MSA O/N July 2024 - "Power"

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This month's shooting assignment is: Power.

For July let's think about power. You can define this concept as you wish and be as literal or as figurative as you like. You choose!

So put your thinking caps on and I'll look forward to seeing what everyone comes up with. Have fun!


No limit on subject matter or methods used as long as it adheres to the standard MSA guidelines below.

{UPDATED] Monthly Shooting Assignment Guidelines

Here are the guidelines that a number of participants in the MSA put together over a number of cycles. They have been recently revised
MSA Guidelines
For first-timers, the following summary of standard procedures should help (I am indebted to Ken Nadvornick for putting most of this together, and not objecting when I proposed to re-use [aka borrow] it):
(1) Take note of the MSA assignment, which you will find inserted into the title of the thread.
(2a) For the NEW Category, take your photo(s) according to the assignment guidelines. You are expected to shoot something new rather than grabbing from your archives. The exposure must happen during the period of the current MSA theme - usually one month - and must of course be submitted during that period.
2(b) For the OLD Category, you can use thematically appropriate Photos that you have taken in the past.
2(c) For either the NEW Category or the OLD Category, photos must originate as something that is consistent with Photrio's Analogue only section principles - i.e. using traditional (non-digital) processes. Scans from prints, slides, or negatives are permitted, but any digital adjustments should be strictly limited to what would be acceptable in the Photrio analogue only galleries. Please be sure to label which Category (OLD or NEW) your submission belongs in. Film and exposure information plus any special technical information is also good.
(3) You can post your photo in the MSA Gallery, or you can host your photo elsewhere and link to it in the thread, or, you can post it as an attachment to a message in the thread and it will show as a clickable thumbnail.
(4) It's all for fun, there are no prizes.
(5) at the end of the MSA, the previous winner who chose the theme:
(a) is encouraged to nominate from each of the "OLD" and "NEW" categories one photo that is the best photo in that category that illustrates the theme; and
(b) in any event, will choose (from those category "winners", if applicable) the single photo that is the best photo submitted as part of the current MSA that illustrates the theme.
The member submitting the "winning photo" will be declared the MSA "winner" and will have the opportunity and responsibility to choose a theme for the next MSA, and then choose a new winner from the submissions that follow.
Additional hints about uploading your photographs...
(6) How to upload to the MSA gallery: You perform the upload in the same way you would upload to the standard gallery, except you press the "'All subscriber galleries", you find a drop-down menu and press the Monthly Shooting Assignment, thats it.
(7) You can instead, attach your image to a post in this thread. Or you can link to an image that is hosted elsewhere - please be sure all members will have access to such images, and that the links remain current.
8) Most importantly, have fun!
 
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This brings rise to all sorts of possibilities - some of them quite "powerful" .
And yes, I still need to update those guidelines to reflect enhanced access to the Galleries.
A reminder - shot on film please. I repeat the request that people note whether submissions are "NEW" - taken in this month - or "OLD" - taken before this month.
I'll do my magic with Sticky threads and I'll update the list of themes thread - found here: https://www.photrio.com/forum/threads/msa-themes-to-date-july-2024.156455/.
 

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And to help "prime the pump", as it were, an OLD image from the heritage Stave Falls Power Station:
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And finally, and as promised, I've updated the MSA guidelines.
warden's opening post has been edited accordingly.
 
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This brings rise to all sorts of possibilities - some of them quite "powerful" .
Any portrait of my grandmother, especially if side eye was engaged, would definitely qualify. That woman had it.
 

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Any portrait of my grandmother, especially if side eye was engaged, would definitely qualify. That woman had it.

Not mine of course, but Jane Bown's photo of Samuel Beckett comes to mind:
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This one is another OLD one of mine. From the Stave Falls Power Station again:
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I'd never seen that. Tremendous.

The story behind it is good as well - he was not happy about her being just outside the stage door!
 

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"Dumbbell and Dumber" - Part of the Dumb and Dumber series.

