[LargeFormat] 65mm SA

[Pete Caluori]

Greetings,

Les, I don't envy you your work.  Nice picture of the sewer!  Do you get 
hazardous pay for your efforts?  I think I'll take my chances photographing 
during lightning storms.:)

Regards,  Pete

>From: Les Newcomer <lnphoto@ismi.net>
>To paraphrase Hawkeye Pierce "This is meatball photography"  They don't
>pay me enough to color balance the shots, so for the most part I base my
>(time part of the) exposure on either; A) metering ambient light and
>then adding a pop to open the shadows  or B) The time it takes the metz
>to recharge on two or three pops.  It's amazing how often f16 @ 1 second
>is the metered reading. The flash is hand held and un synchronized so I
>can fire more than once.  and I keep my printer well stocked on Mylanta
>
>I just delivered a photo of a filter bed that had 1) metal halide
>(cyan/green) 2)mercury vapor (orange) and flash in it.  It was quite an
>amuzing effect- sorta like shooting through a dichroic filter  :-)
>
>
>My lastest job is for the clean side of the Water and Sewer Dept. It
>intailed going into underground rooms full of pipes and a large water
>meter and take pre construction photographs, while it would have been
>fun to shoot 4x5 and flash bulbs, it was faster with a Hassy SWC and my
>Metz. The hazard with this was that the rooms at least damp (condensate
>dripping off the ceiling) and sometimes flooded ( I told them I don't
>have scuba gear, you gotta pump it down to a max of 1 foot) After trying
>several different camera cases and vests, I finally settle on a couple
>of 5 gallon pickle buckets. One for the SWC, one for the Metz and a
>bogen super arm with a QR plate.
>
>Les

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