Recent content by Rrrgcy

I enjoy many of the "machinist"-type videos from Pakistan where folk make-do under the worst of conditions repairing all manner of machinery and equipment, Pretty rough going with what limited resources at hand, but still extending the lives of things. The repair mindset. If permitted to post...

Yes. One camera-one-Lens rule for-one trip. Here a Canon T70 rocking a JC Penney lens. The only camera I took w me to MN for a few weeks. Tank-like Grinding shutter noise included. Love it. (Albeit I run it fully manual as this is my only lens)

hi there, please see PM. thank you.

Piggyback to Chuckroast. Personal experience w machine tools and WD-40 - that its use in refined mechanisms (anything from stored vises, calipers, mics, various tooling and metal or in areas such as on stored firearms like for side-by-side shotgun located on/inside forend metal or on-bar or...

Bingo. I’ve lost my mind (I know to lock them extended). I think I’ve never noticed any wobbliness enroute w the other two collapsibles I have, hence when I pulled this lens up and extended it, this shocked me. There is a good degree of wobble when extended. But I didn’t twist to set it. The...

I’ve an LTM collapsible 50mm f3.5 Hexar. Glass is super clean, but a nominal touch of haze. It was somewhat wobbly when I got it, but now it seems very loose. I understand lack of optical barrel alignment is unkind to photographing with it. My attached image of the lens extended shows just how...

oh my. Sinister rules? grid diagonals, figure ground relationship (gestalt psychology), “gamut” and arabesques - here’s video analyzing her composition on a different work. All I did was point out the “tree” in my OP. Had no idea this content was a thing but I know so little. Ive always just...

“Quite likely” is a depends. I understand it’s the best anyone’s got. Much the article has you consider the sheer enormity of projected Kg use, thats the cudgel. Bambrough provides thesis caveats, I’ll give him that. So, yeah it depends. Without anything more factual, Egads. He doesn’t say where...

I’m crusty. Who are these market researchers and fortune tellers? About 1/3 of the article relies on comment and analysis from a “retired investment professional .” Retired. “Bambrough is a seasoned financial executive with more than a decade of investment industry experience.” Okayyyy. Ten...

Thank you MFstooges and Pieter12. I very much prefer the full frame version you linked (and below w comparison). The vertical backdrop on her head seems to add depth or something with its separation there. It’s wonderfully complex>

With a photo such as Penn of Tamayo, would Penn intend to clean it by enlargement/crop? I very much take liberty to do that from the larger whole of many of my negs. Or is the floor and entire backdrop (warts and all) a part of his vision and intent for the final piece?

A little long-winded… While an image is what you make of it, what I see is tempered by 1. I’ve worked for near 40-years on behalf of all, and on behalf of some of the bar-none wealthiest and absolute poorest of this country. 2. I’ve worked for a large govt agency and have seen the most...

Is it a more or less a mandate to avoid verticals sticking up from heads (Baldessari’s aside)?There’s this portrait image of a set of our lovelies by Leibovitz which leaves the backdrop starkly through C.Turlington’s head hewn near equilaterally. Why is this deliberate composition fine (would...

Nearly 20 years since Mr. Fee’s passing. Too young, a theft of life. Acquiredthis picture. It took me a long time to settle in and find any work by an artist or photographer that hit me enough to fully appreciate. Distinct language. I’m no judge of art from a commercial standpoint; had expected...

Can anyone share notes, panel powerpoints, any transcript, of this Yale University symposium? Doubt anything is available less you attended and took notes. As per website, * “The symposium will be recorded but with no current plan for editing or providing access. The symposium will not be...