Late Spring Catch-Up 1

March and April were really busy months, and May has been a bit crazy too, so I'm catching up on some old photos I took during that time.

First are some moody photos during some of the stormy and overcast days we had in March. Most of these are with my Nikon SP 2005 and either a Nikkor 2.5cm f/4 or Voigtlander 15mm f/4.5 Heliar (with F-S adapter) on T-Max 100 or Tri-X 400, though the first few are with my Leica M6 and Zeiss 50mm f/1.5 (Contax mount + adapter):

 

 

8x20 Full-body Portrait

Finally! Success!

I received my 8x20 back and holder, repaired, as well as an additional holder from Mr. Ritter a few weeks ago. I was finally able to shoot some negatives yesterday - my first successful images.

The weather has not been cooperative so I got fed up and shot some in the studio. I tried out an idea I had - full-body vertical portraits. It worked pretty well!

Setting up the camera was a real chore. It's not really designed to work sideways. I had bellows-sag issues and I didn't have enough movements to shoot this how I wanted it. But I wrestled it to where I could shoot this finally.

Here is an image of Dominick. This was with my Nikkor 450mm f/9 lens, on Efke 100, developed in Rodinal 1:40 for 9 minutes in a home-made rotary tube, shot with 3 ProFoto flash heads:

Here is a quick cellphone shot of the camera in the studio, sideways:

Flags Over VSU - 4/24/15

In response to the protest last Friday, a large number of people traveled to Valdosta for a patriotic rally at VSU. Here are images from the rally, first at Five Points and then at VSU: