Tag Archives: Fuji RAP

Ava B 202

by Boris Starosta

Date: July 2012

Tech:
taken with the Sputnik on loan from Chuck Holzner on Fuji Astia RAP100F, 1/25 sec., f22. This is the original slide.

Notes:
Here we have my new model Ava reclining amongst some rocks in the James River at Lynchburg, VA. All summer I had wanted to find a nice spot for photographing a nude in water. This place wasn’t quite what I’d hoped for, but sometimes you just have to play the cards you are dealt. The remainder of the summer was taken up with NSA prep (thanks to Chuck for helping me mount MF3d for a month!), and thereafter a trip to Germany. Water pictures must now wait another year. Pray that the film processing remains available through 2013!

“Old Shed” : M F 302

by Boris Starosta

Date: June 2012

Tech:

taken with the Sputnik on loan from Chuck Holzner on Fuji Astia RAP100F, 1/10 sec., f22. This is the original slide.

Notes:

The slide mount is mis-titled “Old Shed.” But that’s okay… makes it a rarity (LOL, as if other MF3d slides weren’t already). Here we have my beloved posing on a granite outdoor dining set sculpted by Japanese sculptor Turo Oba. We were visiting a friend’s country estate. Believe it or not, she’s three months pregnant in this picture. We are expecting a child in December!

Aqueduct

by Boris Starosta

I discovered this lovely view nearby our house while “geocaching” some time back. Yes, I know my tastes are strange.

Late afternoon, available light exposure of 1 second on an older roll of original FUJI Astia film (maybe, I believe, marked on slide mount. Not Astia100F.), at f32, with a Sputnik on loan from Chuck Holzner. This is the original slide, and I really like the color response of this film better than the newer Astias.

Michele in 2009

by Boris Starosta

In early spring of 2009 I went on a hike with my beloved Michele.  Weather for Charlottesville had been forecast in the low 50s.  But at Old Rag Mt. things turned out different.  Instead of the partly sunny, mid-40s temperatures we’d expected, by the time we got halfway up the mountain, there was a stiff breeze blowing snow UP the side of the mountain, into our faces, with temperatures below freezing.  At the point shown in the photograph, we were out on some rocky parts of the climb, relatively exposed, wind howling, like a scene out of Krakauer’s “Into Thin Air.”  We’d forgotten our oxygen bottles so we turned around.

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1/10 sec. exposure on FUJI RAP film in available light at f16 with Sputnik on loan from Chuck Holzner.  This is the original slide.