I had to try a shot of that graffiti, both because it was a good subject and also one puzzling subject photographically. I hope I reproduced the coloring well. It should be bright enough but also with a big amount of the typical mixture that we often see on walls in cities, i.e. color + dirt, dust, etc.
Those ladies are really great! They can (really) discuss with you, and that not solely about their unbased "opinions and emotions" taken as the A and O of the truth without a single reference to any reasonable source. They discuss with knowledge, real humor, and intelligence. They can drink with you, smoke with you in some good old pub in the middle of the night together with the whole company of other interested people. And the subjects of discussion are (thanks heavens) not carried out in the typical coquette manner of goooood girlies who think that the truth has to lie in their own "self-made impressions". You know, [sweeeet voice on] "Weeell, I don't knoooow, but this and thaaaat, and I think thaaaat.. babble, babble" [sweeeet voice off], which the already mentioned girlies of good families think is a statement. No, those amazons will tell you, "A, and B, and thus also C". And they don't wear benetton! ;-)
Thanks a lot again for the info, Andre! Nice to know that you only had to go for adapting some mechanics. I wish this would be possible with the FD-Lenses of Canon for the EOS bodies of today. There are some kind of adapter rings but they simply affect the quality of the image, and that's bad. Oh well... perhaps I find some tinker-master around.
Hi Nick, There was no electrical work required. I only had to machine away a sort of quarter moon cresent, 1mm deep on the aperture ring. It is kind of hard to explain. The reason it has to be done is because you can damage the camera body by over tightening the lens on the last 1/8 turn of the bayonet. What you have to do is copy the way an AI lens looks. Luckily, I have a Vivitar AI type lens that I could refer to. I posted a test image today taken with the old lens. Let me know what you think. Andre
I am glad that you took a look at this one. have a nice time with your shots about graffiti. Surely it is a very interesting subject, especially when walking through the streets, and trying to capture the atmosphere and the "spirit".
I am so glad to know that you managed to do the necessary conversion for working with your old lens! How did you do that? Mechanically? Or did you connected some wires, or soldered some contacts? Anyway, welcome back to to the club, that is! ;-)
Hi Nick, I am very impressed with the look of this image!! Great colour with a powerful inner city feel. I think you are doing a good job with your graffiti project, This one is my current favourite. I've been busy playing with my new toy, and not coming to Usefilm quite as much lately, but I will be back soon with more images soon. Today, I had a major breakthrough because I finally got the nerve to do my own machining conversion for my old 50mm 2.0 Nikkor to fit my D200. I'm pretty excited,,it works great in A priority and Manual modes. So, I'm right back where I started in 1969.!!! It is a beautiful lens that I used for all of my photography from 1969 till 1977. Andre
If we find it not at all easy to actively participate, then we are not worthy of democracy! Perhaps this is the reason why we are still treated like a herd!
Thanks again a bunch for the lyrics of yet another song by Leon Gieco, which I wish many people will take the time to read, Gustavo!
Especially in our times, it is absolutely necessary to be aware, aware, aware! Democracy doesn't live on the typical fanfares of political muppet shows. It lives on our awareness, our own willingness to hear such songs, to reas the texts, to study the books, to think about all those things *after* we took the time to inform ourselves somewhat better than through the next news bulletin of CNN.
Yes, unfortunately most of "hidden rebels" will just sit and wait until they can only look back and say: "So, that was it all? That was my life?"
I must say, I adopted a much less humanistic view than yours about that, Visar, which I myself don't like at all. I notice how I more and more get completely disinterested about any kind of "understanding" from the side of such mentally inactive human beings. If they confirm me, it's irrelevant to me, and if they don't... it's also irrelevant to me. One can go strange ways with that.
So I can only hope to catch some of your patience and some of your more human attitudes, that includes understanding the desperation from a less "technocratic" point of view, and accepting also the "hidden rebel", which for me for the time being is no some neglidgible something I don't even care for. That's my big fat problem, I guess. I'll have to be less strict.
Regarding the amazons.. indeed very very few of them. And that after all the riots for emancipation. After all the suffragettes that tried to make it clear that in first line they are human beings, we have the "nice girlies" with their armchair opinions flooding over the place. What happened here? That's a mystery to me. The movement for emancipation seemed so hopeful to me in the 80s, as the start for emancipation in its ablosute sense. And then.. there came the decline back to the "old good order". Where are those amazons, what happened of them? They can't just dissolve into thin air?
So, for the time being I also don't see many of the amazons around. But some of them are still there, thanks heavens! I hope that that species is not endangered, be it for putting angelic feathers on the arms of some rebels, or for inputting some more equations in the minds of some other rebels, or for simply talking about something else than the latest sh****ty insights in sh***ty magazines, like for example the zodiac, or the lucky numbers, or healthy food, or dreamy gardens, or journeys to who knows where, or absolutely necessary tones of cosmetica, and last but not least all the associated artistic nonsense created by such girlies who don't have anything else to do, while they send their hubbies to work for being able to buy their next camera! ;-)
your guess is right Nick, ;) where can i meet them. there's very very few around. that's a pitty.
just yesterday, some friend of mine came over for coffee, and we began talking about how the 'community is voulnerable to change', despite high moralistic ties and conservativism. so my idea is to bring those who seem to have much concerns about one's life in front of a finished act, as discussions are unimaginable, hard, tireing, and it is like hiting the wall straight with your head. so, show them silently what you're up to, they would most probalby not look you in the eye, but rather look away, for some months, and then 'zeng-- here you have a talk of desireble level'---- and that's because, there's a rebel within each one of us, all you have to do is listen to his/ her whispers, but those people i belive live in some states of desperation- and taht's because they do not recognise the sadness their days bring to them, thus an everlasting moral virtue will smoothen their unidentified wounds.
so, yes, a few amazons around would whither a few smiles and cheer up some by implanting a few angelic feathers on the arms of rebels (including me)!!
Impactante consiga antifasista!, aquí la potencia del mensaje le da toda la fuerza a la foto. Me sumo a la lucha por un mundo más igualitario y justo para todos...
This series is a very graphic representation of areas of your city, and all cities have them, where people are expressing themselves. Well done, Nick! Dave.
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