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Properly digitised. Exposed quite soon after sensitiser application - enhanced brown look. If I left it to dry longer but then humidified it I think it would look slightly more like a silver gelatin print.
This was from a negative exposed for scanning not argyrotype but there's plenty of density. At some point I'll do a comparison of scenes shot as doubles to see what exactly the differences are when processed as argyrotypes in the same way.
Day off from the 383/384...
As the sun sets on another day, the one-time Wilts & Dorset 3318 Dennis Dart/Plaxton Pointer MPD HW54BTZ, now with Trustybus is seen on Riverside in Bishops Stortford with a Route 7A service for Stansted Airport 29/11/18
Great Coxwell Barn, Oxfordshire
28th May 2019, 8:15pm
Chamonix 810V with bag bellows and Lee wide-angle lens hood
Nikkor-SW 150mm f/8
Ilford FP4+ 8x10
30” f/32
22mm front rise
Lower part of main left door frame metered at -3, N-2 development indicated.
Home-developed with Pyrocat HD 2:2:100/BTZS tubes, 7mins 17secs.
Scanned as positive with Epson V850/Silverfast AiStudio8 (16bit, 1600ppi, film delicately taped to diy silicone mat), inverted and toned gently in Photoshop.
Piper Aircraft Corp PA-31-350 Chieftain msn31-77552031 de 1976
Pixair Survey s.a.s. (2013/...)
aéroport Avignon Provence
07/07/2021
SE-GPM, OY-BTZ, F-HODB.
Signal and Depot - Genoa, IL
*Sigh* Proof that I really need to devote more time to large format. A shot that's been waiting for development for longer than I care to admit and one that I was excited about when I captured it but am decidedly less so after finally seeing the negative.
I had to make a lot of corrections in post processing, each of which told me that every aspect of my large format game needs a lot of work, from capture to processing to scanning (and I'm not even going to try printing this one).
Oh well, if it was easy, everybody would be doing it, right?
Anyways, this is along the former Illinois Central Railroad (now Canadian National) in Genoa, Illinois. According to Jim Boyd in "Illinois Central: Monday Mornin' Rails," the depot is a replacement that was built in 1942. I'm not sure when it last saw service but northern Illinois weather has certainly started to take a toll on this simple but beautiful building.
Korona 8x10
Kodak 12" f6.3 Commercial Ektar
Ilford HP5+ developed in Rodinal 1:25 in BTZS Tubes
"Scanned" with Nikon D800 and Micro-Nikkor 55mm f3.5
Dairy at Chatham Manor taken with Busch Pressman Model D with 150mm Fujinon lens on Arista.EDU 100 4x5 film, developed with BTZS tubes and Freestyle Ascorbic Acid Film Developer. Printed on Arista.EDU FB VC photo paper.
20200922BPD4x5-2_8x10
Line Number : 761
Original Delivery : May 8th - 1981 as G-OSLA to Britannia Airways.
Aircraft History :
08/05/1981 Britannia Airways G-OSLA
22/11/1983 America West Airlines N134AW
08/03/1988 Britannia Airways EI-BTZ
13/12/1988 British Airways G-IBTZ
01/04/1989 Caledonian Airways G-IBTZ (seen here)
01/02/1990 GB Airways G-IBTZ
27/03/1992 GPA EI-BTZ
30/05/1992 East West Airlines VT-EWC lsd GPA
01/01/1997 Sahara India Airlines VT-EWC
16/07/1999 FSB N576DF
27/06/2001 Merpati PK-MBJ
©737 First-Generation Kodachrome Collection
The third exposure made on first outing with new Chamonix 8x10.
A test shot, primarily: will want to return when crops are fully grown in any case.
14th April 2019 1:40pm
Chamonix 810V
Nikkor-SW 150 f/8
Ilford FP4+ 8x10
1/15” f/22
11º down angle from level on Arca Cube head, about 1º extra front tilt, rear tilt back to vertical – equates to large amount of front fall and front tilt
Wheat crop metered about half a stop below 0, N development, home-developed with Pyrocat HD 2:2:100/BTZS tubes, 10mins 30secs (my ballpark figure for a dev time that will also suit most alt-pro contacting printing).
Bit of vignetting cropped out from corners in sky – not very surprising given implied movements.
