tahoe panoramas

Posted by Jason on August 19, 2008

This is Echo Lake, the start of our 16 mile hike.

A panoramic view of Lake Aloha, the hike destination. Click on the images for larger versions. These images are plagued by the horrible smudge that was on the lens.. but you at least get a sense of scale of the landscape.

Tahoe Workout Trip 1

Posted by Jason on August 17, 2008

This is a digital snappy taken at lake aloha in the Sierra Nevadas.

This was part of a weekend trip with friends to South Lake Tahoe. I call it the “workout trip,” since the first day was lower body (a 16 mile hike) and the second day was core and upper body (kayaking on Lake Tahoe). Both were awesome, but I got a really bad sunburn on my feet!

repeating patterns

Posted by Jason on August 14, 2008

i took this on my trip to the abandoned naval air station in alameda.

on my past few photo trips, i’ve found myself focusing on repeating patterns. also, something really intrigues me when i use color film to shoot mostly monochromatic scenes. i guess it’s about finding the subtleties in life.

this one is from the same drive, but in emeryville.

photo drive around alameda

Posted by Jason on August 09, 2008

today i decided to go to the hayward camera show, but it wasn’t until i was heading down the peninsula that i realized it’s tomorrow and not today. i was already on the road with the pentax and film, so i decided to go to Alameda. you can see my route on the map.

aside from getting what i think will be great images of some of the buildings on the grounds there, i met dennis, a medium format shooter! he was out in alameda, where he just moved, with his pentacon. i recognized that camera a mile away, since it’s a cousin of my kiev-60. we had a little show-and-tell, since he had been thinking about a pentax but was disuaded from getting one. he showed me a czj 180/2.8 he has — that lens is crazy! anyways, we had a great conversation and i hope to bump into dennis again.

keep out! 2

Posted by Jason on August 07, 2008

tonight i made my first successful attempt at printing on something other than photographic paper. this is a piece of a ‘keep out’ sign, the cheapest plastic sheet i could find at my local hardware store.

i used rockaloid’s “liquid light” product.

here are the basic steps you take:

  • clean your surface
  • sub the service, i used unflavoured gelatin and put down a very thin coating
  • coat with the emulsion. i poured it into a plastic cup and used a foam brush
  • let the emulsion fully dry (mine was still a little tacky)
  • expose
  • develop in paper developer
  • “stop” in spent or new fixer
  • fix fully until emulsion gel goes clear
  • rinse in water for at least 5 mintues

    • i had trouble getting a decent print really, i was happy to get what you see above. but it was neat to see it work for the first time. i wonder how clean an image one can make with liquid light.

    my goal is to eventually use this method to print a portrait onto glass.

    here is the back of my print: