Downtown with legacy glass and camera set to monochrome.

[alfredo]

It's kind of like the bit of sorbet to cleanse the palate. I needed to feel a good heavy manual lens in my hands. I needed to feel the stops on the aperture ring, and the smooth resistance of the focus.


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[Binkie The Clown]

1. Beautifully done!

I love B&W.

Speaking of retro, I wonder if a person could outfit a digital camera with a pinhole instead of a lens. That would interesting.

[alfredo]

4. Thanks. Yes it can be done. You can buy pre-made pinhole body caps.

I was thinking about buying one for my camera. My camera has live time that allows me to see the image in process. That should take the guess work out of it.


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[Binkie The Clown]

8. I'm really jealous of your eye for art!

Keep up the good work.

[alfredo]

9. Thanks. It's learning the basics of composition, then taking thousands of photos.

I'm still learning, and still see the majority of my images as shit.

[Binkie The Clown]

11. I was a model once...

The company I was working for as a computer programmer was launching a new product and they recruited 6 or 8 people from around the company for an advertising photo. One professional model was the "gang leader", and I was to be one of the punk gangsters in the photo.

The shoot, resulting in one single photo for the ad, took 10 hours! The photographer and his crew would adjust lights, fiddle without poses, and then take another Polaroid (that was before digital), and then take a dozen or more shots with a film back instead of the Polaroid back on his Hassleblad, then repeat the whole process while a technician developed the film and brought the photographer a still-wet roll of huge Ecktachrome transparencies, which were scrutinized with magnifiers by several people before they started the whole process over again. They easily shot a hundred or more photos to get the one usable one.

The next day I went back to programming, glad I'd never have to do another photo shoot like that!

So I guess even pros expect that very few of the photos they take will actually survive intense scrutiny and be displayed in public.

[alfredo]

14. I heard 1 in 10 as the number of keepers. My sister is a model, at age 75. She loves it.

I used to be an artist model for a local artist back in my younger days. Here's her site. http://gloria-thomas.com/index.htm After her early years she stopped using models and just winged it.

[Mira]

2. You are in the groove

keep on showing the photos. I like them all but especially the second one. It seems to tell a self contained story.

[alfredo]

5. Thanks. That one was a happy accident.

[Solly Mack]

3. Tasty

[alfredo]

6. Thanks.

[Cracklin Charlie]

7. I like the second one a lot!

There's something about the guy's shadow.

And I also like the fountain...it seems to have a lot of "action".

[alfredo]

10. Thanks. The light on the water is what caught my eye. The image of the guy

would not have worked at noon.

[calikid]

12. Ansel would be pleased, nice work

[unionthug777]

13. excellent photos !!

I dabbled in B&W when I was younger....dad had a darkroom to load film into canisters. and off I went....not anywhere near as good as yours, though.

photography

[alfredo]

15. Black and white is my favorite. I loved working in the darkroom. Everything about it was appealing.

The smell of the chemicals and the enlarger light are still with me. I still have my tank for negatives. I remember pushing Extachrome slides to 1,600. Talk about noise.

Set your camera to monochrome and do it.

[justiceischeap]

16. I'm so jealous you can capably use manual focus lenses

I often find that I think I have them in focus and when I get home... nope, not so much. I don't know if it's because of my progressive lenses in my glasses or what but my hit rate with manual focus is abysmal.

I especially like 2 & 4.

[alfredo]

17. F8 is your friend. I use the magnify function and my EVF.

I use the same type of gasses and I have cataracts, but the zoom/magnify really helps my hit rate. High contrast subjects help.

[justiceischeap]

18. I'll have to try magnification.

I always forget about it being an option.

[alfredo]

19. Magnification is one of the most used functions on my camera.