Author Archives: Jim Harp

Coney Island Mermaid with Umbrella

by Jim Harp

Scan000084Coney Island Mermaid with Umbrella- Jim Harp

Shot with a TL-120 and a Vivitar 285H fill-flash with plastic diffusor.   The fill flash is an important element in this shot, without it her face would have mostly been in shadow.     The Coney Island Mermaid Parade happens on the first Saturday after the Summer Solstice every year and is a wonderful opportunity to get interesting people shots.   There are plenty of photographers with interesting rigs who attend, but the TL-120 never fails to attract attention.

Gogarty’s Pub, Dublin

by Jim Harp

Scan000086Gogarty’s Pub

This was shot with a Twin Yashica-Mat 124 rig early in the morning since I was in Ireland on business and didn’t have time for picture taking during the day.   I had good luck with the shutters on this rig when they were set to one second, so I probably shot this at one second and used spot metering to determine the aperture.    Provia 100F pushed one stop.

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.

 

Jim Harp Self Portrait

by Jim Harp

Shot with a Sputnik  Ilford Pan-F processed by DR-5  Dublin 2006
This was a three to four minute exposure.   You have to look for my face in here, it’s floating in space just to the left of the base of the statue.   I opened the shutter with a locking cable release, walked up to the statue and held a Vivitar 285H pointed at my face at arm’s length and fired it.