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Mardale Head
My first foray into large format...
Direct Positive
MPP Micro Technical VII 4x5
Schneider Kreuznach Angulon 90mm f/6.8
Yellow filter
f/22 4'00" extended to 14'00"
Metered for highlights and adjusted during exposure for fading light, paying attention to maintaining foreground at -2.
Harman Direct Positive paper (ISO3)
Developed in Caffenol Delta modified - 30g/L Sodium Carb.
20C 4'30" (200ml; sheet 1 of 4)
Selenium toned (Bellini) 1+30 3'30" ~20C
This is my first outing with the 4x5. It was late, the sun already below the landscape when I arrived but I was determined to get one exposure that day with the new camera.
Quite a few mistakes/difficulties - I forgot to pre-flash the paper. Framing the shot in relative darkness was a bit of a guess. I then forgot to drop the bed before making the exposure with the 90mm, so the rails are just in shot (though far less intrusive than I expected actually). It was rapidly getting dark so I had to keep extending the time whilst taking the picture to compensate for the fading light - almost 3 stops during the exposure - I just tried to keep the foreground/shadows exposed at around -2, checking the light meter as it went. 4 minutes turned into 14 minutes by the end.
With about 3 stops of latitude available in the paper (usually with pre-flashing), quite fortunate to get an image out of this I think.
Mardale Head
My first foray into large format...
Direct Positive
MPP Micro Technical VII 4x5
Schneider Kreuznach Angulon 90mm f/6.8
Yellow filter
f/22 4'00" extended to 14'00"
Metered for highlights and adjusted during exposure for fading light, paying attention to maintaining foreground at -2.
Harman Direct Positive paper (ISO3)
Developed in Caffenol Delta modified - 30g/L Sodium Carb.
20C 4'30" (200ml; sheet 1 of 4)
Selenium toned (Bellini) 1+30 3'30" ~20C
This is my first outing with the 4x5. It was late, the sun already below the landscape when I arrived but I was determined to get one exposure that day with the new camera.
Quite a few mistakes/difficulties - I forgot to pre-flash the paper. Framing the shot in relative darkness was a bit of a guess. I then forgot to drop the bed before making the exposure with the 90mm, so the rails are just in shot (though far less intrusive than I expected actually). It was rapidly getting dark so I had to keep extending the time whilst taking the picture to compensate for the fading light - almost 3 stops during the exposure - I just tried to keep the foreground/shadows exposed at around -2, checking the light meter as it went. 4 minutes turned into 14 minutes by the end.
With about 3 stops of latitude available in the paper (usually with pre-flashing), quite fortunate to get an image out of this I think.