Category Archives: a30

Moisture Festival Finale

by Bob Venezia

Seattle’s Moisture Festival has grown to be the largest comedy/variety festival in the world. (Perhaps if they had known that when they started, fifteen years ago, they would have given it a different name.) It grew out of a collaboration of performers on the left coast vaudeville circuit and other performers from around the states and around the world. One of the inspirations for the festival was a cabaret run by the great German clown, Hacki Ginda.

I was once part of that vaudeville circuit, and many of the folks in this shot are friends of mine. This was shot a few years ago at the end of the festival, and that’s Hacki Ginda at center stage. Also pictured in the back, sporting a beard, is the great American clown Avner Eisenberg, aka Avner the Eccentric, who years ago did a one man show on Broadway to critical acclaim. The Moisture Festival has very little money to pay performers and yet they come from all over the world to participate.

Rocket Bursts

by Bob Venezia

This was from the first year I successfully shot hyper firewords bursts from my twin-rig setup. I only got a couple of shots that year, but the results were good enough to keep me trying. I used a formula I got from Don Lopp to calculate the stereo base, and I came up with 22 feet. After Don looked at the shots he said, “You know, since you don’t have anything *behind* the fireworks you could double the base. Ive been shooting with a 40 foot base ever since. Shot with twin Hasselblads fitted with 150mm lenses.

Philip’s Folio a30 Submissions

by Philip Steinman

MFscan_017 Vincent's 6th bday-Vincent’s 6th Birthday Party
My four kids sitting in our kitchen behind the cake: Valentine 7, Emilie 8, Vincent 6, and Kevin 10 with baby pics of Vincent in the foreground, surrounded by this years crop of friends, classmates, and teammates on his A’s AA little league team. A family snapshot, but hopefully something more to remember.

Kids at Paramount RanchKids at Paramount RanchKevin 10, Valentine 7, Vincent 6, and Emilie 8 These are my 4 kids at one of our favorite places to hike, explore, watch silent movies under the stars, and dream of being in a cowboy western movie. Some overlapping of images here as I manually wind the TL120 camera. I cropped this out.

MVP Swing, Hunter LaPlanteMFscan_2400_038 Hunter LaPlante-Every team has one, an MVP, only Hunter was also the 10 year old’s league MVP. 7 of his teammates scattered across this photo with 3 of them looking on (the one in the middle is my son Kevin). Hunter has a sweet baseball swing. He never strikes out and hits 3rd in the lineup of our championship team. You can see the intensity and focus in his eyes with his level perfect bat meets the ball swing.
Shot with Kodak EPR film on TL120 which gives an entirely different look (nostalgic) than Fuji Provia (realistic).

Yankees Championship PhotoMFscan_2400_040 Yankees Championship Photo-The Encino Little League Minors 2018 Championship was won by the Yankees. A year these kids will never forget as they went wire to wire 1st place and undefeated in the playoffs to capture the championship trophy.
Shot with Kodak EPR film on TL120 which gives an entirely different look (nostalgic) than Fuji Provia (realistic).

I had some problems winding the manual TL120 camera. Do you wind until the # shot is in the red viewfinder on back or do you wind until the # is in the viewer finder or passes it and the wind is complete? Because of this I had some images that overlapped at the edges (and I cropped that part out). Tips appreciated, as I usually shot with my autowind Fuji GA645w, but always cha-cha.

Submission 2018

by Nik Sekhar

 

Thanks for allowing me to share my images with you. I’ve enjoyed your images

Nik Sekhar

Ray Dillard – More of the same, yet different

by Ray Dillard

This set of slides is a continuation of my experiments in multiple exposure shots. I am using a more mathematical approach in these, calculating different exposure setting to set things in front of or behind one another based on exposure order and timing. Maybe it is working. Maybe I am just kidding myself.

The Window sm

“The Window” – This is a location I have shot at before. The following two images are also from the same location. Several earlier entries in this Folio have been shot here, also. Always with my Sputnik on Fuji Provia 100F. This image is an attempt to memorize a position in the first exposure and attempting to line up in a very specific way elements of the second exposure. Thus the spiral metal sculpture focusing the eye on “the window”.

