Sunday, June 27, 2010

Cold Cuts on Lake Avenue

No wise words here.

I've often wondered what was up Lake Avenue, Cringila, so as part of a U-turn I got to find out. As soon as I saw this shop I had to look closer. The plastic fly strips in the front door must look great on a breezy day!

I love Burek but never find it easy to find in Sydney. This one road in the tiny, quiet almost backwater industrial suburb above the Port Kembla steel factories has three shops that sell Burek almost all next door to each other. Why? How? Sadly none seemed open and ready to sell me some Burek.

A cloudless sunny day makes Fuji FP100-C instant film a dream to use.

Friday, June 18, 2010

Tank


Tank
Originally uploaded by frontdrive34
No wise words here.

I feel great about this shot. Another reason I'm finding the use of older film cameras rewarding. I can't do this with digital, maybe someone can? Without post production?

It's also another shot from my self developed C41 films using the Tetenal kit. I appear to be capable of processing around 40 films from a $AU50 kit. Not bad really and very easy and therapeautic to do!

It's also a shot I think might lead me on towards more shots of "Big Rigs"!

KOMBI POWER


KOMBI POWER
Originally uploaded by frontdrive34
No wise words here.

I'm pretty darn happy with this shot and what the Rokkor f1.7 can do.

Taken at the Volkswagen Nationals, a gathering of hundreds of VW vehicles held at Fairfield Showground in western Sydney annually.

It was another of those days where I packed too many cameras for a day looking at cars so left most in the car and wandered with a Minolta SRT303 and a Nikon D50. It was also another of those days where I was expecting loads of people to be there with cameras, as is the norm at a classic car events but was truly amazed at how many people have big dollar DSLR's.

I've had my DSLR for a number of years now and it is a great thing. It was an upgrade from a 3.2 megapixel Olympus UltraZoom, quite capable in its day but garbage by todays standard. What I still am yet to see is DSLR shots that don't look so clean and often clinical out of the camera or more importantly, shots that don't have endless things done to them with software manipulation.

I often feel too many people come home and heavily modify (well even lightly) an image rather than do all that with the available light in camera as they take the shot. Am I becoming an even older "old skool" stickler?