NikonGear'23
Images => People, Portraits, Street, PJ & Cityscapes => Topic started by: Gary on June 19, 2015, 16:17:58
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I'm an old fart. I been around since the film-only days. Back then I shot Nikon. As this is NikonGear ... I'll post some snaps captured with Nikon Gear:
All images taken on Broadway Street
Los Angeles, California
circa 1970's
#1
(http://www.garyayala.com/Photography/On-Broadway-1/i-ZZvHgrZ/2/O/On-Broadway-3-UE.jpg)
Nikon F w/Nikkor 20mm, Tri-X
#2
(http://www.garyayala.com/Photography/On-Broadway-1/i-TX6mnrT/2/O/On%20Broadway-2a%20-%20W.jpg)
Nikon FTn w/Nikkor 85mm, Tri-X
#3
(http://www.garyayala.com/Photography/On-Broadway-1/i-mwPWLTJ/1/O/18%20St.%20Peewees%20-%20W.jpg)
Nikon FTn, w/Nikkor 28mm, Tri-X 1600
#4
(http://www.garyayala.com/Photography/On-Broadway-1/i-8BD3bJ2/2/O/On-Broadway-1%20-%20W.jpg)
Nikon F, w/Nikkor 20mm, Tri-X
#5
(http://www.garyayala.com/Photography/On-Broadway-1/i-nJNPGWJ/0/O/Sinclair-Paint%20-%20W.jpg)
Nikon FTn, w/Nikkor 85mm, Tri-X
#6
(http://www.garyayala.com/Photography/On-Broadway-1/i-wv5GmJ9/2/O/On%20Broadway-9%20-%20W.jpg)
Nikon F, w/Nikkor 20mm, Tri-X
Thank you for viewing.
Gary
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I opened your post and the first image took my breath away .....I hope you are going to share some more, these are outstanding.
Thank you for sharing!
Cheers
Bez
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I opened your post and the first image took my breath away .....I hope you are going to share some more, these are outstanding.
Thank you for sharing!
Cheers
Bez
Thank you Bez.
(http://www.garyayala.com/Photography/On-Broadway-1/i-dmg9f9t/1/O/On-Broadway-4-UE.jpg)
Nikon FTn w/180mm, Tri-X 1600
G
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More, more more!
Just love your style.
thx
afx
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Yes, No1 is raw nerve, sooo good. So is No 3. I like No 4 as well, the gun looks so out of place here, it makes you think. No 2 is a good example of how to turn a mundane scene into a great image. No 5 is a great character, and No 6 is a life story. Priceless.
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More, more more!
Just love your style.
thx
afx
LOL ... Thank you afx ...
(http://www.garyayala.com/Photography/On-Broadway-1/i-jsFVsXX/0/O/On%20Broadway%20-%2019.jpg)
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A really great series of pictures ! Thanks for showing them as they are really inspirational !
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A really great series of pictures ! Thanks for showing them as they are really inspirational !
Thank you Jacques.
(http://www.garyayala.com/Photography/On-Broadway-1/i-HPJcFpt/0/O/On-Broadway-13-UE.jpg)
Hasselblad 500C/M w/Zeiss 80mm, Tri-X
Gary
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Up close Street and PJ shooting with good/direct contact is really cool, I like it very few can actually pull this off...
Super nice! But you know that :)
I will 'look into' how you process some of the recent work on digital and make it look like TriX It really pops!
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Up close Street and PJ shooting with good/direct contact is really cool, I like it very few can actually pull this off...
Super nice! But you know that :)
I will 'look into' how you process some of the recent work on digital and make it look like TriX It really pops!
Thanks Erik.
(http://www.garyayala.com/Photography/On-Broadway-1/i-rdDfjms/0/O/Prop.%2014%20-%20W.jpg)
Nikon FTn w/Nikkor 180mm, Tri-X
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I really enjoyed the images - like my friend Rick's work - I think I wont get tired from looking at your work either. Thank you for sharing.
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wow
thank you for sharing your work
When I was a teen my parents got a series of books , encyclopedia perhaps, by Life, one special book had a collection of photographies from the magazine, it was a selection of the ones that were famous, and this series reminds me of that book and the good times I had browsing through it
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I really enjoyed the images - like my friend Rick's work - I think I wont get tired from looking at your work either. Thank you for sharing.
Rick is amazing. I don't get tired of looking at his stuff either.
(http://www.garyayala.com/Photography/On-Broadway-1/i-BGm78kT/1/O/On-Broadway-6-UE.jpg)
Nikon FTn w/Nikkor 180mm, Tri-X
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wow
thank you for sharing your work
When I was a teen my parents got a series of books , encyclopedia perhaps, by Life, one special book had a collection of photographies from the magazine, it was a selection of the ones that were famous, and this series reminds me of that book and the good times I had browsing through it
Life Magazine is what we call 'pretty tall cotton' ... thank you Armando.
(http://www.garyayala.com/Photography/On-Broadway-1/i-4xdTr3C/3/O/On-Broadway-16-UE.jpg)
Nikon F w/Nikkor 20mm, Tri-X
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you wrote history, but --- you were not a writer so --- you pictured it.
You playing tri-x on us!
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... You playing tri-x on us!
LOL (Tri-X was free.)
(http://www.garyayala.com/Photography/On-Broadway-1/i-sQ3Brdz/0/O/On-Broadway-8---W.jpg)
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Since I am at least half everyone else's age :P :P (if you believe that, you will believe anything) - I am not as familiar with film (and Tri-X) photos as the rest of you. I only know digital - sharp, clean, etc - but these image as SO much better than digital! I can't imagine one can get this with digital? It's in a different class altogether. There have been numerous discussions about Digital vs film - specifically in Black and White stuff - and nothing speaks louder to me than your images - proof is in the pudding.
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Since I am at least half everyone else's age :P :P (if you believe that, you will believe anything) - I am not as familiar with film (and Tri-X) photos as the rest of you. I only know digital - sharp, clean, etc - but these image as SO much better than digital! I can't imagine one can get this with digital? It's in a different class altogether. There have been numerous discussions about Digital vs film - specifically in Black and White stuff - and nothing speaks louder to me than your images - proof is in the pudding.
I've never spent any time comparing and studying the two. On technical issues I'm the last guy you want an opinion ... but after reading your post and looking at the images ... I think that digital represents how we want to see and film shows what we can see. If that makes any sense.
G
(http://www.garyayala.com/Photography/On-Broadway-1/i-h3pkvtx/1/O/On-Broadway-7%20-%20W.jpg)
Nikon FTn w/Nikkor 85mm, Tri-X
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Gary - my first reaction was no - but I think there is some truth in that than we want to admit - in a round about way.
If I have to "label" myself - it would be as a fine art photographer - and that is what I do - Shoot the way I see it. Or want to see it.
You fall in the "real photographer" category. No genre or category is better than the other - just different. I did loose out by not ever having shot film. I am acutely aware of the differences - especially since I wish I was in the other category.
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Like film digital photography can be made to look exactly how you want it to be. There is no clear-cut difference in that respect. None is inherently "better" in a system sense.
However, I wonder if this alleged difference boils down to the general public now have access to a technical quality of their cameras few other than studio photographers with their view cameras had in the past.
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Like film digital photography can be made to look exactly how you want it to be. There is no clear-cut difference in that respect. None is inherently "better" in a system sense.
However, I wonder if this alleged difference boils down to the general public now have access to a technical quality of their cameras few other than studio photographers with their view cameras had in the past.
For me, not being into the finer technical aspects of either medium, I find film and wet printing much more limiting than digital and computer processing. Your point of making digital look like film, the ability of adding grain/noise, et cetera, is precisely my point. Even with limited processing expertise, you can make digital look a billion+ different ways, potentially, all of them good. With film and wet printing, you have finite possibilities and only a few are truly good.
With our imagination we can see the world a billion different ways ... with our eyes, our vision is limited.
(http://www.garyayala.com/Photography/On-Broadway-1/i-nQ9xxtR/0/O/Self-Portrait-2%20-%20W.jpg)
Hasselblad 500 C/M w/Zeiss 80mm, Tri-X
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It is exactly because film is limiting, less clean and precise, less sharp, and more fine art in a way than my work ever will be, that I admire it so much. Its a different style. Not only because of the medium - but because of the frame of mind when shooting. It is difficult for me to explain. I am sure content has a lot to do with it also. Its raw capture. Pure.
Perhaps I am the only one thinking this - but I wish I could do what you did.
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It is exactly because film is limiting, less clean and precise, less sharp, and more fine art in a way than my work ever will be, that I admire it so much. Its a different style. Not only because of the medium - but because of the frame of mind when shooting. It is difficult for me to explain. I am sure content has a lot to do with it also. Its raw capture. Pure.
