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Another early AM shooting session, experimenting with Arista Ultra 100 shot at box speed. Fairly wide light capture here with somewhat harsh shadows and cloudless sky. This combination doesn't quite pull out the details in the shadows as much as I'd like, despite some very favorable comments about this film with D76. Will likely go back to Xtol in the next round.
Another shot taken on Cayman's Mastic Trail, the largest contiguous area of untouched, old-growth forest in Grand Cayman - an area where the woodland has been evolving undisturbed for the last two million years. It houses all manner of wildlife - exotic native birds, hermit crabs, frogs, snakes and one or two mosquitoes. This day, there were parts of the trail were littered with fallen fruit from wild mango trees.
Lone tree beside an old taxi-way on the (Ex) RAF Little Walden...
MPP Micro Technical 5 x 4 and Schneider Kreuznach Xenar 1:4.5/150mm, Fomapan 100, f11 at 1/50 sec. Scanned with Epson Perfection V800.
Another shot taken on Cayman's Mastic Trail, the largest contiguous area of untouched, old-growth forest in Grand Cayman - an area where the woodland has been evolving undisturbed for the last two million years. It houses all manner of wildlife - exotic native birds, hermit crabs, frogs, snakes and one or two mosquitoes. This day, there were parts of the trail were littered with fallen fruit from wild mango trees.
Båstnäs car cemetary.
Toyo metal field camera.
Fujinon-w 150mm/f5.6
Yellow filter.
Adox CHS 100 II 4x5
Rodinal 1:50 11.30 min.
Dedicated to Rebecca Lim aka Rebecca Lee-Steere, a very smart, talented and hard-working scientist and sportswomen (and who knows what else...) with a great sense of humour. She hates ginger, so here it is, Bec!
Camera: Toyo 45GII, Fuji Fujinon NW 125mm f5,6, 25s, f32, back shift up 17.5mm. Film: Fuji FP-100C. Light: Kicklight, slightly yellow hue.
The film holder is from an old laboratory Polaroid gel documentation system.
Bulldog 4x5 with Nikkor 90mm Sw f8, f32 for 1 sec, fomapan 100 semi stand developed in rodinal for 30 minutes
This scene has such a magical dream-like quality to it for me. The leaves on the trees glow and almost seem disconnected like they are floating in space like a cloud of glowing fairies. As I made this image, I stood beneath an overhanging weeping wall covered in dripping water, wrapping over me like a cave. The trees were illuminated by sunlight filtering into the depths of the canyon from above and reflected light filled the colossal majestic space.
Details:
This image is a 0.8% sized export of an 180MP scan from a large format film image made on Fuji Velvia 100 with The Intrepid Camera Co. 4x5 Field Camera and my Schneider-Kreuznach 90mm ƒ/8 Super-Angulon lens. 10am, 8s @ ƒ/32, CPL
In other words, this thing will print to 40x50 inches with enough quality that you can put your face right up to it with a magnifying glass and only see more detail. These large format film images contain approximately 20x the level of detail of my digital images made with current generation DSLRs, and I've printed those to 40x60" with good results! This is one of many reasons I am now working in large format film instead of digital. I also prefer the aesthetic qualities of these films. Additionally, the experience of working with the silent elegant simplicity a wooden view camera in the field is so much better than dealing with scrolling menus, flickering lights, and glowing screens while in the wilderness.
By all means, zoom in and pan around. I don't make these things to be consumed as thumbnails!
Predawn from Namsan.
Just came back from Hong Kong, what a week. I managed to get 74 exposures, despite the rainy and stormy weather. I'll start uploading these, once I am done with Seoul!
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Graflex Speed Graphic Large Format 4X5
Lens: Cooke Telephoto Anastigmat F/5.6 320mm 12 1/2 Inch Series III (Made by Taylor-Hobson England (Maybe Year 1906-1923)
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4x5 film Back
Ilford HP4 400
F8.0 1/250
Self developing:
Ilford HC110 - 16mins
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Large Format Photographer Roland Meier shooting his Linhof Technika
Picture shot on 35mm Kentmere400 Film with my Nikon F100
Another image from last week's hike into the old growth forest at Cape Perpetua, OR. 8X10" Bergger Pancro 400 processed in BER49.
Camera: Deardorff with the Wide Field Ektar 190mm lens at f22
It is my distinct impression that the BER49 + Pancro400 combo is far superior to other developers I've used with the Bergger emulsion.