squish
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Post by squish on Apr 3, 2017 14:07:53 GMT -8
Greetings...
New to forum but long time lurker..
I was NAUI certified in December 1980. Checked out in the murky New England waters during light snow a week before Christmas, and still dive the same gear; steel 72 w/j-valve (free air for life from New England Divers), DA Aquamaster, horse collar bc (when I think I might need it), unknown 1/4" sharkskin beaver tail wetsuit (way past it's usefulness!), idi power fins.........
Over the years I have seen the dive gear change but I never saw the need to follow suit. My gear has served me well and I am sure it will continue to do so (well...maybe not the wetsuit)
This year I finally got a beat up DUI drysuit so maybe repetitive dives will be less exhausting. We'll see.
All my diving is done from the shores of New England...generally solo, and I have no desire to dive tropical (been there, done that, not for me).
Other things: Avid surf fly fisher, black and white film photographer, musician
Looking forward to being part of the conversation!
Ken (aka Squish)
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Post by nikeajax on Apr 3, 2017 14:31:28 GMT -8
Ahoy Ken, welcome aboard matey! JB
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squish
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Post by squish on Apr 3, 2017 15:01:21 GMT -8
Thank you me hearty!
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Post by nikeajax on Apr 3, 2017 16:18:46 GMT -8
Wonderful image BTW! Check out these: hisruin.thehorrordrunx.yuku.com/gallery/slideshow/fid/74587So lad, what kinda camera do ya use then eh? I love the romance of using film, but I like the speed of digital even more. I'm a fine as well as graphic artist, and total Adobe Photoshop-junkie. OK, you'll appreciate this tale: when I was in college, I took a photography class. Being pretty dyslexic of just couldn't figure out the equations needed to get the right focal lengths for the Roliflex-120 I had to use. After I developed and printed my images, which had good composition, the gray-scales were totally off--FUDGE! Being an artist, I took a brush and retouched the gray-scales I would have gotten an F, but my sheer audacity got me a C, as my instructor had never seen that tried, EVER--SNORT! JB
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Post by nikeajax on Apr 3, 2017 16:23:59 GMT -8
OK, that image you showed reminded me of this:
How totally cool would it be to have a skeleton wet suit--yeah-boooyeeee!
JB
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Post by tomcatpc on Apr 3, 2017 22:39:59 GMT -8
Welcome aboard, and it looks like Jay has met yet another kindred spirit! Mark
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squish
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Post by squish on Apr 4, 2017 12:33:44 GMT -8
Wonderful image BTW! Check out these: hisruin.thehorrordrunx.yuku.com/gallery/slideshow/fid/74587So lad, what kinda camera do ya use then eh? I love the romance of using film, but I like the speed of digital even more. I'm a fine as well as graphic artist, and total Adobe Photoshop-junkie. OK, you'll appreciate this tale: when I was in college, I took a photography class. Being pretty dyslexic of just couldn't figure out the equations needed to get the right focal lengths for the Roliflex-120 I had to use. After I developed and printed my images, which had good composition, the gray-scales were totally off--FUDGE! Being an artist, I took a brush and retouched the gray-scales I would have gotten an F, but my sheer audacity got me a C, as my instructor had never seen that tried, EVER--SNORT! JB Nice link! Harkens back to a time when I didn't exist....oh well
We would need a long weekend to dig into my camera collection...but the short version is that my faves are the Welta pre-war German cameras (35 and 120). Built almost as solid as Dacor J valves (almost)
My studio camera is a Rochester Optical glass plate camera from the 1890's that I converted to take 4x5 sheet film.
Nikonos II for under the sea.
Hand toning a print was the best thing you could have done. I'm not a Photoshop guy but prefer to get my hands into and onto everything. Hand toning, touching up, altering....all goes way back before the advent of the light bulb. Nothing against the technology...it's pretty darn amazing, just not my thing. I prefer stumbling around in a darkroom with a slippery wet floor and acetic acid vapors filling my sinuses.
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squish
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Post by squish on Apr 4, 2017 12:38:12 GMT -8
OK, that image you showed reminded me of this: How totally cool would it be to have a skeleton wet suit--yeah-boooyeeee! JB That's way cool!
I'm surprised the surfers didn't come up with the skeleton wetsuit idea.. wish I did...but then again, all the white neoprene was used up in the 80's so I guess we'll have to dream about it.
Try this on for size when you have an hour and two minutes to spare:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iS4We4MDheg
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squish
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Post by squish on Apr 4, 2017 13:04:19 GMT -8
Welcome aboard, and it looks like Jay has met yet another kindred spirit! Mark Thank you Mark!
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Post by nikeajax on Apr 4, 2017 13:24:22 GMT -8
I prefer stumbling around in a darkroom with a slippery wet floor and acetic acid vapors filling my sinuses. SNORT! I hear ya bruddah, but with a digital, I can rip a photo to shreds in Photoshop to create a sketch for a painting... This really isn't as easy as it may sound either. It sounds like you're as big a hopeless romantic as I am... my wife and I love just about anything old: That was my mom's camera BTW! Our kitchen.... MY sewing machine, was my mom's too, sewed my wife's wedding dress on it... Oh and please notice all the push-button light switches JB
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Post by nikeajax on Apr 4, 2017 13:36:33 GMT -8
Oh, and I was thinking: if you used a black horse-collar BC, you could put some nice white ribs and sternum on that so that it wouldn't be all covered up with your straps!
JB
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squish
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Post by squish on Apr 4, 2017 13:48:04 GMT -8
I prefer stumbling around in a darkroom with a slippery wet floor and acetic acid vapors filling my sinuses. SNORT! I hear ya bruddah, but with a digital, I can rip a photo to shreds in Photoshop to create a sketch for a painting... This really isn't as easy as it may sound either. It sounds like you're as big a hopeless romantic as I am... my wife and I love just about anything old: That was my mom's camera BTW! Our kitchen.... MY sewing machine, was my mom's too, sewed my wife's wedding dress on it... Oh and please notice all the push-button light switches JB Fabulous stuff you've got there! My wife and I are the same....sewing machine..check..push button light switches...check...antique fan with fabric coated wire...check....killer enamel stove....nope.
We also pound together industrial furniture from black ion pipe and whatever else we can find. A good blend of authentic antique and hipster industrial chic.
Did you find that painting at a yard sale then dressed to look like it?? Kidding! Just foolin'! I wouldn't know where to begin with any of that...
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squish
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Post by squish on Apr 4, 2017 13:52:00 GMT -8
Oh yeah....great idea with the rib cage horse collar. I happen to have an old black one to spare...I'm going for it this weekend
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Post by tomcatpc on Apr 4, 2017 14:52:10 GMT -8
Jay, love the Woolrich (or other maker) hunting coat! One of the things I hope to find someday. I think they are still being made? I'll take that jacket over the modern camouflage anyday! Mark
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Post by nikeajax on Apr 4, 2017 15:13:43 GMT -8
Mark, yep, it's a Woolrich alright: evidently, they are referred to as a "Pennsylvania tuxedo" out in Ken's neck of he woods... My wife got it for me, we call it my Elmer Fudd-suit Ken, would you post an image if you can--please, don't make me grovel, cuz you know I will... JB
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