Since we've gone to the dogs, I figured it would be interesting to take off in a new direction.
All of us, on occasion, make test photos. How a lens works, is there a light leak, what's the image circle, is a particular film worth anything, how well does that developer work, and on and on. I usually make these photos from my apartment.
So what does the world look like outside your window?
Remember, your suburbia is someone else's exotica.
My backyard (and the downstairs neighbor's barbecue / lawn chair set). The fence is badly maintained, but as a tenant paying rent I'm sure not paying to fix it or putting in the effort to paint it. I could be booted next month for a land sale for all I know.
I took this to test my unicolour processing drum after it arrived from an ebay purchase.
Looking northeast, trying out a new lens.
A bokeh test of which lens I can't remember. The OOF is crappy, but I sort of liked the horse and chicken bourree
Last edited by Colin Graham; 22-Jul-2007 at 17:50.
Ahhhhhh - Everett, Washington!
"lawnchairbrooding"
Rory - that's some nice window glass!
Colin's "Peacable Kingdom"
I wish I has one to contibute. I'm trying to avoid looking out my windows these days, as the melting snow exposes coliform-laded canine leftovers.
This is one of my 1st shots taken with my Technika / Symmar-S 210. It was taken in the morning before I left for my office. I have this encouraging view from my kitchen window / back porch.
This was taken several years ago with my then new to me Omega View and 210 lens. I actually sat on a bed in my bathrobe and shot out the window with the screen removed. Today, a red fox challenged a coyote back there to defend her kits....a few moments later, the mama deer who lives in the woods with her several progeny started screaming (yes!....deer scream, and quite chillingly so at that) at the proximity of the coyote. And to think all we wanted to see was the Easter Bunny.........
I guess most people have probably seen the view of Grant's Tomb and the Riverside Church looking south down the Hudson River from my window. Here's a recent albumen print from a 6x17cm neg made in October 2006.
Linhof Tech V, DaYi 6x17 back, 90mm/f:8 Super-Angulon at f:22, Schneider III CF, #12 Yellow filter, 1/2 sec, TX/ABC pyro 1+1+1+7, 12 min.
Jhon... it's brilliant...
Great shot John Voss!
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