Cape St. Marys, Nova Scotia
Taken in July of 1986, here's "Miss Odette" on the slipway at the north side of the harbor. Cape St Marys is a small fishing village on a headland that borders the western end of Mavillette Beach in southern Digby County. We usually time our visits to arrive here early or late enough in the day that we can take advantage of good low-angle sunlight. In gloomy weather the light is great all day long. We usually like to shoot from half tide down to low, looking for boats sitting on keel blocks or resting on one of several several slipways around the harbor. Sometimes the boats are out and the harbor is empty, but on many occasions you'll fine the harbor nearly packed full.
This image is from a medium format Kodacolor CP 100 color negative, copied with a Nikon D3500 camera using a special negative / transparency copy rig I set up in my basement. A 5000k LED bulb in a goose-neck lamp was used to provide back-lighting for the negative, held in a Beseler 6cm x7cm negative carrier. The camera used to take the shot was my old 2 2/4 x 3 1/4 Century Graphic fitted with a Graphic 2x3 roll film holder (knob wind, not lever), using a 127mm f4.7 Kodak Ektar lens in a Supermatic Shutter. When shooting digital today, I rarely use a tripod, but back in my "Graphic" days I almost never photographed without one. The camera wasn't fitted with a range-finder or focusing scales, so all composing and focusing was done using the ground glass. I really enjoyed going slow and working with an upside-down and reversed image. My tripod was a fairly heavy Gitzo "twist lock" fitted with a Linhof ball head, the package weighing much more than I'm willing to haul around now... 35 years later.
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Cape St. Marys, Nova Scotia
Taken in July of 1986, here's "Miss Odette" on the slipway at the north side of the harbor. Cape St Marys is a small fishing village on a headland that borders the western end of Mavillette Beach in southern Digby County. We usually time our visits to arrive here early or late enough in the day that we can take advantage of good low-angle sunlight. In gloomy weather the light is great all day long. We usually like to shoot from half tide down to low, looking for boats sitting on keel blocks or resting on one of several several slipways around the harbor. Sometimes the boats are out and the harbor is empty, but on many occasions you'll fine the harbor nearly packed full.
This image is from a medium format Kodacolor CP 100 color negative, copied with a Nikon D3500 camera using a special negative / transparency copy rig I set up in my basement. A 5000k LED bulb in a goose-neck lamp was used to provide back-lighting for the negative, held in a Beseler 6cm x7cm negative carrier. The camera used to take the shot was my old 2 2/4 x 3 1/4 Century Graphic fitted with a Graphic 2x3 roll film holder (knob wind, not lever), using a 127mm f4.7 Kodak Ektar lens in a Supermatic Shutter. When shooting digital today, I rarely use a tripod, but back in my "Graphic" days I almost never photographed without one. The camera wasn't fitted with a range-finder or focusing scales, so all composing and focusing was done using the ground glass. I really enjoyed going slow and working with an upside-down and reversed image. My tripod was a fairly heavy Gitzo "twist lock" fitted with a Linhof ball head, the package weighing much more than I'm willing to haul around now... 35 years later.
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