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Kullaberg. Waves breaking the shore.
Camera: ONDU 4x5 inch Pinhole camera
Film back: Polaroid 545 Land Film holder
Film: Polaroid Polacolor 79 4x5 inch large format sheet film. Expired November 2004 (Photo taken August 2016)
Exposure: 2 seconds
Scanner: Epson Perfection V700
I was asked how I compose with my pinhole box camera, to which my standard response is: “I point it that-a-way”. People laugh when I say that and it’s a little moment of camaraderie. It is practically the antithesis of all things “Ansel”. “Why even bother?” may be the unspoken thought in some minds, and indeed I often wonder why I enjoy the relative lack of precision afforded -and required- by pinhole photography. In truth, there are a number of reasons.
First and foremost, perhaps, is that I cannot be Ansel. [or Ruth Bernard, or Atget, etc]. No one can. And if I try to be any of them, I won’t have enough energy left over to find out who I, myself, can be.
Next, there are surprises. Not always. Like most things photographic, true successes are few, and the time spent in the field is often the only reward I get. But occasionally, the result ends up being a gift I had not completely anticipated.
The last I might mention is surrender. When I place the camera, I have to wait. This image took 30 mins. During that time, I wandered, I wondered, I looked about, watched others work, talked to passers-by. I was alive in the moment, tethered but awake, slacking, lollygagging. Time is it’s own reward, it is precious beyond description. And this surrendering to the moment, this abiding… well, maybe I’m actually chasing this, maybe I just think I’m a photographer.
Point it that-a-way.
2024. My only wish;
We start making decisions that favor all life. Instead of only favoring corporate life.
Different view from previously; still see the relatively low contrast due to the diffuse lighting, but clouds were brought out with a yellow filter held over the lens.
wanderlust travelwide 90
schneider-kreuznach angulon 90mm f/6.8
shanghai GP3
hc-110 dil. H (1+63), 15 min
1/50 sec. exposure at f/11, handheld, focused to 15m
Loaded up five 4x5 negatives in the Jobo I got the other day.
Loading the negatives was a bit tricky in the dark but I am sure I will get used to it. As I shot all of these negatives in the same lighting conditions, I loaded them all and mixed up some Rodinal to see how the Arista EDU Ultra 100 would pan out.
I went with a 1:100 stand development for 50 minutes.
Negatives look pretty good, just need to scan them and see how everything turned out.
Camera .. Rittreck View
Lens .. Rapter TelePhoto WoolLensAK 10inch f/5.6
Film .. Provia100(Expired)
Apature .. F64
SS .. 1/30sec
4x5 Pacemaker Speed Graphic + Kodak Aero Ektar lens 178mm f2.5 + Fuji FP-3000B instant film
Eliazabeth shot at 1/1000 f4 as it was too bright for f2.5
Photo scan
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A test shoot with Mia yesterday to test out my large format camera with instant back. I'm in love with it :)
A core human need is to find meaning, some underlying truth in an increasingly complex and bewildering world, a world that has the potential to devour or collapse upon itself, seemingly at any time. Large format photography, I find, engages the eye, the mind, the imagination and the heart. Yes there is banality, superficiality, sterility, but the poetry is still there to be found.
An alternative shot from my sitting with Alison last month.
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10 seconds at f4.5 18 inch Taylor-hobson cooke portrait setting 3 diffusion- one 450wcfl and reflector