Last week I went to the Antique Music Festival in Greenwich with my trusty K1000...unfortunately I had loaded it with some Portra160, not 400, big mistake because the Naval College was a pretty dark environment, however I tried to do my best:
Baroque violin, Amati or Stradivari model. I liked it because you don't see baroque violins very often, taken at f2.0 and 1/30...as usual the lab cut the scroll but I assure the Pentaxians the composition on the negative is spot on.
I do like this pic: it's a spinet and the lady is the maker of the instrument. Still, taken at f2.0 and 1/30.
Recorders and flutes are difficult to shoot for me because they're long and narrow, in this case there are two Bressan trebles and in the foreground two descants, one is a terton, the other I don't know...still according to the lightmeter this pic was also underexposed.
Here I was trying to take a pic of the fair AND the beautiful room of the College...I must return there with a wider lens and faster film.
I took inspiration from this shot from the various still lifes of the Renaissance and Baroque era, like this one:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bartolomeo_Bettera_-_Still_Life_with_...struments_.jpg
Unfortunately when I had to shot the maker decided to move his arm into my viewfinder...I should crop the image but I haven't...I'm sorry I had to cut the candelabrum but I coulndn't make it fit in the composition.
Main square of the Naval College: outside the murky weather ruined my pics, and I wish I had a 40 mm for this shot.
I could take some shots inside the riverbed...this one could be entitled "Desolation".