nice rides

Saturday morning found me and my Foth Derby at a motorcycle swap meet near the railroad tracks on Central Avenue.

One block to the west was a long line of low riders, most on trailers, waiting to get into a car show at the Convention Center.

The overcast sky was a challenge for the expired Portra 160.  I lowered the shutter speed to 1/50, but most of the shots were still a bit under-exposed at f9.0.  I knew that would be the case, but a wider aperture would have given too little depth of focus for the subject.  I had to do some fancy PhotoShop work to get acceptable color and contrast, with variable results.

I'm mostly happy with interesting results from the expired bulk Portra 160, but it would be a nice change of pace to shoot some higher speed black and white film which would be better suited to the camera and its rather sharp Foth Anastigmat lens.  I'm trying to talk myself into making some sort of film splitter to produce 127-size film from 120 roll film.