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

[Andrew O'Neill]

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]

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]

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]

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]

@Ivo Stunga I love the one with the bird!

 

[Don_ih]

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]

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

 

[Don_ih]

@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]

@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]

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]

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]

@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.]

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]

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.

 

[Ivo Stunga]

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]

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.]

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]

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]

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]

A 5 hour exposure on 4x5 HP5...

 

[rodstew]

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]

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

 

[markjwyatt]

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]

Last day, everybody!

 

[MattKing]

@Andrew O'Neill - you're up!
Who is the "winner"?