New Casey graphic!

A different picture from the pink shoot, amped up quite a bit in Photoshop. Most of the stuff from this shoot was pretty severely overexposed- I had just gotten my White Lightning setup and hadn't quiiite got a handle on it yet. To get this look I used the shadow/highlight and exposure adjustments in PS CS2. I also had to fill in the background because my seamless paper wasn't wide enough.

Slapping together a portfolio.

These are the finalists. I should probably cut 10-13 of these. Here's a shot of Andrea Niemic. I think this is T400CN- that's what I use for more critical stuff because it's really easy to handle.

We're doing a series of shots with each member of Red Venus Love Army in beret and some goggles we found on the ground. This is from one of the test rolls.  I think I used Arista 400, which if repackaged Fomapan. I usually push my 400 speed BW to 1600.

While we're on the subject, here are my impressions of some of the different BW films pushed 2 stops:
Ilford HP5: looks lovely, nice grain and contrast. I use HP5 for all my serious stuff.
Kodak TMY: looks crappy, pulpy-looking grain, contrast out of control- highlights blown massively, shadows blocked up. 
Fortepan: Not great- seemed to get a weird sooty look and the highlights tended to blow.
Fomapan: pretty good, maybe not as pretty as the HP5. I get this repackaged as Arista for practice/experimental stuff, because it's cheap. 
Neopan 400: I like it a lot- maybe more contrasty and grainy than the HP5, but not out of control. I would use a lot more of this, except I like the HP5 more, and I want to limit the number of films I use. 

Take all this with a grain of salt- in the darkroom I don't have the strictest tolerances in the world, so maybe the bad results are due to sloppiness.

I did some band photos of my friend Mary Sue Tobin's band Paxselin. This one is nice but will probably be cut because Ken and Chad chose to show up to the shoot in such frumpy looking clothing. 

Here's Casey just before our trip to Rome, shot with the Diana and some cross-processed Fuji slide film.  

Casey by the fountain in the Piazza Della Reppublica in Rome, again with the Diana, Fuji Provia cross-processed.  

Another Diana shot, from Toby Koenigsberg's shoot. This is the drummer, Jason Palmer. Cross-processed Provia again- Diana was on 'b' and I underexposed quite a bit.  

A shot of Jeffrey, violinist for RVLA. This shot's for the inside of the CD booklet. 

Another RVLA booklet shot. This is John, the trumpet player. 

Sam, RVLA's cellist. One of the more colorful shots from his beret shoot. 

Nathan, RVLA's keyboard player and producer of the record. Also music czar at Monolith games. He did the music for No One Lives Forever 2 and F.E.A.R, among many others. 

Paul, lead singer for Portland band Intervision 5. Cross-processed Provia shot through the now sold-off Fuji GA-645.  

I asked Nate to make a face like he was really wailing on his old Prophet. Not exactly what I had in mind but I like it. 

Casey with her brother's Gibson SG. From the pink shoot. 

Casey plays the guitar. T400CN through the Holga with bounce flash using crappy old Sunpak flash. 

From a shoot with the singer McKinley for her album "Goner". I had no idea what I was doing and shot a ton of film with Lomo, Lubitel, Fed Micron and Minolta SRT. I thought this was the shot, but McKinley didn't like it. 

This man is one of the current leading gypsy jazz guys- his name escapes me at the moment. This is from a show in Portland organized by Pete Krebs. The other fellow is a member of Pearl Django, a Seattle group. Here I made the mistake of pushing TMY to 1600, but the shot came out nicely anyway. 

Saxophonist Bob Mover at Mississippi Studios. Got this with the Lomo. This is an old favorite shot of mine, but I'll probably cut it from the portfolio. 

Chad, clarinetist for Paxselin at one of their shows at the Red & Black cafe. Neopan 1600 with the OM-1. 

More Chad. This is one of a nice series of 3 similar photos. Kind of an oddball picture for enticing people to me money to make them look good. 

Mark Turner plays with Matt Jorgensen's group on Origin Record's Ballard Jazz Walk this month. 

Something from Tera's beret shoot.  

The Upper Left Trio used this shot for their CD cover. 

Another one from Nate's RVLA shoot. 

How-lee crap.

Another year bites the dust. I've been so swamped with shooting, processing and scanning that the last thing I want to do is post, yet post I must. Here goes...