I Give Up!

 Robbie and Tatum. Taken with my iPad Air 2.

 From time to time I've had a few things to say about cell phone cameras on this blog. If you read carefully, you probably caught my attitude that they are not really suitable for serious photography.

That attitude hasn't changed, but non-serious photography is another story. As in family snaps.

Last Saturday, we went to Lexington, Kentucky to the home of our second grandson, Michael and his delightful wife, Jenn. Jenn is a chemist, and Michael is working on his PhD. in marketing at the university there. Also present for the weekend were our son Rob and his wife, Bonnie and our oldest grandson, Robbie, with his wife Bailey and daughters Madilyn and Tatum, flown in from Houston.

For years I documented family gatherings with my cameras. In film days I had 4x6 prints made to send around, and when I switched to digital I emailed photos and/or made DVDs to send out.

Digital is quicker and easier than film, but still, I had to download the SD cards to my computer, edit the files, and send them out by email or WeTransfer (depending on quantity of photos). By the time various family members received their pictures, days may have passed. (Often more, I'm sorry to say.)

I came to this family event prepared with cameras and lenses. Serious cameras and lenses. Ready to document the day.

But when I got there, everyone was busy snapping photos with their devices and sending them to each other.  

With cell phone cameras, immediacy is the name of the game. I capitulated. I surrendered, and to my shame as a professional photographer, began snapping photos with my iPad. 

But you know what? I don't even care. It's quick and easy, and very few of those photos will be made into prints. If they are, they probably won't be printed larger than 4x6, or at most, 8x10, and at those sizes they look about as good as they would if they had been made with my professional cameras.

The picture below is a cell phone photo of our great-granddaughter Maddie in the pasture of our old farm. Our granddaughter-in-law Bailey, had it made into an 8x10 canvas panel that currently hangs over the desk in my study. It looks great.

Madilyn in the pasture at our farm. Pigeon Mountain in the background.

So, I give up. From now on, it's serious cameras for serious work and cell phones and iPads for family snaps. (I prefer the iPad because the screen is larger.) 

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Photography and text copyright 2023 David B.Jenkins.

I post Monday, Wednesday, and Friday unless life gets in the way.

Soli Gloria Deo -- For the glory of God alone.

Tags:   photography   cell phone photography     iPad Air 2

 

Seeing the Light

 

 A tailor making school uniforms in Totonicopan, Guatemala.

My last two posts have been about solving lighting problems in commercial photography through the use of artificial light; artificial, that is, as something other than daylight. The ability to use artificial light is an essential skill for success as a commercial photographer, because photography is about light. In fact, the word "photograph" comes from two Greek words: photos, which means "light," and grapho, which means "to write." So to photograph really means to write with light.

Actually, learning to see light and use it well is the most basic, but also the most important skill in any kind of photography, professional or amateur. For me, it has also been the most difficult to acquire and I'm still working at it. A true master of photography can find ways to use almost any kind of light, even the harsh glare and black shadows of mid-day. 

But sometimes, beautiful light simply presents itself to us ready-made. A kiss of serendipity. We don't have to do anything to create it, we just have to be able to see it.

Serendipity favors the slanting, directional rays of morning and evening, the softness of open shade, and the warm glow of windowlight, as in this picture of a tailor making uniforms for students at an evangelical mission school in the mountain town of Totonicopan, Guatemala. A large window to his right was the sole and beautifully sufficient source of illumination. 

There was no way I could improve the lighting of the scene; the only thing left for me to do was make a picture of it.

Olympus OM 35mm camera, 85mm f2 Olympus Zuiko lens, Fujichrome 100 film.

Signed copies of the new second edition of Backroads and Byways of Georgia are available. The price is $22.95 plus $3.95 shipping. My PayPal address is djphoto@vol.com (which is also my email). Or you can mail a check to me at 8943 Wesley Place, Knoxville, TN 37922. Include your address and tell me how you would like your book inscribed.

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Photography and text copyright 2023 David B.Jenkins.

