[LargeFormat] 65mm SA

[Les Newcomer]

To paraphrase Hawkeye Pierce "This is meatball photography"  They don't
pay me enough to color balance the shots, so for the most part I base my
(time part of the) exposure on either; A) metering ambient light and
then adding a pop to open the shadows  or B) The time it takes the metz
to recharge on two or three pops.  It's amazing how often f16 @ 1 second
is the metered reading. The flash is hand held and un synchronized so I
can fire more than once.  and I keep my printer well stocked on Mylanta

I just delivered a photo of a filter bed that had 1) metal halide
(cyan/green) 2)mercury vapor (orange) and flash in it.  It was quite an
amuzing effect- sorta like shooting through a dichroic filter  :-)


My lastest job is for the clean side of the Water and Sewer Dept. It
intailed going into underground rooms full of pipes and a large water
meter and take pre construction photographs, while it would have been
fun to shoot 4x5 and flash bulbs, it was faster with a Hassy SWC and my
Metz. The hazard with this was that the rooms at least damp (condensate
dripping off the ceiling) and sometimes flooded ( I told them I don't
have scuba gear, you gotta pump it down to a max of 1 foot) After trying
several different camera cases and vests, I finally settle on a couple
of 5 gallon pickle buckets. One for the SWC, one for the Metz and a
bogen super arm with a QR plate. 

Les


Karl Wolz wrote:
> 
> Great shot!
> 
> It's hard to beat that 65 for drama.
> 
> The wall to the left has a bluish cast (in comparison to the ambient light).
> Was that mostly the Metz?  Did you filter your strobe light at all?
> 
> It's a shi**y job, but somebody had to do it.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Karl
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Les Newcomer" <lnphoto@ismi.net>
> To: <largeformat@f32.net>
> Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2001 7:08 AM
> Subject: [LargeFormat] 65mm SA
> 
> >
> >
> > A while back I put up a photo using a S65mm f8 Super Angulon, and
> > alluded to a photo of an "outflow control chamber"
> >
> > Well here it is
> >
> > http://www.ismi.net/~lnphoto/outflowcontrol.JPG
> >
> > The chamber is about 6 feet wide and the grate in the ceiling is about
> > 30 feet from where I was standing. The iron thing is a gate about 5 feet
> > tall and is in a half open position (just below the photo was a
> > recangular hole 6 feet wide and about 3 feet tall)
> >
> > The camera is on a tripod about 2.5-3 feet off the ground pointed almost
> > straight up. Normally I would sit down so I could look up at the ground
> > glass to focus, but there was about 2 inches of raw sewer water on the
> > floor so I had to sort of bend double to look at the ground glass. The
> > room was lit with three 150 watt bulbs and could have been candles for
> > all the light they gave off. The walls were covered in VERY black
> > waterproofing tar/pitch.
> >
> > By eye, you could not see the ceiling except for the grate and the walls
> > didn't show the water stains
> >
> > I focused on the grate and the top light in the hole, since thats all I
> > could see. Stopped down to f16 fired off 4-6 pops of my trusty Metz 60
> > CT4 on the old VPH 400 color film.
> >
> > In the wall to the left, there was another gate that let water in from a
> > 15 foot tunnel and the gate shown allowed the water to fall another 25
> > feet to a 30 foot dia super sewer.
> >
> > In Panama they have locks for ships, in Detroit they have locks for
> > shi*.   :-)
> >
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