially designed by NASA wide angle lens to shoot some scenes lit by nothing but candlelight!! Yes, John there's probably no doubt that when Kubrick teamed up with Clarke to write the adopted screenplay for 2001, lots of stuff stronger than marijuana may have been used.....I mean it was 1966-1968 when the movie was realized and made! I've watched the film several times in several states of mind The film has been hailed as a masterpiece and a boring piece of crap at the same time and quite passionately too, on certain movie forum discussions, even to this day 40 years after it's release. People have written elaborate interpretations of every detail in the film. I see it as a pure masterpiece one of the greatest films ever made. I think basically Kubrick interpreted Clarke's novel a little differently and instead incorporated Nietchze's "Thus Spoke Zarathustra" very heavily into the story as well as a bit of Homer's "Odyssey". Man's quest to become or find, the "Superman", defeating "Monsters" (HAL 9000) along the way. Kubrick and Clarke's story gets into the themes of man's attempt to become God or gods through Evolution and Gnosticism and therefore surpass ordinary man to become "superman" or "supermen". Of course Nietchze's theses were later on taken out of context, misinterpretated and used by the Third Reich as a basis for creating the "Master Race", quite unfairly to Nietchze too, since he was already dead and unable to counter misinterpretations. Kubrick, who was from The Bronx, NYC, was certainly one of the most eccentric filmmakers in history. Kubrick left Hollywood and the United States in the late 60's, moved and set up shop in England, and never step foot on American soil ever again. 2001, A Clockwork Orange and Barry Lyndon, were pure masterpieces IMO. The Shining, and Full Metal Jacket and Eyes Wide Shut were all amazing films at certain points. I'm hope that helps a little. I'm still confused myself!!
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Post by Andrew on May 25, 2008 20:37:14 GMT -5
Thank you Andrew!! I appreciate your comments and I'm happy I can bring a little NYC to you Down Under. Yes, everything's vertical in Manhattan, it's still awe-inspring for me personally and I'm here everyday. Thanks for your ideas about The Cloisters. It's a museum specializing in all Medieval Art, some of the doorways in the museum are from 13th and 14th Century castles from France. I live just minutes away from the museum, so next time, when I have a slower speed B&W film, I'll see if I can get the same shot and compare the two films. As for Australia, man, I'd go crazy with photography if I ever visited there, especially that gigantic aboriginal rock in the Outback....forgot the name of it, but on some travel shows, a camera time exposure sped up reveals all the different colors of the rock from early morning to dusk. Absolutely amazing! Good luck mate, happy winter shooting Down Unda!! Let's see some pics soon! Hi Tommy Eyer's Rock may be the name you are thinking of although i would not be surprised if it advertised overseas just as Uluru (pronounced Oooh-la-roo the Oooh sound is like when someone says 'Oooh yuck' if i have written it correctly). it was always known just as Erye's rock to everyone here (although they only teach the kids Uluru in school now), named after an early explorer Edward John Eyer (1815-1901) that trudged, dragged himself and walked all over South Australia looking for inland water, farming/grazing land and possible stock routes etc, came close to expirering on a number of occassions. so there are things named after him everywhere in South Oz. Eyer peninsular, Lake Eyer (giant lake- dry most of time) which is up north not far from the rock, when that fills with water every ten or twenty years it is a sight to see!!just an amazing thing to see in such harsh dry land, birds of all types (pelicans and such) find there way to it in the middle of Australia with an uncanny sence they just know there is water/fish in it, i have been lucky to see it my self twice. anyway the Rock is a big tourist attraction, people the world over come to photoghraph it as you say. indeed i have seen many pictures of it showing different colours. we used to able to walk on it but if they havn't banned it completly yet, then one is still able to walk to the top (they dont approve but allow it) which even if your fit can take quite the effort..it was always said to be the largest rock in the world but now is more precisely discribed as the largest monolith (which means almost the same thing!) because the folk in Western Australia say they have the largest rock which 2.5 times the size of Eyer's rock--hehe but if one was to argue then Mt Augustus in WA is a monocline and the rock is the largest monolith. i havn't got a scanner at the moment but here are a couple of pics for people that havn't seen it..its also a great area (general area around the Alice -town of Alice Springs that is, and attracts atromoners from all over due to its location.
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Post by Andrew on May 26, 2008 17:42:13 GMT -5
yes that looks better Ayer's i think it is! probably just my mild dislexier showing through! although i beleive the other things are splet Eyer's ...heck now i am confused lol i will have to look on a map haha
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