[HUG ] Re: New to Hasselblad

Hi James.

Welcome. Saw you in Yosemite too. Glad you're on the list.

The only advice I have for you is bracket. You're probably too young to have 
seen the movie "The Graduate", but to paraphrase a line from that movie, "The 
future is bracket my boy; bracket". :-)

Enjoy your new toy and the expertise of this list. We all look foward to seeing 
your images.

Here are a few digisnaps I took on this last trip with Jim where we met James. 
We started from Jim's house at 6am (I left my house at 5:15) and I got home 
about midnight. Palo Alto to Yosemite and back in a day; about 400mi.

The views where we met James (Yosemite Falls):
http://raflexions.com/Leica/content/L1000649_Yosemite_large.html

A closer view of the lower falls:
http://raflexions.com/Leica/content/L1000674_Yosemite_large.html

The grand view from the Tunnel Overview:
http://raflexions.com/Leica/content/L1000677_Yosemite_large.html

Obviously the last shot was a from a secret spot unknown to photographers:
http://raflexions.com/Leica/content/L1000698_Yosemite_large.html

Jim providing his critique of my photo skills (he's the one putting his best 
face, errr, forward :-D )
http://raflexions.com/Leica/content/L1000704_Yosemite_large.html

Celluloid images were processed on Sunday and being culled now. BW will be 
processed next weekend. Hoping for some keepers.

Hope you enjoyed,
Bob

 
Bob Adler
Palo Alto, CA
http://www.raflexions.com



----- Original Message ----
From: Jim Brick <jim@xxxxxxxxx>
To: hasselblad@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Monday, April 28, 2008 11:29:30 PM
Subject: [HUG ] Re: New to Hasselblad

Hey James... I see that you survived Yosemite.

Welcome to the HUG. You seem to be doing OK with the list.

Color. For transparency film, always expose so that the highlights are  
not blown out. Read the highlights and make sure that they are in zone  
7 or less. Actually, outdoors on a sunny day, the sunny 16 rule works  
great. For Fuji Velvia 50, that is 1/60th @ f/16. And scale it up or  
down as desired. Your Hassy lenses have a little button that if you  
push it, it locks the shutter and aperture rings together so that you  
can easily scale the exposure up or down to suit your needs. I use an  
incident meter a lot. A Minolta Flashmeter VI. It's also a spot meter  
but I tend to use the incident readings more than the spot readings.  
But a spot meter is what will tell you if your highlights are within  
the films recording ability (not higher than zone 7).

:-)

Jim


On Apr 28, 2008, at 9:52 PM, JAMES WILLIAMS wrote:

> Hello everyone, my name is James. I am new to Hasselblad, taking my  
> first steps in med. format. I have done pretty well so far, have not  
> got any masterpieces yet but I have some good stories. I am shooting  
> color, was wondering if anyone has any pointers. I have 503cx with  
> 60mm and 80mm lens. I met Jim Brick shooting pics in Yosemite last  
> Friday, he told me about this site. He basically gave me a class on  
> using my Hasselblad, how cool is that. Well I have never been on one  
> of these list sites hope I'm doing this right.            Namaste'  
> James  P.S. I have shot 35mm for 30 years, shot digital on and off  
> for 5 or 6 years.


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