[Leica] 8x10 Street Photography

[Jayanand Govindaraj]

It is not what I imagined it to be at all. TFS

Cheers
Jayanand

On Tue, Aug 20, 2019 at 1:49 AM Richard Man <richard at imagecraft.com> wrote:

> Don re: " A beginning to your project."
>
> I have no lack of ideas for projects, it's a matter of time and money.
> Sadly, my "free" time might be severely shortened with a normal job, we
> will see...
>
> Thanks all for look and comments. Here's the pic of Alice's Restaurant. I
> took 2 images to get the flag in the best wavy motion, and this one, the
> first one, nails it pretty well.
>
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/richardman/810-201909-AlicesRestaurant-2.jpg.html
>
>
> These are the last sheets from an box of old TXP-320 gifted by a friend. I
> have some Pancro 400 and it looks pretty good, but I need to source some
> more inexpensive 8x10 film stock. Shanghai GP3 is ~$4 a sheet, so I will be
> trying that.
>
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 19, 2019 at 7:15 AM Bernard Quinn via LUG <lug at leica-users.org
> >
> wrote:
>
> >
> > Marvelous Portrait!
> >
> > Barney
> >
> > Make America Kind Again!
> >
> > Barney Quinn, WK3Z
> > 301-775-1386
> >
> >
> >
> > > On Aug 19, 2019, at 5:12 AM, Richard Man <richard at imagecraft.com>
> wrote:
> > >
> > > With my upcoming interviews, I know I need to distract myself this
> > weekend,
> > > so I decided to take the 8x10 to the coast for some quick snaps (it's a
> > > joke! :-) )
> > >
> > > Passing by Alice's Restaurant, I had always want to photography that
> > iconic
> > > place, so may as well be today. I found a good vantage point, had my
> wife
> > > holding down the tripod to stabilize it and took a couple pics (which
> > came
> > > out nicely too). Then a biker dude came out holding a camera so we
> > chatted
> > > a bit while putting the camera away. He was with his brother and both
> are
> > > avid bikers. While I was putting the camera away, I remember my motto
> > "you
> > > always regret not taking the photo you want to take", so I walked back
> to
> > > them and asked his biker if I may take his photo. After fussing around
> > for
> > > a few minutes, I captured this:
> > >
> > >
> >
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/richardman/810-201909-CurtRelick.jpg.html
> > >
> > > At home, I did a web search on him, and he is locally famous biker,
> > > including judging racing events.
> > >
> > > Love the 8x10 tonality. It's really an order of magnitude better than
> > 4x5.
> > >
> > > --
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