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I wanted to do a 4x4" version of a few of the shots I've been making for some of my collodion ambrotype pendants. I just can't get enough of this glass vase and my daughter's plant she sprouted at school. This particular piece is a 4x4" Tintype.
The illustration of my life in my beautiful Ukraine. The toughest year. The year of war. But we here, at home, put together pieces of our broken hearts, lives and souls and move, no matter what, to our dreams.
Toyo 45G + pieces of film (Fujifilm)
Life underfoot. Usually unnoticed.
So much talent has passed through the Universe, will the Universe remember?
Or just pass by unnoticed?
Ground cover. Variants 1 and 2.
Art 300 in lith.
At the time of the Civil War battle at Gettysburg in 1863, Lydia Leister lived at this farm with two of her daughters. As the battle grew near they fled the farm. Union General George Meade commandeered the farmhouse to use for his headquarters and held a council of war here on July 2nd with most of his senior advisors in attendance. During the surge of Pickett's Charge, Meade was forced to leave the property for the relative safety of the 12th Corps headquarters on Powers Hill, a Union army signaling station.
Lydia returned home to her farm after the battle to find the property riddled with bullet holes and cannon shots as well as seventeen dead cavalry horses in the yard. Her own cow and horse were now gone. The only compensation she received for her losses came from the sale of the bones from the dead horses at fifty cents per hundred pounds. She restored the farm to working status and added nine acres of plantable land. She sold the farm to the Gettysburg Memorial Association in 1888 and it was sold to the National Parks Service in 1933 who maintains it as part of the battlefield to this day.
From my "Farmscapes of the Civil War" project.
Technical details:
Canham wood 5x7 large format field camera.
120mm F8 Schneider Super-Angulon lens.
Ilford Delta 100 ISO film rated @ 100.
Developed using 20th Century Camera 8-sheet 5x7 prototype reel for Jobo Multitank-5 on Uniroller 352 auto-reversing rotary base in Pyrocat HD 1:1:100 for 12 minutes.
Scanned on Epson 4990 using VueScan.
Twisted hawthorn, Jægersborg Deer Park
Camera: Toyo Field 45A
Lens: Fujinon-W 135mm f:5.6 (yellow filter)
Exposure: 1/8 @ F/22
Film: Ilford FP4+ in 4x5" hand developed in Xtol Replenished
paper negative
scanned in color, inverted.
b&w below in comments
I'm having to tray develop to get any results.
1949 Anniversary Edition Speed Graphic, Kodak Ektar 127mm F/4.7 + 2X close-up filter, Ilford HP5, developed in HC-110 for 5 mins
Yesterday, I took my Speed Graphic for another spin. It had been over a year since I shot any large format photography. It felt great to see that I remembered how to do everything, from loading the film correctly in the film holder, to opening (and then remembering to close) the lens, to using the ground glass, etc. There are a lot of steps to follow in large format photography. Images are composed upside down and backwards. I have to use a magnifying glass to get a precise focus. It’s like calisthenics for the brain. Any mis-step along the way, and the photo is ruined, and you won’t have any clue until after developing the film. One success is worth all the time and effort though. It feels like a victory. :)
Beautiful Rafaella
Cambo SC
Rodenstock Sironar 300mm f5.6
Shot on Ilford HP5 4x5
Dev in Kodak D76
Epson V850 scan
Two light setup with Elinchrom strobes. Deep octa camera left, gridded reflector on the backdrop.
A small house in the forest by the river that you may rent for a night.
13x18 Fomapan 200, contact printed on Fomatone 131
Linhof color with adapter, Rodenstock Apo Ronar 360mm.
this is my contribution for the May 2019 12.12 Project, the instant photography collective of which I am a member. Our theme is fragility.
"Real beauty is in the fragility of your petals. A rose that never wilts isn't a rose at all.”
― Crystal Woods, Write like no one is reading 3
Technical information: 1949 Speed Graphic with expired Polaroid type 55 film. Scanned negative (scanned in color).
"La vraie beauté se trouve dans la fragilité de tes pétales. Une rose qui ne fane jamais n'est pas du tout une rose."
