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Exposed on Ilford HP5+ 4x5 film and developed myself in Xtol. Captured with my Intrepid 4x5 camera with a 150mm lens. Printed 12x16 on Ilford MG glossy fiber, and toned in selenium. Done in my home studio in Vista, CA.
My wife is posing when I use my Linhof Color 4x5 camera.
Lens is Computar Symmetrigon 150mm f6.3.
It was taken with Kodak Plus X pan that expired in 1987.
Developed in FX39 1/14
This one is exposed at f8 and 1/60 sec
I could walk these washes for days, and on the Zion fall color trip, that's exactly what I did – 6 days in fact. This photograph was made as the last light was fading on the very end of my very last day in the park. I ran into Ben Horne and Michael Strickland here, and the three of us all had our cameras set up on the same spot. I have no doubt their images will be far better than mine, both because they are both more skilled large & medium format film photographers than I, and because I had both the wrong lens and the wrong film for this image. It was the end of the trip, and the only color film I had left was a single sheet of Ektar 100, which is ideal for bright wide dynamic range scenes, but fairly terrible for dark scenes with low dynamic range. I was using the only 4x5" lens I had at the time, a 90mm Super-Angulon. These trees are located up on a steep bank above a wash, and you can't get close enough to them to fill the frame with a wide-angle lens (90mm is very wide on 4x5"). So the image you see here is actually a very tight crop from a 4x5 negative, and I had to do a fair bit of color and exposure correction on the scan to get it to look decent, and I still think I only did a so-so job of it. I'm sharing it online because that is the best use for this image. I will not be doing any prints of this one due to the reasons above, but I thought it would be perfectly enjoyable on screens. I have since purchased a 180mm lens which will be far better at isolating scenes like this, and I bought a bunch of brand new film holders as well, bringing my total to 16 (32 sheets of loaded film).
Intrepid 4x5 Field Camera, Schneider 90mm lens, Kodak Ektar 100. 32s @ ƒ/45, CPL.
Exciting day today, received a bundle of my negatives from the lab. Here's an image from my local woods taken last summer. Taken on Delta 100 black & white medium format film with a green filter, loaded in to a Horseman 6x7cm back on an Ebony 45S camera.
Continuing with my large format experience, taking my expired Arista Ultra 100 8x10 film on a sunny but windy day, using the super wide (for the format) Nikkor. Theme again was the mountains and water, but no stillness for the latter given the wind. Film is, unfortunately, failing a bit, with mottling no doubt due to age, but moved past it. This time, used Rodinal alone at 1+100, and found the accutance as to be expected as sharp, with contrast a bit more (!) than I expected. Without a filter nice cloud imaging. My tripod sank a couple of times in the sand requiring me to re-set up the shot, and the geese weren't too happy with me with one trying to chase me away. Such is the high excitement and risk of LF image acquisition! Thanks to the flickerans who contine to inspire all of us!
Large format portrait with Linhof Color, Rodenstock Apo Ronar 360mm F9. Fomapan 100 at EI50, F12 and 1 second. Developed in Fomadon LQN
I actually dragged the Deardorff 5x7 with the 210mm lens out canoe camping so this image is from a remote lake which required a 1.8km portage to get to. I love these old, weathered stumps that lay in the shallows of these lakes.
Camera: Deardorff V5 5x7
Lens: Fujinon W S 210mm f5.6
Filter: Polarizer
Film: Ilford Multigrade IV RC Paper
Exposure: ISO 6, f22, 15 seconds
Movements: Full front fall
Developer: Ilford Paper Developer at 1:19 for around 45 seconds at 20 degrees, no agitation
Another one of my antique camera collection. The MicroPress 4x5 Large Format camera from around 1950. It’s hard to believe this monster was designed for use by press photographers on location. The images, though were high definition and amazing quality. Photographed in studio with the slightly less antique Fujifilm X-T3.
One of those scenes I have visited frequently but never felt the conditions were right for shooting. I wasn't actually planning to shoot this on the day, I was a couple of miles away scouting something else and had a light bulb moment. Shot just before sunset with an orange filter.