1) Scanned this one at 2400ppi. Clear that, for my 15inch MacBook Pro with 16GB Ram, a Grayscale file of at least 1.5GB is too large, esp. if I then convert to RGB for toning... Reverting now to 1600ppi max.
Two faults that were obvious on screen at full size, if not in detail on ground glass at x4:
2)
f/22 is not sufficient depth of field to provide proper sharpness to tree in background. I was concentrating more on wind and shutter speed, but f/22 looked fine.
3)
sky almost uniformly grey. Lots of editing in Photoshop including via platinum toning to get sky contrasty. Should have used my yellow/orange filter, still with my 5x4 kit. This would, though, have heavily affected the shutter speed, of course.
Exposure and development, however, still clearly otherwise fine I think. But if I'm making exposures for contact printing as well as for scanning, I need to get my filtration etc. spot on all the time.
On a very positive note, however, 8x10 has not been, on the basis of four sheets so far, the dust spots/scratches nightmare that I had feared. For this exposure I didn't even bother despotting it. On the next sheet this was far less time-consuming than usual with 5x4 or 120.
Followers of my photostream will know the Southeast Steam Plant in Minneapolis is one of my favorite photographic subjects. It’s appropriate then that it be one of my first large format photographs.
If you look closely in the bright areas, such as the windows, you will see a double image. The camera wasn’t on the sturdiest platform and I must have nudged it when I was beginning or ending the exposure. The darker parts of the image are fine since it was a 5-minute exposure.
Abingdon Old Cemetery, Oxfordshire
29th July 2019
4:47pm
Chamonix 810V
Nikkor-SW 150 f/8
Ilford FP4+ 8x10
huge amount of front rise (perhaps 55mm)
1/15 f/22 (overexposed by at least a stop for some reason, wasn't thinking!)
N+1 development, BTZS tubes, Pyrocat HD 2:2:100, 12’17”, 22ºC
Acetic acid stop, TF-4 Fix, Hypoclear, 30min wash
Needed tripod at full height and a small folding footstool for this one. Massive amount of front rise needed to get this, very doubtful if you could do this without a view camera of some kind (a tilt-shift on 35mm wouldn't work I don't think, and it would look very weird anyway).
Arriva London South VLA149 LJ55 BTZ works route 159 in Brixton Road, Brixton on Monday 24th March 2014. DSCN27982.
Volvo B7TL-AD ALX400 10.1m.
The crosshead for the right cylinder of the Georgetown Loop Railroad's locomotive #12. This locomotive originally was used in Hawaii.
Burke and James 4x5 Grover
Schneider Kreuznach 150mm f5.6 Convertible Symmar
Efke 25
Developed in BTZS tubes with Rodinal
Digitized with D800 and Negative Lab Pro
Chamonix 45n-2
4x5 Fuji Acros
180mm Zeiss Tessar @f/16 for 1 second
Rodinal 1:25 constant agitation for 5 minutes.
Fokker F.27-300 Friendship
cn: 10186
ff: 18-09-1961 at Schipol
11-1961 D-BAKU LTU
1967 PH-FSG Luxair (leased for 8 montsh)
11-1967 D-BAKU LTU (returned)
In 1968 D-BAKU flw 6 months on lease for Sobelair
05-1969 PH-FSG Fokker (returned)
08-1970 VH-MMB Ansett MMA
03-1971 VH-MMB East-West Aiorlines tfd
18-09-1978 LN-NOH AirExecutive Norway
09-1980 LN-NPH Busy Bee of Norway tfd
1982 LN-NPH repainted to Busy Bee colours as seen on this photo 4 year later.
Note smaller titles over the freighter door.
12-1987 PH-SFE Schreiner Airways
01-1993 ST-AWA Air West Company
23-03-1993 ST-AWA was written off in Ethiopia due to an emergency landing after running out of fuel...
Seen parked on a wet day, Muk Air Navajo OY-BTZ seen behind
Scanned from original negative film
Volvo B7 LJ55 BTZ (Arriva North East 7421 // Former Arriva London VLA149) passes with a X46 for Crook
Stockholm Arlanda 1988-04-09
737-2U4 c/n 22576
Registrations used by this airframe: G-OSLA, N134AW, EI-BTZ, G-IBTZ, VT-EWC, N576DF, PK-MBJ
4x5 negative with 7 1/4" verito brass barrel lens, stopped down to f/16, 2min exposure with 10 stop ND filter. Developed in pyrocat-HD for 11min 9secs
Скажите, зачем Вы выбрали именно маленький велосипед. - Несмышленый друг, маленький велосипед для девушки - это как высокие каблуки. Если Вы понимаете - о чем я.
