{"id":131,"date":"2016-04-09T02:47:03","date_gmt":"2016-04-09T02:47:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lofgreenimages.com\/blog\/?p=131"},"modified":"2023-07-09T21:30:29","modified_gmt":"2023-07-09T21:30:29","slug":"impacting-images-from-a-small-format","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lofgreenimages.com\/blog\/behind_the_shot\/impacting-images-from-a-small-format\/","title":{"rendered":"Impacting Images from A Small Format"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was lucky enough to be able to take a trip to Buenos Aires and Sydney Australia last January. I was traveling for business and had to pack light. If I had my choice I would have left the suit coat and business attire at home and brought my Mamiya 645 gear with me. Considering the level of meetings I was to attend, that was not an option.<\/p>\n

Being selective with what gear I was going to take with me was going to be tough. Considering I had never been to either Buenos Aries or Sydney before I didn’t really know what to expect or what to plan for. Because I was going to have to keep my gear to a limit, I would be packing a 35mm kit to save on size and weight.<\/p>\n

\"SyndeyHarbor2016_605_SMALL\"<\/a>Downtown Sydney Australia, Pentax ME Super, 24mm Lens, Arista.EDU 400 ISO film<\/span><\/p>\n

The smallest 35mm body I have is a Pentax ME super. It is a really compact camera with a great automatic exposure system as well as full manual control. All in a package as small as a Leica. I love to use this camera for street shooting too. Not to mention I just love the sound of the shutter on this little gem. With the decision made of what camera to take I had to whittle down what my lens choices were going to be.<\/p>\n

I knew that my opportunities for photography on this trip were going to be limited to late evening or well after dark. I was hoping to be able to shoot some wide cityscapes but I wasn’t sure how close I could get to the subjects that I wanted to photograph. Also, to make sure I was going to get the most out of a small 35mm negative, I knew I had to stick with prime lenses. I couldn’t afford the distortion of a zoom. With all of that in mind I chose to take my 24mm f2.8 wide angle and my 50mm f1.7 prime lenses. Both small and light.<\/p>\n

\"BuenosAries2016_626_Share\"<\/a>Downtown Buenos Aires Argentina, Pentax ME Super, 24mm Lens, Arista.EDU 100 ISO film<\/span><\/p>\n

For film I wanted to use something that could handle the contrast of night photography and show some texture but not too much grain so I would have enough to work with when enlarging to a big size print. I decided to go with Arista.EDU films, both 100 iso and 400 iso. I really like the classic structure of the image that this film produces. I could have chosen one of the T grain films but thats for another post.<\/p>\n

Finally, I had to pick a convenient tripod that would fit in carry on luggage and make sure I had enough batteries, shutter release and any filters I might need.<\/p>\n

Between the two cities I was able to expose 6 roles of film. I just happen to be in Sydney for Australia Day (like 4th of July in the U.S.) and got to celebrate with millions of people in downtown Sydney. It was a blast, I just loved the Australian hospitality. Overall I am very pleased with the images I have from the trip. You can see a couple here in this post. It was a great trip and I have several more posts to come with some other images from this trip.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was lucky enough to be able to take a trip to Buenos Aires and Sydney Australia last January. I was traveling for business and had to pack light. If I had my choice I would have left the suit coat and business attire at home and brought my Mamiya 645 gear with me. Considering … Continue reading Impacting Images from A Small Format<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":133,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[8,7,6],"class_list":["post-131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-behind_the_shot","category-film-is-still-alive","tag-black-and-white-photography","tag-film-shooter","tag-shoot-film"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lofgreenimages.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lofgreenimages.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lofgreenimages.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lofgreenimages.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lofgreenimages.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.lofgreenimages.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":242,"href":"https:\/\/www.lofgreenimages.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions\/242"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lofgreenimages.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lofgreenimages.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lofgreenimages.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lofgreenimages.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}