South of France, Monaco 6x6 scans

Found some old, old 6x6 transparencies shot eons ago with my venerable Hassleblad 500CM film camera (stolen from a hotel room long ago, but replaced by insurance with something better!) on my favorite film ever, Fuji Velvia 50 ASA slide film.  The color saturation was insane, and not realistic-- but since when is photography about realism? This film was just fantastic stuff. 

First, a very early morning to catch a sunrise in Monaco.  Shot two or three rolls over about about 20 minutes as the sun came up. Various long exposures, note the streetlights still on.  The pinkish glow is that wonderful dawn lighting-- the sun rises out over the open harbor onto the city built into the mountains that line the principality. (Monaco, while extremely beautiful, is not very large, and not that interesting of a place, believe it or not. If you live there, likely you are doing it to dodge taxes-- and to keep your tax exempt status, you have to physically be there a lot of the year.  My suspicion is that it gets a little boring after a while!) 

 

Second, the beach club at the Carlton in Cannes.  There's a lot more going on in France, than just a few miles down the coast in Monaco.  Better food too. 

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Bradbury Building Revisit, continued

Here's another 6x6 TMax 100 rescan from the Bradbury Bldg. shoot back in June of last year.  Interestingly enough, this roll was overall way underexposed, but these negs really have some pop pulled out in the scanner.  

The general public is only allowed in the lobby, and up to the first floor landing, as Bradbury is home to the LAPD Internal Affairs division-- there were a fair number of plainclothes police with holstered weapons wandering around.  That being said, there were a large number of interesting angles-- and the light from the skylight many floors above, just fantastic.  I am planning another visit when I'm out in LA in April.

 

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Bradbury Building Revisited

I decided to rescan a few of the medium format negatives shot this summer at the Bradbury Building in fragrant downtown L.A. This was scanned at 6400dpi, which worked out to be a 13,000x13,000 pixel image--but flickr, for size reasons limits me to about 7k. So here's a resample of the resample, much better shadow detail than the original, but I was not as maniacal about the dust cleanup.