This is a picturesque service yard for, what appears to be gondola service and rebuilding. It was taken hyper with my twin Lubitel rig. This shot must have had a large aperture since the corners and edges are very soft.
Gondola
St. Nicholas Cathedral
The Outer Defenses, Kingston Ontario
This image is of 3 of the “Martello” towers which are part of the Fort Henry complex in Kingston, Ontario. These towers date back to the War of 1812.
This image is the third MF image I ever shot. It was my test reel of my first Sputnik camera. The day was so bright and clear that it was almost impossible to take a bad image. This shot, taken hand held, sold me on MF. The light that came from the clear sky was so bright that even full shadow was well illuminated.
Spin the light fantastic
Hi Lo Fireball
Fireball, Toronto Exhibition
Alice Lake Park , Squamish BC
Abandoned House, Mussoorie India
This was the view from the Plaza hotel in Mussoorie India. It must have been a gorgeous residence at some point. You can see that someone is living there, or at least hanging some laundry up to dry. Mussoorie is in Northern India at the foothills of the Himilayas.
Photographed with a TL-120 using Provia 100F pushed one stop. I used a pod-support on a deck railing. I think it was 1/125 @f16.
“Mermaid Parade – On the Fence”
“Mermaid Parade – Twin Pillows”
Photographed with a TL-120 using Provia 100F pushed one stop with a Vivitar 285H with a diffusor for fill-flash. I believe it was f16 @ 1/125. The TL-120 seems to do fine with flash sync at 1/125 even though 3D World only claimed 1/30.
It was bright sunny day for the 2014 Mermaid Parade, fill-flash saved lots of my shots from excessive shadow detail.
For me fill-flash is like that commercial for hot-sauce: “I put that $#*& on everything!”
Taj Mahal Close
The Taj Mahal is often seen just in the classic full view, but there’s quite a lot to look at when you get closer in. MF3D is really the only medium that can convey the richness of all the marble inlays and carving.
This was photographed with a TL-120 using Provia 100F pushed one stop. I believe it was 1/250 @f16. No tripods are allowed at the Taj unless major fees are paid, so this was shot with the camera hanging around my neck using a Hasselblad waist level finder and a cable release. October 2010.
The TL-120 attracted a lot of attention in India, at times I was mobbed with people wondering what it was.
Metal garden sculptures, and the Steam Plant
I went to the old Steam Plant south of the Georgetown neighborhood of Seattle. Its no longer in operation, but you can walk around among the old machinery once a month. Visually, its a treat. Wonderful and almost free way to spend the morning.
This first shot here has a shallow DOF because I didn’t know we were allowed to bring tripods, which had been banned in the past. Also, I had mistakenly brought ISO 100 film, instead of ISO400. I ended up finding things to put the camera on and pray my hands were steady. If not for these reasons, I would have used a smaller aperture.
The other 2 shots are from a business which sells rusty ornamental garden sculptures. Can’t say I’d buy one, but it was a fantastic place to shoot stereo. In many instances, the visual jumble of lines of rusty metal did a great job of demonstrating how a 2D photo made it hard to pick out the form of objects, but in stereo, you see them immediately. That day, it was sunny enough that I didn’t need a tripod.
I shot these with a Sputnik.
Noodle Delirium
“Noodle Delirium” was an “ephermeral installation” that was created by the “Collectif ARG – Les Astronautes” and included in the “Unusual Passages” show in Quebec City the summer of 2014. It transformed a discreet anonymous passage into something special that people loved to walk through brushing against the noodles with their hands.
Original slide on Provia 400X taken with a tripod-mounted Heidoscop at 1/8 second at f25 on August 14, 2014.
Tourney Fountain, Quebec City
I tried several classically centred shots of the fountain, as with the photo on the right, but I was not satisfied. I then decided to emphasize the overlapping jets of water coming from the frogs’ mouths, which I hoped might be more interesting in stereo than the fountain itself. I waited some time to view the scene with tourists in the background and without, and decided to take the shot with tourists to give more “as it is” context. The Tourney Fountain was a gift of the Simons Family to commemorate Quebec City’s 400th anniversary in 2008, and has become a popular landmark in front of the parliament. The fountain is the creation of French sculptor Mathurin Moreau and was originally installed in Bordeaux, France in 1857.
Original slide on Provia 400X taken with tripod-mounted Heidoscop at 1/80 second at f25 on August 12, 2014.