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did I make that photo?
Just ask me. I remember it and will be happy to share it to you. I didn't post the boring specifics for each because, in addition to being lazy, it just doesn't matter. Photography is the art of interpretation. Knowing my choice of filters, lenses, film and exposure will not help you make a similar photograph unless you were with me at the scene to learn the far more important issues of why I chose what I did to represent the scene in the way I did. Most were photographed with crummy old equipment on Fuji Velvia film and no filters and no playing in Photoshop. I get what I get because I point my camera in the right place at the right time. That's the art of photography. The equipment has nothing to do with it. The California, La Jolla, San Diego and Guatemala galleries were photographed on 4x5" Fuji Velvia film with either a Linhof Super Technika IV camera made in 1958, an old Crown Graphic from the 1940s or 1950s, or cheap new Tachihara camera with 30 year old lenses and scanned on a defective Microtek Artix 1100 scanner. Hopefully you can see that the results are pretty darn good. You ought to come over and see the original chromes! The Mexico City images were created with a Mamiya 6 system on 220 size 6x6cm Velvia and scanned on the same defective Microtek Artix 1100 scanner. The France gallery was photographed with a Plaubel Makina 67 camera on 120 size 6x7cm Velvia and scanned on a defective Microtek Artix 1100 scanner. The Zion, New Mexico and Death Valley galleries were photographed on 6x7cm Velvia with a Mamiya 7 system on Velvia and scanned on the Minolta Dimage Scan Multi PRO. The black-and-white images in the Death Valley gallery was photographed with a crummy fixed focus, fixed exposure Agfa Syncro-Box camera from 1955 that cost me $3 in 2001. I used it to demonstrate how any awful camera can be used to create great images. The items at "Signs and Animals" were mostly done with a Nikon F100 and most were scanned on a Nikon Coolscan III. The idiotic videos are straight from my Sony Mavica FD-88 in .MPG format. The other images are from all sorts of places. |
