More Shooting In The Dark
Another shot from the Petone Fair in the weekend. This one wasn’t quite as successful with the plane of focus falling just a little short… I still quite like it though… Makes him a bit more mysterious 🙂
Rolleiflex 2.8 E, Ilford HP5+ 400 ISO Film, CanoScan 9000F Scanner.
Shooting In Dark
We went to the Petone fair in the weekend. We got there just as it was getting dark so after I finished the roll of 400 ISO film I pushed one to 1600. If you have ever shot a Rolleiflex in low light you will know how near impossible it is to focus so mostly this was using the distance scale which at times it was even too dark to see.
This was the best one of the night 🙂
Rolleiflex 2.8 E, Ilford HP5+ 400 pushed to 1600, CanoScan 9000F Scanner.
Sleepers Are Back
With the weather warming up sleepers seem to be coming back out of the woodwork.
Rolleiflex 2.8 E, Ilford HP5+ 400 ISO Film, CanoScan 9000F Scanner.
Police On The Waterfront
With the Rugby World Cup on here at the moment there is certainly more of a Police presence around town. The city really has a bit of a strange vibe at the moment, people aren’t gathering and interacting as they usually do.
Maybe its just the full moon 🙂
Rolleiflex 2.8 E, Ilford HP5+ 400 ISO Film, CanoScan 9000F Scanner.
On Cuba Street
On Cuba Street a couple of weeks ago…
Rolleiflex 2.8 E, Ilford HP5+ 400 ISO Film, CanoScan 9000F Scanner.
Manners Mall
It was quite bright last weekend, I like the light shining through this guys beard… At the time I don’t think I even noticed the girl… But maybe I did 🙂
Rolleiflex 2.8 E, Ilford HP5+ 400 ISO Film, CanoScan 9000F Scanner.
The Taller You Are…
I guess the taller you are the further you have to look to change music…
Rolleiflex 2.8 E, Ilford HP5+ 400 ISO Film, CanoScan 9000F Scanner.
Fatherhood Um… Wednesday: Rolleinar And Rolleipar
Quite some time ago Wellington street photographer Julian Ward lent me a Rolleinar 1 and a Rolleipar for use with my Rollei. The Rolleinar 1 acts as a close up lens meaning you can get much closer than the Rollei’s 3.5 feet close focusing range. The problem with this is that since you are looking through the “viewing” lens which sits above the “taking” lens you get parallax which means the image you are seeing doesn’t correspond to what the camera sees. Thats where the Rolleipar come in. The Rolleipar bends the light so that both lenses see the same thing.
Anyway I finally managed to find an occasion to test this out when the girls had their faces painted at a writers week event in Civic Square a couple of weeks back.
Next step is to take it to the street now I know how it works 🙂
Rolleiflex 2.8 E, Rolleinar 1 close up filter, Rolleipar paralax correction Lens, Ilford HP5+ 400 ISO Film, CanoScan 9000F Scanner.
Knitting Graffiti And Solace In The Wind
Things are still a bit stop start at the moment, sorry, due to the fact that I am trying to develop and scan a backlog of film to get back to normal.
It looks like the knitting graffiti crew have been at it again. This time with the sculpture “Solace in the Wind” which was looking like a surf lifesaver in the weekend.
These shots occurred just after I had managed to lock my keys in the car. I decided to just leave them there and continue to shoot and then went and borrowed some tools and broke back into it later on… I must be slipping though because it took much longer than usual to get back in… Lets just say we got some funny looks while trying to get in 🙂 And I think Hamish got some images of me breaking in.
Rolleiflex 2.8 E, Ilford HP5+ 400 ISO Film, CanoScan 9000F Scanner.
Bubbles On The Waterfront
OK book is done (link at top of sidebar if you want to look at it or even buy it) so it is time to get back to putting up images again 🙂 .
The weather is starting to head back to sunny even if there is still a bit of a chill in the air. These two girls were blowing bubbles at the back of Te Papa one evening as I was walking past. The last shot is an enlargement so you can see the bubbles 🙂
Rolleiflex 2.8 E, Ilford HP5+ 400 ISO Film, CanoScan 9000F Scanner.
Nearly Done
Book is nearly done ( I am aiming to get it in by the 31st) so hopefully things should be back to normal after that…
Spotted this guy at the opening ceremony for the rugby statue just off Civic Square… Lets just say that I’m pretty sure that it wasn’t orange fizzy drink in the bottle.
Rolleiflex 2.8 E, Ilford HP5+ 400 ISO Film, CanoScan 9000F Scanner.
Blog Neglect And Book Project
OK I don’t know about neglect but I don’t seem to be quite as regular as the last year and a half or so…
I have, however, been concentrating on producing a small self published book using Blurb Books… With the American dollar being so low against the New Zealand dollar (something like $1 NZ equals 87c US) it means that a & inch x 7 inch softcover book with up to 40 pages is only something like $20 NZ and that’s with a paper upgrade.
This is going to be a bit of a test to see how it looks and I will probably get a softcover and a hardcover to see what they are like…
The images below are a couple of pages… They are all double page spreads and the red dotted lines are where they will be cut so that there will be no grey border and the right hand image will bleed right to the edge…
I still don’t have a title… I kind of wanted something that incorporated the word “Halide” (not necessarily Dark Halide) but could also mention all the image being taken in Wellington and on a Rolleiflex and should also contain something about Street Photography… Arrrrrrrggggg….. That makes my head hurt just thinking about it…
Any Suggestions?
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