Hassleblad 501C with 80mm lens
Kentmere 400 at 320, 1/8th at f/6.7
Barry Thornton's two-bath D23 with 20 grams per liter of metaborate for 5 minutes in both baths at 71F/21.6C
Inkpress Multitone pearl RC paper, 8 seconds at f/22, developed in Liquidol

Yours truly. 😁
 

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The Power of Empty Space and Silence...

Old ~ 35mm ~ Velvia 50 ~ Shot with my old Nikon

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The Power of Form without Form

Very very ... Old~ .. 2008

Before we developed film ourselves or had Photoshop to scan it, so no info on film type with the image,\.
But do know it was 35mm shot with my old dads Nikon, which got me started back into film after he passed away


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Some more background ... about shooting an image, color or B&W 🙂

"Form without form,
image without image,
indefinable, ineluctable, elusive.

Confronting them, you see no beginning.
Following them, you see no end."


A quote taken from the Lao Tzu “Tao Te Ching” Translation, Ralph Alan Dale
 
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But do know it was 35mm shot with my old dads Nikon, which got me started back into film after he passed away

There is nothing like taking the baton from the last generation. And you used that Nikon well here!

I love and protect and use my dad’s K1000 because it was his, all the while appreciating that he would think me insane for the high-end toys I use to make images now. 😄
 
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This one is another OLD one of mine. From the Stave Falls Power Station again:
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I’m reminded of the times when I went to drag racing events with my dad and brother as teens; back in the day you could stand just a few feet away from the team reassembling the Top Fuel engines after they had catastrophically exploded just minutes prior on the starting line. We would wait for them to start the engine to see if the reassembly was correct, and inhale God-knows-what while ruining our hearing when they fired it up. It never occurred to me that the these things could explode while we were right there.

Your image brought that kind of power to mind. I don’t know how close I want to stand to that stuff in your image. 😉
 

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I’m reminded of the times when I went to drag racing events with my dad and brother as teens; back in the day you could stand just a few feet away from the team reassembling the Top Fuel engines after they had catastrophically exploded just minutes prior on the starting line. We would wait for them to start the engine to see if the reassembly was correct, and inhale God-knows-what while ruining our hearing when they fired it up. It never occurred to me that the these things could explode while we were right there.

Your image brought that kind of power to mind. I don’t know how close I want to stand to that stuff in your image. 😉

Thanks.
To give people a sense of scale, a shot of a few of those in my Darkroom Group who were there on that day:
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Thanks.
To give people a sense of scale, a shot of a few of those in my Darkroom Group who were there on that day:
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I never went with you lot, but I did go with a bunch of LF photographers about 15 years ago. I remember it being a royal pain in the butt, with everyone getting in everyone's way/shot 😁 LFer's move SOOOO slow!
 

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I never went with you lot, but I did go with a bunch of LF photographers about 15 years ago. I remember it being a royal pain in the butt, with everyone getting in everyone's way/shot 😁 LFer's move SOOOO slow!

I guess we are much more nimble :smile:.
 
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My noob mistake from yesterday: thought I was using TMax400 but it was Portra160 in the camera. I had to push the Portra as the camera was set to iso400. I haven't pushed Portra before and after reviewing the images I won't do it again. Live and learn!

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The marker on the bridge says it weighs 720,000 tons and I believe it. The trains and traffic don't cause much fuss.
 

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My noob mistake from yesterday: thought I was using TMax400 but it was Portra160 in the camera. I had to push the Portra as the camera was set to iso400. I haven't pushed Portra before and after reviewing the images I won't do it again. Live and learn!


The marker on the bridge says it weighs 720,000 tons and I believe it. The trains and traffic don't cause much fuss.

Is it too blue than reality? I read somewhere that you can push Portra up to 2 stops with OK result.
 
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Is it too blue than reality? I read somewhere that you can push Portra up to 2 stops with OK result.

Mostly it was just too much contrast on about half of the images. It was fairly cloudy so it worked out OK but for the images that had sunshine it was not good.
 

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Mostly it was just too much contrast on about half of the images. It was fairly cloudy so it worked out OK but for the images that had sunshine it was not good.

I see.
I love Portra lineup. I regret I didn't stock up Portra VC 220 when they're available.
 
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