I’m a big fan of the Sunny 16 Rule for determining exposure. Print film is forgiving enough that you don’t always have to get the exposure *exactly* right to get a good shot.

The”Sunny 16″ rule, paraphrased, says, “Set the shutter speed to the reciprocal of the film speed, and set the aperture to f/4 for open shade, f/5.6 for overcast, f/8 for hazy sunlight, f/11 for sunlight and f/16 for snow, water, or bright surfaces in sunlight.

Here’s a great link to a do-it-yourself paper slider exposure meter. Use one of these and you won’t need a meter for 90% of your outdoor shots on print film.

Shooting an old retro camera without a meter and guesstimating exposure is a liberating experience. I recommend it.

[ http://expomat.tripod.com/ ]

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…And thoughts to all of our friends and loved ones who served or are serving their country.

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That’s probably a thing of the past – film processors delayed by all of America rushing rolls of film capturing holiday parades, barbecues and attempts to photograph fireworks to their film processor after a long holiday.  Most people are shooting digital and printing online now. As long as I can find film and a place to develop it, I’ll shoot most of my images on film. I shoot differently when I’m shooting film – when I can’t immediately see the result and I pay for each print I think I’m more deliberate, more into the moment than when I shoot digital.

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Another LOMO shot, this time in the hallway of my office.

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“Spot the Photographer”

or

“The Don’t Make Them Like They Used To”.

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LOMO LC-A, Fuji Superia 400 film.

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Canon SD1000, SOMA district, San Francisco

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Playing around with Photoshop cross-processing color curves.

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Get into the SF art scene. 111 Minna Gallery hosts Sketch Tuesdays every week, where you can meet and mingle with local and emerging Bay Area talent. Watch these artists at work and be inspired by the creative process. Like what you see? You’ll have the chance to snatch up pieces at reasonable prices. While you’re there, check out the current solo show by Skinner called “Worship Thee Kindly The Dark Hand That Guides Me.” A full bar and DJ add to the fun.

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Canon SD1000.

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…Continuing the “projector fetish” theme started with this post and this post…

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A more recent shot with my Aiptek Pencam SD.

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The first-ever Lomo camera is 25 years old and to celebrate, you can pick up the Lomo LC-A on the cheap for one day only.

First produced in the (then) Soviet Union in 1984, it was designed as a workhouse’ camera for everyday photography, complete with the iconic Minitar 1 lens for vivid, wide angle images and auto exposure for great snaps in all light. it was the camera that led to the Lomographic Society and the rest, as they say, is history.

From the Lomographic Society newsletter:

Lomography website

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More LOMO + generic film goodness, and the lens correction filter in Photoshop CS2 to fix a bit of perspective shift.

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Testing out the Yet Another PhotoBlog add-in for Wordpress. If this works, I can stop using Gallery to serve pictures for Wordpress…

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What: “Where’s the Fun? Last Night at Playland” Vintage Photo Exhibit
Where: Lucky JuJu Pinball Gallery, 713 Santa Clara Ave, Alameda
When: June 5th through June 31st, 2009. Gallery Hours 9 am to 9pm
Admission: Art Gallery is Free. Pinball Museum requires $5/10 admission
Website: http://www.wix.com/playland/playland

Vintage photo exhibit celebrates San Francisco’s Playland at the Beach

The Lucky JuJu Pinball Museum and Art Gallery in Alameda will host a collection of late-1960’s photographs by Bob Lesoine featuring the attractions, amusements and characters of San Francisco’s beloved amusement park, Playland-at-the-Beach, in the years leading up to its demolition in the early 1970’s. Entitled “Where’s the Fun? Last Night at Playland”, the show will run throughout the month of June and is presented as part of the ongoing development of a full-scale multi-media production of an original musical, Last Night at Playland, with book and music by Bob Lesoine and choreography by local tap dance legend Rosie Radiator. The musical is scheduled to premiere in Spring/Summer 2010 at The Royce Gallery in San Francisco and will display the artist’s photographs in vivid projections as a backdrop to the action on stage.

In the late 1960s, Bob began to explore the images of Playland with his little Nikon F in hand. At the time he had the idea of creating a photo-essay about the old amusement park, but this never happened. He soon left San Francisco to spend the next couple of years in New York and Amsterdam and he put all his things, including the Playland slides, in storage. When he returned to the Bay Area, Playland had been torn down, and Bob’s response was to begin writing songs about the park—“Come to Playland”, “Laughing Lady”, “Funhouse”, “The House of Mirrors”. Upon meeting and collaborating with the late David Warren and Jack Buscan—aka “Zolè the Wizard”—Bob created the first incarnation of a Playland show, which was called: THE YEAR THEY TORE DOWN PLAYLAND AT THE BEACH. Billed as a music-magic-mime show, it was essentially a review, a series of “side-show” acts with no real story. For that show, Bob resurrected his Playland photos and created a dual screen, multi-media slide show with state-of-the-art Kodak Carousel projectors to provide a visual Playland montage. Bob has since revised his Playland show into a book musical, Last Night at Playland, which is currently in development by Theater Residencies, Incorporated and slated to become the next San Francisco perennial musical.

[ wix.com via lucky juju ]

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Come check out jewelry by Meghan Riley, wood pieces by Armando Ramos, drawings and sewn homegoods by Cielo Oreste, and much more!

See their facebook page for more info.

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