[LargeFormat] 65mm SA

[Karl Wolz]

Great shot!

It's hard to beat that 65 for drama.

The wall to the left has a bluish cast (in comparison to the ambient light).
Was that mostly the Metz?  Did you filter your strobe light at all?

It's a shi**y job, but somebody had to do it.

Thanks,

Karl

----- Original Message -----
From: "Les Newcomer" <lnphoto@ismi.net>
To: <largeformat@f32.net>
Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2001 7:08 AM
Subject: [LargeFormat] 65mm SA


>
>
> A while back I put up a photo using a S65mm f8 Super Angulon, and
> alluded to a photo of an "outflow control chamber"
>
> Well here it is
>
> http://www.ismi.net/~lnphoto/outflowcontrol.JPG
>
> The chamber is about 6 feet wide and the grate in the ceiling is about
> 30 feet from where I was standing. The iron thing is a gate about 5 feet
> tall and is in a half open position (just below the photo was a
> recangular hole 6 feet wide and about 3 feet tall)
>
> The camera is on a tripod about 2.5-3 feet off the ground pointed almost
> straight up. Normally I would sit down so I could look up at the ground
> glass to focus, but there was about 2 inches of raw sewer water on the
> floor so I had to sort of bend double to look at the ground glass. The
> room was lit with three 150 watt bulbs and could have been candles for
> all the light they gave off. The walls were covered in VERY black
> waterproofing tar/pitch.
>
> By eye, you could not see the ceiling except for the grate and the walls
> didn't show the water stains
>
> I focused on the grate and the top light in the hole, since thats all I
> could see. Stopped down to f16 fired off 4-6 pops of my trusty Metz 60
> CT4 on the old VPH 400 color film.
>
> In the wall to the left, there was another gate that let water in from a
> 15 foot tunnel and the gate shown allowed the water to fall another 25
> feet to a 30 foot dia super sewer.
>
> In Panama they have locks for ships, in Detroit they have locks for
> shi*.   :-)
>
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