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cropped from 4x5" slide
Graflex Speed Graphic / Kodak Ektar 127mm 4.7
Agfa Agfachrome RSX 100 (4x5), expired for 13 years
Zugspitze (2962m), Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Bavaria
This was the last frame I shot in an over two hour photo shoot with my friend. I rather like the result
This is a trichromatic photo of the Pucker Street Dam in Niles, MI. The color artifacts are the result of taking 3 successive exposures through RGB filters of moving objects (clouds, water). I used Tri-X 320 4x5 film in the Graflex Speed Graphic with the 127mm Ektar lens. Three successive photos were taken using a red Wrattren 25 filter, a green Written 58 filter and a blue Written 47B filter. The film was developed in HC110 B. The scans were aligned in Photoshop CS5 and then channel merged to RGB. Some color correction was necessary.
Graflex Speed Graphic
Kodak Aero Ektar
Kodak Tmax 100 4x5 - Expired 2000
Rodinal R09 - 1+50 - 15mn
SP-445
Epson v700
technically incorrect but there's something I love about this one.
Graflex Speed Graphic, Aero Ektar 178mm 2.5, Fomapan 100, d76
My Yashica-Mat 124G portraits
Graflex Pre-Anniversary Speed Graphic 4x5
G. Leitmeyr Sytar 210mm F=4.5
Kodak Tmax 100 developed for 12 minutes in Kodak HC-110 dilution H (1+63) @ 68 degrees
45 seconds @ F32
Metered with Gossen Luna Pro F
Scanned on Epson V600
Stitched and adjusted in Photoshop CS6
only posting this because this is my first solo tin plate that has come out reasonably well. Having said that Bex (aka the tinplate doctor) had to point out one glaring error I was making. Now onto some portraits, still lifes don't do too much for me.
My Yashica-Mat 124G portraits
Graflex Pre-Anniversary Speed Graphic 4x5
G. Leitmeyr Sytar 210mm F=4.5
Kodak Tmax 100 developed for 12 minutes in Kodak HC-110 dilution H (1+63) @ 68 degrees
45 seconds @ F32
Metered with Gossen Luna Pro F
Scanned on Epson V600
Stitched and adjusted in Photoshop CS6
Never did I ever think I would fall this hard for photography.
I remember being in middle school and getting wide eyed over a Pentax 35mm point & shoot that was in a case at Walmart and spending my own $200 of my birthday and Christmas on it. I shot it casually at school with friends and here and there but nothing really of note.
Then when Ayana was 1 back in 2005 I got my first digital slr. A Nikon d50 and found a wonderful world of Flickr that was a place full of moms and dads and people picking up digital, transitioning from film or just all around talented who were willing to teach and learn together.
Somewhere along the way film entered and I fell hard. I think it happened easily because I wasn’t afraid to muck things up. I started developing my own film pretty early on losing quite a few rolls to the “opening the camera before winding the film” and “forgot to put the center column in the tank” and “loading the film backwards” and “under filling the tank” and “fixer before developer” gods. But it was fun and challenging. It was my personal escape and a way to document my children’s lives and my love for them while keeping some sort of my sanity.
Then this guy entered the picture and I suddenly had someone to share this addiction with. Someone who would hear me go on and on (and on and on) about cameras or my weird brilliant ideas (like that giant scanner hunk of metal still sitting in the garage). Who treks out with me to places we’ve never been, hauling way too much gear to maybe, just maybe possibly, get a photo. Who stands (not so) patiently while I photograph him and focus and.. (wait.. not yet, still focusing, crap the light changed let me re-meter, damnit dark slide and finally) shoot. Who isn’t afraid to try new things and muck things up with me and shares his very nice camera gear even when I’m sure he doesn’t really feel like it. Who doesn’t doubt me when i say “I’m going to take your Mac apart and replace the hard drive” or “I want to develop color film” or “let’s hike the lost coast and half dome”.
