Yosemite Falls, 1992

17 Responses to “Yosemite Falls, 1992”

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   annie q. syed says:

   July 12, 2010 at 4:29 pm

   my mother and i went there last july during a road trip from nyc to california since i had to transport my car as i was no longer going to have it here in nyc and also was taking a short hiatus from nyc. anyway. we stopped by there. the picture we took didn’t turn out like this at all. hahahah just saying….

   this is….. as always….very impressive.

   ~a.
   .-= annie q. syed´s last blog ..Still Sundays =-.
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   MattW says:

   July 12, 2010 at 6:00 pm

   Yeah, I know how you feel..Those damn pesky horrible negatives…If only you’d had a 480k digital camera back then and stored all your gems on a Zip Drive or floppy disc, everything would be so much simpler, after you transferred them from your Jaz drive to your 286…ah yes, those negatives are such a drag…Burn them all I say!
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   Phill says:

   July 12, 2010 at 7:09 pm

   This is beautiful Dave. See now it just makes me want to go off and get a medium format film camera
   .-= Phill´s last blog ..Bedknobs and Broomsticks and Larry Fink =-.
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   Craig Nisnewitz says:

   July 12, 2010 at 7:53 pm

   I like the Yosemite photos.
   I was in Yosemite in 2008.
   Here is the link to some of my photos at flickr.com

   http://www.flickr.com/photos/cnisnewitz/sets/72157624481716236/
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   dave says:

   July 12, 2010 at 8:15 pm

   I just took a quick look for 4×5 field cameras on eBay. Damn they are cheap. And many include at least one normal lens. Prices at low end: $900 and there was the Fred Picker Zone VI camera that I always wanted but couldn’t afford, with a lens, holders, board, etc. for $1,300.

   The thing about the view camera is that the only thing that really will go is maybe the bellows has light leaks which can be repaired. They are very simple mechanical cameras. The expense would actually be having the film developed if I went down that road for a while.

   I’m not in the mood for medium format, simply because I can get much better (bigger) scans with my current flatbed – 4990. Plus, it is a totally different experience than shooting MF. I enjoyed it more, though I think I was less creative with it.

   As I say – just window shopping right now.
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   dave says:

   July 12, 2010 at 8:46 pm

   Craig – unasked for advice: edit it down to your best 5 shots, and don’t show the same shot in color and b&w, unless it’s really just for your own purposes. Don’t show the same shot with a slightly different angle. In short, a good exercise, if you haven’t tried this – is to really give your shots a severe going over, all the while, trying to understand, if you can (this isn’t always possible) why one shot works for you and another doesn’t.

   From my 50 rolls from Yosemite I’ll be lucky to get four or five that will go into the store for the regular viewer.

   In other words – the unasked for advice is for you and anyone else who wants to improve their craft.

   I also do the same thing with an image. The idea that there’s something wrong with cropping an image – I don’t go for that. Almost any image can be improved by cropping. You’d be amazed at how much can be removed, while still preserving the subject.

   Anyway – I say this because there are four or five good shots in the set, but they get lost with all the versions surrounding them.
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   Craig Nisnewitz says:

   July 12, 2010 at 9:14 pm

   I did just that. Have about 10 really good ones. The stuff on flickr.com was the first round of editing. At first could not choose whether some looked better in color or B&W.
   Your comments are well taken as always.
   Thanks.
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   Steve Rosenbach says:

   July 12, 2010 at 9:59 pm

   Craig – you have some really beautiful photos in that set! But Dave’s right – less is more. More unsolicited advice:-) my own opinion is most of those images really look great in B&W. Your subject matter in that set shows better in B&W, I think.
   .-= Steve Rosenbach´s last blog ..Treyf Alert- =-.
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   MattW says:

   July 13, 2010 at 10:27 am

   Nice spot to light up a Montecristo…Or an H. Upmann…Or a real Cohiba…Or a Simon Bolivar (so strong you’d turn green!) Of course without a fucking car, how would we get there?
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    dave says:

    July 13, 2010 at 11:46 am

    We rent one.
    They gave me two ‘red dot’ Cohibas that were pretty good.

