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Kat’s\u00a0Full Service<\/em> was shot at a perfectly chaotic and disheveled, local “hole in the wall” tire\/repair garage in an older part of town.\u00a0 I’d been looking for a place like this for years, to re-interpret a famous picture by Herb Ritts,\u00a0Fred<\/em> (google “Fred with tires” there are actually several variants).\u00a0 After finding this shop in 2013 or so, I shot my first “Fred” session with my beloved partner M, and though this produced some wonderful MF3d images, I feel somewhat restrained in publishing them.\u00a0 To have greater freedom in publishing the image, I decided this past year to reshoot it with a “professional” model, and this slide is one of the images that came out of that session.\u00a0 (By the way, Kat really was a professional, and of the nicest sort.\u00a0 She was super helpful and accommodating in the challenging location, totally un-self-conscious and focussed on the modeling tasks at hand, and spontaneously creative in her posing, even after we had attracted a small audience of passers by.\u00a0 And she was fairly easy on the eyes, too;-)<\/p>\n Now, this particular image does not follow on the Herb Ritts image.\u00a0 (I did get one<\/em> good facsimile of Ritts’s “Fred” with Kat on film, but I am holding onto it, read on).\u00a0 But at least this image is in focus!\u00a0 While this session with Kat produced many fine images on my digital rig, my efforts with film were unfortunately plagued by bad luck and, frankly, operator error due to my long absence from shooting.\u00a0 (The last time I’d shot a model with film was about one year prior, in the summer of 2017 – Selene at a river, an example included in this round of the folio).\u00a0 I shot three rolls of 120 with a “new” Sputnik, yielding 36 stereo pairs, and a pair of 220 rolls with my twin Mamiya 6 rig, yielding 24 stereo pairs.\u00a0 This particular shot came from the Mamiyas.<\/p>\n All of the Sputnik shots were essentially out of focus…\u00a0 either I made a mistake, or the lens markings were off.\u00a0 The garage in the background was in perfect focus, but the model herself was a bit soft on all of the Sputnik shots – a very great disappointment!\u00a0 \u00a0This was only the second time I had used that Spud, which I had acquired in 2018, after the first couple of test rolls seemed to come out fine.\u00a0 But the session with Kat was more demanding: it was more close up, and due to the light in the shade, I had to open the apertures a little bit, shooting at f16 I think.\u00a0 The imagery, though “out of focus” for MF3d slide viewing, is however good enough for scanning and stereoview printing… but you know that is of little consolation.<\/p>\n All the Mamiya shots were in excellent focus, but a different type of operator error caused more than half the shots to be badly out of alignment – and in such an odd manner that there is no fixing it.\u00a0 I might include a copy of one of those in future, as an exercise or challenge for everyone to figure out what I did wrong.\u00a0 This view of Kat – “Full Service” – however does not suffer from the alignment problem.\u00a0 It is one of less than ten stereo pairs that ended up looking pretty good.<\/p>\n The upshot is that I’ll probably want to return to this garage a third time with a model – beating this creative idea to death as it were.\u00a0 \u00a0I haven’t decided yet, but I imagine the guys at the shop won’t mind.\u00a0 They’ve been quite amused to have me there with a model.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n PS: prior to the session with Kat, I tried to get two warm up filters for the Mamiyas at least, but couldn’t get them in time.\u00a0 Next time around the color will be much better.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Kat’s\u00a0Full Service was shot at a perfectly chaotic and disheveled, local “hole in the wall” tire\/repair garage in an older part of town.\u00a0 I’d been looking for a place like this for years, to re-interpret a famous picture by Herb Ritts,\u00a0Fred 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