Album: Black and White Exhibit
Black & white film produces striking, stark, moody pictures that provide the viewer with the passion and emotion that the photographer intended. Lighting and contrast become very important because they can be used dramatically in composition and content of the photography. Black and white film, developing and printing can be done in your home. It is an inexpensive way to begin in photography. Color photography and printing can be very expensive. Learn and make your mistakes in black and white. It's cheaper than color. Learn to "see" light and "feel" the proper exposure. The light meter is only a mini computer and it can be fooled giving you the wrong reading. Bright light is always f16 over 1/ISO everywhere in the world. Choose a film and use it for months. Learn everything about when it works best and when it doesn't. How it handles shadow detail as well as the high lights. Study each film's grain pattern. Learn "pushing" and "pulling" film in shooting and developing. Minardi pushes Kodak TMZ 3200 to 50,000 ISO to shoot night games for the NFL. This allows greater depth of field, high shutter speeds to stop the action, and good shadow detail at night. Please enjoy the feeling and mood of these black & white photographs.

Album: Sepia Exhibit
This historic sepia toned photography exhibit features images of the south shot on infared black and white film. Mr. Minardi fell in love with the noticeable grain pattern that is inherent with this Kodak film. The light brown sepia tone color is added after the black and white photograph is been printed, fixed and washed. When shooting with black and white infrared, the film must be kept in total darkness from the time when you take the film cassette out of the container, through the process of loading and unloading your camera, and until you are finished developing the film. This means carrying a portable darkroom around with you, but the result is worth the trouble. There is nothing quite like the look. A red filter is always recommended on the lens to enhance the film's characteristics and eliminate ultraviolet light. There is also a focus shift adjustment because the wave length of infared light is different than white light. Most lenses have a red dot next to the focusing mark indicating the proper infared focus point. The shutter apperature and light meter are not affected by this infared Kodak film. Remember the red filter absorbs two stops fo light if you are using a hand meter. You must really test what ISO (ASA) that works best for you. Try ISO 100 to start. These photographs were shot in 1976 and they record cameos of southern living in the USA. The photographs were then toned in sepia dye for an antique appearance and exotic experience.

Album: Nikon House
The prestigious Nikon House at Rockefeller Center was the premiere photography gallery in the world. It was a famous landmark for many years, but it has since closed and no longer exists. This exhibit is extra special because it has been recreated on the web so that you can visit it today. Nikon, Inc. invited photography pioneer, Michael Minardi, to introduce to the world laser enhanced digital photography with a one-man show in New York at the Nikon House. This new photography technique enabled Minardi to achieve a level of expression similar to that of an artist working with palette and brush. The digital photographs are a new art form. The photographs appear to be electronic serigraphs, some with over 28 distinct colors. Another uniqueness to this photo process is that images are produced non optically by the computer. The original slide is scanned by a laser and each molecule of the original film is assigned 3 bytes of information. Minardi used this information to achieve the desired colors. Then the computer makes a master 2 1/2 x 3 3/4 inch color negative without the use of light. The art prints are then made on Kodak color paper from these exceptional negatives. The Flamingo was selected from 25,000 entries to win the 1985 coveted Print magazine's regional design annual color award. An international airline company sent Minardi all over South America to produce one laser art photograph for each of their destinations. The assignment took 3 years of photographing Panama, Columbia, Chile, Peru, and Argentina. The photographs in this exhibit are some of the first digital photographs ever to be created. We hope you enjoy the photography and we hope you enjoy our recreation of the Nikon House Gallery.

Album: 3d Stereoscopic Exhibit
Click a thumbnail to see a pair of Stereoscopic images "on the wall". If you are not familiar with stereo images, see the instructions at the bottom of this page before preceding. Do you see any familiar faces in the following pictures?