Photography and the Creative Process » Uncategorized http://wmgphotoblog.com Presented by William M. Gatesman in conjunction with www.wmgphoto.com Sat, 21 Apr 2012 14:13:08 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 Tilda http://wmgphotoblog.com/2012/03/21/tilda/ http://wmgphotoblog.com/2012/03/21/tilda/#comments Wed, 21 Mar 2012 23:36:31 +0000 Bill Gatesman http://wmgphotoblog.com/?p=348 I just came across a portrait of Tilda Swinton by Fabio Lovino, reproduced below.

This picture reminds me of my own photograph which I call On the Dressing Table.

]]> http://wmgphotoblog.com/2012/03/21/tilda/feed/ 0 FSU Camera Source http://wmgphotoblog.com/2012/03/04/fsu-camera-source/ http://wmgphotoblog.com/2012/03/04/fsu-camera-source/#comments Sun, 04 Mar 2012 18:21:41 +0000 Bill Gatesman http://wmgphotoblog.com/?p=335 I have been shooting lately with a Zorki 4 with f1.5 50mm Jupiter 3 lens, and a Fed 2 with Industar 61 lens.  Both of these are Former Soviet Union (FSU) Leica copies.  They are 50 year old rangefinder cameras, however, you could not tell how old they are by looking at them, and they operate like they are new cameras.

My favorite seller of FSU cameras is the ebay seller, Synoptics Camera Store. This vendor services these old cameras before selling them so they perform as if they are brand new. And often they will sell items that look new too. The cameras are dirt cheap too — they cost about five percent or less of what one would pay for a comparable Leica, and the ones I have purchased are fine photographic machines.

I have been lamenting that the cameras with fixed lens do not fit as easily into my cargo pants pockets as I would like, so I decided to purchase a collapsible lens — that is a lens that pushes into the camera body when not in use.

The lens I picked up from the Synoptics Camera Store last week is pictured above. Now I will just have to wait a few weeks for it to be shipped to me from Kharkov, Ukraine.

I highly recommend the Synoptics Camera Store.

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]]> http://wmgphotoblog.com/2012/02/18/designated-parking/feed/ 0 Walking out of Dreamland into Wakefulness http://wmgphotoblog.com/2012/01/17/walking-out-of-dreamland-into-wakefulness/ http://wmgphotoblog.com/2012/01/17/walking-out-of-dreamland-into-wakefulness/#comments Tue, 17 Jan 2012 00:46:35 +0000 Bill Gatesman http://wmgphotoblog.com/?p=280

I have added this image, which I call Walking out of Dreamland into Wakefulness, to the Abstractions and Still Life gallery at my Online Photo Gallery, one of my related sites, a link for which is in the right hand column of this page.

]]> http://wmgphotoblog.com/2012/01/17/walking-out-of-dreamland-into-wakefulness/feed/ 0 Autumn’s Doorway at the End of Summer http://wmgphotoblog.com/2011/09/05/autumns-doorway-at-the-end-of-summer/ http://wmgphotoblog.com/2011/09/05/autumns-doorway-at-the-end-of-summer/#comments Mon, 05 Sep 2011 15:24:37 +0000 Bill Gatesman http://wmgphotoblog.com/?p=272 Walking around at Fell’s Point in Baltimore in early September, I chanced upon Autumn’s Doorway at the End of Summer.

To view a larger version of this photo, you may visit the Abstractions and Still Life Gallery at my online Photo Gallery.

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