I post Monday, Wednesday, and Friday unless life gets in the way.

Soli Gloria Deo -- For the glory of God alone.

Tags:   photography    commercial photography    Olympus  OM cameras     Olympus Zuiko lenses    Fujichrome 100 film     film photography    photographic lighting    Totonicopan    Guatemala

Making a Difficult Lighting Problem Look Easy

A photo for the Vinings Investment Company's annual report, 1997.

In my previous post I said that "the thing I like most about commercial photography is that it's an endless process of problem-solving." This statement is doubly true of annual report photography, because there are always problems to be solved and more often than not, they're lighting problems.

I did annual reports for a number of companies over the years, but one of my favorites was an assignment for the Vinings Investment Company of Atlanta in 1997. The simple-looking scene at the top of this post was actually the most challenging shot of the day. But as the saying goes, "If it doesn't look easy, you're not doing it right!"

The purpose of the photo was to show several people looking at a computer screen. The challenge was to make it appear that the scene was being illuminated by the light coming from the screen itself. It all had to be very subtle and natural-looking.

As always on any assignment where I would be away from the studio and possibly facing unpredictable situations, I carried a full lighting kit consisting of several large, studio-type flash units on light stands and also several small flashes of the type that mount on a camera.

The lighting solution I came up with for this scene was to set one of the large flashes to low power and bounce it off the ceiling to give the appearance of a semi-darkened room. Then, I hid one of the small flash units, a Vivitar 283, just on the other side of the monitor and covered it with two layers of white handkerchief to soften and diffuse the light playing on the faces of the people. Voila!

The camera was a medium format Mamiya RB67 (my workhorse for commercial photography,) the 127mm f4.5 Mamiya-Sekor lens, and Fujichrome 100 film.

 

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Photography and text copyright 2023 David B.Jenkins.

I post Monday, Wednesday, and Friday unless life gets in the way.

Soli Gloria Deo -- For the glory of God alone.

Tags:   photography    commercial photography     annual report photography     Vivitar 283 flash     Mamiya RB67 camera     127mm f4.5 Mamiya-Sekor lens    Fujichrome 100 film     film photography    photographic lighting

A Non-Glamorous Photo Assignment

Electronics technician, T.J. Snow Company, Chattanooga

 

One of my long-time clients was the T.J. Snow Company of Chattanooga, a pioneer in the development and manufacturing of robotic welding machines. I spent many days over a period of twelve to fifteen years documenting the process of assembling the machines and photographing the finished products, some of which were as large as a small room.

I'm not sure what this technician was doing, and probably wouldn't understand it anyway, but I liked his look of total concentration. 

Lighting was one large electronic flash unit placed almost 90 degrees to my right. In retrospect, I sometimes wish I had used another light from camera position to fill the shadows a bit and put a little more light on the dark side of his face. But then it might be less dramatic. Probably should have tried it both ways.

The thing I like most about commercial photography is that it's an endless process of problem-solving, but none of the problems are earth-shaking, and nobody will die if I get it wrong. 

Contrary to rumors, commercial photography, while often fascinating, is seldom glamorous.

I used both Olympus OM and Canon EOS cameras during the years I worked with T.J Snow. I have no idea which was used for this photo. 

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Soli Gloria Deo -- For the glory of God alone.

Tags:   photography    commercial photography     T.J. Snow Company, Inc.    Olympus OM cameras     Canon EOS cameras

Who was Dave?

Daves. Meriwether County, Georgia

Who was Dave? What kind of place was this? A country store? A bar or restaurant? 

Located on a connecting road between U.S. Highway 27ALT and Georgia Highway 16 south of Greenville (as best I remember), this boarded-up old building asks only questions and provides no answers.

I love photographs with a bit of mystery. Photographs that ask more than they reveal. Perhaps that's why I love to photograph the old and the abandoned, the worn out and the passing away. They speak of people we will never know, of lives lived in obscurity.

