I had a roll of TriX sitting in my Leica M3 after returning from our New York in early January and decided to finish it today. After working in the morning I paid my first visit to Bolt Coffee a cool new coffee shop in the museum at the RI School of Design. Then I took a few shots outside. I had lots of problems loading the roll into the blasted plastic reels. My Harrison dark bag quickly builds up moisture inside if I don’t get the roll on quickly and once that happens it is curtains. I tried several different plastic reels and the film was suffering and heaped with moisture so I gave up and rolled it onto a stainless Kasserman reel. I have never used this type of reel before and the install was poor resulting in the loss of about half the negatives. What was preserved left me with a group of images from Providence and New York. The bright side is I saved some. I get a chuckle from the two shots of the humble wall lamp from a small cafe in NYC. I shot it 4 or 5 times with 2 different cameras, one being my Yashica T4 that blasted the room with unintended flash. My daughters watched me and shook their heads. I do like the images. On a few I had to crop out areas where the emulsion contacted the film causing ugly spotting from poor loading in the stainless reel. All in all, what I preserved came out ok. As I shot outside of the Cafe the yelling from Providence’s version of the woman’s demonstration against Donald Trump could be heard. I should have gone there to take a few shots but had to get home. As things stand, I’ll probably have more opportunities to shoot protest marches.
21/52 Tale of Two Cities
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Nice shots ….I like the light on the wall !!
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Thank you very much…..
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That first shot, of the HANDbag makes all of the woes worth it…
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Thank you Barnaby. Funny, I saw her and had to take her picture. The handbag was an unexpected bonus…..L.
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