wordless wednesday

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Thanks for stopping by! – Chris

Hercules and Cacus – Piazza della Signoria, Florence

November 4, 2017November 4, 2017Chris and Carol 4 Comments

Maybe not my most favorite statue in Florence (so many to choose from) but I like the effect that my 24mm lens gives the viewer – add in contrasty late day lighting and it was a tough shot to get. Wide angle lenses like the 24mm slightly pointed upward will give the most (pleasing) distortion.

Canon F-1 with Canon FD 24mm f/ 2.8 wide angle lens on Kodak Kodachrome 25 color slide film. The light meter in the F-1 handled the tricky lighting rather well. If I remember correctly, I took a spot reading of the building in bright sunlight and then the deep shadows behind the statue – I then adjusted the exposure settings to reflect an average of the two.

Bandinelli’s Hercules and Cacus, 16th Century – Florence

Thanks for your visit to the most beautiful place in all of Tuscany.

Chris

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With a little help from my friends…

November 2, 2017November 2, 2017Chris and Carol Leave a comment

Cherubs attempting to hold the tower upright.

Pisa, Tuscany, Italy – 1986

Canon F-1 with Canon FD 80-200mm f/ 4 zoom lens on Kodak Kodachrome 25 color slide film.

Thanks for stopping by! Chris ^.^

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Pisa Cathedral – Piazza del Duomo 1986

October 31, 2017November 1, 2017Chris and Carol Leave a comment

Pisa Cathedral (c1092) in the Piazza dei Duomo – 1986

Canon F-1 with Canon FD 24mm f/ 2.8 wide angle lens on Kodak Kodachrome 25 color slide film.

Chris

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Happy SUNday!

October 29, 2017October 29, 2017Chris and Carol Leave a comment

Vintage St. Peter's Basilica

Vintage view of St. Peter’s – 1986

Canon F-1 with Canon FD 24mm f/ 2.8 wide angle lens on Kodak Kodachrome 25 film.

Have a fantastic SUNday! Chris ^.^

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Unknown Street Artist – Pisa 1986

October 23, 2017October 23, 2017Chris and Carol Leave a comment

This image has been posted here before but recently it’s getting noticed again on our Flickr page. So, a repost is in order. Amazing work!

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Canon F-1 with Canon FD 24mm f/ 2.8 lens on Kodak Kodachrome.

Chris

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Taxi!

October 21, 2017October 21, 2017Chris and Carol 2 Comments

Rome – August 1986

An Italian taxi and a Coke!

Canon F-1 with Canon FD 24mm f/ 2.8 lens on Kodachrome. No post production – as scanned. Pretty good color after 31 years!

Always a pleasure when you stop by!

Chris

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Found Foto Funday!

June 5, 2017June 5, 2017Chris and Carol Leave a comment

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I’m thinking Florence.

1986

Canon F-1

Chris

Florence… 1986

December 21, 2016December 21, 2016Chris and Carol 7 Comments

Nothing says Florence like the Cathedral of Florence. Canon F-1 with FD 24mm f/2.8 lens on Kodak Kodachrome 25.

In presenting a short series of images of Florence (one of the most beautiful of all cities in Italy), it’s a tough call on which images to include. In Pisa, it has to be the most famous bell tower in the world. I imagine for Rome I would choose the Coliseum – Colosseum or the Vatican. Since there’s so much beauty, history, art and architecture at every turn in Florence it’s nearly impossible to choose the one to use first. My visit to the Tuscony Region was in late October 1986 – the weather was perfect and the visibility was awesome!

My camera was the Canon F-1 (1978 version) with three lenses to use: FD 24mm f/2.8, FD 80-200mm f/4 zoom and the normal FD 55mm f/1.4. Since sunlight would be in abundance, Kodak’s Kodachrome 25 fit perfectly with the days shooting plan (no interiors in the plans).

Vista view to the north… FD 24mm while hanging the camera over the side of the railing (wobbly pieces of metal) loosely attached to 600 year old stone.

The Duomo with its instantly identifiable tiled dome. FD 80-200mm at about 150mm

FD 200mm braced on the railing.

Back to earth… Canon FD 24mm wide angle lens at f/22

More FD 24mm… my go to lens in the tight quarters of a city. It’s not easy to get all three in the same image.

The Canon’s light meter (spot) handled this tricky exposure well. Yep, FD 24mm lens.

Of course what would a visit to any city be without the required “People and Pigeon” shot.

Happy people and happy pigeons.

This of course is only a very small sample of what’s available in and around Florence and the Tuscany Region. I had only one short afternoon to visit so I was lucky to see as much as I did. The old “someday” I hope to travel back and do it right.

Thanks for your visit!

Chris

Pisa… 1986

December 19, 2016December 22, 2016Chris and Carol 6 Comments

Pisa… a gorgeous city filled with unbelievable wonders. Photographic eye candy to be sure. In 1986, shooting with a Canon F-1 and Canon lenses on Kodachrome 25 was as close to “perfect” in 35mm photography as one could hope to achieve (sorry Nikon guys and gals). In appreciation of the all the imperfections and limits of film photography (just like vinyl records), analog photography still moves me. Sure I love digital – some images with digital were impossible with film (or nearly so), but film has a softness of color and detail that I love.

These images were taken in mid October 1986. They’ve received only minor post production after scanning – mostly small crops to remove the edges of the 35mm slide mounts and some occasional color balancing and brightness tweaks. Film used was Kodak’s Kodachrome 25 (perfect for bright lighting and known for its fine grain).

My Canon F-1 (1978 version) and three FD lenses were all that I had in my bag: 24mm f/2.8 wide angle, 80-200mm f/4 zoom and the 55mm f/1.4. The weather was perfect – bright sunshine, low humidity with mild temperatures. Visibility was amazing as a recent cold front had passed through the area and cleared the air of haze and pollutants.