Perhaps I am the only one thinking this - but I wish I could do what you did.
You can. All you need is a film camera, (and maybe a time machine ;) ). Seriously, the same basic principals apply to both film and digital. Home development of B&W is easy-pezy. Then after development just digitalize the negative and viola! ... you're in business. I recently acquired a Fuji GX680III medium format film camera. It has tilts and swings. Just to dabble and try your hand at film, I think you can pick up a nice TLR some film and all the gear to develop at home for under $200 (just guessing). The digitalization of the negative can be the hard and expensive part of the entire deal. I suggest medium format because it lends itself to your baby genre ;D.
More from the On Broadway series:
(http://www.garyayala.com/Photography/On-Broadway-1/i-SdbNPB6/1/O/On%20Broadway-11%20-%20HP.jpg)
Hasselblad 500 C/M w/Zeiss 80mm, Tri-X
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You can buy a film camera but you can not go back in time to meet these characters. They clearly belong to their time and that is what I like most about these images.
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You can buy a film camera but you can not go back in time to meet these characters. They clearly belong to their time and that is what I like most about these images.
I dunno ... nothing wrong with finding new characters.
(http://www.garyayala.com/Photography/On-Broadway-1/i-SDfVRBF/0/O/Pigs%20Heads%20-%20W.jpg)
Nikon FTn w/Nikkor 85mm, Tri-X
(I'm almost out of image from the On Broadway series.)
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Gary,
These are just superb! Each and everyone of these photographs tell a story, many with emotion. Please keep these coming.
Lowell
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I bet the pigs all tell the same story :)
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Gary,
These are just superb! Each and everyone of these photographs tell a story, many with emotion. Please keep these coming.
Lowell
Thanks Lowell. I'm dredging the bottom of my On Broadway barrel.
(http://www.garyayala.com/Photography/On-Broadway-1/i-cNGXVhz/2/L/On-Broadway-17-UE-L.jpg)
Nikon F w/Nikkor 28mm
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I bet the pigs all tell the same story :)
:P
(http://www.garyayala.com/Photography/On-Broadway-1/i-mKZScLc/0/L/On-Broadway-5%20-%20W-L.jpg)
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I dunno ... nothing wrong with finding new characters.
LOL²
Some might prefer life specimens.
cheers
afx
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You could keep posting these forever, Gary, and I would never tire of looking at them. Fantastic stuff, as always.
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;D ;D ;D ye keep going - suits me fine
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I dunno ... nothing wrong with finding new characters.
LOL²
Some might prefer life specimens.
cheers
afx
There are many advantages shooting dead things.
(http://www.garyayala.com/Photography/On-Broadway-1/i-HpcfhMP/1/O/On-Broadway-18-UE.jpg)
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You could keep posting these forever, Gary, and I would never tire of looking at them. Fantastic stuff, as always.
This is it, the end of the On Broadway series.
(http://www.garyayala.com/Photography/On-Broadway-1/i-9FRzVbr/1/O/Buick%20-%20W.jpg)
Nikon F w/Nikkor 20mm, Tri-X
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;D ;D ;D ye keep going - suits me fine
LOL ... out of snaps for this series. But recently, I found a box, about 1.5'x1.5'x3' full of sleeved negatives. I need to start looking at them, there may be more from Broadway Street.
G
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well go shoot some more. Whats wring with you! :D
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Those dolls are scary on a whole new level :o
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well go shoot some more. Whats wring with you! :D
I wish I could go back to the 1970's. (Waiting for a Time Lord).
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Those dolls are scary on a whole new level :o
Haunting ... lol
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Wow! Such amazing shots, the look and feel is really great. I agree with Sash about these being historic images makes a difference. Some of the attraction of these photos, to me, is the fact that they are from the relatively distant past.
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Wow! Such amazing shots, the look and feel is really great. I agree with Sash about these being historic images makes a difference. Some of the attraction of these photos, to me, is the fact that they are from the relatively distant past.
Thank you Jorgen (sorry I haven't an 'ø' on my keyboard). " ... is the fact that they are from the relatively distant past.", LOL ... yeah, I'm an old fart. But you are correct, old images get our minds to wonder about how things were, how the world has changed and how the world has not changed. Old stuff can be interesting.
Gary