Re: [Leica] Tina/Reimbursement/Value Placed on Work?

["Robert G. Stevens" <robsteve@istar.ca>]

Bob:

I use slide film mostly, starting with Kodachrome last year when I started
up my interest in photography again.  I then bought a twenty roll box of
E100s and SW and used that as well.  The New York were on E100s.  For
sports I tend to use AGFA RSX 100 as it is cheap here at about $62 a
hundred foot roll.  The bird pictures were done with RSX100 for the Herons,
E100s for the first few eagles using a Tamron 300 2.8, and Provia 100 for
later eagle pictures.  A twenty roll box of provia came with the R8 when I
bought it used. 

When I do B&W, I use mainly TMAX, 100,400,P3200.  The Hospital shots were
on Tmax 400 at EI 800, with the Noctilux shots on P3200 at 1600 for the
Cigar and Kim pictures, with Bruce and Boyd on Tmax 100, and the baby in
lawn chair on APX25.  The developer for the TMAX was Tmax developer and
Rodinal for the APX25.  I have since started using Xtol.

Thanks once again for your compliments.

Regards,

Robert
  

I use an M6 and have R cameras starting with an R4, to now an R8 and R6.
The Peggys Cove pictures were taken with the R's with the exception of the
Spring 1998 and the fiddle girl.  The Spring 1998 was taken with a skinny
Tele-Elmarit, which I was never happy with because of lower contrast.  The
fiddle girl was done with the Noctilux.  Summer Sunset was taken with the
400mm 2.8 APO-Telyt, Summer 1998 with a Tamron 17mm, Nearby Cove with
70-210 Vario Elmar, fisherman was 180 3.4 APO, view from Rocks was 35mm
Summicron, and the Sunset Fall 1998 was with the 105-280.  Peggys Cove was
the site of the Crash of Swiss air flight 111 which went down in the area
of the sea where the odd looking clouds are in the Summer Sunset 1998
picture.  This picture was before the crash, while the final sunset picture
on the page was taken a few months after the crash. 


At 03:59 PM 2/22/99 EST, you wrote:
>Robert:
>
>Thanks for the note.  
>
>Damn good idea to exchange photos for lawn work.....ummmmmmmm! perhaps I
>should be nicer to my neighbors.  
>
>Gordon Francis Stevens, born December 31, 1998 at 11 pounds and 5 ounces.
>Another hour or so and it would have been 1999.     Larger babies are just
>better looking than smaller ones.  My daughter was only 5 pounds when she was
>born.  I thought she was the most beautiful baby I had ever seen.   I was
>offended when a family member said she looked like a frog!  In looking at the
>pictures of her at the hospital I think that they were right.  That frog
>turned into my Princess as I'm sure Gordon Francis will be a Prince.
>
>Robert I was the 505th visitor to your website.  I really enjoy LUG members
>personal websites.    In your Peggy's Cove series I flipped over Summer
Sunset
>1998.  This is one of the best sunsets I have ever seen...bar none!   I also
>loved the reflections in Summer 1998.   The Local Fisherman was very
>interesting with the soft light and subdued colors.
>
>Seeing your Nocitlux shot of Jennifer and Cuban Cigar made me want another
>Noctilux.  I could smell the fragrance of the Cuban cigar.  You lucky
>Canadians can legally buy them.  Our government still thinks that Cuba is a
>threat.....what a joke.  Hopefully, Clinton will fix this before his next
love
>affair!
>
>I have never done wildlife and I am somewhat motivated to give it a try.
Your
>Bald Eagle series was excellent.
>
>Your New York Street Musician shots with the Noctilux were great.
>
>Thanks again for sharing your thoughts and personal pictures with me.  When
>you get a chance I would love to know the films that you used in your
>photographs.  I assume that all of them were taken with an M camera.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Bob Bedwell
>
><< Bob:
> 
> I took a couple of pictures of a neigbor's kids last summer using my
> Noctilux and APX25.  I told him I had a couple great pictures of his kids
> and I will make him a few prints, but in return he would have to mow my
> lawn.  I hate mowing my lawn and it was well overdue.  I don't think he
> took me seriously, but a few days later I came over to his house with two
> 11X14 prints, matted, and framed.  His business partner was on the front
> porch at the time and happened to be a landscaper.  They were so impressed
> with the prints, the next day I not only got my lawn mowed, but the cleanup
> and trimming of hedges and etc.
> 
> These pictures are now proudly displayed in their house and they get lots
> of comments on them.  I make a habit now of never giving out or selling my
> work unless it is framed, matted and signed.  Just recently I gave away
> four prints of B&W pictues I took at the birth of my son to the local
> Maternity Hospital as thanks to the staff.  I got a thanyou note from the
> head of the department saying they are two now displayed in the recovery
> room and the othe two are in the pre-op area.  Once again these were
> framed, matted, and signed by me.  In their not from me they asked if I
> would do some pictures of the stages of delivery for them when I get the
> time.  These will not be free of course.
> 
> 
> One of the pictures I gave to the neighbor is on my web page and is the
> baby in the lawn chair.
> 
> http://home.istar.ca/~robsteve/photography/Noctilux.htm
> 
> Some of the pictures I donated to the Hospital are on the web page below.
> The actual prints are much better because of the harsh light, I did a lot
> of burning in.  The ones on the web page are straight scans from the
> negatives.
> 
> http://home.istar.ca/~robsteve/photography/gordon_francis_stevens.htm
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