One more PESO today. This one's a B&W conversion, with a little back story. In the 1950's and 1960's a social experiment was attempted. It was thought that lives of the poor would be improved if they got free government housing. So local governments got grants to build this stuff. Under the banner of "Urban Renewal" vibrant but poor neighborhoods were torn down and replaced with places like this. Now they are being replaced with neighborhoods that look like the ones that were there originally. Usually color makes a bad place look better, but not this place, it still looks like a prison. I chose B&W because I was attempting a gritty old time newspaper look.
http://www.mindspring.com/~megazip/PESO_--_goodintentionsbadplan.html Technical Info.: Pentax *ist-Ds ISO 1600 @ 1/4000sec (Av) smc Pentax F 35-70mm f3.5-4.5 @f8.0 (70mm) B&W conversion Note: This is a many layered conversion. It's the same one I've used before, but I added a copy layer just above the background to emulate film grain. I was looking for something like a fine grain 35mm film from the 1960s or 1970s sort of like Plus-X Pan. It doesn't look like any particular film but maybe like some film. As usual comments are welcome but may be totally ignored. -- Its easy to understand why the cat has eclipsed the dog as modern America's favorite pet. People like pets to possess the same qualities they do. Cats are irresponsible and recognize no authority, yet are completely dependent on others for their material needs. Cats cannot be made to do anything useful. Cats are mean for the fun of it P. J. O'Rourke -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
