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Show STUDENT ESSAY David L Simson is a Computer Science student at Massachusetts In- stitute of Technology, class of '86 lust turned 19, he has been a amateur photographer "semi-seriou- s" iiw for four years I : 'JlW?:r& fit ... f .v . hese photos were taken in and near the now unused forts of El Morro and I San Cristobal, in the Old City of San afternoon on an almost uan, Puerto Rico. I was there in the middle-to-lat- e I cloudless February day. was struck by the textures of the walls and the contrasts of the shadows and sunlight. As there were few other people around at the time, the emptiness and the massive stonework suggested good photographic images. I used a 35 millimeter camera with Kodak Plus-- Pan film at 100 ASA, to give contrast. Most of these were shot with a 28 mm wide-angl- e lens, a few were with a standard 50 mm lens. I also experimented with yellow and orange filters, primarily to darken the sky because the walls were so bright. The results pleased me very much. single-lens-refl- 14 f a I I I w i n t e & r 1984 break ex X |
