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Lympa Log - Leica R lenses on Olympus E-330 DSLR Photos and Text © Gary Todoroff 2007 All Rights Reserved |
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Dec 7 , 2007
| Architecture - Formal Building Portraits Some Commercial Photography Around Eureka, CA |
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While the photos on this page do not use the "Lympa" camera combination (although the last photograph below sort of qualifies), they are the results of some of the jobs I have done recently around town, keeping me busy enough to not be posting to this blog as often as I would like. When architects, contractors and financiers have invested so much effort and money in restoring or building beauty into the architecture of Eureka, I feel especially privileged to record for posterity what I call the Formal Building Portrait. |
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Arkley Center for the Performing Arts After a year-long contract to photograph the restoration of the old Lowe's State Theater (also called the Richard Sweasey Building), this early morning photograph gave me a sense of completion. The grand old lady of vaudeville and silent movie days was transformed into an elegant beauty. More outside photos of the Arkley Center are on a previous Lympa Log page and also some inside views. [[Plus a more January 2008 shot of the seven-story mural at the back of the Arkley Center.]] Hasselblad ELM with 100mm f3.5, Provia F100 film, Imacon Flextight scanner. |
Also see a slide show of the restoration of the Arkley Center for the Performing Arts: http://www.arkleycenter.com/photo_restore.php |
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Eureka Professional Building Taken at dusk from a rooftop across Fifth Street (US 101), the biggest problem was getting everyone to leave all the lights on! Another photograph of this building shows a unique aerial perspective , but doesn't have the same personality that lighted windows give to a building. The 100mm Hasselblad is one of the sharpest lenses made - in the 20x30" print you can clearly read the small print on the kiosk sign at lower left. Hasselblad ELM with 100mm f3.5, Provia F100 film, Imacon Flextight scanner. |
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Redwood Capital Bank - Eureka The new bank right next door to the Arkley Center above had also been part of the department store that sat empty for over ten years. The bank manager, John Dalby, met me at 5:30am, where I assigned him the all-important banker's task of running across the street to turn lights back on that had been turned off by the automatic timers! Hasselblad ELM with 80mm f2.8, Provia F100 film, Imacon Flextight scanner. |
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Redwood Capital Bank - Fortuna Our local bank just opened this new branch about twenty miles south of Eureka. There is about a fifteen minute window when outdoor ambient light at dusk balances just right with the lights from the windows. All of the above photos enlarged quite well to the 20x30" photographic prints requested by clients. Hasselblad ELM with 50mm f4, Provia F100 film, Imacon Flextight scanner. |
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My first "Hlympad" photograph
I would venture that this is the first ever aerial photograph taken with the combination of a Hasselblad 250mm f5.6 lens attached with a Hasselblad to Leica-R adapter, then a Leica-R to FourThirds adapter onto an Olympus E-330 camera! The recently completed outdoor mural by local artist, Duane Flatmo, makes the back of the Arkley Center as impressive as the front. With a 35mm equivalent focal length of 500mm on the FourThirds camera, this would have been a difficult shot to track from the air without the aid of my Ken-Labs K-6 gyro stabilizer. The Hassey 250mm is a remarkably sharp lens, stopped down here from wide open by only a half-stop. How sweet to be able to use such a formidable artillery piece on the E-330. (Of course the "H" in "Hlympad" is silent. . .) Olympus E-330 with Hasselblad 250mm f5.6 at f7, 1/800th, RAW capture at ISO 200 using Ken-Labs K-6 gyro stabilizer.
Another very detailed aerial of Eureka includes a view of the corner of the theater. It was shot with the lens that Leica built for U.S. Navy reconnaissance, the legendary Leica APO-Telyt-R f3.4/180 |
