I find it amusing that people who shoot Leicas and most likely have never been met anyone who lives in a trailer park, let alone live in one, would be those most offended...
-----Original Message----- >From: Paul Stenquist <[email protected]> >Sent: Feb 5, 2009 7:49 AM >To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> >Subject: Re: Trailer Park Princess Redux > >Thanks Christine. I think I'll convert the newer ones as well. I >first showed them all as color, but later decided I preferred them as >BW. In rendering the new batch I wanted to get the color as close to >correct as possible as a first step. When I first showed this set on >the Leica forum more than five years ago, it was titled "Trailer Park >Trash," and it caused quite an uproar and a long debate. The photos >are all staged of course, so I never felt that title was demeaning, >but it apparently offended some. >Paul >On Feb 5, 2009, at 12:00 AM, Christine Aguila wrote: > >> These are great, Paul, especially the bw, and most especially this >> one http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=5670843 Love it! >> Thanks for posting. Really enjoyed this GESO. Cheers, Christine >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Stenquist" <[email protected] >> > >> To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> >> Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2009 4:12 PM >> Subject: GESO: Trailer Park Princess Redux >> >> >>> I was looking through some negatives yesterday and ran across the >>> pics I shot at a trailer park in 2003. Those who've been around >>> for awhile saw the ones I originally posted. Later I came back >>> with some BW versions. Looking through the machine prints that >>> were with the negs, I found some that I never printed that I now >>> like. They're all 35mm (whereas most of the earlier ones were MF), >>> and they were shot at dusk on Portra 400, so they're grainy. I >>> scanned the negs on my Epson 3200 and had to sharpen quite a bit >>> which made them even grainier, so they're far from perfect. But I >>> like them. I'm probably going to scan some more shots when I have >>> time. The color pics in this folder are the new scans, none of >>> which have been shown before. >>> >>> The camera, by the way, was my LX. Not sure about the lens, but it >>> was probably the SMC Pentax 50/1.4. I know I used some flash. I >>> think it was the AF 400T firing into a reflector. >>> >>> The folder is here: >>> http://photo.net/photodb/folder?folder_id=701586 >>> >>> Paul >>> >>> -- >>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>> [email protected] >>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >>> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above >>> and follow the directions. >> >> >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above >> and follow the directions. > > >-- >PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >[email protected] >http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow >the directions. -- I want to die peacfuly in my sleep like my grandfather, not screaming like the passengers in his car... Will Shriner -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
