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Hoar frost had formed in the trees in our area for the past few days and I thought I'd try a pinhole image of that using 4x5 CatLabs X80 film. The image was shot with a Harman Titan 4x5 pinhole camera. Exposure was 2 seconds - f/ 206.
On my walk today I saw a teasel partly opened so I took one home and cut it half to photograph on X ray film (with my New Countess 10x8 camera from 1890). F45, 40s. Photographed and inverted in Photoshop Very pleased with the way this has come out
Ca. 8 cm flower printed on 30x40cm Rollei Vintage paper. I used the Cambo SC with 1:9/300mm Rodenstock Apo Ronar lens on expired and moulded (1981) Tri-X. Exposure 2 sec at f45, if I remember correctly.
The font is not as Kodak have used, as this personal Dream Project is not anything official of Kodak apart from the promotional case, the cute case as I think of it, being manufactured for Kodak is the beginning and an end of Kodak involvement here. The cute case is a great inspiration that has lead me to my digital dream being projected upon Cibachrome panels in my illusion of emulsion. This has been a Pipe Dream that is longing for the past and for potential that has passed. Ektachrome continues, the other side of the aforementioned promotional cute case is red and yellow advertisement of the discontinued Kodachrome. Cibachrome is still emerging from old sheets and fresh made chemical processes I believe, but I only have memories to hand in what sometimes are slide show like interactions within my make believe visionary castles of imagination.
These Pipe Dreams on past photographic productions now unavailable has me making my memories of them wishing to invoke René Magritte and La Trahison des images, The Treachery of Images, which is often evoked with Ceci n'est pas une pipe translated as This is not a pipe. The painted representation of the pipe from 1929 cannot be stuffed said Magritte and it certainly cannot perform as does the pipe it resembles. With such dreams of images and reality, with lost production processes and notions that the Camera Never Lies I have my dreams some real, others surreal, a few definitely beyond reality and further those resting in imagination and with vision of a remembrance towards a former reality accomplished now here held in pixels that have been embraced in loving edits.
The snappy title belies the convoluted memory to digital process from a 4x5 SINAR set up out of Switzerland following formulas from there that fill my photographic contemplations. Images of images and images to last against the ravages of time are bound in my mind with Kodachrome, Cibachrome and the varying P 3 / P 3X / P 30P / P 30 P 3.5 processes. In reflection and rumination through editing I have lost and found time, thought of reality and enjoyed illusion, fantasy and fiction. This is one picture brightly produced in varying considerations, cogitations and cognations created these digital inklings that presume to be potential for a project.
I would like to add, this as much I do is Production Incarnate Preinduction Illustrate. A progress in work Inspiration for the next creation.
As the above is my usual text slide to conclude the films I release on YouTube and Flickr I will add this below so as not to use the regular ending. I feel completely engaged and absolutely ready for each next link and flow in the chain and the continuation that interlock and mind and body shock me out of, into and all around these moments. The personal interaction here in picture taking and editing has taken me to moments in history and projected me to places far beyond mystery.
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I should list a set of links in this space that could take you to that past factual information of the photographic processes here mentioned and pondered upon, but the journey awaits you whether you are new, or well along the ways of these defunct and still adored pictorial wonders that fuel current projects and enlighten dreams with fantastic rendition and fabulous colour.
...Bombo Point.
Chamonix 045F1, Gundlach Radar Extreme W.A. Anastigmat f16 6.5"x8.5", TMax400, Xtol(1.3)+RO9(1.160)
"Gasthof Hirsch" lonley chairs waiting for customers and the Beer Garden season. Shot with Sinar 4x5 on Ilford FP4. Print 30x40 on Foma MG Classic 131 an dev in Moersch Eco 4812. By Mistake I printed 2 stops far to dark, so I decided to bleach until this interesting result and color came out. So I like it as my finish Print, and didn't do a second one.
Restored Seneca 6, 5x7 panchromatic paper negative (ilfospeed rc), ~6 sec @f22 (U.S. 32!)
#LargeFormat #PaperNegatives #BelieveInFilm #BelieveInPaper
Réparation de l'optique Som-Berthiot Color 360 F/4.
Vendue en l'état avec la chambre, les lamelles dans un sac.
Testée à pleine ouverture pour du portrait à 1m. Profondeur de champ de 0,009m. Juste l'oeil qui était net, le reste flou...
Bref, dégommage, dégraissage puis remise en place des 26 lamelles dans le fût.