There were many abandoned houses in the country neighborhood in southern Indiana where I grew up. I remember being fascinated by them. Quite a few were large, two-story, almost mansions, in fact. They witnessed of a prosperous but long-gone time in the early 20th century when they sat on hills, surrounded by large farms of fertile bottom-land.

Years later I drove around and photographed some of them. To what purpose, I had no idea at the time. I just found them interesting.

All of which makes me kind of an odd duck, I reckon.

I made this photo in December, 2012, when Louise and I went to Pine Mountain to see the Christmas lights at Callaway Gardens. The camera was a digital Olympus E-M5 and the lens was the Panasonic 14-140mm f3.5-5.6. I wish I could give the exact location, but the travel notebook I used from about 2005 to 2016 has been lost.

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Soli Gloria Deo -- For the glory of God alone.

Tags:   photography     travel     Georgia     Olympus digital cameras     Olympus E-M5     Panasonic lenses     Callaway Gardens

We Sold Our Baby!

Our lovely Grand Design Reflection 5th-wheel trailer. Our home for two years.

 Sorry I missed posting on Monday. Sometimes life just gets in the way. We had taken a deposit on our trailer a few weeks ago, and yesterday (Tuesday) the new owners, a nice couple from Forsyth, Georgia, came to pick it up. 

We loved that little home on wheels, and were extremely comfortable in it. In fact, the interior was so well laid out that we were as comfortable in it as we are in our 1750-square-foot town home. 

Unfortunately, while we loved living in it, traveling with it was a different story. A rig that's big enough for comfortable living is also big enough for cumbersome traveling. Moreover, just after we bought it, the price of diesel fuel shot up to more that double. 

Our original purpose in getting an RV was travel. And we were not doing that, or at least, not nearly as much as we want to. So the plan now, if the Lord is willing and our health is good, is to buy a small motor home or small trailer and light truck next spring and hit the road west. We haven't seen Glacier National Park, or Yosemite, or the redwoods yet, and so much more.

We have mixed emotions about saying goodbye to our baby, but as always, we're looking forward to whatever the future may hold.

Signed copies of the new second edition of Backroads and Byways of Georgia are available. The price is $22.95 plus $3.95 shipping. My PayPal address is djphoto@vol.com (which is also my email). Or you can mail a check to me at 8943 Wesley Place, Knoxville, TN 37922. Include your address and tell me how you would like your book inscribed.

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Photography and text copyright 2023 David B.Jenkins.

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Soli Gloria Deo -- For the glory of God alone.

Tags:     RVs     Grand Design Reflection     5th-wheel trailers

The Underequipped Photographer?

 

c.1950 Nash Ambassador. Old U.S. Highway 27, Chattooga

County, GA. Jpeg from Fuji X-Pro1, 27mm f2.8 lens. I like the

way the X-Pro1  handles this very contrasty scene.

 

(This is an update of a post I wrote three years ago, on October 16, 2020.)

Some photographers might consider me underequipped. That's because my approach to photography is not equipment-centric. 

Owning and using fine, precision equipment can be very pleasurable in itself, and of course there are certain kinds of photography, such as action and sports that are difficult to do well without specialized equipment.  

But in truth, most of us could get by with very little equipment. In the 1930s through the '60s, photographers such as Fritz Henle traveled the world with nothing but a twin-lens reflex. Their pictures can certainly hold their own in comparison to the work being done today. Edward Weston did most of his work with an 8x10 view camera and one lens, although he also used a 4x5 Graphlex single-lens reflex (we would consider it almost unusably primitive) for portraits. Henri Cartier-Bresson and Elliott Erwitt were Leica photographers who mostly used 50mm lenses, and travel photographer Gerald Brimacombe did great work with a pair of early digital cameras with built-in zoom lenses. The last time we corresponded he told me that he now carries one Nikon D610 and a 24-120mm zoom lens when he travels. Nothing else. Like those named above, he has adapted his vision to fit the equipment he uses.