All these thoughts from a little 4x5 photo but being able to confidently shoot the 4x5 camera is a big milestone for me. It takes a different sort of thought than the nikon d50 I first had 10 years ago. It’s not perfect, I’m not perfect, far from it. I still crop limbs and miss focus… i still pull the dark slide out before I close the shutter… i still shove the dark slide in too hard and too fast and crumple up film… I still underfill tanks and forget to burp the developer and end up with a mess in the kitchen (and sometimes developer in my eyeball). But I love how imperfect it is. How when it works, it works and I can never really truly be sure if it will work, and I can take pride and do a happy dance when i DO pull a negative from a tank and there’s an image and then dance a little more when it’s an image like this one.. in focus, well exposed, and really documents that moment in time.
Today's Pinup features beautiful Shauna and the trusty 1939 Graflex Speed Graphic Camera! This pinup is another 'real pinup photo' that I'm posting occasionally throughout the year to remind those who enjoy Dietz Dolls pinups that every pinup you see starts as a studio taken photograph with a real model. The uniforms and equipment are real and the models are really in the studio. I prefer the vintage style processing in the finished product over just having a real studio photograph as it's unique. There are countless pinup photographers out there who shoot and post pinup shots that are crisp, clear, and modern day looking. It's a similar pinup style you can see just about everywhere which is the reason Dietz Dolls pinups are made to resemble the 1940s and 1950s style pinup artwork from artists like George Petty, Vargas, Gil Elvgren, Pearl Frush, Bill Randall, etc. But, in doing this process, often viewers of Dietz Dolls pinups may forget that these are real models shot in the studio. So, I'll occasionally post a 'real' photo without the vintage effect to showcase the beautiful models who have contributed to Dietz Dolls' success.
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Model: Shauna
Photographer: Britt Dietz
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Test shot from mini Speed Graphic build. Zeiss Jena Tessar 210mm f4.5 large format barrel lens mated to a miniature Speed Graphic utilizing its focal plane shutter. 120 roll film used via an Adapt-A-Roll 620 film holder.
Graflex Speed Graphic
The IMPOSSIBLE Project PX100
71 Studios 4 X 5 insert
Still Life study using a Graflex Speed Graphic with my custom 4 X 5 IMPOSSIBLE insert and The IMPOSSIBLE Project PX100 film.
Read more on my blog! bit.ly/14zh1VA
Hans, Kiruvere 2008
Graflex Speed Graphic, 9x12cm,
Schneider Kreutznach Xenar 135mm,
EFKE PL 100
Developed in Kodak D76
Graflex Speed Graphic
127mm Ektar Lens
f/7.1 ish @ 1/25th
TIP PX70 Color Shade Color Protection film
Blog post about it: lightsquared.tumblr.com/post/34056865176/the-most-involve...
The best thing about the Speed Graphic is that you can dial in the DOF juuust right on the ground glass. Don't like f/5.6? Then just move it a bit more until it blurs exactly the way you want it to. I pretty much have framing nailed down with the SG with TIP film. I made a paper template that I tape on the ground glass that is the window of the TIP frame that is in the exact position of the film when it's inserted in the back taped to a 4 X 5 film holder.
I am amazed at the detail that is in the new Impossible film, and you should really look at the large size of this shot...you can see the pores on my face and the grey in my beard.
After 1 hour of testing, posing, guessing, messing up, trying different things...well, I think it was all worth it.
I had my wife come and look at the ground glass before shooting, making sure I got the pose right, or close enough, then carefully put in the film back and re-positioned myself, had my wife hold the reflector and I tripped the shutter and hoped.
When you get the exposure just right with this film, it is crazy good. It still leans a little to the yellow side, but it's such a beautiful film. I like how it goes from photo sharp and then in the blurry parts it gets very painterly.
Grave marker for Lydia Janes, who died in March 1777. Found at the Broad St Cemetery (circa 1655) in Salem MA.
Photographed on 4x5 film, November 21, 2023