Golf Images from St. Albans

The Postcard

Clubhouse and Clouds

On the Tee Box

On the Green

Will It Drop?

Tournament Day

On the Range

Today's post are from images that I took yesterday serving as an event photographer for the annual St. Louis Arc's golf tournament at the Country Club of St. Albans in St. Louis. The weather and light were spectacular.

MDC Nature Photographer

Noppadol Paothong

Noppadol Paothong is the staff photographer for the Missouri Department of Conservation. Many of his images can be found in the Missouri Conservationist magazine with a monthly readership of 500,000. His website and blog give some first hand idea sof the life, technique and equipment of someone doing nature photography for a living. It sounds harder than I would have expected with hours and hours spent waiting quietly in a blind for just the right moment. I think many of us wonder what it would be like to make our living doing something that most of us do for pleasure. I hope this is usefull.

Working in America-Washington Metal Fabricators

Worker

Worker 2

Tools of the Trade



Using the Machines

Parts

Can You Guess

Gone for the Day

Close Encounters



God is in the Details



Machines

Scrap !

Precision

Tubes in Black and White

Yesterday I did a photo shoot with some friends at a Washington Metal Fabricators. Unfortunately the plant was mostly finished for the day but it still presented a number of great shots. So much of the time I am shooting, dead or dying buildings and industrial locations so it was great to get to shoot a living, working plant. WMF is very much alive and well. Enjoy these images from a real live Midwestern manufacturing company.

The Death of the Merchant of Venice



Mississippi River and Merchants Bridge



A Giant in Decline

The Wound

Her Majesty

St. Louis

Today's post are from a recent series of images shot just North of the down town area of St. Louis. I call this the Death of the Merchant of Venice as it is in and around a recently renovated bridge across the Mississippi called what else the Merchant's Bridge. It connects North St. Louis with Venice IL. Just accross the river into Illinois is an Ameren UE power station which is being demolished. It is a place grand in scale and size as the river, the bridge and the power station as well as the views back toward the city are all grand in scale.

Great photographs in and around water - Jonathan Critchley

Jonathan Critchley web site

Riverfront in Spring Iphoneography

Just an example of what you can do with an Iphone and Photoshop Elements. The real image is quite large and I plan on printing it on our large format plotter. The way you compensate for a small sensor is to take multiple images and stitch them together. This image was taken with the camera/Iphone held vertically to maximize the amount of data in each shot. 6 shots were taken, downloaded to my PC and stitched together in Photoshop Elements. I have attached a how to link to just one of many  Youtube video instruction- creating panorama in Photoshop Elements.

Clayton Lacrosse Varsity VS Rockwood Summit Varsity Game Photos

I have created a photo album of selected game photos.  Go to this link Game Photos on Picasa

Images for Clayton LAX Posted to Picasa

I have created a Picasa album for the Clayton Lacrasse Jamboree JV game photos. Click the link and it will take you to the game photos. I have not sorted or edited these. The album is rather large so it may take some time to download.   Clayton Lacrosse Jamboree JV Game photos Clayton VS Kirkwood

The Joy of Large format Photography

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pawk3OLBdE&feature=related

A little very dry humor for those who practice this past time. Enjoy. FYI. I think this is really well done.

Polaroid 405 to Sinar F2 compatability, Fuji FP100c 3x4 film

In Today's post I am trying to solve a technical problems with using smaller less expensive instant Fuji film, FP100c instead of the FP100c45, with a Polaroid 405 holder on my Sinar F2. The F2 is a very well designed camera keeping with the Sinar tradition. But it is obvious this Polaroid film back was not intended for use with this particular camera. There is a tab on the end of the 405 film holder which prevents the assembly of film holder and Graphlock back from seating properly. This tab projects too far and prevents the assembly from seating. Hitting against the camera standard. The full size 4x5 PA-45 holder does not have such a tab and it slides in and mounts without a problem. The Fuji made PA-145 holder is a slightly different shape and I am hoping that it will mount without this same problem but they are pricey even on eBay so I would prefer to know before I by another possibly miss matched piece of gear. Does anyone out in Internet land know or use the Polaroid holder with a Sinar F2? If so how did you get it to fit?

For those coming to this blog and reading the post I will elaborate. Fuji is now the only maker of instant film for large format cameras. They make two sizes of film 4x5 and a smaller 3x4 size. They have announced that they are discontinuing the 4x5 film but regardless the smaller size is and has been for some time much less expensive in the US. When I learned large format photography we would regularly use instant film as an interim step to check focus, shot composition and exposure. In the old days many Polaroid test images would be taken prior to making the real shots.

Part of Polaroid holder which prevents it from seating.

Tab preventing Graphlock back from seating in Sinar F2 standard

In the current world we large format film photographers must cobble together parts and supplies to make a viable work flow. If I cannot take test shots the large format will be of considerably less practical use for photographing architecture and interiors on location as it really helps you know what the shot is looking like before you leave a location. Often a shot takes a long time to set up and you must put things back the way you found them. So test shots are a real advantage.  Since the 4x5 instant film is being discontinued it will likely not be an available resource for the much longer. For the time being Fuji is still making the smaller 3x4 size and it is relatively affordable. So it would be at least an alternative solution allowing the use of the smaller (almost the whole frame) size film. The photos show the 405 film holder not fitting into the Sinar F2. Possibly someone can help having either found that the Fuji made holder works or having modified the Polaroid holder to fit. Thanks!