Funny thing happened today. I was out driving around Georgia shooting with my new Hasselblad. Oh, I didn’t mention that? I’ll come back to it. Anyway, I was on this two lane road in Conyers, Georgia, and I realized that I’d been there before. I came to this big abandoned entry/gate to what used to be a ranch of some type, and I parked my truck to take a picture. As I was framing things up, this older gentleman drove up in one of those ATV/small truck vehicle things and asked me if I’d like a ride up to the property. It wasn’t his, but he new the owners and had spent a lot of time up there.

He showed me around and let me get out and take pictures, then took me over to his own property, introduced me to his longhorns, two donkeys and goat, who was actually as affectionate as my dogs. Turns out Mr. Martin is actually from Alamo, Texas, down in the valley (not to be confused with San Antonio, where The Alamo resides), but he left Texas in 1944. He filled me in on quite a bit of Texas history; actually, we talked mostly about Texas.

I’ll be developing the film soon, and hopefully have some usable shots. Until I get my new light meter, I’ll be metering with my Digital Rebel, which is essentially what this shot is… a metering shot before I took his portrait with the Hasselblad. But I think it’s nice, and fortunately I shot it in RAW.

So about the Hasselblad. I applied for a Graduate PLUS loan, mostly for the Hasselblad, but also for some other stuff. It finally came in recently, and I won an auction on eBay for a full Hasselblad 500C/M outfit, complete with an 80mm CF lens, non-metered 45 degree prism and two A12 film backs. I ended up spending a few hundred dollars less than I had planned, and so with the additional money, I’m going to buy a top of the line Sekonic light meter. No more metering with a digital camera. I also bought a great Canon bag for everything tonight at Best Buy, which is really solid. AND I’ve begun ordering all of the chemistry for wet-plate collodion. It’s an exciting time.

This entry was posted Sunday, December 17th, 2006 at 2:11 am and is filed under Digital. Both comments and pings are currently closed.