"Be Sure to Get My Good Side!" Renaissance Faire - June 17, 1995 - Shot on Film

            I was really lucky to get this shot. The knight was riding closer to me, filling up the frame as I still had my 200mm lens. I followed focus with my left hand, holding the camera with my right, pushing down the shutter release with my right index finger at what we could see was the right moment. I say I was lucky, because the knight had turned his horse around to be ready for the next jousting match. Not only that, I was out of film. This was my last photo on the roll of negative film.

I'm glad I waited to catch the jousting in the late afternoon. The light was perfect in catching the armor and the scenery (what one can see of it here).

This photo was taken in 1995, when the Renaissance Faire was still located at Glen Helen Regional Park in San Bernadino County, located just south of where the 15 and the 215 freeways merge. It was a much further drive, but I liked the location and the atmosphere. I really felt I had gone back in time.

One of these days I'll go back and scan the entire roll of negative, not just two selected slides. Back then the reenactors stayed in period, not venturing into cosplay with steampunk or 18th century pirates.

This photo was taken with my Vivitar 400 S/L camera, with the Vivitar 200mm lens. I used for my film Eastman Kodak 5294 motion picture stock, rated at ASA 100, using a No. 85 filter to compensate for daylight color temperature. However, when RGB first processed this negative and printed slides from it they may have accidentally "corrected" the film in printing. Everything looked warmer in the slides than was necessary. In a way, that was fine, as I like warmer color temperatures for period photos, such as the Renaissance Faire.

The slide was scanned at Samy's Camera in Pasadena. I did some slight color correction on both Lightroom and Photoshop Express. I didn't want to "correct" the colors too much, wanting to maintain the warmer tones, but taken it down a notch or two.

I couldn't even begin to guess what my shutter speed was or my f/stop, as the ASA of the film was 64, due to the No. 85 filter in front of the lens.

But I got the shot, and that's all that matters.

Taken on: June 17, 1995

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