Kent Shafer

Here's the wet side of that first darkroom. Though my camera and enlarger at the time were lame, I think this was a pretty cool darkroom for a kid. (Thanks, Dad!) With a better enlarger, it served me well on into adulthood.

Note the nifty stainless steel print washer with its own water supply, made by my grandfather, a master sheet metal craftsman.

Same camera, film, and scanning setup as previous picture.

Still scanning old slides and negs, this one from my teenage days. This was my first enlarger, homemade from an old folding camera and plans in (I think) Popular Mechanics magazine. It worked pretty well mechanically, but the lens was not designed for this use, and the enlargement quality was nothing to write home about.

This picture was made with an Ansco Lancer camera on 127 Ektachrome, home processed. I scanned the superslide with an Epson V700 using the standard mounted slide holder with one of its openings enlarged using a Dremel tool.

D800E, 85mm f/1.4 AF-D, ISO 6400, 1/250 @ f/2.5

Band Day, University of Michigan Stadium, September 17, 1966. Yashica Penta J, Spiratone 135mm f/2.8 preset lens with Spiratone TelXtender, Agfachrome. (Michigan defeated Oregon State 41–0.)

D800E, Sigma 35mm f/1.4 Art lens, ISO 100, 1/200 @ f/1.4

I've been scanning old slides. These were taken on February 19, 1967, at the Masonic Temple Auditorium in Detroit. Yashica Penta J, 135 mm f/2.8 Spiratone preset lens, High Speed Ektachrome Tungsten.

The Left Banke (best known for "Walk away Renée")

The Electric Prunes (best known for "I Had Too Much to Dream Last Night")

The Beach Boys

Yashica Mat LM

Same camera and film but this time with the Spiratone 135mm f/2.8 preset lens. This view includes the "spaceships" featured in "Men in Black."

From the New York World's Fair in the summer of 1965. Yashica Penta J, 50mm f/2Auto Yashinon, Kodachrome II. You could only see the Pietà from a moving walkway that took you around one revolution and then spilled you back outside. So with the camera motion and slow film, this isn't the sharpest image ever. Still, it was a memorable experience, and I'm happy to have any image at all.

Our retired racing greyhounds, both with the D800E and 24-70mm f/2.8 G AF-S ED.

Mr. Blue

Shayna

View from the observation deck of the Empire State Building, July 1965.

Yashica Penta J, 135mm Spiratone f/2.8 preset lens plus Spiratone 2X teleconverter (I think, based on the vignetting), Kodachrome II.

I've been scanning some old slides. This was taken at a camera show in 1965 with a Yashica Penta J, its 50mm f/2 Auto Yashinon semi-automatic lens, and home-processed Anscochrome.

The camera appears to be a Pentax of some kind, so presumably the big lens is a (1,000mm?) Takumar.

Laham mishwe (shish kabob)

Taken quite some time ago with a Yashica Mat LM and some kind of Ektachrome, recently scanned.

A kid in a box

D800E, 85mm f/1.4 AF-D, ISO 6400, 1/200 @ f/2

D800E, 24-70mm f/2.8 G AF-S ED, two White Lightning strobes with white umbrellas, ISO 100, 1/200 @ f/11.

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Hello Nikon people, and good Wednesday to all. An adventure in awkward lighting for me this week, as a local business needed (from email saying "Hey, can you ..." to delivery of finished images), some commissioned work in just a few hours for a publishing deadline. No control over the scene, or the time of day, outside of the late-afternoon-through-blue-hour window I had to work in. Always exciting to have some pressure, and no time! Still, it made for an interesting exercise, and it helped to know that the client wanted a whiff of theatricality in the results, for how they were going to use them. So, exposure bracketing and HDR smashing to the rescue, and JPGs out the door. Had to composite any challenging scenes into some funky tone curves lately? Doesn't matter! Share what you've got - let's see some photos.

 

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Beautiful, Matt!

Big and little kids, playing in the water.

M3, 90mm Summicron, Pan F Plus 50, PMK Pyro, Nikon 9000 scan with Nikon software.

Border collie in action, captured back in 2010 with a D700 and 70-200 f/2.8 (original version) at 200mm, ISO 800, 1/2,000 @ f/5.6.

 

Kent - 'looks like a huge, beefy whippet. 'Handsome beast well captured.

 

Thanks. She's a retired racing greyhound.

Yashica Penta J, Kodak Portra 160, 50mm f/2 Auto Yashinon, 1/250 @ f/2.8

I also took pictures for our high school yearbook. I had a Yashica Mat LM and a tiny Metz electronic flash, which seemed pretty cool at the time, though I was envious of the other photographer, who had a Rolleiflex and a big Honeywell flash. I think they belonged to his dad.

However, I somehow managed to convince the book's editor-in-chief to marry me. So tough luck, Rolleiflex guy!

Coolpix L19

It's good to be queen. (But maybe not so great to be runner-up.)

Nikon F2, 200mm f/4 AIS, Kodak Portra VC 160.