I will confess that for most of my career I had Gear Acquisition Syndrome (GAS). However, being frugal (okay a cheapskate), I mostly indulged my addiction by buying, using, and selling second-hand equipment. It was fun, and didn't break the bank. Also, I learned a lot about how to buy good used equipment. In fact, everything I now own was acquired second-hand and serves me well.

All the photographs in my series of posts about our RV tour of the west in 2018 were made with just three cameras and three lenses -- the Fujifilm X-Pro1, X-T1, and X-T20 bodies and the 27mm f2.8, 16-50 f3.5-5.6, and 50-230 f4.8-6.3 Fujicron lenses. All were bought used through on-line fora. The workhorse was the X-T20. 

However, I did run into one problem, because each camera has slightly different menus. I wrote about that here. In a sideways move, I bought a Fuji X-H1. Again, used, through an online forum. The X-H1 is a little larger and heaver, so it balances well with an on-camera flash and my recently acquired 55-200mm zoom. I'll  hang on to the X-T20 as my everyday carry because it's small and light, and the X-Pro1 because the menu is relatively simple and the files have a special character that I love. I still have a too-many-menus problem, but it doesn't seem to be as much of a problem any more. Maybe I'm just getting better.

The X-T1, a lovely camera, is the odd man out, so it's now for sale.  

I've also recently acquired a Fujicron 60mm f2.4 macro lens. It's a good focal length for portraits, and I can also use it to copy and digitize my best photos from 35 years of shooting slides without having to go through the slow process of scanning. With these three bodies and four lenses I have what I need. I don't need anything else. 

So am I underequipped? I don't think so. I love cameras, but when I have the equipment I need to do the work I want to do, I'm more interested in what I can do with it than in the equipment itself. And I no longer have GAS.  

Of course, there are a few things it would be nice to have. . .like maybe the 56mm f1.2 or the 90mm f2. . .?

Signed copies of the new second edition of Backroads and Byways of Georgia are available. The price is $22.95 plus $3.95 shipping. My PayPal address is djphoto@vol.com (which is also my email). Or you can mail a check to me at 8943 Wesley Place, Knoxville, TN 37922. Include your address and tell me how you would like your book inscribed.

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Photography and text copyright 2023 David B.Jenkins.

I post Monday, Wednesday, and Friday unless life gets in the way.

Soli Gloria Deo -- For the glory of God alone.

Tags: photography    Fritz Henle     Edward Weston     Henri Cartier-Bresson     Elliott Erwitt     Fujifilm X-H1     Fujifilm X-T20     Fujifilm X-T1     Fujifilm X-Pro1     Fujicron lenses

An Old Chevrolet

Derelict Chevrolet, Keith Road, Catoosa County, Georgia

 

As I think I've written before, I used to take an occasional Sunday afternoon and ramble around back roads to see what I could see. I especially did this between 1975 and 1985, and most of my rambles were in Catoosa County, Georgia because that's where we lived in those days. We were at the north end of the county, so I mostly went south. Going north would have taken me into Chattanooga, where there were many things to photograph, but not the things I was interested in at the time. I was mostly looking for farm scenes and old things.

 

I believe this old car is a 1934 Chevrolet. I remember some friends of my family having one in the late 1940s, and the pictures I can find on the internet seem to confirm that year; although most of the photos on the 'net show versions that have been heavily customized.

 

Now grill-less, motor-less, and headlight-less, someone had parked the old girl on a slight rise just off the road, presumably in hope of selling her.

 

The photo was made with a twin-lens reflex camera, but I can't say which one because I had not yet begun to keep a notebook of my pictures. It was either a Yashica, a Rolleicord, or a Minolta, and the film would have been Kodak Ektachrome, with an ASA (now ISO) speed of 64. For comparison, I keep my Fuji cameras set at ISO 800 most of the time. Digital really makes things almost too easy.

 

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Photography and text copyright 2023 David B.Jenkins.

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Soli Gloria Deo -- For the glory of God alone.

Tags: photography    travel   Georgia     Catoosa County     1934 Chevrolet     twin-lens reflex     Yashica     Rolleicord     Minolta     Kodak Ektachrome     Fuji cameras 

The Upside-Down Sky

Rock City Barn KY-18: Kentucky Highway 91 in Caldwell County, near Princeton. 