The Gazebo sm

“The Gazebo” – A triple exposure – The title tells the story. Again, I am attempting to create interest between the various objects by not only exposure “math”, but also through placement of critical bits between the two shots. My Sputnik, purchased from John Thurston, has a nice modified viewer which made this “alignment” between shots much easier. I don’t think I could have aligned things this well with the standard viewer!

The Apple Gate sm

“The Apple Gate” – A triple exposure – Actually this is a miss on a couple of fronts. I hoped to get the “gate”, which was the last exposure, in the gap of the arched apple tree limbs. I had also hoped for better focus of the second exposure, which was the apple tree in the foreground. BUT, the exposure of the gate was just what I was hoping for! I was also pleased that my math kept this image from blowing out too far. This is what I love about experimenting!

Old and Older sm

“Old and Older” – This was a location my friend and mentor Steven Lederman and I stumbled upon on a day of looking for interesting places to shoot here in Southern Ontario. We wondered onto the property finding this VERY old barn, in the foreground behind a few other building shielding it from view from the road. The barn in the background is certainly well over 100 years old, but the one in the foreground is much older. I will probably post another shot of this older building in the future. I was attracted to the angles of the two structures roofs.

Many thanks to Steven Lederman for not only developing these rolls, but mounting my slides! The mounting is NOT something I have gotten the hang of after many hours of frustrating attempts.

Cha Cha Cha!

by Steven Lederman

I was going to call this set “Dancing in 645 Time”, but I thought that sounded really pretentious, so, I went with something equally as creative; “2018 Submissions”.  I was going to use the word “Dancing” because these four images are all cha-chas.  I am a musician, and I know there’s no such time signature as 645, but I was going to use it as part of the title as all these images were shot in 645 format.

My Thriving Ceramic Hobby

“My Thriving Ceramic Hobby” – I used to enjoy creating ceramic sculpture, and when we moved into this house (years ago) I set up a pottery shed in the backyard. Unfortunately, the equipment has lain dormant for a while now.  I am hoping to eventually resume my ceramic hobby and build some ceramic stereo pinhole cameras.  You’re looking at two Skutt kilns under plastic behind the pottery shed.  This is a cha-cha captured with a noisy Fujifilm GA645W.

Horned Sentinels On A Hot Tin Roof

“Horned Sentinels On A Hot Tin Roof” – this is self-explanatory and should be a familiar scene for almost all film shooters.  This is a cha-cha shot with a Fujica GS645W, on Kodak Aerochrome film, using a Y1 Yellow filter.  A GA645W couldn’t be used to shoot infrared film as it has film sensors that would likely fog this sensitive film.  This was captured in St. Lucia, during the December holiday season.  See all the snow?   No, I didn’t think so.

What Stays In Vegas Decays In Vegas

“What Stays In Vegas Decays In Vegas” – in February my wife and I drove from Las Vegas, Nevada to Los Angeles, California to visit family.  While in Vegas we visited the Neon Boneyard Museum.  My wife and I booked a guided tour of the Museum, and I booked myself a “Photo Walk” for the following afternoon.  During the guided tours you have to keep up with the tour group, you can’t lag behind taking photos, and you can only bring one camera.  No tripods, no extra lenses, and no selfie sticks.  On the Photo Walks, you are allowed to bring all of your gear, and you get to roam around at your leisure for about an hour and a half.  The Photo Walks happen twice a month and are usually limited to about six photographers.  If you ever book a guided tour, make sure to request Russ as your guide.  He’s been a Vegas resident since 1962, and he’s frequented most of the establishments that once displayed the signs that now reside in the Boneyard.  He knows the history of Vegas, and the backstory for all of the signs in the Museum!   This cha-cha was shot with a GS645W.  I tried to meter for balance between the highlights and shadows, but I still wound up with some blown-out highlights.  No matter, you can see what the blown-out signs on the right look like in the final slide of this set.

Vacancy Row

“Vacancy Row” – I was going to call this image “Cinnamon” as that’s what I think of everytime that I read the motel name on the most upright of the two motel signs pictured, but you all woulda thunk I wuz illiterate.  Shot with the same equipment on the same afternoon as “What Stays…”, I also had a 1930 Rolleidoscop, a CLAed 2.8 Stereo Realist, and a Panasonic 3D-1 in my camera bag.

