Category Archives: FolioB

Seattle Public Library -3shots

by Frank Roberto

The work of Frank Roberto of Bellevue, Washington

I fixed the focus in my Sputnik & headed to the library.

Sorry, I don’t have a scan of the images.

Hey here’s how I fixed the focus. With scotch tape!

Using tape as a temporary ground glass to check lens focusing

and

Using a rubber band to hold open Bulb mode

 

 

 

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.

 

MOG Walkway

by Bob Venezia
MOG Walkway #1

Looking up from a walkway outside the Museum of Glass in Tacoma, Washington.

Yeah, not a whole lotta depth. But I took it and you’re gonna look at it!

It was a bit of a challenge to shoot as I wanted the lenses parallel to the ceiling and it was an awkward position from which to check my framing.

TL-120, 1/2 second at f19, Provia 100F. Taken on New Year’s Eve 2009.

Chelsea Market

by Bob Venezia
Chelsea Market

Street scene in the Chelsea district

Visiting Manhattan over Christmas 2010 we got socked in by a blizzard. Our flight was cancelled so I got in a few more days of shooting scenes in the snow. Here I’m precariously perched on a mound of snow and could have used some snowshoes on my tripod. I love the quality of the saturated color in the reflections.

Twin Hasselblad 500Cs on a custom wood bar, 50mm, Provia 100F.

Approaching the Pillars

by Bob Venezia
Approaching the Pillars

An area near the Pillars of Silence

When I visited the Southwest a few years back I stopped in Page, Arizona, and hired a photoguide to cart me around to some interesting spots. There’s one spot called the Pillars of Silence where there’s a deep layer of white sandstone topped by a harder layer of rock. As the cliffs erode there are places where a hard rock is still protecting the soft sandstone directly below it so you get to an area full of white pillars each with a stone cap. It looks like an art installation. This photo is of an area right before you get to the pillars. You can see the amazing patterns made in the sandstone as it melts away. It reminds me of brain matter!

Shot with the TL-120, Provia 100F, f22, on a tripod. Shutter unrecorded.

More Pictures From Philip

by Philip Steinman

Small Light Stream

by Lattie

One more Bob V. tribute!

I took a series of close-up, Autumn stream shots just down from the Kilgore Falls pictured in my last entries. They turned out OK, but not too exciting. Then I remembered seeing how Bob improved a Bryce Canyon shot with a pan mask crop in the last folio. So I just scooted the smaller frame mount over the pics and arrived at this. I really utilized the 3D World mounting jig for the first time on this one, to try to save everyone too much eyestrain!  (and criticism) 🙂 

The DOF, of course,  suffers shooting at such a close and slanted angle.  But the shapes and colors remind me a bit of Klimt and other curvy,  Fin de Siècle paintings. So, I can just enjoy the pure abstraction of it, without worrying just how sharp or well exposed everything is.  I like looking at the floating, squiggly highlights and finding all the tiny, nearly invisible jets and drops of water poking out in depth. View this one with maximum lighting, if you can!

The Condor

by Lattie

This is another Bob V. inspiration!

Another time-exposed shot at Morey’s Pier at Wildwood, NJ, (using Bob’s suggested 4 sec. at f16, asa 100 method – saves a lot of guesswork!). This is the “Condor” ride, which looks  (and sounds) very strange – even without the added psychedelic exposure. I shot a series of them, but because the  spins and elevations constantly shift, it’s hard to predict the outcome. This was the best one, by far, and it won 1st place at my first visit to the Potomac DC Stereo Society monthly competiton. They joked it must be the first time a shot made by a Sputnik ever won anything!

I enjoy showing this to people and have them guess what they’re looking at. I’ve heard some strange answers (“guitar,” “bell striker”). The distance of the subject certainly cuts down on the parallax, but there is still a little bit of  depth left.  A wider pair of synced Hassies would have been the ticket here… (Right, Bob?) 🙂

Artscape #2

by Lattie

This was taken at Baltimore’s Artscape Festival in July – said to be the largest, free outdoor arts event in the country. I set out to do a series of slides to contribute to a  “Summer in the City” themed  gallery group show  last year. The gallery was enthused about the stereo format, but we still have a way to go in presentation ideas and executions for them.

This was shot at a performance by the frenetic “Baltimore Rock Opera Society” (BROS).  Think Ed Wood-meets-Bosch, set loose on the sweltering streets – but the music and singing was actually pretty decent. I just set up my tripod and TL-120 behind a stage, hoping not to get knocked over.

Tacky, silly, and so very Baltimore, Hon!