Bagan, Myanmar

Bagan is famous for its thousand year old Bhuddist temples.   Many of these belonged to wealthy families who built them next to their houses.   The houses were made of wood and are long gone, but the temples remain.

Photographed with twin Mamiya C-220s using 135mm lenses, December 2015.  Prove 100F pushed one stop.  I used a tripod.   It was challenging hauling this huge rig around Myanmar and my family got a bit impatient with me at times, but it was worth it to get shots like this one.

Abandoned House, Mussoorie India

Scan000110This 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 – Twin Pillows”

Scan000111Photographed 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

Scan000109The 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.

Coney Island Mermaid with Umbrella

Scan000084Coney Island Mermaid with Umbrella- Jim Harp

Shot with a TL-120 and a Vivitar 285H fill-flash with plastic diffusor.   The fill flash is an important element in this shot, without it her face would have mostly been in shadow.     The Coney Island Mermaid Parade happens on the first Saturday after the Summer Solstice every year and is a wonderful opportunity to get interesting people shots.   There are plenty of photographers with interesting rigs who attend, but the TL-120 never fails to attract attention.

Gogarty’s Pub, Dublin

Scan000086Gogarty’s Pub

This was shot with a Twin Yashica-Mat 124 rig early in the morning since I was in Ireland on business and didn’t have time for picture taking during the day.   I had good luck with the shutters on this rig when they were set to one second, so I probably shot this at one second and used spot metering to determine the aperture.    Provia 100F pushed one stop.

View from the 101 Building – Taipei, Taiwan

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.