2nd Historic Bike Ride 2014 (07 June)
Второй Исторический Велопробег 2014 (07 июня)
Web site of Event / Веб сайт мероприятия
Event Report / Отчет о мероприятии
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23rd August 2019 11:00am
Chamonix 810V
Nikkor-W 300 f/5.6
Ilford FP4+ 8x10
33” f/22
450mm bellows
large amount of front tilt, front shift for composition
N+1 development for Argyrotype, BTZS tubes, Pyrocat HD 2:2:100, 20’48”, 21ºC
Acetic acid stop, TF-4 Fix, Hypoclear, 30min wash
Wright Gemini 2DL lowheight AY05 MAX was originally YJ59 BTZ before refurbishment to MAX spec a few years ago. Today this is one of Arriva's vehicle output on the 197 races shuttle service being run on behalf of York Pullman and is near the rail station passing by a Sapphire-spec E400 also on the 197
- mr. Photographer, Can't you observe that yous shots are too static! You are more into shooting dead, you know...
- Whatever, baby! Just neither move nor breathe!
2nd Historic Bike Ride 2014 (07 June)
Второй Исторический Велопробег 2014 (07 июня)
Web site of Event / Веб сайт мероприятия
Event Report / Отчет о мероприятии
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A quiet and peaceful place
Asham Meads BBOWT, Otmoor, Oxfordshire
11th May 2019 3:30pm
Chamonix 810V
Nikkor-SW 150 f/8
Ilford FP4+ 8x10
¼" f/32
Rear and front tilts forward, down angle on Arca Cube head
No filters
Developed with Pyrocat HD 2:2:100 in BTZS tube
N, 10'30" (5min prewash in distilled water; 1min acetic acid stop bath; 10min fix in TF4; 1min sodium sulfite hypoclear; 30min wash)
Toned in photoshop with three luminosity mask coloured overlays.
See here for my latest thoughts on 8x10: dwfnaturephoto.wordpress.com/2019/05/12/experience-effort...
WK68 BTZ is an Optare Solo M9950SL new to first South West in February 2019 as their number 53258.
It joined the First Glasgow fleet in February 2026 and seen here in Motherwell operating service 211 (Airdrie-Hamilton).
Well, I talked about the 8x10 acquisition awhile ago but I haven't shown any results with it thus far. There are a few reasons for that but the biggest is that my developing has been...challenging.
I started out by making myself some tubes out of ABS plastic that I hoped to use for stand developing. Two problems arose with those, though. The biggest was that I was having issues with scratches when I pulled the film out of the tubes. No matter how deburred I though the ABS was and no matter how careful I was, the film would find some small nub and have a big scratch across it.
Additionally, I was having real problems with bromide drag with the processing. So, I abandoned the idea and bought myself another set of BTZS tubes from the View Camera Store. They worked really well for me last time and they're already working better for me this time.
In addition to all of that, I'm finding that HP5 is a *completely* different film from anything I've worked with before. Keep in mind that I mostly used the now discontinued Efke 25 last time I did any large format (both 4x5 and 8x10). Man, do I miss that film! I'm going to switch to FP4 and see if that gets me a little closer to my comfort zone.
I also forgot what a colossal pain in the butt dust is when you live in an area as dry as Colorado. Pueblo is even worse than Denver in this regard and has especially been so this winter so far. So I'm going to really need to work on my dust management. I think the film changing bag is going to have to go and I'll have to load film after dark in my bathroom (the only time and place I can get a completely dark area at my current residence). On the bright side, I'll be able to run some hot water in there prior to film loading and eliminate some of the dust.
Anyways, this was taken on Pueblo's beautiful Riverwalk. This bridge features the names of Pueblo's veterans and is a tribute to all men and women who have served.
Korona 8x10
Kodak 12" f6.3 Commercial Ektar
Ilford HP5+
Rodinal 1:50 in BTZS tubes
"Scanned" with my D600, Micro-Nikkor 55mm f3.5 and a light table (my current scanner can't handle 8x10)