I should be packing but instead...

I am shooting pictures with Dad's camera because mine won't be back until tomorrow. I shot all of these from his room at the hyatt. What a view! All I could find was eastern facing skies. Perhaps I shall return one day and figure out how to get a room facing west.

Interesting

After a bit more research into the pictures. It turns out that the majority of the shots were taken by Charles A. Libby. Who was a rather prolific photographer in eastern washington during the 30s. What's incredible about the pictures is how sharp they are. I am not entirely sure how the pictures became  postcards and how they were distributed. Or how my grandfather got them, of course he could of been cruising through the area during that time period.

Coulee Dam Postcard Project

I haven't much tried to do proper restorations, more like salvaging operations for poorly exposed shots from my hasselblad. However the acquisition of the v700 has opened the door to another potential way to spend obscene amounts of time. The following images are scans of the original postcards. I am trying to piece them together and maybe do something interesting and really cool like laying the original images  against the the present day shots. Or maybe go there myself and get more pictures. Now then I am sure that some tricky dick has probably already done it. But its the journey not the destination right? Well this  destination is ~1935.

Its not the Violin, its the man who plays it.

So without all of my expensive camera equipment to play with I was reduced to my trusty Panasonic ZS7. Which over the year or 2, I have come to respect for its speed (AF and shooting) as well as some damn fine images out of the ~12megapixels I am alloted. No raw unfortunately but it is a point and shoot. With GPS which is also nice. So I headed to the graveyard and found some statues, as well as one nice shot of downtown with the bracketing feature on my camera (who knew!)

I shot this from my car window when I was stopped on red. Snapped 3 quickies +1,0,-1 and after I merged them it pretty much looked just like this with a bit of cropping and such.

This statue is super cool, and huge I took a couple of him. I wanted to replace the blue sky but for now I am just going to leave it.

People have to look closely to understand the point of this one. Apparently good has lost out.

Last but not least, Little Ivy Chapel in Fairmount Cemetary. The sun was going down so I caught a nice backlight for the shot, however it was almost too much light and it really dominated all the other colors, so I opted to go infrared and flip it and it look awesome creepy in my opinion.

Didn't get a thing done ...

 I ended up working on my photos from the weekend. And started creating 3d meshes of some of the black and white shots I have, real contrasty ones, Which then in turn led me to start messing about with turning them in side out and editing their texture wrappings which happened to be the picture they were originally spawed from. Its a nice marriage of bw photography and light 3d modeling to create some interesting effects.

Before and after's below...

This one was shot with a relatively older DSLR as a result of my d7k getting cleaning. Its dark, and noisy as hell, you can't see from that image but trust me its bad. I used Noise Ninja, and Nik Silver Efx Pro in order to bring it back to life, and something a bit more interesting. Here is an intermediate shot.

This is kinda where I wanted her to be but I was never entirely happy with the lighting. So I got sidetracked. With the following...

Weeping Angels

Inspired by Dr Who's "Weeping Angels".  

I have pictures of an outhouse that was inspired by the tardis too, but these turned out better :)

4.25 Rolls and 40$

I was hungry... And McDonalds was tempted with me small fried things vaguely reminiscent of chicken. But alas the weekend is still young.

5 rolls of film and 50 bucks

Thats the project this weekend. And to finish the case for the camera. 50 dollars doesn't give me a whole lot of flexibility in terms of gas prices. But perhaps a greyhound ticket might work? Do they still have those  :) ? Either way it will have to be a creative use of 50 bucks, and filling my tank isn't very creative. unless I filled it by betting a guy 50 bucks I could fill it by pouring the gas into my hand cupped, and then into the tank. Now that would be creative but also wasteful...  but creative. Well its a thought, and I just started thinking about it. No telling where that train may lead. Hey actually train is a good idea too.

A couple from round one

Round one mainly consisted of Test shots so the subjects are... well convenient shall we say.

so long as they didn't start scratching or grilling in the middle of it.

Round 2 Decidedly goes to the Hasselblad.

 Cross Processed Pictures of Doom. I mean they are look good in a cross processed sort of way, but I seriously need to get a grasp on the nether region of shudder speeds between 250 and 500.  I am apt to just lodge it in the middle and take my chances next time. Either that or I need to keep a Shot Journal for the 503cxi and see if I can't make some sense out of the chaos which is light.