FallRiverPhoto

On 4/19/2023 at 2:44 PM, rconey said:

OK, I found that I can start a new Album. Maybe the old images are locked in as is....

Do share, please. Not finding anywhere to upload new work.

Near the base of the Pit One Grade, Highway 299 East, northernmost California.<div></div>

The quintessential "Little White Church" deep in the heart of the Fall River Valley,

Intermountain Area, northernmost California.<div></div>

I've uploaded my first four images ever to my portfolio! I don't have access to mount ceiling flashes, and the range of my ancient (but trusty) Osram Studio VM250 being camera-mounted means variable exposure with distance. But there's a style issue at work there, too. I find my color images remind my of my boyhood traipsing around with my sports-photographer father. His football, basketball, volleyball, etc. players in bright black-and-white, against an infinitely deep black background...somehow, in my mind, that's what sports photographs are "supposed" to look like.<div></div>

I'll take solace from the discussion above, and from the fact that I've used my Osram VM250 on my Pentax K100D for about 20 months now...

Having started with one of my father's retired Heiland Pentax H3's, I bought my first K1000 only after it died. I now own two identical sets with the K1000 body, a 60-300 zoom, and a 28-85 zoom (although different flash units). A variety of other lenses, gathered over the years before and after, all work equally well on my K100D, but in teaching my children to shoot, having identical set-ups has been a great help. Probably going to be helping out with the local 4-H Photography Club next year with some of the same teaching techniques. Even with the K100D, I prefer to let my own brain do the calculations most of the time.