Tag Archives: TL120-1

James

by Matt Neima

I submitted an almost identical picture to the IMF Folio, but found this one later. In the other picture the chickadee is not sharp.

This was taken at ‘The Pinery’ provincial park near Lake Huron Ontario, Canada. In February, there should be snow, but it was warm and spring like. This was shot with the TL120 on SCALA and processed by Century film

View from the 101 Building – Taipei, Taiwan

by Jim Harp

May 2012

This is the view from the observation deck of the 101 building which is the tallest skyscraper in Asia.   This was a cha-cha shot with a TL-120 using Provia 100F pushed one stop.   I used a four foot separation, which is quite a bit less than the “1/30” rule would dictate.  While I don’t think this separation would produce satisfactory depth in 35mm or digital I feel that it works well for medium format.   Medium Format’s high level of detail provides plenty of depth cues and there’s none of the miniaturization effects that a 20 foot separation would have created.

 

Black and White Blue

by John Thurston

This is my first effort with DR5 processing and I’m extremely pleased with the results. I’ve been very happy with the sharpness I get with Provia 100, and reasonably happy with the sharpness with Provia 400x, but with Ilford HP5 at 400 I can see the grains of sand on the rocks. It is expensive to process, but I hope to shoot some more HP5 next year.

The cave below the Crack of Doom, persisted for at least three months. I first visited it in August. This image was made in October. The ceiling was higher and the space more open, but the cave was still there. This is almost the same vantage point as Streamside Snapshot. The rise in the very center of this image is off on the right side (and touching the ceiling) in Streamside.

Tripod mounted TL120-1, Ilford HP5 at ISO 400, DR5 processing

 

 

Streamside Snapshot

by John Thurston

Back in August, I had found an awesome cave at the edge of the ice. I had been under the ice for about 30 minutes trying for some images of the stream running at the bottom of the cave. The light level was low and I was having to guess at 1.5 or 2 second exposures while the melting roof falling all around me. These two ladies climbed and slid down to where I was and asked if they could take a few pictures without disturbing me.

“Sure thing!”, I said. They weren’t going to interrupt my process, and I really wanted some pictures of them against the blue.

While they took each others’ pictures, I tried to advance to advance the film, open the aperture enough to get the shutter-speed down to a more realistic number, compose a new image, and focus for the shallow depth of field. I think I got off three exposures before they were done and ready to climb out and head home. This is the only one which is close to useable, and it’s still too dark. I really need to carry a small flash and learn how to use it 🙁

This is in the same cave in which I made Crack of Doom. I’m turned 180 degrees and thirty feet farther in.

Tripod mounted TL120-1, Provia 400X, un-recorded aperture and shutter.

 

Crack of Doom

by John Thurston

Some glaciers are relatively stable. The Mendenhall is not one of these. At this fissure, the race is on between the melt action from the outside edge and thinning ceiling caused by the increasing depth of the crack. When I found this ceiling crack, I knew I had to try to get an image of it before it disappeared.

It’s shot on Provia 400X with about a half-second exposure. Because of the height of the ceiling and the orientation of the crack, I was unable to get everything in focus with the TL120-1. Yep, the foreground is soft, but I feel it isn’t too distracting. A greater distraction is the stream of water very near the camera. Again, there was nothing I could do about it, so I made the image as best I could.

This is one image I whole-heartedly suggest experiencing inverted. Flip that slide over and see what’cha’ think.

This is also an image which I have found impossible to color-match between the slide and the computer screen. The colors just don’t exist in the sRGB space to present the colors on the film.

August, 2011 – Tripod mounted TL120-1, Provia 400X

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.

Bowlus Joshua Park

by John Long

Another show with my 1935 Bowlus Road Chief on our recent trip from Toronto to California and back.  Loved this area of Joshua Tree National Park near Palm Springs.  I did alot of climbing over the rock for different angles.  Sorry the rock is slightly out of focus.  I shot f22 but I guess not enough DOF.  I was shoting most mono (sorry).  For those that are intrigued by my trailer fascination check my Bowlus pages for some other mono (sorry) pics of the trip.

3D World f22 at 1/60 Tripod Provia F

New York Parade

by John Long

I was hanging out the window of my hotel for this shot.  It was a St. Patrick day parade staging grounds.  Lot of action, a complex image that I feel is stereo photograpy’s strength.  Somehow this image reminds me of Paul Shay’s photographs, on one hand it is clearly street photography but the subject somehow seemed staged, sort of like Jeff Wall’s photography.

3D World Provia handheld (which is rare for me)… I was worried I was going to drop the camera on someone.