Following the success of last weeks traffic boosting cat photo. Here is another try, a traffic boosting goat. Enjoy…

Quick post of an image I captured of the Salem Conference Center while visiting Salem, Oregon a few weeks ago. Shot on the Vivitar 35ca with Ilford Pan F+

As promised in the previous post, here is a short video I made for Paul Hopman, an Arizona based Sketch Board artist who does some amazing portraits of animals. While shooting some street portraits, we got to talking and he asked if I could produce a very short video about his art, which you can see more of here…

This afternoon, as is our last Sunday tradition, The Visual Collective had some lunch and took a little photo-centric stroll. This month there was an art show at Wheeler Park in downtown Flagstaff. Everything from photos, to painting of all kinds, hand-made soaps, knives and everything in between.

As I am prone to doing, I took some ‘street portraits’. Above is Ed Wzientek, who crafts hand-made knives out of everything from rail-road spikes to old metal files. Hit the link for more from this great afternoon…

Unfortunately, I forgot to write down this lady’s name…She was walking around having people sign petitions. If Matt or anyone else got her name, please let me know; I feel awful and out of character for not getting a full bio from her…

Paul Hopman is a scratch board artist specializing in portraits of animals. After taking this and talking for a while, he asked me to put together a short video of him doing his craft. Be on the lookout for that in a day or two…

Shaggy dog ‘Cassie’ was a great subject…

As promised, hand-made soaps. The variety of colors, textures and scents were amazing, this is just one composition I liked.

Hopefully you enjoyed these images as much as I did. Be sure to check back in the next few days for a short video of Paul doing some scratch work…

For those of you who are technically minded, these were all shot on my Nikon D300s with the Nikon 50mm f/1.8 E series lens.

In recent times, I have been interested in shooting figure details similar to this. You can see more here… I have bigger plans for these negatives, but that project is going to take quite some time. Until then, I will share some of the images I get along the way. Hit the link to see some more…

This group of people were fit/athletic, but they were gymnasts, unlike Robert (from the last shoot) who is into weight lifting/body building. All are fit and muscular, but in much different ways.

More legs…

This is from a completely different shoot. I was helping a friend in the studio and as payment I told him I wanted to put down a few frames of his model. These are quite different from what he was doing, check out his graphic novel inspired series here…

All of the above images were shot on my Mamiya RB67. The first round were shot on Kodak T-Max 100. The last shot was actually FujiChrome that I converted to Black and White. It looked nice in color, but I wanted black and white. There are more, but like the title implies, this is a preview…

http://www.thevisualcollective.com/2012/05/whats-in-your-camera-bag.html

I read somewhere that if a website wants more traffic, they need only put cat photos on their home page. Let’s see what happens, science go!

Yesterday afternoon, I took a little walk with my Speed Graphic 4×5 camera and some Polaroid type 55 film. I have never had any luck with it, but felt like this was my day, and in many ways it was (i actually got some images). Hit the link to see and read more…

The above image was solarized somehow when I took it out of the development sleeve. The print was fine, but the lower-half of the negative got reversed by the sun.

The last two were fine and not reversed in any way, go figure…I like the way that the chemistry spreads somewhat un-evenly across the negative and blends the tones/shapes of the image together. This is especially noticeable on the left of the above image and in the sky of the leading photo. Again, the prints came out fine, but the negatives, which I scanned and am presenting here, have some interesting quirks.

Not everything came out, I had three or four shots that didn’t work at all *sigh* The developing chemical didn’t spread much at all, technical failure, or something else. I guess that’s the price you pay for working with a dead and expired film stock. At about $4-a-pop mistakes are expensive with this system. I plan on shooting quite a bit more Polaroid this summer so stay tuned for the results. Also if you have any 4×5 Polaroid film kicking around and want to donate it to the cause (or a monetary  donation to fund more), I will be eternally grateful and provide you with a custom print of your choice…

As the name of this post might imply, the following are a series of detail shots taken recently at a British car rally in Prescott, Ariz. All are shot in the Mamiya RB67 with either FujiChrome Provia or Fuji Acros 100. I’m not sure of what each car is, so if you know tell me in the comments…

Same car as above, detail of the gas cap.

The air intakes. I had shot a few more cars, but lost a few images to technical failure. This yellow car had such exotic lines and an obviously bright color, I spent several frames on it.

I liked the lines and color palette in this shot. A bit of a learning curve on this new camera (this was only my second roll through it). If anyone out there knows the Mamiya RB67, you can appreciate what a beast it is. These are all shot handheld with a 2-stop ND filter.

On to some black and white grills and engine details. This is a Morgan, but the model is unknown.

The badge is visible on this Jaguar, but I don’t know the model.

Obviously an MG motor. I believe it was an MGA.

Next time I will take better notes on what I am shooting. This time I was more interested in seeing compositionally and trying to figure out the Mamiya.

Back for an almost unprecedented second post in one day. This time to share a shot from my other new friend, the Mamiya RB67. I have put several rolls through this bad-boy, some of which you have seen here. After two weeks, I finally got my FujiChrome back from the lab (more to come tomorrow). In the mean time enjoy this detail of a stand up bass some one had in downtown Prescott a few weeks ago.