I was in Nepal this past Sunday for business, and lo and behold,
there was a hindu day of festival and my business meeting was scheduled for monday.
I hired a driver to the nearby ancient town of Bhaktapur and
spent about 90 mins street shooting the processions and festivities going on.
The time was around 5pm. The light was a f8-f11 with dark shadows around f4-f5.6.
I turn the aperture rind to f8 and turn the focus ring to place the infinity to the
DOF scale on the right sitting ontop of f8.
This meant that everything from 2.3metres onwards to infinity would be focused.
As for the various light source, I decided that the shutter speed would be the
only variable that i will change.
In other words, my M4-P with 35mm Summicron became a Point and Shoot camera with
only the shutter speed as the variable. Everything else would be at f8 and shoot from
2 metres out.
The film used was Fuji Neopan 400 (bought cheap for 35usd for a pack of 20 on freestyle photo)
The shutter speed would alternative between 1/1000 all the way to 1/60 and even 1/30.
All developed in D76 at 1+1 dilution, mostly at 4mins 30seconds at room temperature water.
I cropped a bit and adjusted for contrast. (the pictures are brighter but I like the dark textures better)
Here are some sample pictures from the trip. you can view the album here:
http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150270488417602.330825.691207601&l=b22f49c5aa&type=1
cheers!
raytoei
there was a hindu day of festival and my business meeting was scheduled for monday.
I hired a driver to the nearby ancient town of Bhaktapur and
spent about 90 mins street shooting the processions and festivities going on.
The time was around 5pm. The light was a f8-f11 with dark shadows around f4-f5.6.
I turn the aperture rind to f8 and turn the focus ring to place the infinity to the
DOF scale on the right sitting ontop of f8.
This meant that everything from 2.3metres onwards to infinity would be focused.
As for the various light source, I decided that the shutter speed would be the
only variable that i will change.
In other words, my M4-P with 35mm Summicron became a Point and Shoot camera with
only the shutter speed as the variable. Everything else would be at f8 and shoot from
2 metres out.
The film used was Fuji Neopan 400 (bought cheap for 35usd for a pack of 20 on freestyle photo)
The shutter speed would alternative between 1/1000 all the way to 1/60 and even 1/30.
All developed in D76 at 1+1 dilution, mostly at 4mins 30seconds at room temperature water.
I cropped a bit and adjusted for contrast. (the pictures are brighter but I like the dark textures better)
Here are some sample pictures from the trip. you can view the album here:
http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150270488417602.330825.691207601&l=b22f49c5aa&type=1
cheers!
raytoei
