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i’ve decided there are not enough good images of the pentax 67 camera on the internet.

so i submit mine to the world wide web, for its bots to discover and index. i hereby give permission to use this image as long as credit is attributed to me, jason schlachet.

this is one of my favorite cameras, with one of my favorite lenses mounted on it.

whenever i go on random drives i see the most interesting stuff. tonight was no exception. who knew, at 10:30pm on a wednesday you can have interesting experiences.

boman and i were driving down near the shipyards and we saw a light. a light so bright it was completely illuminated a nearby building. we thought it was someone welding (it seemed reasonable at the time). as we drive closer i could hear it. then we saw flames. not the usual fire flames, but white flames. it was a transformer up on a pole. throwing sparks, on fire so hot it was white, and buzzing and zapping loudly. it was really quite a spectacle. we got out from under the power lines and watched it for a little while longer. as we left, a firetruck was headed down there. wow.

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last night we had some friends over for some shabu shabu. i always get nervous when we serve dinner – i wonder about portions, leftovers, not having enough, etc. last night we did pretty well.

you might be wondering why there’s a space shuttle above. two of our conversation topics were origami and photography. i decided to give one of our guests a piece of film and some scissors (to cut it square and burnish the folds). it took him a while, and the folds got progressively more difficult to fold. he eventually made it all the way through. way to go, chris!

i’ve never seen film folded like this before. it’s too bad it won’t stay together easily, i wonder what it’d look like if i developed it.

240 Ws shot through a brolly at 5 feet is reading as f/8.

need. more. power.

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thanks, jim, for the color correction!

this is an image i shot at work in our server room. a contractor had left a ladder and dangling wires from installing new power outlets. it happened to be just under a single light to create this scene. workplaces can have interesting light.

shot this with my trusty rolleicord on fuji provia.

my brother and me. last night i did a set of prints from my 8×10 negatives. they came out as strangely as my neg scan did. i think the problem was the lighting. it was a bright and sunny day. i had everybody stand on the back patio where the light was coming through a screen. it was bright but well diffused. i liked how the light felt but my negatives didn’t have much oomph to them. they do have sort of a glow quality to them, though. i brought them to work with me to view them in different light.

i think the tonality is fairly there. i just can’t decide yet.

i found this bacon at whole foods that must be three times the thickness of regular bacon. when it cooked down it was still huge. so yummy. that plus my favorite coffee and some chili/tarragon eggs.

good morning.

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yesterday morning i took my 4×5 up to a back road near highway 92 (off 280) to try shooting the fog. i was hoping to do something like N+1 or N+2 but i didn’t read up enough on the procedure. instead of underexposing and overdeveloping (which i think is how it’s to be done), i overexposed. i decided to develop normally but constantly agitate. (agitating a plastic tray in total darkness with no music or people around for 9 minutes gets old fast!)

i really wished i had more contrast in the background. though, any more contrast would have drastically affected the foreground. how do you control local contrast? maybe it’s easier to do in the darkroom. does this kind of scene merit the use of a hard gradient ND filter?

the negative came out ok. it looks like my slight forward tilt did its thing in keeping everything in focus. i shot it with a carl meyer apo-process f10/12″, f/64 for about 20 seconds. the 400 pixel wide scan doesn’t look at great in my opinion, which is why i link to the larger versions. photoshop treatment was: clone out dust, auto-levels, slight unsharp mask, crop, resize.