This one's for you Nigel!

[jim_galli4]

Got such a boot out of your "stirring the pot" in the "Ethics in the

Wild" post that I couldn't resist this final frame with the 'dorff

8X10 today up in Wall Canyon. Extreme Wilderness. Got a nice load of

wood and also 8 gorgeous shots in new snow! This was on APHS ortho

ASA 3 and I calculated 30 seconds at f22 1/2. Gave 45. Tripped the

shutter, ran into the picture, tried to stand still for 45 seconds

while I'm counting them off, ran back and re-tripped! 5 minutes in

Rollo Pyro with the lights on and here we are! It is the first time

I've ever used the 165 Angulon on the 8X10 and I must say it is also

the last! I was alarmed at how SOFT it really is out in the edges!

I'll take a scolding for this but just trying to have some fun.

Cheers and Good Holidays ALL!<div></div>

[tim_atherton2]

LOL - looks like fun jim

[mark_tucker2]

It's odd; I've been to that same place many times, and I always

remember that view being obscured by overhanging tree

branches. Maybe I'm wrong. But why all that freshly cut wood in

the bed of the truck; could that have something to do with it?

 

That's not smoke-stain-marks on those rocks, in the upper right

corner of the frame, correct? No, it couldn't be...

 

Actually, as I looked closer at that picture, you can see the edges

of the canvas backdrop. Where did you find a soundstage that

large, that would allow you to drive your truck in there?

 

I'm with Nigel; you've never been past the city limits...

 

-MT

[tim_atherton2]

mark - I love that teepee motel. Did you take it off the Libarary of Congress site and do it in Photoshop? :-)

 

http://memory.loc.gov/pnp/ppmsc/00200/00259r.jpg

 

bardstown KY

[ed_candland1]

That's just too funny Jim!! Good job.

[jim_galli4]

Just 10 of about 50 trees that will never be photographed again because they're going to keep me and mama warm this winter!

[mark_tucker2]

http://memory.loc.gov/pnp/ppmsc/00200/00259r.jpg

vs.

http://www.marktucker.com/photos/wigwam.jpg

 

Tim,

 

Eerie, huh? That JPG above is still the scene that you encounter

when you drive up to the place. Although I was fascinated by that

signage out front; now it makes sense that at one time they

housed gas pumps. The older photo was shot when it was in its

prime. I shot mine on Saturday, and the whole place was

boarded up for the winter; come back in March.

 

That entire town peaked in about 1956. It's got that special

"Route 66 sadness" to it now. At least hotel guys had creativity in

those days. Are we making progress in throwing up these

prepoured box motels now?

 

On a technical note, I shot that image with a SuperAngulon 75.

When I bought it from Jeff at Quality Camera, he said "You know,

the first thing those guys on Photo.Net are gonna say to you is

'Why didn't you buy the 72 with more coverage?'" I notice that to

get the mojo that I'm looking for, I've got that damn Ebony twisted

into a pretzel every single time. Now I see what he was talking

about; the 72's coverage has got Mark Tucker written all over it.

My next thing to do today is to call him and trade this 75 in on the

72. Live and learn, I guess. (Bring out the 105mm filters....)

 

-MT, http://www.marktucker.com

[tim_atherton2]

you took that teepee picture with a view camera? And an Ebony to boot - GODDAMIT - why isn't it sharp - You spent how much on a lens to take a blurry picture? And you might as well have used a cheapo Shen Hao - the vibrations alone would have given you that look.

 

Drum this into your head; "from now on, every picture I take will be tack sharp from the forground to the background" and repeat; "from now on...." "I will never make any more fuzzy pictures with my ebony..." "I will only ever use f64..."

[tim_atherton2]

Oh and; "I can only use camera movements to make the image sharper"

[mark_tucker2]

I am selling my SuperAngulon 75 to get the Schneider 72 with

the big circle, so that I can womp out the focus even further.

When I saw the 220 image circle on that 72, I got a tingle "down

there". The first thing I do when I get a new lens is immediately

duct-tape down the fstop slider thing, to make sure I don't

accidentally bump it off of 'wide-open'.

 

That 45SU looks like a twisted slinky when I'm shooting it. (Did I

mention how much I love that camera?)

 

-MT

[alec1]

Hey, Mark. Use a tripod next time! Maybe THAT will help, although I doubt it. I don't understand going to all that trouble to make lousy images. Now the old tepees, I can identify with.

 

I still rue not having taken pics of one of those tourist courts that operated here in AL into the 50s. Then, they just bulldozed the tepees down. Put in a 7/11 instead. Just not the same thing!

[jorge_gasteazoro4]

And you were making fun of us people in Texas, at least we know enough not to make our clear cutting in winter....:-))

Fun shot Jim.

[steve_hamley]

Mark,

 

You might want to try the 80mm Schneider Super Symmar XL. Most are visibly soft at the edges wide open, and get progressively sharper stopped down. Search the archives for this lens.

 

If they had made it a 229mm instead of an 80mm, they could have asked $3,000. ;^)

 

Thanks!

 

Steve

[bob.]

Ah, now I see what the Digital guys have been on about - it is so much easier to make subtle changes to a picture in Photoshop... spotting, dodging and burning etc...<div></div>