market going
Did not get out to shoot today, so it’s a post from the past. I did, however, find a review of the camera I used to shoot this picture – the Sony Mavica FD-71. Back in the day? Decent camera considering you didn’t need film. Now? Laughable. Oh, it was digital… at 640×480 and saved files to a floppy disk. I should’ve shot film.
Just outside of Dakar, along the main road, I took this as folks were heading home from a day at the market. I haven’t been to Dakar in over a year now and am starting to get itchy feet to go. Anybody want to go to Dakar with me this summer?
market going
suspense
Yup – Spring is coming. Slowly… so slowly.
suspense
rings
Small town pub with a copper-topped bar. I like this shot but feel like I’ve missed one here too. Even with a good LCD on the back of the camera, in a dark pub it’s tough to tell what you got. I think I really needed a glass of whiskey sitting on one of the rings. Amber whiskey against the copper bar, if I catch the light right, could be cool. May have to go back and try again some other time.
rings
Rebel XT
ISO 100 3.5″/f5
be careful…
We have a few duplicate tapes from DPTV‘s ABJ show, usually dubbed across formats, i.e. a one inch tape copied onto 3/4 inch U-matic for a retro show or something. But for most of the tapes? For most of them, there is only one tape. Be careful… don’t break that. That one may be the only copy of Ossie Davis from the 1980 show, or of Bobby Seale….
Thanks to the generous folks at DPTV in Detroit, we’ve a one-inch video player now and we got it running today. So much more material to add to the website.
be careful…
Rebel XT
ISO 400
1/10 sec f3.5
55mm
mysteries & histories
For my friends who have seen the American Black Journal website we’re working on with DPTV, or some of the other sites we’ve made from old, saved video recordings, this is a great example of where it starts – very little dust or broken tape here. This is a nice, clean example of where it starts. Video geeks will note it’s not just one format here. There’s U-matic, 1-inch, betacam-sp, digibeta, DV-CAM…
More shows for the ABJ site is always a good thing. (Anybody have a 2 inch Quad player I can borrow?)
mysteries & histories
Rebel XT 55mm
ISO 400 60/f4.5
breakin’
It’s cold here – but not as cold as the days have been. We’re still getting #&$! snow and such, but the deep ice of winter is breaking and moving. Slowly…
breakin’
red
Was hanging out after dinner – enjoying a great sunset across the Indian Ocean – when this brazen dude came to see what I was doing. His eyes startled me a bit, but he was kind enough while he visited. He got some of my bread as a treat for staying to get in the shot.
redCanon Rebel XT55mmbuilt-in flash wrapped in available cocktail napkin for softer fill light… a bit softer anyway
towers
Had just gotten off the elevator, was waiting in line for the next one, and saw the orange sunset on the steel out of the corner of my eye.
towers
Canon Rebel XT
ISO 400 at 60
55mm
wonder
Hiked down by the river today – sunshine and freshness. Still cold, but not as bad as the last few weeks.
chandelier
Canon Rebel XT
ISO 100 400/f 4.5
55mm
a few months later
Same truck as posted before – same back road about 20mi W of St. Ignace, MI. Just a few months later.
underneath