-- Crystal Woods
from a recent lecture/demo. cc harrison on my toyoview; fullplate, the collodion was all over the place that night!!!
copyright steve wilson photography 2009
"Pathway to Paradise"
On day 4 of my Zion Fall Color Trip, I headed into the famous Virgin River Narrows at first light. Because the water was cold, I wore dry pants and thick neoprene socks, which worked very well to keep my legs dry and my feet warm for the entire day of hiking in the water. In all, I spent nearly 10 hours in the Narrows that day, and as always the time flew by in this majestic and awe-inspiring place.
This classic scene was my second to last image made that day. I had run out of Velvia, so I made the exposure on 4x5" Kodak Ektar 100 color negative film. The exposure was 1 minute & 8 seconds @ ƒ/45 with a CPL on my Intrepid 4x5" large format view camera.
This was a very tricky negative to scan, but the final result is an incredibly sharp, massive-resolution image filled with rich detail and color tones that could be printed to 40x50 inches at 300dpi (you could stick your nose right up to it and only see more image details and fine film grain, not pixels).
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Shot with a Toyo D45 on Ilford Delta 100 sheet, developed in Xtol. Inside Saint Olave's Church. Ramsey, Isle Of Man. I think this one was 8 seconds at f11, forgot to write a note on the dark slide.
Even without religious belief, these places offer solace and quiet. A reminder that whatever we believe maybe we should all ask for peace. Pray for a future without wanton destruction. Desire a world fit for future generations. Kneel before the might of mother nature and beg forgiveness for the anguish we have already caused her.
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Camera: Calumet 4x5
Lens: Fujinon W 150mm f/6.3
Film: Arista EDU 100
Developer: Rodinal 1:100 65 min (semi-stand)
Tank: SP-445
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For Polaroid Week Spring 2021, Day 4, Photo 2.
Camera: Intrepid 8x10
Lens: Kodak Commercial Ektar 305 mm
Film: Polaroid Originals Color 8x10 (2019-04)
Happy Polaroid Week! This time I'll show two series in parallel:
One was taken on a guided tour in the former Austrian Postal Savings Bank, a building designed by Otto Wagner right at the start of the 20th century in the Art Nouveau style. The FP-3000B film fit the architecture nicely.
The other one is a series of 8x10 photos taken at our countryside place in a hot summer two years ago.
A very rare Schneider lens, made in the early 1950th, it is one of the new computed Xenar lenses, made with the rare earth glasses.
I´am really surprised about the large image circle.
It is possible to tild the front of my Wista camera horizontal 15°, shift it a little bit and the lens covers the whole 4x5" frame.
It is more than the Xenotar 3.5/135mm can.
The only disadvantage is that this lens needs the larger Compur size II shutter, the Xenotar fits to a shutter size I.
But a Xenotar is an always available lens, this Xenar is a really rare gem.
One light in medium soft box. Shot on Polaroid Type 55 positive/negative 4x5 film.
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Happy 2026 everyone.
I have always seemed to enjoy New Year's Day more than New Year's Eve. It is a day of fresh starts (or in some years, fresh adventures). A good day for housecleaning and organizing and getting yourself set up for the year ahead. And thus I put some time into catching up a bit on some recent photos I have made, scanned, but not finished up.
This landscape came from about a month or so ago. One of our customers at Blue Moon Camera does a lot of 3D printing and made a 4x5 pinhole camera that needed testing. In form and function it reminds me quite a bit of the Harman Titan, just without the interchangeable cone. Naturally I was more than happy to give it some field testing. It has been a long while since I shot much 4x5, procuring the Hasselblad Flexbody largely scratched that itch. So I decided to take it on the scramble out to Upper Bridal Veil Falls - a waterfall I had not visited in roughly 10 years. Where does the time go?
I don't have a ton to say about it honestly. It is a pretty straightforward and simple camera. A pinhole camera really doesn't need to do a lot. Jody, the camera designer, saw fit to put a nice pinhole in it, so combined with the large film size, this camera makes pretty great images. He loaned me two versions: one with an 85mm focal length and an even wider model with a 65mm focal length. This image was made with the wider of the two cameras.
In Camera Industries 4x5 Pinhole
Kodak Portra 160