    DB
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    Craig Nisnewitz says:

    July 13, 2010 at 3:48 pm

    Steven:

    Thanks for your comments.
    When you walk around Yosemithe the colors stand out, but you also see a lot of tones and shadows that make really great B&W photos. Sometimes I can’t choose which looks better and keep both color and B&W of the same subject.
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    Greg L'E says:

    July 14, 2010 at 3:07 am

    Wasn’t our good friend Weegee a fan of the stogie?
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    dave says:

    July 14, 2010 at 9:08 am

    I don’t know… but I did smoke them once in a while years ago; but lately (two weeks ago) I went back to them because I was getting hooked on cigarettes again after giving them up for years; plus the price of cigarettes in NYC was / is insane.

    So I ordered a sampler from JRCigars.com and after two weeks of smoking all sorts of cigars (full and half size) have found that I love the H. Upmann petite coronas. But of course you can’t smoke them anywhere in NYC without getting stares.

    The fire-escape is my spot to relax and have a smoke. What I’m going to do in the winter – I dunno.
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    Greg L'E says:

    July 14, 2010 at 3:58 pm

    A pack of smokes here (Seattle) is around $10 now. A friend of mine started rolling his own as loose leaf tobacco isn’t taxed the same (here). I quit years ago due to health reasons, but still get the urge on occasions. I did hear about a lawsuit going on in NY state over indian reservations selling tax exempt cigarettes, so that might be an option. Still there’s a certain old time panache to firing up a quality cheroot, via the fire escape or elsewhere.
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    dave says:

    July 14, 2010 at 5:18 pm

    A pack of smokes ranges from $12 to $14 in New York due to City and State taxes.

    I have smoked on and off since I was 19. On and off means that I’ve gone for as long as five years without smoking, and then picked up the habit again by smoking one cigarette. Then smoked for say a few months; and then gone back on the wagon again for a few years.

    Reason for starting again: either something terrible happened, like someone dying; or nothing was going on and I was bored.

    After smoking for a few months, I stopped again two weeks ago when the price of cigarettes went up to $12. You can’t order cigarettes from Indians here. They are usually confiscated.

    So then I had the idea two weeks ago of cigars which I had smoked now and then. It’s a very different experience. The cigarette – well it’s a pure nicotine delivery system. It’s not about rolling the smoke around in your mouth; or chomping on something. And most of the time you don’t even realize you’ve lit up.

    The cigar takes some planning. Make sure you know where you’re going to smoke it; and find the one that you like and can afford. It’s more like wine-tasting.

    From the 20 or so different cigars I tried, I really only liked two or three. The rest were bitter; or too strong; or didn’t draw right; or cost too much.

    And of course the other big difference is that you don’t inhale cigars. Yes, they are still plenty dangerous; but they don’t seem to ruin your wind; and you just don’t have the same need for the nicotine delivery every 20 minutes.

    I don’t recommend them if you aren’t smoking; but between cigarettes and cigars, I’d do the cigar – dangerous as it may be. They have given me a great deal of pleasure so far, which I can’t say about cigarettes.

    I ended up with the Upmann brand – petite corona from JRCigars. And every once in a while Matt will have a really “good” cigar for me to try.
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    Phill says:

    July 14, 2010 at 6:52 pm

    I’m just about to come up on my 12 months anniversary of being cigarette free. Thankfully. The price went up again not so long ago and now the brand I used to smoke is around $17.00 per packet. I still get the occasional craving, mostly when I’m bored.

    Unlike you Dave, I don’t have the ability or will to stop and start and I know if I had just one again, I’d be seriously hooked.

    I put a bit of weight on after I gave up but I’m slowly starting to lose that now.

    I tried the cigar vs cigarette method as a means of quitting a few years back but I just ended up smoking both….
    .-= Phill´s last blog ..Bedknobs and Broomsticks and Larry Fink =-.
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    dave says:

    July 14, 2010 at 7:21 pm

    Here’s to all the ex smokers. I didn’t mean to give the impression that I can start and stop by willpower.

    I’m an addict. If I have one cigarette u will eventually be smoking again.

    I have met people who could turn it on and off.

    What I was saying was that after not smoking for about six years my mother died. I was sitting at the kitchen table with dad and sisters and got up, went down to the deli and bought a pack.

    I then began smoking again for a few years.

    And then one day I decided to stop and did. And that lasted a few years until something set me off again. Namely a romantic breakup. And that was and has been my pattern. The pattern of a typical addict.

    So I’m replacing one addiction with another one. Let’s see how it goes.

    And Bravo to the ones who are free. It truly is a tough thing for some of us who are wired a certain way to stay clean.