Philly gathering in april!

[Skorzen]

I should be up for ESP on Saturday, but I am just wondering how much time we would be given as it sounds like the synagogue is going to be pretty structured in that it looks like scheduled tours.

[eddie]

scott,

we are hitting the navy yard in the AM. i plan to head back over to ESP to tour the synagogue some time in the afternoon on sat.

i would guess the tour is 1 hour. if we could fill the tour maybe we could just shoot around in the synagogue for the hour and skip what ever tourist activities they might have and. who knows. i plan to bring some high speed 35mm film and maybe some 120 high speed as well.

[eddie]

okay,

i just made a reservation for the synagogue for sat at 3:30. i told them we have 8 people. please let me know who wants to come so i can add or subtract people. the most we can have is 15.

i am all ready....film is cut and loaded!

see you all tomorrow.

eddie

[Skorzen]

I should be good for the synagogue,

How many people are expected to show up for this gtg?

-Will

[eddie]

i have not gotten an exact count for the synagogue. i am going to guess 5-8 people. we should be there about 3:20 for the tour.

i am running a bit late this morning (i love sleeping!) i will be there between 10-11 on friday. i may also stay over sat night. we all heard the weather man say that sunday should be nice. depending on how much shooting i do and how tired i am on sat. night i may just stay one more night and shoot some more or go to the ansel adams show. it is along drive so i will maximize my time there.

see you all soon.

eddie

[Skorzen]

I think I may head into the city Saturday morning, stop over at Calumet because I have been meaning to get there for a while and then head over to the Navy yard. Looks like weather is going to be a little spotty in the morning but getting better later in the day. Eddie I'm going to send you a PM with my cell phone so you can get a hold of me over at the Navy yard if we wanna hook up at all (I'm assuming you will be able to get online).

Just a heads up that if you do stay until Sunday admission to the Art museum is whatever you want to pay on Sundays rather than the normal $14, makes a difference for students like me.

[eddie]

great time! thanks everyone who came along. the weather was pretty good the whole time. we were shooting inside the ESP anyway.

a few things i learned. the navy yard is closed to civilians at 5 pm and on the weekends! DOH! when shooting into a prison cell in the doorway be sure when you set it up you can pull the darkslide out! doh! (i focussed with my rear standard and when i was all done the standard was inside the small doorway.) not only could i not get my DS out but i could not see around to the front of my lens to adjust the aperture or shutter speed! DOH! the last thing i learned was that the 7x11 is big and tough to move around when compared to my chamonix 4x5! ( alec brought his 11x14....i am glad he was carrying it!)

here are two scans of my 7x11 negs. my scanner is on the fritz! i am getting all kinds of artifacts and other computer type problems....anyway you can get the idea for sure. i will print a few negs this week. my scanner does much better with prints than negs.

the one shot is inside a cell. it was dark and the logistics of it all was tough as you can probably figure. i was having trouble focussing in the dark with my 165 SA.

the other shot was a hallway with some great old peeling paint. again i was not able to scan the whole neg....good thing cause the other wall is way out of focus....i needed more movements but i could not work out which ones !

see you all again in NH.

eddie

[eddie]

here are a few color shots. WARNING! very small format!

http://photo.net/photodb/folder?folder_id=823403

enjoy.

[Skorzen]

A great time indeed, it was nice to meet everyone who made it out. I just finished doing some quick scans of a few of the images from yesterday and thought I would share them. Slightly larger versions can be found here on my pbase site.

From earlier in the day in the city:


These three are from ESP:






That last one I shot in color too, I am looking forward to see what I get out of that. There are a couple more sheets still left to be processed but I'm not sure there is going to be anything too exciting there.

Wish I could make it up to NH for that gtg but I'll shill be down here in PA until May.

[alec4444]

Negatives are drying. Made two errors, it seems (and given my experience, that's not so bad...):

--The door shot that I took in the AM when there was no sun could have used some more development. It's really lacking contrast, and it's a little thin.
--The interior shot where Eddie popped his flash unit twice should have been developed normally. I pulled it with the other interior shots, and that was a mistake.

Pete, that shot we took down the hallway that was barred off came out pretty well. The stupid door that was in the way is a bit soft, but it'll probably print at zone 2 so it won't look so bad! Might even look good in an alt process.... Very pleased given I was kind of winging the exposure.

Plan to go back with my 5x7, as I think I can do better with the interior shots with it. The 11x14 was fun to shoot, but a bit awkward in some of the tighter places. Thanks for the invite, guys, and for the ride, Pete!

--A