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Metal garden sculptures, and the Steam Plant

by Frank Roberto

    

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.

 

A Day in the Library?

by Frank Roberto

I’m adding these thumbnails for Frank so we have somewhere to hang comments.
I only see three images in the box, so I hope he didn’t share four with us.

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

 

 

 

Frank Roberto

by John Thurston

All photos – Sputnik, ISO 400

  • Concrete Factory – f/4.5, 1/15 second
    This is in Concrete, WA. The plant supplied concrete to many WAS cities. It has been in ruins since the late 1970s, I believe. I’m interested in silhouettes in 3D, and a fan of a shallow DOF.
  • Greenhouse – f/4.5
    I always keep an eye out for reflections when shooting 3D, though you don’t get much depth in the reflection itself here.
  • Fire Spinner – f/8?, Bulb for about a second
    After much trial and error, I got a few shots of fire spinners frozen by my flash, but with a longer exposure to get the fire trails.
  • Abandoned Dairy – f/4.5, 1/15 second
    On highway 20 outside Sedro Wolley, this is an abandoned dairy which was run by the nearby Northern State Hospital.