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It seems that I remembered how to do things correctly and now I want to shoot with film more often. What's that about hubris? Real scans WILL BE DONE, but that WILL take a while. Gimme a week or two.

For those who come in through the front door on the Blog, the rest of them are here and there will be more going up shortly.

Bringing a Camera to Knife Fight, 3/17/07

I finally got around to seeing Knife Fight live after many years of broken promises and late-night cancellations due to late night calls for work the next day. They played Union Hall (no link, see previous entry) which I had been to in a drunk capacity, but not in a music show capacity and I can't say that I enjoyed it (the venue; Knife Fight is AWESOME) -- too-low lights caked in red and blue gells making white-balancing a motherfucker to figure out. I did get to fiddle around with remote flash placement, an example seen here,



The flash was propped up haphazardly on the stacks, and I might try it again with two next time, but it'll depend on the venue. There were also low-hanging speedrails that I could have mounted a unit on if I had packed a maffer or similar. Something to think about carrying around in the future. More on Flickr

My life is about to get heavier. As per multiple friends, I'm going for the 5D. As per examples of the quality of the ASA at 3200 posted on Flickr, it's really a no-brainer.

These Are (Still) Powers

So got the film back after switching labs, and I'm disappointed with the results. Poor scan quality (looking at the negatives there's clearly more information there), and some of them had hypo-stains drooled all over them. To be fair, the little man behind the counter said they would be low res scans... but still a capital "M," Major, captial "B," Bummer. So the side-by-side comparisons might not be too worthwhile. Project abandoned.

I wonder though, what they process B&W with because I remember getting very nice, soft results with Ye Old Art School Standby D-76.



We'll try again this week with some Ilford ASA 3200 when Knife Fight plays Union Hall on Saturday night. No hyperlink to Union Hall. If you don't know where it is then...

Those Are Not Powers; These Are Powers

More from your new favorite band: These Are Powers at Tonic on 3/8/07. I should be able to do some nice side-by-sides once the film portion comes back from Duggal (I switched labs after Baboo fucked up again).



Most exciting was a successful Gordon Parks moment:



I was looking for an example of the zoom 'n' shoot that he did to link to, but I couldn't find one. Oh well. More of these on Flickr.

It's Great To Be Alive

A grand day out at the American Museum Of Natural History results in me spending hours loading Polaroids to Flickr. I didn't think I liked the un-color-corrected Type 89, but I guess I do after all. Especially this,



Anyway, ducks and cats and dogs and fossils and other mammals abound in Richard's Menagerie.

Listening to Drive By Truckers, A World of Hurt

If you still think about each other and smile before you remember how screwed up it's gotten
Or maybe dream of a time less rotten
Remember, it ain't too late to take a deep breath and throw yourself into it with everything you got

SUNY Purchase

I was up in Purchase (so sayeth the title) today to do some stuff for Pepsi Corporate and had lunch with Cameraman D. (dry personality, like mine, and all around good guy). We talked about this and that like most of us do when we've nothing to do before working and I snapped this one off. Of course, the Polaroid back is always a conversation starter and so we chatted about that for a while. I told him the reason I brought it out was because of the warm weather and how the emulsion was freezing the last time I tried to shoot with it and got into the particulars of shooting with something with no viewfinder and how the tendency leans toward centering the subject. I also told him that I didn't want to become one of those photographers who's nothing more than an advanced amateur.

On the way back I stole this on the West Side Highway.

Strong

I had forgotten today was a holiday and almost missed my train to HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY to work for PBS slinging boom for some public-forum type show that I'd never seen or heard of before. At least I didn't have to hump my full rig out onto The Island. The day was zero-sum, sadly -- I had spent roughly the amount of my paycheck to get to Hempstead, buy breakfast, take a car from my place to the train station and purchase this little number,



so I could listen to myself as I boom'd.

On the plus side, I got a ride back home in the crew minivan -- after I had purchased the round trip ticket to Brooklyn, of course. THESE THINGS HAPPEN. In related news, my right arm is killing me.

Suzie

Fuck the Heatherette Afterparty. I finally got a few decent frames of my Sphinx.



(Techie Richard: Another example of why I should move to the newer digitals -- my fondness for ramping the gain up and open rather than carry around a strobe pack.)