 

 All told, I found 48 barns with "See Rock City" signs in Kentucky; second only to Tennessee's more than a hundred. Which is not surprising because Kentucky's long east-west shape meant that most travelers coming down from the midwest had to pass through it.

This particular barn is in western Kentucky and is on an obscure state highway well off the beaten path. My memory is not too clear on this, but I think I first photographed it while on a visit to our son Rob, who lived in Paducah at the time. This would have been in the late '80s. 

I had not yet been commissioned to do a book of Rock City barns, but I hoped to make it happen. I had been given a list of barns they were still painting, so anytime I came within reasonable distance of one I attempted to make a photograph if at all possible. 

When I had accumulated 20 or 25 such photos I had prints made from the slides and asked for a meeting with Bill Chapin, then president of See Rock City, Inc.

At that time, Rock City was only maintaining about 85 barns. I told him that if he ever hoped to do a book of the barns, now was the time, because they were rapidly disappearing. 

Bill thought about it for a few minutes and then said, "Okay, let's do it." And that's how the Rock City Barns book came to be. 

The picture shown here is not that first one from the '80s. This one was made just after sunset on July 20, 1995. I've always loved the way the colors in the sky are reversed. 

(Canon EOS A2 film camera, Canon EF 28-105mm f3.5-4.5 lens, Fujichrome 100D film.)

Signed copies of the new second edition of Backroads and Byways of Georgia are available. The price is $22.95 plus $3.95 shipping. My PayPal address is djphoto@vol.com (which is also my email). Or you can mail a check to me at 8943 Wesley Place, Knoxville, TN 37922. Include your address and tell me how you would like your book inscribed.

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Photography and text copyright 2023 David B.Jenkins.

I post Monday, Wednesday, and Friday unless life gets in the way.

Soli Gloria Deo -- For the glory of God alone.

Tags: photography    travel     Kentucky     barns     See Rock City     Rock City Barns    Canon EOS A2 camera    Canon EF 28-105mm f3.5-4.5 lens    Fujichrome 100D film     film photography

Flowers to the Rescue

 Rock City Barn GA-33. Old U.S. 411, Murray County, Georgia. 

When See Rock City, Inc. asked me to find and photograph every existing "See Rock City" barn, they gave me a box full of old file cards -- more than 500 of them, in fact, that the barn painters had used to keep track of their work. I sorted the cards and organized them be state, by regions within states, and by highways, and began traveling and photographing whenever I could take a few days away from my studio. In all, I traveled about 35,000 miles in 14 states over an 18-month period in my old Chevy Blazer, visited all 500-plus locations, and found about 250 barns still standing in some sort of condition. I also, along the way, found about 20 barns that had been lost from Rock City's records. This was one of them.

                                       Some of the file cards with Rock City barn locations.

Someone told me about a Rock City barn on old U.S. Highway 411 south of Chatsworth in Murray County, Georgia, so I went looking. Arriving at the location, I found a barn on each side of the road, neither with a visible "See Rock City" sign, and some older people sitting on the porch of a nearby farmhouse. 

Walking up, I asked them about the barns. They told me that this barn had a "See Rock City" sign at one time, but had been re-roofed so long ago that even the new roof had rusted. 

Since there was nothing outstanding about the sign-less barn, I had to find something else to make a good picture. The thick, colorful growth of flowers in the foreground was it. 

This was Louise's favorite picture from the Rock City Barns book project, so I put it on her dedication page.

(Canon EOS A2 film camera, Canon EF 24mm f2.8 lens, Fujichrome 100D film.)

Signed copies of the new second edition of Backroads and Byways of Georgia are available. The price is $22.95 plus $3.95 shipping. My PayPal address is djphoto@vol.com (which is also my email). Or you can mail a check to me at 8943 Wesley Place, Knoxville, TN 37922. Include your address and tell me how you would like your book inscribed.

