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Kit: Graflex Speed Graphic 5x4 • Schneider-Kreuznach Symmar-S 150mm f/5.6 • Fomapan 100
Light: 1x strobe fired through umbrella (high, camera right), 1x strobe in soft box (low, camera left)
Exp: 1/125s • f/16 • 100 ISO
Dev: R09 ONE SHOT (Rodinal) • 1+50 • 8 mins • 20 degrees C • Scanned with Epson V700
Setting myself a bit of a challenge I dismantled the dining room of the usual furniture and replaced it with a couple of Bowens strobes. One with a shoot through umbrella (high to the right of the camera) and the other in a softbox as a fill light (low and to the left of the camera).
We wanted a fairly formal family portrait and despite the challenges of taking a self portrait with a young family (air shutter release under my foot) I thought I'd make it that bit more of a challenge by taking it with the Speed Graphic 5x4.
I took just two frames and surprisingly, despite a very tired 1 year old, they both turned out really nicely!
That'll do until next year!! :-)
Title: "Spray Booth of Finishing Department." This promotional photograph of L.L. Sams Furniture Co., Waco, Texas, was taken by Fred Marlar in the early 1950's.
Image digitized from original 4x5 film negative from the Fred Marlar papers, The Texas Collection, Baylor University.
Rights: Some rights reserved. E-mail txcoll@baylor.edu for information. Visit www.baylor.edu/lib/texas/ for more information about our collections.
Compact shelving holds the science and engineering books at the Hesburgh Library at the University of Notre Dame. This is my second attempt at trychromatic photography, this time an inside shot under fluorescent lighting. 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 Wratren 25 filter, a green
Wratten 58 filter and a blue Wratten 47B filter. The exposure time was 4 seconds at f/5.6 based on metering through the green lens using a Sekonic L-758DR. 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.
Camille focused and triggered this photo. And oh, shocker.. Ricky has a new camera. That guy, he has a problem. :)
Graflex Speed Graphic 5x4 • Fomapan 100 • 100 ISO • 2 sec • f/8
Developed in HC-110 • Dil. H • 9 mins • 20 degrees C • Scanned with Epson V700
My second ever 5x4 sheet exposed! This was going to be the first subject, but I liked what the light was doing outside so I quickly changed my mind and shot the view from our bedroom first! Back to the still life... I intended to use flash to light the subject but the window light (although rapidly fading) looked nice and it was easier than setting up the flash gear. Checking the focus and depth of field on the ground glass I decided on f/8, which gave me about 4cm DOF. The exposure time was getting a little long - 2 seconds. I have very little experience with manual long exposures. Anything in the past has always been <30s and taken care of automatically by Canon electronics. But I decided to give it a try with a stop watch. My mistake? Reciprocity failure... I've heard all about it, but it's no where near the forefront of my mind that it didn't even occur to me to check it. I didn't realise I'd be shooting so slowly until shortly before doing so. With hindsight I should have shot 2x the exposure, so around 4 seconds.
Subsequently, when pulling the sheet out of the tank I could see really obvious highlights - they were really dark - and that was about it. I was sure it was a failure. It's AMAZING how much shadow detail film can retain, even with a low key scene like this and when underexposed. To the naked eye I can hardly see anything on the negative. The scanner, fortunately, saw a lot more!
Can't wait to shoot some more sheets now!
Meditation teacher and author Michael Taft.
I accidentally gouged the negative in the clearing bath but I like it--reflects the subject's intense personality.
Scan from print of the negative side of the Polaroid peel. Ilford Galerie Fiber Warm grade 2.
Kit: Graflex Speed Graphic 5x4 • Carl Zeiss Jena Tessar f/4.5 21cm • Fomapan 100
Exp: 1/250s • f/4.5 • 100 ISO
Dev: R09 ONE SHOT (Rodinal) • 1+50 • 8 mins • 20 degrees C • Scanned with Epson V700
After an amazing Wet Plate Collodion Introduction workshop with the brilliant Alastair Cook, he kindly allowed me to make his portrait sitting on a rock at Dunbar old harbour (just outside the McArthur's Store where Alastair has made all of his amazing wet plates over the last couple of years).
This was the first time I've tried using the Carl Zeiss Jena Tessar f/4.5 21cm lens outdoors to make a portrait. It's not a coated lens and so the contrast is easily lost, but I'm quite happy with the result and I think it's a pretty good portrait of Alastair. I hope you like it!
I'm looking forward to seeing what I can get from the negative in the darkroom when I finally get it up and running!
Continuing my exploration of using Instant film in cameras that it wasn't intended for.
My wife bought a Graflex Speed Graphic to put on the shelf, but it also checked out and was fully functional. I haven't had the time to do a proper 4 x 5 and this version doesn't have a Graflock back for pack film.
After some interesting shots with Polaroid 300 film in my Mamiya RB67, I decided to try out Large Format with some TIP PX film. This is "Poor Pod" and I totally forgot I had a pack in my One600.
I transferred a shot to my 4 x 5 film back and taped it in.
Shot it, chilled the film holder in my refrigerator and then transferred it into an empty TIP pack in the darkroom and let it develop in light-proof tray.
Graflex Speed Graphic
127mm Kodak Ektar lens
f/22 @ 1/400th
TIP PX600 Silver Shade Black Frame Poor Pod
this is a tintype still life of all the Southampton FC history books I have either written, co-written or contributed towards since 1987.
Graflex Speed Graphic Large Format 4X5
Carl Zeiss Jena Tessar 1:4.5 F=21cm (1920-1930)
120 film Back
Kodak Ektar 100
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Foma 400 - Xtol 1-2
Dev: Rollei RPW 1-9
Paper: Fomabrom Variant III
Toning Carbon
Serie: The Lady becomes photographer: 5/5