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Removing the front sub-frame for detailing.... I thought. The project started snowballing after this.
20x300 second subframes, iso800.
Total exposure 1 hour 42 minutes.
Imaging:
William Optics ZenithStar II 80 ED,
Modified Canon 350D (Baader ACF-2) with Astronomik CLS filter.
Guiding:
Skywatcher Star Travel 120,
Orion SSAG.
All on
Skywatcher HEQ5 Pro
18th February 2017
Cambridge, UK
They say that the mindset of shooting film is slower than that of digital. For me, this was true, or at least I realized that I started to think differently.
This is the first shot I took.
I saw the Verizon truck when I pulled into the parking lot and saw one man outside. As I was approaching the parking meters to pay for my spot, I saw that there were two men. While at the meter, I saw they they were starting to move the ladders off the top of the truck. There were two and one had been moved as I was paying at the meter.
One ladder remained.
As I waited for one of the men to hopefully come back and get the other ladder, I framed the shot so that I would know exactly where to stand to get in him the archway. When he came back, I waited to raise the camera to my face until I saw him get the ladder.
In all fields, students are often told, "Study the work of the masters!" Henri Cartier-Bresson talks about "the decisive moment," and while taking a ladder of a truck isn't a decisive moment in history, taking that picture and seeing that moment frozen on a piece of film made me realize that whatever work the masters created, with gear that was far less sophisticated than my 20 megapixel fast(ish) digital camera, took real mastery.
Camera: Konica C35AF
Film: Fuji Superia X-TRA 400 @ box speed
developed and scanned by Indie Film Lab