I’ve been working with screw-in filters on some of my photography of late – mostly my Prokudin-Gorskii photos, where I have to screw a red – then a green – and then a blue – filter to create color film off black-and-white images. In my camera filter arsenal is a smoke-colored Hoya 52mm ND400 filter. …
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Albany Sunset
The people at the restaurant must be wondering what the hell I’m doing. Let them wonder. This is my first attempt at getting a decent Capital District sunset photograph, and although I’ve achieved sunrise pictures in the past, it’s time to capture the setting sun. This is just a test, nothing more. Sunset was at…
Read MoreNo Solicitors
It’s a mundane, muggy Saturday morning. I’m at the laundromat, doing what most bachelors do at the laundromat – washing my clothes. You know … the boring Chuck Miller life. Let’s face it. I’m at a laundromat. What do you expect from a laundromat, anyway? Washers, dryers, a candy machine, two old video game machines,…
Read More“Barn Versus Weeds” and “Night Train to Heaven” and Relay for Life and #AfricatoCanada
Just an update on things. My framed 8×10 picture of “Barn Versus Weeds,” the 2010 Kodachrome shot of a Greenfield Center,N.Y. barn with a bad vegetation problem, has been delivered to the people involved with this Wednesday’s “Relay for Life” trivia competition. And from what I understand, there’s a lot of people who want to…
Read More“Freeze… snap… twist… snap… screw… and GO!”
I’ve had success with my Prokudin-Gorskii photography technique, in which I photograph an item four times – while using colored filters for three of the pictures. In the past, the “items” were things like trees and buildings and stationary statuary. Now to step up my game. Now to use my technique on a person. This…
Read More99 and 44/100ths Pure Brick
I don’t know how many times I drove past this building in Cohoes. But one day I looked up and saw a ghost sign. Yep, another ghost sign for the collection. Recognize the product that’s painted into the brickface? Yep… it’s a bar of Ivory Soap. The soap that floats. 99 and 44/100ths percent pure…
Read MoreThe Star Trails of Paradox Lake
The goal: capturing brilliant star trails, the curved streaks across the evening sky, using only my film cameras. I’ve captured them in the past with my digital camera; now I want to try it by using my mechanical cameras achieve the same brilliance. There’s a distinct advantage in using a mechanical camera, rather than a…
Read MoreGod’s Rays
It’s that straight shaft of light that emanates from the clouds to the ground. They’re known as the sun’s crepuscular rays; they’re also known as “God’s Rays.” Background. Last Wednesday, as I headed home to my apartment in the Town/Village, I saw a storm brewing to the north. The clouds were black and angry. But…
Read MoreThe Ripscale
Sunday was a rough day for me. Mothers’ Day is a very draining holiday. My mother passed away six years ago, and there’s a lot of emotions going through me. Not good ones. I thought about going over to Washington Park and photographing the tulips, but parking was almost non-existent. Downtown Albany was tougher to…
Read MoreThe “Single Shot, Half Shot” Project: The Beat of Officer Harris
I’m frustrated. I’ve tried creating a photographic project – my “Single Shot: Half Shot” project, in which I shoot the same roll of film through two different cameras – and I can’t get the proper film for it. For weeks, I’ve searched from here to there and everywhere for 70mm 616 film. Even the vintage…
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