Walking through this place was one of the most peaceful and enjoyable things I've had the pleasure of experiencing. The juxtaposition of vivid leaves with warm desert tones and geology makes an unusually beautiful combination. I love this scene because it captures an incredibly ephemeral moment in time. The wash had just been flooded, leaving the sand wet and forming gorgeous ripple and wave patterns. The vivid leaves fell onto the sand and rested there. A few days earlier, there would have been dry, loose sand and no leaves. A few days later, and there would be dry, loose sand and a bunch of dry, dead, colorless leaves.
This was a rather precarious scene to capture. I used my Intrepid 4x5 view camera, and view cameras are designed to be used perfectly level. They have a flat "bed" on which are mounted two moving "standards," one holding the film, and the other holding the lens, connected by a fabric bellows in between. Tipping that assembly on end so it faces the ground puts all the weight on the standard mounts, which aren't made to support it. It also makes viewing the dim ground glass under a focusing hood very difficult, as I had to lean out over the top of the tripod, which was balanced spread over these leaves, trying not to ruin the delicate mud with footprints or shadow, while focusing on the reversed & inverted ground glass. Then it began to rain! I was in a flash flood wash, where 7 people were suddenly killed by a flash flood a couple years ago. I hurriedly finished the image, and ran to high ground to wait out the rain before getting back to work.
By all means, zoom in and pan around. I don't make these things to be consumed as thumbnails!
Details:
This large format film image was made on Fuji Velvia 100 with my Intrepid 4x5 Camera and Schneider-Kreuznach 90mm ƒ/8 Super-Angulon lens. 2s @ ƒ/45, swing & tilt. It was my only exposure of this scene.
Own a signed limited edition print of this image at: lowerylandscapes.com/zion
Shot with Fomapan 200 with an orange filter. Quite a difficult shot to get in camera. I had to tilt the camera up then straighten the standards with a spirit level to get the verticals right.
This is the very first image I made upon arriving in Zion. As I explored the winter wonderland of Zion National Park shortly after this winter storm, this area was one of the first I encountered. This stand of Pines cloaked in the icy veil of winter formed a striking contrast against the vivid orange sandstone canyon wall in the background. Snow had accumulated on the cliff ledges, forming alternating stripes of orange and white, with the blue sky subtly reflected in the white snow on the evergreens rounding out the color palette.
To get a sense of scale, look at the tree growing on the wall in the left center of the frame, above the 2nd Pine tree. That tree is about the same size as the trees in the foreground - about 40 feet tall! That tree is a marvel in itself, growing out of almost nothing on the narrow cliff ledge. The wall is hundreds of feet tall, and is at least a hundred plus feet behind the trees. I am standing about 3 feet away from the trees on a hillside, standing in about a foot of fresh powder. This place is truly magical in winter!
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“We do not want merely to see beauty... we want something else which can hardly be put into words- to be united with the beauty we see, to pass into it, to receive it into ourselves, to bathe in it, to become part of it. That is why we have peopled air and earth and water with gods and goddesses, and nymphs and elves.”
– C. S. Lewis
@intrepidcameraco 4x5” Field Camera
Fuji Provia 100F
Fujinon W 180mm ƒ/5.6
1s @ ƒ/32, max front rise
Today’s Collodion tintype test with Lars.
This is UV Photographics new X formula collodion (very fast compared to OWH!) and I’m also testing a new magic lantern lens a friend has offered me. I estimate it to be about f8. No waterhouse stops - just wide open chromatic aberration goodness.
Exposure was 6 seconds in open shade, cloudy November conditions.
This old fence at the Beechwoods Nature Reserve will be instantly recognised by anyone who walks there...
MPP Micro Technical 5 x 4 and Schneider Kreuznach Xenar 1:4.5/150mm, Fomapan 200, f22 at 1/10 sec. Scanned with Epson Perfection V800.
MPP Micro Technical 5 x 4in and Schneider Kreuznach Xenar 1:4.5/150mm, Fomapan 100, f16 at 1/10 sec. Scanned with Epson Perfection V800.
Large format really shows me how easily I can become distracted despite slowing down and really looking around me. I missed a shot because other hikers wanted to interact as I was setting up a shot, and I totally screwed up and missed it since I lost my concentration. I'll go back (hopefully!) to see if I can recreate the shot. But I so value LF since it makes me more observant, and the details are just incomparable. This is the last of my expired HP5 so will need to pick up some more 4x5 - I'll be finishing up my Ultra 8x10 soon as well, so time to find deals on film! Thanks to all the flickeranians who continue to inspire!