retro camera lmages

[terri]

Isn't this the store window shot...?

hmmm. a fake flower in a vinegar bottle. What are trying to say here, Charlie? :mrgreen:

 

[mysteryscribe]

The donugt shop is a simple double exposure but it is so easy with a ground glass back.....

Oh the rose is one of those from the lab camera test things... its called acidic rose lol. It is loved on one of the other sites. but then I'm an oddity.

 

[Jeff Canes]

i like these two a lot, but not for the same reasons

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[JamesD]

Isn't this the store window shot...?

hmmm. a fake flower in a vinegar bottle. What are trying to say here, Charlie? :mrgreen:

Sometimes, I think, a fake flower in a vinegar bottle is just a fake flower in a vinegar bottle.

We're guys. We don't usually do sublime very well.

Or, at least, not that we'll ever admit...

 

[terri]

Sometimes, I think, a fake flower in a vinegar bottle is just a fake flower in a vinegar bottle.

We're guys. We don't usually do sublime very well.

Or, at least, not that we'll ever admit...

See....this is what I know. But that's okay. Cling to your cigar. :mrgreen: Hell, I'll light it for you.

 

[mysteryscribe]

On come now surely you see the symbolism there. Forget that it's a FAKE rose. For goodness sake I deal in absurb contrast in subjects when I do still life. rofl of course barbara always said if you have to explain it you shouldn't bother. rofl

 

[JamesD]

Please excuse me while I absorb the fact that Terri just said she'd light my cigar....

Oh, damn, there's no cigar-smiley!

Hmm... methinks pimpalicious will do.

:twisted:

 

[mysteryscribe]

now i tried to not mention that lol.....

 

[terri]

Oh, damn, there's no cigar-smiley!

There isn't...?!?

Here, try this guy:

 

[JamesD]

How on Earth did I miss that? Grargh!

Edit made! :mrgreen:

 

[terri]

Glad I could help!

 

[mysteryscribe]

Not to change the subject but:


I have begun to learn a little more about why things progressed as they did. I took the 4x5 field camera I build out to make todays shots. I came to the realization that I was carrying a cindar block to get the same picture I could get with a camera half the size.

Since I need a better lens on my studio 4x5 camera (that I also built) guess what.....

 

[JamesD]

Yeah... my 645 is a brick. The Argus is pleasant, though... I should have it back soon. I plan to shoot my view camera (when I get it done) a lot. I'm going to start on the bellows today. Any suggestions, Charlie?

 

[mysteryscribe]

I never made a bellows, but I have a few polaroid ones around if you can use one but they are 3x4 not 4x5... Good luck and I think I am going to shot my views more. I like to take a camera into the field but I'm beginning to rethink the huges ones I lug around. Still it is nice to be recognized as a photographer not a pervert.

 

[JamesD]

For my bellows, I was figuring on a simple 6 inch across square bellows to facilitate moving it around, making a convenient size, and allowing both vertical and horizontal compositions. I read somewhere that you can make the ribs out of strips of card, with 45-degree angled clippings at the end (making them a trapezoidal form), and lay them out in rows... with black cloth for the substance of the bellows... harder to describe than to do. I was going to use that method, then paint it black on the outside, and probably the inside, too, with some sort of opaque, flexible paint.

Despite my claims, I didn't get around to it today. I will in the near future, though. I'm also going to do a brief redesign on my camera structure, to make it more suitable to what I want to do. Eventually, I'm gonna get some pictures of the in-progress states... so far, all I've got are the cut-out pieces of wood, which need to be dadoed and glued together. I'll get around to it eventually. I also need to devise some sort of a back... which I will also eventually get around to.