Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/04/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At the risk of notching up the list's level of prurience. Two Saturdays ago I did a shoot of my friend JD's punkabilly band; last Saturday he got me comped in to shoot his girlfriend's troupe on the same stage. Rachel, and the group she formed, 'Panty Raid', are Nashville's leading proponents of 'neo- Burlesque', and they have developed a national reputation in that field. This was their hometown birthday party. When I went backstage before the show for instructions, Rachel told me "No money shots. I'm tired of seeing some a**h***'s bad pictures of my tits all over the internet". Actually there was no nudity, and I saw pasties in use for the first time in my life. That's Rachel walking on the Fakir's back. Neopan 1600 at 1600 http://gallery.leica-users.org/album372/harum http://gallery.leica-users.org/album372/panty_raid_2 Tmax 3200 at 1600 http://gallery.leica-users.org/album372/balloon http://gallery.leica-users.org/album372/dorothy http://gallery.leica-users.org/album372/panty_raid_8 http://gallery.leica-users.org/album372/b_day_cake http://gallery.leica-users.org/album372/fakir tech blab: M2 w/ bugeye summicron 35. Metering a real problem; I knew from the week before that with full floods I could count on f4 at 125th; below that I was guessing. Both films developed in Xtol 1:3; 13 mins for the Fuji, 23 for the Tmax. Don, you're right; the Tmax works nicely in that ISO range. Arche PS- The Legendary Shackshakers are in Europe for the next few weeks, with dates from Spain to Sweden. You guys might not like them, but your kids probably would.