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Soli Gloria Deo -- For the glory of God alone.

Tags: photography    travel     Georgia     old U.S. Highway 411     barns     See Rock City     Rock City Barns    Canon EOS A2 camera    Canon EF 24mm f2.8 lens    Fujichrome 100D film     film photography

Another Old Tractor in Great Light

Ford tractor in barn. Georgia Highway 193, Walker County

 

This barn is located on Georgia Highway 193 a few miles south of Flintstone. I passed it every day going to and from my home in McLemore Cove to my studio in Chattanooga. Although there was no good place to pull off the road, I stopped and made the photo anyway because I liked the feel of the early morning light. 

Jenkins Rule of Photographic Proximity states that the photogenic qualities of any scene are in direct inverse proportion to the possibility of a place to park within a reasonable distance.

The tractor is a Ford from the 1950s, still a very popular model despite its age. Many country people like to have them around for light to medium farm duty, and parts are readily available. This scene was probably photographed in the 1990s, because I was still using film.  I photographed a similar tractor, the slightly earlier 8N model, in a shed on U.S. Highway 19 north of Dahlonega in 2006. You can see it here.

The camera was a Canon EOS A2, with most likely, the EF 28-105mm f3.5-4.5 lens. The film would have been Fujichrome 100D, my all-time favorite.

Signed copies of the new second edition of Backroads and Byways of Georgia are available. The price is $22.95 plus $3.95 shipping. My PayPal address is djphoto@vol.com (which is also my email). Or you can mail a check to me at 8943 Wesley Place, Knoxville, TN 37922. Include your address and tell me how you would like your book inscribed.

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Photography and text copyright 2023 David B.Jenkins.

I post Monday, Wednesday, and Friday unless life gets in the way.

Soli Gloria Deo -- For the glory of God alone.

Tags: photography    travel     Georgia     McLemore Cove    Canon EOS A2 camera     Fujichrome 100D film     film photography

When You Find Something Good, Keep Working It

 Clarence Spindler and his "See Rock City" barn. U.S. Hwy. 41, Gibson County, Indiana.

(Repost from August, 2011.)

 

It was early morning when I pulled up to Clarence Spindler's farmhouse on U.S. Highway 41 just north of Evansville, Indiana. Clarence and I had never met; in fact I was not even sure he was still living. All I had to go on was an old file card from the 1960s which had been used by the sign painters who traveled the countryside back then painting "See Rock City" on every barn whose owner would permit it. Thirty-some years later, I was there in pursuit of my quest to make a photograph (and a book) of every Rock City barn still in existence.

 

Several knocks having produced no answer, I went on around to the barn and began making photographs: first, a series in half-stop brackets, then the same with a Cokin #85 filter to emphasize the warm feel of the rising sun. Clarence himself arrived on the scene just then, and after a few minutes of introduction and pleasant reminiscing I asked if he would mind being in my picture. He allowed that it would be all right and stood where I asked as I made another set of bracketed exposures. "Better and better," I thought. I had a good photo of the barn alone, and an even better photo of Clarence and his barn.

 

Then serendipity sent a kitten to wrap itself around Clarence's legs and look up at me with eyes gleaming in the morning light.  

 

(Canon EOS A2, 24mm Canon EF lens, Fujichrome Sensia film, Cokin #85  pro-series filter.)

Signed copies of the new second edition of Backroads and Byways of Georgia are available. The price is $22.95 plus $3.95 shipping. My PayPal address is djphoto@vol.com (which is also my email). Or you can mail a check to me at 8943 Wesley Place, Knoxville, TN 37922. Include your address and tell me how you would like your book inscribed.

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Photography and text copyright 2023 David B.Jenkins.

I post Monday, Wednesday, and Friday unless life gets in the way.

Soli Gloria Deo -- For the glory of God alone.

Tags:   photography    Indiana     travel    Canon EOS A2 camera    Canon EF 24mm f2.8 lens    Fuji Sensia film     Rock City     See Rock City     Rock City barns     barns