MSA O/N May 2023...Night Light!

Andrew O'Neill · May 1, 2023

Greetings!

This month's theme will be... Night Light... Show your night shots! I'll kick it off with my image entitled Yonaka (midnight...because I was wandering around at midnight ) Handheld C330. Delta 3200. Wide open. Xtol stock.

MattKing · May 1, 2023

Good theme Andrew.
Here is the link to the Guidelines: https://www.photrio.com/forum/threads/monthly-shooting-assignment-msa-guidelines-revised-2015-07-2019-07-and-2021-12.126124/#post-1667700
A reminder - shot on film please. Please be sure to note whether submissions are "NEW" - taken in May 2023 -or "OLD" - taken before this month.
I'll do my magic with Sticky threads and I'll update the list of themes thread as well.}

Roger Thoms · May 2, 2023

Great topic, here are a couple from 2021.
Mission Bay, San Francisco, Ca

Fuji GX680, Kodak Portra 400

Sunnyside neighborhood, San Francisco, CA.

Fuji GX680, Kodak Portra 400

Roger

Ivo Stunga · May 2, 2023

OOh, I rarely shoot at night, but love it every time I do. Here are some of those (older) shots:

Pastaigā by Ivo Stunga, on Flickr

Kokos by Ivo Stunga, on Flickr

Dzelzceļš by Ivo Stunga, on Flickr

Nakts pastaiga by Ivo Stunga, on Flickr

Andrew O'Neill · May 2, 2023

@Ivo Stunga I love the one with the bird!

Don_ih · May 2, 2023

I take very few photos at night. This was just before sunrise - don't remember the camera - handheld, braced against the open window of my van. From a few years ago.

Andrew O'Neill · May 2, 2023

@Don Heisz It must have been ages ago... I can't remember paying only 117.9 for petrol! Currently 184 here...

Don_ih · May 2, 2023

Andrew O'Neill よろしく said:
@Don Heisz It must have been ages ago... I can't remember paying only 117.9 for petrol! Currently 184 here...

Yeah - probably about 6 years ago? I remember where this place was and I haven't been over there in about that long (I was driving to work). It's currently about $1.55, here.
It did drop to less than 80 cents during the first lockdowns of Covid, though.

Roger Thoms · May 2, 2023

Andrew O'Neill よろしく said:
@Don Heisz It must have been ages ago... I can't remember paying only 117.9 for petrol! Currently 184 here...

Lived in Texas when I was kid, I remember the “Gas Wars”, one station got down to 17.9 ¢ per gallon. My folks thought that was fantastic.

Roger

Don_ih · May 2, 2023

Roger Thoms said:
Lived in Texas when I was kid, I remember the “Gas Wars”, one station got down to 17.9 ¢ per gallon. My folks thought that was fantastic.

Roger

I drove through Montreal when they had a gas war going on - and it was around 30 cents a litre. The average price at the time was around 75 cents a litre - so not really that drastic a cut.

Andrew O'Neill · May 2, 2023

Roger Thoms said:
Lived in Texas when I was kid, I remember the “Gas Wars”, one station got down to 17.9 ¢ per gallon. My folks thought that was fantastic.

Roger

Whatever happened to gas wars?? I remember in Victoria (Vancouver Island), it got down to 13 cents a litre. The line up was for blocks! I guess gas wars went away when all the maw and paw shops left...

Ivo Stunga · May 3, 2023

Andrew O'Neill said:
@Ivo Stunga I love the one with the bird!

Thanks! It's a sandwich of 2 slides and scanned that way. One shot at night with shadows from streetlight on the facade, the other being of the bird in a tree.

peter k. · May 4, 2023

Ok here's some reference to a night sky photo challenge for this month of may...

See 40 Shooting Stars Per Hour Under the Aquariid Meteor Shower in May Night Sky

On the pre-dawn hours of May 7th, the Earth will pass through the Eta Aquariid Meteor Shower, when 40 meteors may be seen per hour.

www.goodnewsnetwork.org

Tom Taylor · May 4, 2023

Here's a blast from the past. I shot this maybe 20 years ago with a Toyo 45CF using a 150mm Apo Sironar-S on Acros:

This is Jack London's favorite watering hole on the Oakland waterfront and is pretty much the same as when it first opened in 1884. A little history.
I came across it yesterday while searching for another negative and decided to print it later today.

Ivo Stunga · May 5, 2023

Tom Taylor said:
Here's a blast from the past. I shot this maybe 20 years ago with a Toyo 45CF using a 150mm Apo Sironar-S on Acros:

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This is Jack London's favorite watering hole on the Oakland waterfront and is pretty much the same as when it first opened in 1884. A little history.
I came across it yesterday while searching for another negative and decided to print it later today.

Lovely, has a stage/videogame setting vibe to my eyes.

TheFlyingCamera · May 8, 2023

NEW.
Washington National Cathedral at night. The scaffolding is there to assist in the repairs to the earthquake damage from 2011. And the little white spot above the tower is not a dust speck, but the beginnings of a star trail. Camera is a Canham 5x7 wood field, lens on this one was (I think - there was a lot less difference in the negatives than I thought there would be, making them harder to tell apart) the Cooke 10.4" Series II f4.5, exposure was 8-ish seconds @ f4.5. None of the three soft-focus-ish lenses I tried (Cooke Series IIa, Seneca 11" f5 petzval, Hermagis Eidoscope 11" f5) have shutters, so I used my hat and the 1 one thousand, 2 one thousand count for exposure.

peter k. · May 8, 2023

TheFlyingCamera said:
None of the three soft-focus-ish lenses I tried (Cooke Series IIa, Seneca 11" f5 petzval, Hermagis Eidoscope 11" f5) have shutters, so I used my hat and the 1 one thousand, 2 one thousand count for exposure.

Oh well done, real old time photography ...

Mick Fagan · May 8, 2023

Three lenses, you could call it a "Hat Trick"....

Regardless, it looks good, although I am unable to see the start of a star trail.

TheFlyingCamera · May 9, 2023

Mick Fagan said:
Three lenses, you could call it a "Hat Trick"....

Regardless, it looks good, although I am unable to see the start of a star trail.

That may have gotten lost in the JPEG compression. It was only one star, and considering it was only what, 8-15 seconds exposure, its only slightly elongated, not a full star trail.

Andrew O'Neill · May 9, 2023

A 5 hour exposure on 4x5 HP5...

rodstew · May 17, 2023

Ivo Stunga said:
OOh, I rarely shoot at night, but love it every time I do. Here are some of those (older) shots:

Pastaigā by Ivo Stunga, on Flickr

Kokos by Ivo Stunga, on Flickr

Dzelzceļš by Ivo Stunga, on Flickr

Nakts pastaiga by Ivo Stunga, on Flickr

These are gorgeous images!

Ivo Stunga · May 17, 2023

Thank you! Just reversed a night photography walk I did couple of days ago - maybe something interesting will pop out too

markjwyatt · May 26, 2023

This was taken as Covid was starting, and I did not realize I was supposed to be at home and scared.

Street Car by Mark Wyatt, on Flickr

Andrew O'Neill · May 31, 2023

Last day, everybody!

MattKing · Jun 2, 2023

@Andrew O'Neill - you're up!
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