After church on Sunday, I decided that shooting steam last weekend was so much fun that it was worth another outing. I called up to the Georgetown Loop to make sure that they had steam going and was told that they did. Alas! I must be a bad luck charm for the Loop because by the time I got there, the throttle had broken on No. 12 and she was done for the day. She was still outside the Engine House cooling down, though, and I managed to grab a few pictures:
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The latter two are actually only my “meter” shots for the 8x10 (I use my K-x as the light meter for the 8x10) so hopefully later this week I should have a couple of large format shots to post. I think the last shot will be the most interesting. Both the DSLR and 8x10 were shot at f11, but should have a completely different feel when I get the latter developed. The DOF should be fairly shallow on the large format photo. I’m looking forward to getting into the darkroom to see what I got!
As always, C&C welcome!
Beautiful, beautiful shots Chris…Especially like the low angle of the view of the complete engine, etc…
And of course the extreme detail and attention of light detail on the closeup of the mechanicals.
And in the first pic…especially like the beautiful gentle curve in the very nice looking rail.
And a “on line class”…Now that sounds interesting.
[:)] Cop Car; the 3 img. are very sharp and clear . You know how to use your camera very well. The black and white 2nd. photo reminds me of something Mr. Link would have done. These photos have depth that makes me feel I was standing there . ~~ Thank you for shareing them.
Respectfully, Cannonball
Chris, thanks so much for the amazing images. Even more of a surprise since this Cali boy was ready for ‘Walong’ loop near Tehachapi [(-D].
I’m intensely curious about what equipment you use to digitize these large format negatives. High quality slide scanning equipment especially is very hard to buy or rent. I have some of my fathers old negs that I’d like to convert. TIA!
Thanks for the comments, everybody.
Mike - The shots above are just digital shots from my Pentax K-x that I used for metering the film shots. I haven’t developed the film from the outing yet. When I do, I’ll be making contact prints with the negatives. Those are just scanned with a cheap HP flatbed scanner and that’s how I share them over the web.
If and when I start shooting color 8x10s (each shot will cost me about $20 between film and development, so I haven’t traveled down the color path yet), I’ll probably have the local pro lab here do scanning for me. While I’m happy with B&W contact prints, I think that if I’m going to subject myself to the cost and the effort of color work I want B-I-G prints from it and a pro scan will be the easiest way to do so.
Good luck with your father’s negatives!
Do you ever go anywhere boring?
Dude, even your “metering” shots make most other folks work look sad.
Waiting on the book…
Fantastic pictures, Chris!! Another great job done. Thank you for sharing them.
Exactly, What Ed and Quentin said and Brian seconded!
Thanks, but I still don’t understand how you get such good shots with those Wal-Mart single use cameras?[:‘(][:’(]
Thanks! [tup][tup][swg]
Excellent photos. I share the same comments made.