Atlanta, Georgia POTN'ers

Hello to all old and new.

I've got my 1D Mark IV up for sale if anyone is interested.

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CameraMan wrote in post #13339409
I'm in the Thomaston area. I just finished a personal project shooting old dilapidated structures. It was a very cool project. I made a book (via Kodak) and it sits in my living room. I would love to make several project books.

I too would like to look for rusted stuff. I have a pretty decent start with a couple of old cars and a tractor. I also got one of an old earth mover that turned out pretty good. I just drive around and if I see something I can get to with out getting into trouble I'll get a few pictures of it. I'm not sure how that would work with someone tagging along... taking photos of the same thing.

Basically, I fill up the car and drive around these long, curvy country roads looking for stuff to shoot. That's how I got onto the whole dilapidated buildings thing. I saw a couple buildings that were ready to fall down, got some pictures of them and found that there were many many more buildings like this in my area. So I made it into my own personal project. I tried not to get shots of anything that people might be living in. It had to be non occupy-able.

Set some goals and when you go out you'll have a ball when you start finding stuff to shoot.

Good Luck Celticclover13! And HAVE FUN!!! That's what it's all about!

Thanks

Ok, it's been too quiet in here. I got the Nifty 50 from the "Where's Nifty 2" thread. Posting a few here, hoping I represented the state well!

Well, I've been having some fun with Steel Wool recently...

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Ahhh!! The steel wool is awesome! How did you get it to burn? What's the set up, that's so cool!

I used a large size Whisk and attached it to the end of a dog leash (with the clasp). I also bought a package of 0000 steel wool. This is very fine steel wool. You can use the 0 fine steel wool too. Just don't use 1, 2, 3, or 4 because I hear it wont burn very easily. You open up the steel wool a bit and then tear it open so you can make a nice flat sheet of it so that air can flow freely through it. Then you stuff it in the whisk. You can light it with either a lighter or a 9 volt battery (yes, a 9 volt battery can start the steel wool on fire). Then once you get the ambers going start twirling it and it throws off the sparks. Sometimes large chunks fly off so it's a good idea to do this somewhere where you wont start a fire. I sprinkled my lawn for about an hour before I did this so the grass was nice and wet. You can do it after it rains too.

My camera settings were 30 seconds at f9 ISO 200. I found that the 30 seconds was a bit long because by the time the steel wool burned out there was still plenty of time on the shutter left so 15 - 20 seconds would work I think.

I also used a glove so as not to tear my hand apart twirling the leash. I still ended up with a little blister on one of my fingers.

I'm in the Woodstock/Kennesaw/Mar​ietta area!

Hey Shutterbug Doug-

I'm in NC (hence my forum name!) but my in laws live in Jefferson. Been married to my Gawja Peach for 16 years now! I'm down 5-6 times a year.

I'll be shooting a wedding in Colbert in late January.

I love the area-might retire there one day...

Any good camera shops in the area? All I know of is the Wolf Camera (or Ritz...can't recall right now) in the little shopping center in Athens (at Alps and Baxter)...

David from NC wrote in post #13613447
Hey Shutterbug Doug-

I'm in NC (hence my forum name!) but my in laws live in Jefferson. Been married to my Gawja Peach for 16 years now! I'm down 5-6 times a year.

I'll be shooting a wedding in Colbert in late January.

I love the area-might retire there one day...

Any good camera shops in the area? All I know of is the Wolf Camera (or Ritz...can't recall right now) in the little shopping center in Athens (at Alps and Baxter)...

Yeah, that's all that's in the immediate area. Other shops in Atlanta, Alpharetta and Decatur(?) I think. I buy and rent online and ship to Canon and other manufacturers if I need repairs.
I'm an original Tarheel myself (Gibsonville) and want to move to Bryson City, or Highlands, NC to retire! Next time you're in the Colbert area you should drive up and shoot the old covered bridge at Watson Mill State Park, if you haven't already. Maybe even a brief side trip(probably 2 hours with stopping and shooting from 85) to Toccoa, GA to the bible college there and shoot Toccoa Falls.

Me playing with fire... thanks to Cameraman!

Pretty fun huh?

Please count me in if you guys setup any POTN activities in the Atlanta area.

I've been around the forum awhile but just found this thread. I live in Buckhead, the real Buckhead, not Atlanta.

CameraMan wrote in post #13619543
Pretty fun huh?

It was a blast! I only did 2 loads just as a test run, I'm probably going back tonight and do more! They've been all the rage on my Facebook this morning.
I'm thinking about setting my camera up inside the center with me and putting my fisheye on just to see what happens.

Shot this one with a flashlight just as a test, pretty neat too!