Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/07/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]As part of my Transformation:Cosplay project, I finally got an informal photo of Sarah. I have put the two images together, like this: http://richardmanphoto.com/PICS/20140520-Scanned-410.jpg Bob Adler and other Palo Altonians know exactly where this is. She came by on a Sunday and I was trying to figure out where to photograph her in a simulated "work environment." Then my light bulb came on, being in the Silicon Valley, a coffee shop is indeed the perfect place, and this coffee shop closes on Sundays AND they have an outdoor sitting area. Perfect. So I dragged my light and the 4x5 down. There was a good number of people there but luckily they all sat in one side of the space. The light had to be put on the sidewalk so my wife was "woman-ing" it so people would not trip over it. While I was mucking around, an old guy came by and started photographing me with his digicam, So I chatted with him a bit. He used to use a 4x5 eons ago. He's quite happy that people still use the stuff. The lens is the 100 years old Taylor Taylor & Hobson 7" Cooke. It has this fantastic quality great for portraiture. I just got an 8 /12" TTH Cooke. Will see how that one works. The left side of the image is a character named Rocket from the movie Sucker Punch. Taken the with Nikkor 300mm. Both are shot on Provia 100F. Amazing how the two lens have different color feels. -- // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com> // http://facebook.com/richardmanphoto