I didn't know you visited Leningrad! Strong image.
Tom C. "I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered." >From: "P. J. Alling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> >To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> >Subject: PESO -- Good Intentions + Bad Plan = >Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 16:42:03 -0400 > >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 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
