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Submission 3

by Nik Sekhar

This is my 3rd submission to the folio.   It is an honor and privilege to share my slides and view the wonderful work of the other participants. It was fun to meet some of you at this year’s NSA and I look forward to meeting you again soon.

 

 

 

 

 

Koi: This was shot at the Mission  San Juan Capsitrano during the NSA field trip.  All are shot with TL120,  This was Velvia 100 at f 16, 1/125

Alice and Mom:  This is my wife and her mother Efke 25, sb28 flash at auto f8.

Flower arrangement: f22 1s velvia

Hummingbird and Quen Mary:  This was shot during the NSA trip.  I was lucky enough to catch this Hummingbird fly into the scene.   I love the contrast in scale.  Velvia f22 1/60

 

 

All in one place

by John Thurston

Today, we’re going back to the ice but we’re not going to move much once we get there. All of the images here were made within 50-feet of each other. The subject is a fairly stable ice cave. I say fairly because it was created by an active creek so there is water flowing into it. The ground is mud, silt, ice, and gravel and is sliding into the cave and under the glacier. The ceiling is made of ice and is full of mud, silt, and gravel and is falling onto the floor. While I was working, some nice ladies stopped in to visit the cave. I used my Fuji to get a set-the-scene snapshot.

Deep V

In The Groove

Just inside the cave, the layers of the ice are obvious. The younger ice is above, the older ice is denser and is funneling the melt water out to the edge. The running water has carved a Deep V in the ancient ice. The mud and sand is trapped between the layers of ice and is being washed down and dropped on the floor. When working under the ice, the water running down your back is really mud (of various dilutions).

A little to the right, and closer to the ice, In the Groove better shows the layers in the ice and the sand and silt trapped between them. We can also see melt water pouring in to join the creek farther inside the cave.

Farther in the cave but looking a little up, we can see Below the Surface(BW). There is sand and silt embedded inside the ice, and the layers are evident from the back just as well as the front. (Now’s a good time to wish we had carried a helmet with us. The roof is melting, remember?) Finally, we can move a little farther in and get in close. That sand in there has been trapped in the ice for a couple hundred years. It’s just itching to get out so it can slide down into my camera.


Below the Surface (BW)
Below the Surface

All images were created with a tripod mounted TL120-1. I don’t record exposure times but the fastest time used was 1 second. They were shot on Provia 100F, Provia 400X, or Ilford HP5.

Nugget Falls Revisited

by John Thurston

After visiting Nugget Falls, and seeing the other visitors on that cold November day, I started thinking about the presence and absence of the camera-toting tourists. With that idea, I returned to Nugget falls in the height of the tourist season to try to capture some Alaskan Wildlife.

I approached the project in two ways. In the first, I went among the tourists. I openly carried my camera and snapped pictures as I saw fit. I didn’t try to be obscure or secretive, and I my TL120-1 was certainly not discrete. I was able to capture some characteristic tourist activities. These included primping for the camera, chimping the group shot on the camera, bickering over the camera, and arguing over the correct way to operate the camera. You get the idea. I fit right in.

In the second case, I set up a blind on a common game trail. I tried to get my 20′ air-release to work, but it failed me and I was forced to work with a 10″ cable release.  I aimed the camera, set its exposure, and settled back onto a boulder. By kicking back on the rock with my arms crossed, I was able to hold the cable release in my fingers and trip it when I felt the scene before me was set. Too bad the TL120 lacks a motor advance or I wouldn’t have needed to get up and break my repose. One person called me out on the rig he spotted in the rocks and correctly identified the device as a “big stereo camera”.

James

by Matt Neima

I submitted an almost identical picture to the IMF Folio, but found this one later. In the other picture the chickadee is not sharp.

This was taken at ‘The Pinery’ provincial park near Lake Huron Ontario, Canada. In February, there should be snow, but it was warm and spring like. This was shot with the TL120 on SCALA and processed by Century film

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.

 

Black and White Blue

by John Thurston

This is my first effort with DR5 processing and I’m extremely pleased with the results. I’ve been very happy with the sharpness I get with Provia 100, and reasonably happy with the sharpness with Provia 400x, but with Ilford HP5 at 400 I can see the grains of sand on the rocks. It is expensive to process, but I hope to shoot some more HP5 next year.

The cave below the Crack of Doom, persisted for at least three months. I first visited it in August. This image was made in October. The ceiling was higher and the space more open, but the cave was still there. This is almost the same vantage point as Streamside Snapshot. The rise in the very center of this image is off on the right side (and touching the ceiling) in Streamside.

Tripod mounted TL120-1, Ilford HP5 at ISO 400, DR5 processing

 

 

Streamside Snapshot

by John Thurston

Back in August, I had found an awesome cave at the edge of the ice. I had been under the ice for about 30 minutes trying for some images of the stream running at the bottom of the cave. The light level was low and I was having to guess at 1.5 or 2 second exposures while the melting roof falling all around me. These two ladies climbed and slid down to where I was and asked if they could take a few pictures without disturbing me.

“Sure thing!”, I said. They weren’t going to interrupt my process, and I really wanted some pictures of them against the blue.

While they took each others’ pictures, I tried to advance to advance the film, open the aperture enough to get the shutter-speed down to a more realistic number, compose a new image, and focus for the shallow depth of field. I think I got off three exposures before they were done and ready to climb out and head home. This is the only one which is close to useable, and it’s still too dark. I really need to carry a small flash and learn how to use it 🙁

This is in the same cave in which I made Crack of Doom. I’m turned 180 degrees and thirty feet farther in.

Tripod mounted TL120-1, Provia 400X, un-recorded aperture and shutter.

 

Crack of Doom

by John Thurston

Some glaciers are relatively stable. The Mendenhall is not one of these. At this fissure, the race is on between the melt action from the outside edge and thinning ceiling caused by the increasing depth of the crack. When I found this ceiling crack, I knew I had to try to get an image of it before it disappeared.

It’s shot on Provia 400X with about a half-second exposure. Because of the height of the ceiling and the orientation of the crack, I was unable to get everything in focus with the TL120-1. Yep, the foreground is soft, but I feel it isn’t too distracting. A greater distraction is the stream of water very near the camera. Again, there was nothing I could do about it, so I made the image as best I could.

This is one image I whole-heartedly suggest experiencing inverted. Flip that slide over and see what’cha’ think.

This is also an image which I have found impossible to color-match between the slide and the computer screen. The colors just don’t exist in the sRGB space to present the colors on the film.

August, 2011 – Tripod mounted TL120-1, Provia 400X