Category Archives: FolioB

Fresh Fruit

by Lattie

I did another small series of MD Renn Fest  shots this Fall, but a freak Oct. snowfall prevented me from doing the PA one this year.

April, the confident, photogenic vendor shown here, was introduced to me by Tom, (another roving, middle-aged photographer who was toting an impressive lens and digicam). 🙂 He said he has a Realist camera and was into NSA and such a few years ago, and I invited him to jump back into the fold.

Anyway, I did a few shots of her and others that warm day. I waited until the later afternoon when the sun slanted thru the thick, forest canopy of the grounds. It really is a special time, and no, I didn’t usually bother with fill-flash or reflectors. I like the way the sharp lighting heightens the fabric textures of the costumes, even at the expense of harsher shadows on the skin. Check out the fine print detail on those bills she holds!  I got a whole, small series of various Renn Denizens, (including 1st attempts at Bob V. Style close-up portraits).  I’ll slip more into the folios to come.

Submission 2

by Nik Sekhar

Ducks Lake Winnebago

Velvia 100 and TL120(used for all)  Exposure f16 1/30

I used the reeds as a 3d frame for the ducks.  I like to underexpose velvia a bit to saturate the color.

My son, Efke 25, Nikon Sb 28 flash on auto f8

I love this film for portraits, grainless with excellent latitude.  Please try it and DR5 if you haven’t yet.

Purple Tree at Riverside Park Neenah Velvia 100

Also slightly underexposed to saturate the color.  I think trees are the perfect subject for 3d,  I think this was f16 1/125

Myrtle Falls Mt. Rainier Velvia 100

I used f8 and 1/500 for this to eliminate the need for the tripod.  Probably one of the few shots that I’ve used the top shutter speed for.  Still adequate depth of field at infinity, but if you are really looking for it. Some forground needles are slightly soft.  I love this place and hopefully will get to use the Tl- 120 in  few more National Parks.  Long Live Slide Film!


Autumn in Colorado, Ohio Pass

by dorothy mladenka

All my images this round were taken with my trusty Don Loppified sputnik. We traveled to Utah & Colorado in September 2011.  I used Kodak film, normally it was the 100vs or 100gx. I hand held the camera and shot f/22 at 50 shutter speed. Light is natural.

This was shot at Ohio Pass, Colorado. It was such a treat for us to see the changing colors in the trees as we only have 2 seasons in Texas: hot and hotter than hell-o 🙂

Cliff Palace #2, Mesa Verde, Colorado

by dorothy mladenka

All my images this round were taken with my trusty Don Loppified sputnik.  We traveled to Utah & Colorado in September 2011.  I used Kodak film, normally it was the 100vs or 100gx. I hand held the camera (tripod didn’t make it in either) and shot f/22 at 50 shutter speed. Light is natural.

This was shot at Cliff Palace at Mesa Verde, Colorado.

Cliff Palace, Mesa Verde

by dorothy mladenka

  •  All my images this round were taken with my trusty Don Loppified sputnik. Don has done a great job of tuning up the spud. Thank you Don!!! We traveled to Utah & Colorado in September 2011. I wanted to restrict my weight and to have both the spud and the realist in one camera bag. So the TL120 didn’t make it in. I used Kodak film, normally it was the 100vs or 100gx. I hand held the camera (tripod didn’t make it in either) and shot f/22 at 50 shutter speed. Light is natural.  We had extremely great weather, sunny & blue skies. To minimize light leakage I taped up the spud really good using black photographers tape. It is reusable and does not leave the sticky residue that electrical tape tends to do.

This was shot at Cliff Palace at Mesa Verde, Colorado.

Hanging Ice Cubes

by John Thurston

This is another image from under the Mendenhall glacier. I have done several images of the surface and the caves. Here, I’ve screwed up the courage to actually get in the gap between the ice and the bedrock, put a camera on a tripod and try to compose some images. It’s pretty hard to concentrate on images when the ceiling is melting and the resulting ice-water-rain is running down your back. Then there are the streams (a little visible in the middle-ground), tumbling rocks, and falling ice-bits to keep you jumping!

I really wanted to get more light so you could see the distance better. Even though I had brought my flash (and all of the cables to make it go) I was unable to control it enough to get any light in the distance without blowing out the rocks in the foreground. What I needed was a Chimney Boy to slither in and rig a couple of remotes part way down the cleft.

Created with a tripod-mounted TL120-1

Decker Way

by John Thurston

Juneau has more than a few steep streets, and quite of few of these become too steep to remain a paved roadway. Decker Way is a downtown street which becomes a staircase to finish its run down to South Franklin St. The staircase streets are named and numbered just like the roadways, and commonly have  houses along both sides. I visit them on my lunch break, and I don’t envy the folks who live there who get to carry their groceries up (or down) in all kinds of weather.

This is not labeled, but is probably from my TL120-1.

David Lee, August 2011

by David Lee

I have taken the liberty of scanning David’s slides so we’ll have something to jog our memories as we leave comments. Any errors in scanning are certainly mine and not David’s.

–John Thurston

David W. Kesner – The Sentinels

by David Kesner

These formations in a lava tube are called extrusion spires and were formed when molten lava in the floor was pushed up through a hole. You can see how some of the lava traveled to the top and then spilled out and dripped down the sides. These are over six feet tall and are the largest in the US. Taken with a TL120 on Fuji ProviaF 100. Lighting was from two Vivitar 283 flashes. One was placed to the far left and triggered by a slave. The other was held just to the right of the camera.

Linda Nygren, July 2011

by Linda Nygren

Linda submitted her images at the close of the NSA convention in Loveland. I’ve provided the thumbnail scans to provide a placeholder for comments, but I am unable to add any additional commentary.

–John Thurston, August, 2011