"Yeah, both of those boys have a pretty good rep in Aggieland."
I photographed Lyle here in L.A. back in '96 and Robert in the Nevada desert in '92. Robert and I have remained friends and I've done five (I think) of his CD covers. Both very cool and very interesting people.
Nothing better than a long motorcycle ride to relieve stress from the brain after a week of work. Even better is lots of stops along the way. Here are a few from a couple rides the last month. All shot on the mjuI/oly stylus 35/3.5 (great for hanging around the neck for quick grab shots). Film was gold400, processed in a unicolor kit, scanned on a pakon, slight adjustments in LR5
Pit stop in Lynchburg, home of Jack Daniels (for you whiskey drinkers). My vintage '82 gold wing
around the square
below Tims Ford Dam, the water was way up from recent rains.
The spillway was shooting out some immense water flow
but no energy being produced (TVA dam)
on another ride, some graffiti
with a view
old boxcar in Cowan along the Nashville-Chattanooga rail line.
So I screwed up pretty good mixing up a batch of hc110 b solution the other day. Brain was frazzled from a long work day I guess so instead of 1:33, my ratio was more like 1:3. Realized what I did during the fix. The results were some super dense negatives, more like soot and chalk with golfball size grain but somehow I like the results. Film is Eastman XX, om10, zuiko 50/1.8 w/ yellow filter, pakon scanned, lr5.
Jon, you are killing it with your color work lately, nice job!
I will be in Monterey tomorrow for the Aquarium and visiting an old friend. Bringing my Nikon N90, 24/2.8 AI, 50/1.4 AI (restored by me), and my Series E 75-150/3.5. Should be a good little kit for tomorrow. Need to finish off my roll of Delta 100 and taking two or three rolls of Arista Edu 400. This is my first trip of sorts where I will only be shooting film, let alone all manual glass.
kwoodard wrote:
Red filter on this? Very dramatic shot, love it!
Thanks!
Actually no. It was shot on Kodak Lumiere from 1995 and I converted it to B&W in LR.
I like using colour film to intentionally create B&W images, as colour film does not need filters to capture the full tonal/contrast range that B&W does. Cheating I know!...
