Tag: cemeteries
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Shooting Kodak Portra 160 NC
Kodak doesn’t call it Portra for nothing — it’s meant for portraits. And that’s what I used it for, mostly. I’m trying to build my portraiture skills, so I loaded a roll into my Nikon F2AS and shot more than half of it on my sons. I hoped for some good shots of them to…
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Captured: Flag at Mount Jackson
It’s called Mount Jackson Cemetery, but it’s on some of the flattest land in Indianapolis. Mount Jackson was the surrounding neighborhood’s original name, going back to the 1820s, but it’s been called Hawthorne for longer than anybody can remember. Poverty, drugs, petty crime — nobody lives in Hawthorne because they want to. The cemetery persists,…
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More from the Yashica-D
I love my Yashica-D. It is a genuine pleasure to shoot. Which surprises me, because it has no built-in light meter. Using an external meter isn’t hard, but I vastly prefer having one built in so I can assess exposure right in the viewfinder. So much so, that a dozen other meterless cameras with sweet…
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Captured: Head
Off-brand zoom lenses sometimes come with the old SLRs I buy, and I generally don’t shoot with them because I assume they’re not going to be very good. But on what was probably the last warm and sunny Sunday afternoon of 2013, I went shooting just for fun and decided to snap a Sears f/4 80-200mm zoom-macro…