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Let’s share you favorite memories of medium format shots, your “war stories” as it were and read the way others handled their photo chores.
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Claude, albino alligator, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco. 2009??, I think. Yashica-D with Yashinon, Fuji Neopan 400 film.
The Academy had been renovated and expanded and recently reopened. They had kept the Southern Swamp exhibit, including the Art Deco railing, etc. Added the lower level viewing window.
This couldn't be taken today for two reasons. A guard told me that parents would put their children on their shoulders and lean over the opening above the exhibit, so they added safety netting to keep kids from falling in.
And Claude died last December, RIP.
The Academy had been renovated and expanded and recently reopened. They had kept the Southern Swamp exhibit, including the Art Deco railing, etc. Added the lower level viewing window.
This couldn't be taken today for two reasons. A guard told me that parents would put their children on their shoulders and lean over the opening above the exhibit, so they added safety netting to keep kids from falling in.
And Claude died last December, RIP.
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eli griggs
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Outstanding camera bag material.
It must have been exciting to be making images and realizing the potential for a once in a lifetime capture of misadventure.
mshchem
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New Instax back for my RZ67II! (Big picture is latest batch of SX-70 Polaroid)
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Claude is a cool dude!
John Wiegerink
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Was...............a cool dude!
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My favorite memory was taken with a Hasselblad 501, years back, when the were new to the market, and a Polaroid 100 back with type 55 film.
I was at the S.C. North Myrtle Beach sea shore, together with my niece's dad, a white haired ex-Navy Seal and had the pure white Symoyed hound i had just given my sister as a birthday present a few months back.
Buddy, my sister's boyfriend was walking him on a chain and had just taken a seat on the foremost wooden post which swept away of to the left about 10 feet apart from a row of several similar short posts and the dog, sat in front of him also to the left, and completed a composition like you would find in a book of fine art.
I was using a 150mm lens, together with an adjustable lens hood, far enough back to have a wide view of the scene, and a polarized filter on the lens.
The deserted beach and ocean grasp the long curve of posts and blacktop road and the sky was very interesting, in layers and wisps of clouds, a study in Grey's.
The negative was lost but the positive was beautiful and I was disappointed when it disappeared, only to discover my sister had taken it in and put it in a drawer full of photographs.
I haven't seen it in twenty years but I'll alway have the memory of it to motivate me at composition in all following photographs, particularly in b&w.
I was at the S.C. North Myrtle Beach sea shore, together with my niece's dad, a white haired ex-Navy Seal and had the pure white Symoyed hound i had just given my sister as a birthday present a few months back.
Buddy, my sister's boyfriend was walking him on a chain and had just taken a seat on the foremost wooden post which swept away of to the left about 10 feet apart from a row of several similar short posts and the dog, sat in front of him also to the left, and completed a composition like you would find in a book of fine art.
I was using a 150mm lens, together with an adjustable lens hood, far enough back to have a wide view of the scene, and a polarized filter on the lens.
The deserted beach and ocean grasp the long curve of posts and blacktop road and the sky was very interesting, in layers and wisps of clouds, a study in Grey's.
The negative was lost but the positive was beautiful and I was disappointed when it disappeared, only to discover my sister had taken it in and put it in a drawer full of photographs.
I haven't seen it in twenty years but I'll alway have the memory of it to motivate me at composition in all following photographs, particularly in b&w.
Blind luck & medium format. I have two favourite MF shots. I had a photograph in mind but only had a Rolleiflex & a 5x7" Deardorff (impractical for the trip). I bought a Fuji GW680 specifically, since i wanted to make this a landscape rather than square photo and a big enlargement (a cropped 6x6 wouldn't do).
Just by pure luck our accommodation in Villnöß in Sud-Tirol/Italy had the million Euro view of the Geisler peaks. It had been raining and overcast with a low cloud ceiling obscuring the peaks. Coming back from a walk in the rain, I looked out the window to see clearing. I shot 4-5 rolls of Agfapan 25, TMax 100, Acros, & Pan F in about 30 min. By then the clouds & the magic light had passed.
When i returned to Canada & processed the film i had a big choice of negatives. To this day I have not printed them all. The final print is 20x24" and holds up very well.
A couple of years later I visited the valley once again and made the 2nd image from the valley bottom. This time I shot a few frames of TMax100 w my Leica and one remaining frame w my Perkeo ll. The 6x6 image was the best....to date i've only printed it to 12x16".....(the Color Skopar lens isn't as sharp as the Fuji but has fine character)
The two are among my favourite photos of the Dolomites.
Just by pure luck our accommodation in Villnöß in Sud-Tirol/Italy had the million Euro view of the Geisler peaks. It had been raining and overcast with a low cloud ceiling obscuring the peaks. Coming back from a walk in the rain, I looked out the window to see clearing. I shot 4-5 rolls of Agfapan 25, TMax 100, Acros, & Pan F in about 30 min. By then the clouds & the magic light had passed.
When i returned to Canada & processed the film i had a big choice of negatives. To this day I have not printed them all. The final print is 20x24" and holds up very well.
A couple of years later I visited the valley once again and made the 2nd image from the valley bottom. This time I shot a few frames of TMax100 w my Leica and one remaining frame w my Perkeo ll. The 6x6 image was the best....to date i've only printed it to 12x16".....(the Color Skopar lens isn't as sharp as the Fuji but has fine character)
The two are among my favourite photos of the Dolomites.
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One of my favorites. My wife with our first daughter. Rolleiflex 2,8F, Ilford HP5+ Rodinal 1+50
Beautiful!
Forever in our hearts
There's talk about renaming Cesar Chavez Street after Claude. I'd be okay with it....
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