A shot of the Twin Falls, Idaho LDS Temple - upon driving by I always love the presentation of this scene - and go figure - I'm Catholic. We can all live in harmony; right ?!?
Shot with the Nikon D3s and the 80-200mm f2.8 AF-s lens - yes - it's digital... I know right - how crazy can this post even get...
Shot in Twin Falls Idaho a few years back — film on a Nikon F100 / 35mm. I don’t shoot 35mm much very often - but I’m trying to change that and work it more. Stand development of Rodinal at 5% with a 60 minute burn and then scanned on a Minolta dimage.
No crop.
This last Thursday, while in a Twin Falls Idaho Starbucks, I picked up the the local Times-News, news paper. And, I saw a lead in with the acronym “-WTF”. I about blew my mouth full of coffee all over myself and my wife - who was sitting next to me.
My mind was really blown — like — totally blown. How does this happen I thought - how… just how. And — how would I explain this acronym to a child when they asked for the meaning, if I had too.
So — I sent a letter to the editor of the Times-News. And - I’ve heard no response - just as I thought would happen.
I will never read that publication again - as I was insulted.
A quick shot of the falls - at Twin Falls - known as the Niagara of the West. Shot with the Rollei 6008i with Fujifilm Acros 100 and processed with a stand development using Rodinal with a dilution for a 60 minute processing time.
Fujifilm Acros 100 - Rodinal 60minute stand development - Rollei 6008i
Shot on a Rollei 6008i, mid Summer of 2015 with Ilford Delta 400 - early morning to capture the dramatic angle of the sun. Home developed and home scanned with a Nikon LS-8000.
There is a lot going on in this scene - and I'm happy with it's outcome.
At the time these were taken - mid October, I didn’t give them much thought - but I had the idea the complicated scenes “may” come out as something decent. So I tromped out and took pictures of chickens in Twin Falls, Idaho; my Brother-in-Law’s place.
All were shot with the V1 and the 18.5mm (50mm equivalent) and most times I don’t second guess my lens choices and stay with one. Most of the time it is for convenience, but then the convenience factor becomes a creative factor. It is what it is.
Upon developing I used Nikon ViewNX, as the NX-d kept crashing and I didn’t need NX-d’s noise correction. After cooking them out I brought them into LR-5 for the lens corrections. Since these were all web - I pushed to .jpg vs. .tiff and cooked them out again in LR in order to watermark.
All corrections were in ViewNX and the color profile was a factory Vivid or Portrait with a boost in contrast - Sharpening is a bit powerful in ViewNX so I keep the slider at 2-4 depending on what the image can absorb and rarely do I go past 5.
It’s kindof a pain - but that’s the work flow.
The more I look at these the more I love them - the framing, the subject, the colors - not trying to toot my own horn here - but it’s taken me years to be able to view my own work and consider it viable as decent and something to share. I maybe print one or two of these 13x19 on aluminum.
I guess the lesson learned here is being able to force the capture of the photo. I had no intention of taking pics of chickens that day — none. But I had the gear - and some how - I came away with some interesting images.
This is the Twin Falls Idaho LDS Temple spire. Quite dramatic with the mid afternoon light and then converted to b/w.
I was testing my 300mm lens - and it really turned out well - it would be well suited for a "Cover" or editorial copy.
No crop.
Nikon 1 V1 - 30-110mm
