Photographed with twin Mamiya C220 TLRs with 135mm lenses. Ilford Pan-F (rated at ISO 25) with DR-5 processing.
I’m very fond of the surreal results of slightly hyper shooting combined with zoom lenses.
Author Archives: Jim Harp
“Cos-Play” Comic-Con New York, October 2016
One of the many costumed attendees at the Comic-con.
I used a TL-120 with Vivitar 285H flash/plastic diffusor. Provia 100F pushed one stop. I love the”hyper-realistic” portraits the TL-120 can produce.
Maha Wizaya Pagoda, Yangon Myanmar
This is a smaller pagoda that is near Yangon’s Shwedegon Pagoda.
Photographed with twin Mamiya C220 TLRs using 135mm lenses and a tripod.
Provia 100F pushed one stop, exposure was probably 1/125 @f22.
Shwedegon Pagoda, Yangon Myanmar
The Schwedegon Pagoda is considered to be the most sacred Buddhist temple in Myanmar.
Photographed with twin Mamiya C220s using 135mm lenses, I used a tripod. Prove 100F pushed one stop. Probably a 15 second exposure at f22.
Great Wall of China
This is the Mutianyu section of the Great Wall located 45 miles from Beijing. It is one of the most thoroughly restored segments of the wall.
Photographed with a TL-120 using Provia 100F pushed one stop. No tripod, I get good results with this camera using a waist-level finder and letting it hang around my neck.
New York Kite Festival
This was a New York Stereoscopic Society activity, we all had a great time shooting stereo of kites against the Hudson river and NY skyline.
Photographed with twin Mamiya C220s with 135mm lenses. Prove 100F pushed one stop. I love the surreal quality the telephoto lenses give to this sort of scene.
Bagan, Myanmar
Bagan is famous for its thousand year old Bhuddist temples. Many of these belonged to wealthy families who built them next to their houses. The houses were made of wood and are long gone, but the temples remain.
Photographed with twin Mamiya C-220s using 135mm lenses, December 2015. Prove 100F pushed one stop. I used a tripod. It was challenging hauling this huge rig around Myanmar and my family got a bit impatient with me at times, but it was worth it to get shots like this one.
Abandoned House, Mussoorie India
This was the view from the Plaza hotel in Mussoorie India. It must have been a gorgeous residence at some point. You can see that someone is living there, or at least hanging some laundry up to dry. Mussoorie is in Northern India at the foothills of the Himilayas.
Photographed with a TL-120 using Provia 100F pushed one stop. I used a pod-support on a deck railing. I think it was 1/125 @f16.
“Mermaid Parade – On the Fence”
Photographed with a TL-120 on a tripod using a Vivitar 285H with plastic diffusor for fill-flash. I think it was 1/60 @ f16.
There’s nothing quite like the Mermaid Parade, the participants loved to be photographed, and the stranger the camera the better.
“Mermaid Parade – Twin Pillows”
Photographed with a TL-120 using Provia 100F pushed one stop with a Vivitar 285H with a diffusor for fill-flash. I believe it was f16 @ 1/125. The TL-120 seems to do fine with flash sync at 1/125 even though 3D World only claimed 1/30.
It was bright sunny day for the 2014 Mermaid Parade, fill-flash saved lots of my shots from excessive shadow detail.
For me fill-flash is like that commercial for hot-sauce: “I put that $#*& on everything!”
Taj Mahal Close
The Taj Mahal is often seen just in the classic full view, but there’s quite a lot to look at when you get closer in. MF3D is really the only medium that can convey the richness of all the marble inlays and carving.
This was photographed with a TL-120 using Provia 100F pushed one stop. I believe it was 1/250 @f16. No tripods are allowed at the Taj unless major fees are paid, so this was shot with the camera hanging around my neck using a Hasselblad waist level finder and a cable release. October 2010.
The TL-120 attracted a lot of attention in India, at times I was mobbed with people wondering what it was.
Montreal lookout
Montreal Lookout – Jim Harp
Shot with a TL-120 using Provia 100F pushed one stop. This slide didn’t even seem worth mounting until I thought of trying a panoramic mount. Unfortunately I used my last panoramic mount here.
Coney Island Mermaid with Umbrella
Coney Island Mermaid with Umbrella- Jim Harp
Shot with a TL-120 and a Vivitar 285H fill-flash with plastic diffusor. The fill flash is an important element in this shot, without it her face would have mostly been in shadow. The Coney Island Mermaid Parade happens on the first Saturday after the Summer Solstice every year and is a wonderful opportunity to get interesting people shots. There are plenty of photographers with interesting rigs who attend, but the TL-120 never fails to attract attention.
Gogarty’s Pub, Dublin
Gogarty’s Pub
This was shot with a Twin Yashica-Mat 124 rig early in the morning since I was in Ireland on business and didn’t have time for picture taking during the day. I had good luck with the shutters on this rig when they were set to one second, so I probably shot this at one second and used spot metering to determine the aperture. Provia 100F pushed one stop.
Alligator Cactus
Alligator Cactus – Jim Harp
TL-120 camera with Vivitar 285H fill-flash
Provia 100F pushed one stop
This was taken at the Desert Botanical Garden near Phoenix, Arizona.