I'm game. I've shot a lot of weird things and attempted some rather
difficult shots, but one comes to mind immediately. It was almost 25
years ago, and I was working for Hearst Magazines in New York. We were
running an article about Ford's propane engine cars in Motor Magazine,
and the editor decided we had to have a picture of a propane flame for
the cover. I bought a propane torch and various tips. I found that the
paint scraper tip gave me a nice looking, broad flame. To record the
flame on film, I obviously had to eliminate all other light, so I set
the torch up in my garage after dark. I tried to shoot all our covers
on 4x5 in those days, so I set up my Speed Graphic and loaded ten film
holders with ektachrome 64. To get the flame large in frame, I had to
extend the bellows beyond the 1:1 position, so that increased exposure
considerably. My meter reading and teh macro correction indicated a
very long exposure, so I had a reciprocity failure to factor in as
well. My calculations with the Kodak Photoguide wheels indicated an
exposure of about 10 minutes. To bracket in half stops, I'd half to do
2.5 minutes, 5 minutes, 10 minutes, 15 minutes, and 20 minutes.
Unfortunately, my cable release had no lock mechanism, so I had to hold
the shutter open, while standing in the pitch dark garage. I did
exactly that for over ah hour. The 20 minute exposure was best: a nice
blue flame above a glowing red metal nozzle. A difficult and tedious
job, but well worth the effort.
Paul
On Aug 23, 2005, at 10:26 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Okay, I am kind of tired of the large print discussion (and thank
goddess the
political thread has died), so LET'S DO A SURVEY!!!
Also, it might provide me with some inspiration since I am sort of
uninspired
photography-wise these days.
I do realize I still owe people the results of the exposure survey and
I've
got it around here somewhere, but I have to get a new cartridge for my
laser
printer so I can print out all the answers so I can tally them. But I
will do
that, I promise. Maybe when this survey is done.
Well, this isn't so much a survey, actually, as just a sharing thing.
Because
I don't imagine that that many answers will be the same. But if they
are, I
will tally them. :-)
I hope people like it and want to participate. It's sort of like where
is the
weirdest place you have ever done it...
Q. What is the most unusual subject matter you have ever shot? The most
unique? Or the weirdest? Or simply the subject matter that you have
had the hardest
time "capturing" (either because it was hard to get to, or timing, or
movement, or whatever)?
Please expound.
A.
TIA, Marnie aka Doe
