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Cambo 4x5 with Schneider Apo-Symmar 210mm. Fuji Velvia 50 f/45 1/2 s. E-6 by North Coast Photo Lab. Scanned with Epson V750.
MagnoliaWide, 4/26/09, 12:46 PM, 8C, 6000x8000 (0+0), 100%, NicolbyCurve, 1/8, R271, G135, B396,
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Bishop, CA - 2020
Another attempt in the evening with the large format camera, still a lot to learn.
Kodak Portra 400
Wista VF 4x5
I need to check my notes to provide data on the exposure and printing. I did this a while back and had not gotten around to scanning the print until yesterday. I have a pot of these lilies on my balcony and they bloom every early summer. I had assumed the plant would produce a constant supply of flowers through the summer but it usually wilts shorty after it blooms and does not revive until the next year. Thus, they have become a subject I photograph once a year with a time window of a few days. I have gradually become comfortable with complex compositions of multiple blossoms rather than just one or two. Although I push the stalks a little to improve the arrangement, they are not cuttings and are mostly in the way they have grown.
Camera: Cambo SC
Lens: Rodenstock Sironar 210mm f5.6
Film: Fomapan 200 in Df96
Scan: Epson V850
Light: Gridded stripbox on the background, gridded stripbox on the model. Elinchrom strobes + skyport.
Camera: Ondu 4x5 large format pinhole camera
Film: Bergger Pancro 400 4x5 large formatnöack and white negative film
Exposure: 5 seconds
Developing: Developed at home in Rodinal in a Stearman Press developing tank
Scanner: Epson Perfection V700
All the way back in February this year, I saw a local woman, dark-skinned, hair wrapped, riding her bike around town. Her face was so full of the grit that she had eaten in her life, and it seemed to me that her worn soul was close to the surface through sheer vulnerability of poverty, age and adverse experience. I saw her another time as I was driving and she waved and smiled at me like a carefree 12 year old girl. I so wanted to photograph this woman, then Covid and lockdown happened, and social distancing put any chance of finding her or approaching her for a portrait out of reach. Last weekend, I saw her wobbling her way through town on her bicycle and followed her into a side road and spoke to her. She was surprisingly open and friendly and willing to have her photograph taken, and asked if I could give her $5 for food, bless her. Before taking any photographs, I showed her prints of the local people portraits I had taken, and she knew them all and was even related to one (she is Cally's half sister). We talked about life, survival and the value of human connection. In these images, you see the authentic, hard-bitten, 'I'm still here' face of this lady who has suffered untold trials and indignities in her life. After the photographs were taken and we were chatting as I was packing away and I'd given her a modest cash thank you, she said that she had never been treated like she mattered before, and that while she was grateful for the money, that wasn't why she was happy - she said that she felt that she had been alone with another person and god for the first time and that it was a dream, a dream. She then told me it was her birthday that very day, that she was 61, having been born on 25 November 1959, and she said, with a proud flourish, 'my name is Anna - Anna Walker', and for a moment, she was that 12 year old girl again.
It is staggering that people are deprived of the basic human needs of being seen, understood and valued. It is horrendous that poor women in minority groups in particular get treated as if they are there to be used and abused, that they are less than human and, heart-wrenchingly, that 30 minutes of open conversation with a stranger can be a highlight of a period of years or even a life. It is absurd, tragic and a terrible indictment of the practices, priorities and pernicious attitudes that prevail in our world. But it is also a reason for hope, because if one person can with so little time and effort make another feel so profoundly different then 'the sources for human happiness on this planet are almost inexhaustible, aren't they' (see clip below)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdQKhEnVfeE
Thank you, Anna Walker.
Toyo View D45M
Rodenstock Sironar-N 210mm f/5.6
Ilford Delta 100 in Ilfotec DDX
Strobist info:
WL X1600 with large softbox camera right for key
WL X800 with large umbrella camera left for fill
WL X1600 with 10 degree grid camera left pointed directly at face
This was the photo I made using a 4x5 camera I built from a kit purchased from Calumet, back in the early 1980s. The kit included a 150mm lens, 6 film holders ( that I still use), a loupe ( that I still use to this day) and a dark cloth.
Toyo View 4x5, Polaroid Type 56, Wollensak Verito 11" variable soft focus lens at f/6, "digitised" with M8, 90/4 Macro-Elmar + Macro Adapter M, ISO 640, 1/45@ f/4 , custom WB.
still working on this project
[update December 2013} I've published a book about this series with The Velvet Cell: thevelvetcell.com/rearwindow.php
During quarantine I've been walking a tremendous amount and noticing things around town. I've started to photograph them.
1891 Rochester Optical Company Universal - G-Claron (Dagor Type) 210mm - f/45 - Fomapan 100 - 4x5 Film - HC 110 1+100 - Unaltered Negative Scan
Camera: Toyo Field 45A
Lens: Fujinon-W 180mm f:5.6 (yellow filter)
Exposure: 1/8 @ F/32
Film: Foma Fomapan 100 Classic 4x5" hand developed in Xtol Replenished
This is the second shot I took - the initial one had a figure at the vanishing point. The first I had set up, ready to go, and a woman and her little mutt walked right into my tripod and got the leash tangled AS I WAS FIRING THE SHUTTER. It was hard enough to try to accommodate the lighting conditions, timing and then deal with errant pets and people sneaking up behind me. At the end, just had to laugh it off.
Shot on 4x5 Kodak Ektar 100, Nikkor 90mm f/4.5 at f/32 for about 4 minutes (!), Lee polarizing filter
The hike to Grotto Falls is actually the first 1.3 miles of the Trillium Gap Trail in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park which takes you up to the top of Mount LeConte. On certain days (I think 2 or 3 times a week), you can catch the llama train running supplies up to LeConte Lodge at the top of the mountain, which is a fantastic photo op as long as you’re not using a 4x5 view camera with slow film. I was fortunate enough to beat them to the trail this particular morning and had time to set up this shot behind the falls before they came through. This is a very busy trail and if you want to have some peace and quiet around the falls, your best bet is to hit the trail just before sunrise. I did that and had it all to myself for about an hour before other folks started showing up.
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NOT a scientific test, but more of an exploration of the camera choices I have, and which creates the sharpest image. I placed all 5 cameras on a tripod the same distance from my bookcase, and made the same exposure on Ilford HP5 film: 1/10th at f8 : developed in Rodinal 1:50 for 13 minutes. The scans are made with an Epson 4990.
I am interested in creating a generally sharp image, but also have preferences for the cameras in certain circumstances.
I will generally use the Speed with the 90mm Angulon in the street, because that is the overall look I like, and the Crown with the 210 Sinar S for studio portraits when I want to capture every wrinkle.
The Graflex is enjoyable in the street as I am able to approach strangers and entertain them as "the old guy with the ancient camera" and the background of the photos look very soft and dreamy.