Topic: One Subject One Roll Griffith Park Carousel

[jharr]

I headed up to smelLA to look at a couple of schools for my soon to be grad. Mostly we were in the Burbank/Van Nueys areas. Griffith Park is always worth a stop. I had been to the carousel there before, but this time I was loaded up with Portra in the S2a. It's an old carousel and is showing its age, but sometimes that makes it a bit more interesting.


portra-s2a-020 by James Harr's Photos, on Flickr

They are doing some restoration of the paintings around the top.

portra-s2a-017 by James Harr's Photos, on Flickr

Notice the paintings here consist mostly of rust.

portra-s2a-022 by James Harr's Photos, on Flickr

The calliope.

portra-s2a-018 by James Harr's Photos, on Flickr


portra-s2a-019 by James Harr's Photos, on Flickr

Why is there always something terrifying on children's rides?

portra-s2a-014 by James Harr's Photos, on Flickr


portra-s2a-016 by James Harr's Photos, on Flickr

[Indofunk]

We were likely in LA on the same day! (I was there for a few hours on 4/2) I should let you know next time I'm there ... I didn't tell you I was in Santa Barbara because I figured it would be too far for us to plan to meet.

On the pictures: I love the long exposure/spinning blur shot (I'm a bit of a sucker for those) and the last face detail (also a sucker for detail shots)

[jharr]

Thanks Satish. It's fair for anyone to let me know when you are in the So. Cal area. Santa Barbara is a bit of a drive, but you never know. Of course on the other hand, there are FWs right here in San Diego that I have yet to meet up with.

[ManuelL]

Great series! My favourite is also the motion blur shot.

[jharr]

Thanks Manuel. I may have been hasty in selecting the photos to post here. I poked through them again today and there are others that have now grown on me more than these. That is sort of the way it goes with me. The ones I pass by initially, later become my favorites.

[Bryan]

Well now we want to see them James, keep posting.

[jharr]

This one shows some of the up and down motion of the horses. I also like that the dome is in good focus. These were shot at f/22 for 1/2 sec. handheld.


portra-s2a-023 by James Harr's Photos, on Flickr

This is more of a classic flying saucer carnival ride kind of shot.


portra-s2a-024 by James Harr's Photos, on Flickr

[6cmsquare]

Those long exposure shots are super cool! -I love the depth of field of shooting F22 (and up) both the fence and that cool roof are in good focus, with a flying saucer in between.

[Indofunk]

Those are amazing! 

[Verian]

These are great, love the tone/colour is some of them

[imagesfrugales]

Nice vintage look with a new film and the long exposures are awesome.