Topic: Last weekend of November weekend thread

[irv_b]

I have a busy weekend ahead so I thought I'd get the weekend thread started.
2 J Lane iso 2 dry plates in HC110

[Bryan]

Nice start Irv, that reminds me, I still have one plate I need to shoot.  I just got back from my second work trip to Palau this year.  This time it was 3 weeks that were very busy with work, but I still found some time to shoot film.  These were shot with a Zeiss Super Ikonta 530 using expired Konica Infrared 750nm with a red filter.  Developed in HC110 for 7 minutes.  The first shot was handheld at 1/100 and f/5.6.  I always focus slightly in front of the subject to compensate for the infrared light.  It looks like I over compensated a little on this one but I still like it.  The other two were shot at 1/10 f/16 with the camera braced on a solid object.  The extra DOF helps but I think I also hit the focus on them better.

Bai ra Rengorairai, the Bai for Airai state. This one is over 200 years old but has been restored. It’s a traditional men’s meeting house.
Bai ra Rengorairai by Bryan Chernick, on Flickr

Palauan Brer raft.  Smaller ones are used for fishing near shore, not sure what the large ones like this are used for.
Palauan Brer by Bryan Chernick, on Flickr

Stone monoliths, some have faces carved in them. 
Stone Monoliths by Bryan Chernick, on Flickr

A few more shots on my Flickr https://www.flickr.com/search/?user_id=60348236%40N07&sort=date-taken-desc&text=Palau%20infrared&view_all=1

[Kai-san]

Lovely shots Bryan, those houses are just extraordinary.
I've been shooting some architecture as well, a brick church that has been painted a nice darkish red.

Mamiya ZM / Mamiya Sekor E 50mm 1:1.7 S / Kodak T-Max 100 @200 ISO in Adox XT-3

[grit]

Went for a walk with the Mamiya RZ67 in Santa Cruz, California.

[astrobeck]

nice shots all!
Really like the IR shots of Palau from Bryan.
Mine is from a quick road trip to Arizona.
Took along the Pentax SP500 with a 28mm lens...lazy wide stuff you know.
Arista 100 dunked in the usual coffee brew.
Ajo, Arizona.
Hard to pass by a court, and this one was next to the mine there. The nets were brand new, the backboards...not so much.

[Francois]

I just got back from my second work trip to Palau this year.  This time it was 3 weeks that were very busy with work, but I still found some time to shoot film. 

I kinda guessed you were there. So this time it was doing the stinky job?
I wonder if any of these chemicals remotely had the look of having some life left in them?

[Bryan]

I just got back from my second work trip to Palau this year.  This time it was 3 weeks that were very busy with work, but I still found some time to shoot film. 

I kinda guessed you were there. So this time it was doing the stinky job?
I wonder if any of these chemicals remotely had the look of having some life left in them?

I spent most of my time neutralizing strong acids and bases.  The acids were fuming so we had to wear respirators and full hazmat suits.  That’s pretty tough work in the heat and humidity there.  I think total we neutralized around 700 gallons and we’re able to dispose of the resulting salt water on the island.  The acids included nitric, glacial acetic, sulfuric, HCL and others in small quantities.  We also packaged many other chemicals for disposal in the U.S.

As far as the photo Chemicals go, they were quite old so probably not good anymore.  They had been in the basement of a business for around a decade.  Some of it was determined to be non-hazardous so it was disposed of on the island.  Some of it was hazardous because of the pH so we neutralized it and disposed of it on the island.  The rest had some other hazardous component so it will be shipped back to the U.S. for disposal. 

I did get to do some snorkeling, fishing and sightseeing, it was a great trip overall.

[Francois]

I must admit that the snorkeling must have been welcome after getting out of the suit 

[rotarysmp]

I am a bit late for the weekend, sorry.
Realised that I was not using my hacked Instafrankenroid much, as I was only going to use it for "special photos" which never happen. Since I have plenty of film lying around, I have started just taking photos of my basement workshop work, when I do something which might have visual appeal...