Hruba Skala Castle

by Timo

Hruba Skala Castle Thumb

On the way to a shoot at this interesting, Czech, rock-top castle (chateaux perhaps) I spied this nice shot. The way to the building is through some winding roads and small villages. I thought I would sneak in a travel shot with all the vehicles. Travel is nice.

TL120, Provia 100f film.

Reflecting on Classic Cars

by Timo

Reflecting on Classic Cars ThumbI think this is a 1939 Chevrolet Coupe police car through the reflection in the window of a 1957 Chevrolet Deluxe Sedan police car. These cars were on display by the police at the 2017 Toronto Indy. The yellow colour of the 57 was the colour of all Metropolitan Toronto Police cars into the 70s. It is also the hidden meaning behind the lyrics of the Joni Mitchel song “Big Yellow Taxi”. Police car, not a taxi.

After focusing and setting my aperture (don’t remember what it was, but I usually shoot at 1/125 on sunny days) I waited some time for interesting people to come into the shot.

A tough choice for mounting, so this is the best I could get under the circumstances.

Jumping Truck

by Timo

Jumping Truck ThumbI took this image in 2016 at the Toronto Indy. This is obviously from a supporting race, not the Indy car race. I shot this, tracking the truck at 1/500th on Provia 100f, but I can’t remember the aperture. There is a small exposure difference between the left and right images due to a sticky shutter on my TL120. This TL120 went to China for a new shutter circuit board (back when you could still do that), but it obviously did not solve my problem. A few shutter cycles between rolls gives me a better chance of matching exposures, which leads me to believe that there is mechanical sticking going on. I would appreciate it if anybody could tell me how to fix this

Ian Andvaag A30 submission

by Ian Andvaag
Encroaching Dunes and Storm Brewing were taken during the four separate times I visited Douglas Provincial Park this summer. It is a nice ~4km walk out to the dunes, through scrubby aspen parkland full of scraggly junipers and cacti eking out an existence off the dry, nutrient deficient soil. Unfortunately our provincial government has thoroughly defunded our provincial parks, so the nature centre at the trail head has been permanently closed and has fallen into disrepair. So, I don’t know much about this unique ecozone. At least the trail markers remain mostly in tact, so it is still easy to find the dunes, although the trails are not used very frequently. During my visits I only ever encountered maybe 3 groups of people.
The first time I went I discovered rather dramatically at the end of my 5 hour hike that my TL-120 had not been working properly. It was getting dark and I decided to do a couple of longer exposures. I set up the camera to 1 sec and took the shot … the shutter did clicked open and shut without any delay. Uh-oh. I had always thought that the camera had a mechanical shutter, so even if the battery was dead, it would still operate normally, except for the light meter. Earlier in the day I had been shooting at around 1/60, and didn’t notice that the shutter wasn’t staying open long enough. I think I developed 5 super underexposed rolls from that excursion. Lesson learned, I’ve now carefully reread John Thurston’s excellent page on battery options, and I always carry spares now, and I change the batteries periodically.
Canola Fields and Milkhouse were taken near the farmyard where my Dad grew up. I should have been there about 1 week earlier to get optimal colour in the canola flowers. I wish I would have had an opportunity to photograph the field in the early morning or late afternoon warm light, but it was cloudy. I think Milkhouse is a bit weaker than the other slides in my submission, but I really like the colours, so I decided to include it.
I’m really enjoying shooting with the TL-120, but I still take out my Sputnik in adverse weather conditions and when it is inconvenient to lug around the heavy TL-120. Sometime in the future I’d really like to try some hypers after seeing some amazing slides from the folios. I still struggle with exposure a bit, I’d say only about 80% of my shots come out properly exposed (provided my camera has functional batteries!) Was the TL-120’s internal light meter calibrated for colour negative film, because it seems to overexpose most scenes by a bit. I use my Gossen Luna Pro F primarily. Perhaps I should consider getting a spot meter.
I really enjoyed the folio again, thanks all for your lovely images!

Orange & Mission Inn Avenue, Riverside

by Dale Walsh

A fabulous and large hotel some lucky people stayed in during my second NSA convention in Riverside, California. I stayed at the functional but non-spectacular and much less expensive Holiday Inn which was under construction at the time!  My first convention I went to before I was actually a member of the NSA also in Riverside was in 1976 I believe.  I think this was taken with twin Mamiya C330 cameras. Fuji Velvia 50