Bike Works NYC

by Boris Starosta

This is a great little bike shop in SoHo that I discovered years ago while shopping for some esoteric bike parts online.  They have a fabulous web page with lots of fun historical content, plus galleries of unusual bikes they’ve had in their shop (see this page showing some of my bikes).  My city bike, pictured at the lower left of the view (black frame, 20″ wheels), is in their web galleries as well.  This view is of their “showroom” and counter – an area about 10 x 15 ft. bikeworks_NYC_1_MFT72_ To obtain this exposure, I held the camera upside down against the door frame above my head, shimmed a bit with a bicycle cog under the front edge of the camera (I couldn’t bring a tripod on my bike).  I took numerous pictures this way, bracketting my exposures.

Kodak E200, f16, 8s exposure, Sputnik on loan from Chuck Holzner.  original slide.

Michele in 2009

by Boris Starosta

In early spring of 2009 I went on a hike with my beloved Michele.  Weather for Charlottesville had been forecast in the low 50s.  But at Old Rag Mt. things turned out different.  Instead of the partly sunny, mid-40s temperatures we’d expected, by the time we got halfway up the mountain, there was a stiff breeze blowing snow UP the side of the mountain, into our faces, with temperatures below freezing.  At the point shown in the photograph, we were out on some rocky parts of the climb, relatively exposed, wind howling, like a scene out of Krakauer’s “Into Thin Air.”  We’d forgotten our oxygen bottles so we turned around.

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1/10 sec. exposure on FUJI RAP film in available light at f16 with Sputnik on loan from Chuck Holzner.  This is the original slide.

Blobbed!!!

by Ted Baskin

Blobbed#36 –  Sputnik – don’t remember the film or settings

This was taken at a retreat for high school kids. The “blob” is the inflatable thingy. One person sits at the far end while another person jumps from the platform onto the near end. This propels the person at the far end up in the air. Everybody stopped what they were doing to watch because the girl that is up in the air said it was OK to have the heaviest guy there jump on the blob. I think this one set a record. She emerged from the water crying, but everyone was cheering. She loved the attention more than she hated the pain and did it again 10 minutes later.

“1959”

by Ted Baskin

1959#35 – Sputnik – f/4.5 Provia 400F

This was taken at a play that my stepdaughter was in. Flash photography was not allowed. A couple of months ago on the MF3D Yahoo group, there was a discussion about wide apertures with a Sputnik. It was the same advice that we’ve all heard over the years. Apertures wider than f/16 are useless. This was taken at f/4.5 and even though there is definite softness, I don’t think it’s useless.

Later in the Evening by the Lake

by Dave Casey

sunsetlakeThis was taken a few minutes later. (See notes from previous image) By this time, the shadows have eaten up a lot of the closer depth cues, (and apparently my ability to see the bubble level in the viewfinder) but there is still some sense of being there. It will be interesting to see how the digital slides compare noise-wise to this one.

According to the 3D World mounting jig, the vertical alignment is either perfect, or off by a bit, depending on which side of the slide is up in the jig. I suspect this means the lines on the jig are off by a hair. Please let me know what you think.

I haven’t been able to do much shooting the past two years, but I hope to make up for lost time on the next loop.  Thanks for your patience, and for sharing some amazing images.

Early Evening by the Lake

by Dave Casey

eveninglakeI was juggling the Heidoscop, and a couple of digital rigs hoping to get a set of digital->film comparison slides printed up for this loop. Hopefully the digital slides will catch up with the folio before the next stop is over.

In order to reduce the severe headaches I’ve been getting during mounting, I’m experimenting with keeping the edges of the chips lined up in between the two horizontal ridges in the 3D World mounts. This has been a huge help, but in this particular case, the downside was that the horizon is a little bit tilted, and there is a bit of tree branch dangling down at the top that I would have masked w/ the mount if I could have slid and rotated the chips a little bit.

According to the 3D World mounting jig, the vertical alignment is either perfect, or off by a bit, depending on which side of the slide is up in the jig. I suspect this means the lines on the jig are off by a hair. Please let me know what you think.

I haven’t been able to do much shooting the past two years, but I hope to make up for lost time on the next loop.  Thanks for your patience, and for sharing some amazing images.

Oranges

by Dave Casey

It took several trips into town and a couple of different groves before I managed to get there when they were ripe enough, not already picked, and the sun was still high enough that the rows weren’t casting huge shadows on each other.

Oranges

According to the 3D World mounting jig, the vertical alignment is either perfect, or off by a bit, depending on which side of the slide is up in the jig. I suspect this means the lines on the jig are off by a hair. Please let me know what you think.

I haven’t been able to do much shooting the past two years, but I hope to make up for lost time on the next loop.  Thanks for your patience, and for sharing some amazing images.

Misty Morning Out Standing in Someone Else’s Field

by Dave Casey

Misty MorningIt was an unusually misty morning, and I wanted to experiment with the back-lit dew, but I didn’t want to seem like I was being too nosy about “The drug dealer shack” on the other side of the field, so I had to settle for semi-backlit. A few years ago, this was an orange grove like you see in the next slide.

According to the 3D World mounting jig, the vertical alignment is either perfect, or off by a bit, depending on which side of the slide is up in the jig. I suspect this means the lines on the jig are off by a hair. Please let me know what you think.

I haven’t been able to do much shooting the past two years, but I hope to make up for lost time on the next loop.  Thanks for your patience, and for sharing some amazing images.

…and the Clock Struck KAZAM! #2

by Bob Venezia

 

Carnival rides light up the Puyallup Fair at night

Carnival rides light up the Puyallup Fair at night

I have my night exposures of carnival rides pretty well set, but this particular ride was running without  the spotlights for most of the duration of the ride. It looked darker than usual, so I bumped the exposure. Taken with twin Hasselblad 500Cs, 50 mm lenses. Exposure could have been 16 seconds at f22.

The top part of the ride is swinging down, and looks to me like the pendulum on a clock. It intersects with Sinbad’s  extended sword in the painted  backdrop. It looks as though he’s hitting the pendulum with a loud KAZAM!