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Dietz Airpark OR40, Canby, Oregon
My sister and her husband's new kitten pictured with a c. 1947 press-view camera. See flic.kr/p/2nphDSJ for my earlier photograph of the camera.
This day started out cloudy but around noon the clouds started breaking up. I had a few places in mind to shoot some film and as I was driving some of the backroads near my home I encountered this scene. I'm a big fan of windmills and this one is nicely representative of ones you see in this part of the country. I don't think this one is still in operation, but many like this are. They are typically used these days to water livestock. I wanted to bring in some of the road and the trees in the distance to give a sense of scale. I was hoping for better clouds, but sometimes you take what the scene gives you. Image captured with my Linhof Technika IV on FPPs Frankenstein 200 film. Self-developed with Xtol at 1:1 dilution.
Eastman View Camera 2-D
5X7 Sheet Film Camera shot with Holga 120S (removed shutter) and Foma 400 film.
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I don't write much lately. With the summer weather, the photographic side of my brain is more active than the graphic one - however, here is a little wedding photography story for you on how a disaster might turn into a success.
FREE for all to read in English and Italian !
I drove into Kansas City this morning to shoot some film...I visited some of my favorite places and shot some 4x5 film though my Linhof Technika IV camera. The Drum Room is a popular Jazz bar located in the Hotel President on Baltimore street and I've shot film at this location before. I always like to get people in the shot to add context and this young lady appears to be heading to the gym for a workout. Image captured using Lucky 100 4x5 film and self-developed with Xtol at 1:1 dilution. I really like the tonality and dynamic range of this film stock, but like many of the Chinese films, you also get a lot of anomalies on the negative after development. This particular shot wasn't too bad though and I was able to fix the issues in PS.
Cyanotype print in infusion of hazelnut leaves for get a brown toning. Compared to coffee toning, it stains paper less and no bleach bath is needed.
Tickled to see this photographer using an old large format film camera to shoot the stunning fall colors at Oxbow Bend in the Grand Teton National Park. Unfortunately I didn't get his name.
I met Carlo a few months ago as I was looking for some honey and I discovered this passionate beekeeper lived only half a mile from my home.
As we got to know each other over time, I found out that this amazing 84 years old was a true genius in building anything out of wood and metal in his well-equipped workshops.
I asked him to help me tame the biggest and heaviest lens I own, so that I could finally mount it onto a 4x5 camera and give it some use.
A few years ago I actually devised a way to mount this beastly lens, but I was never entirely satisfied with the results, as they lacked the solidity such a heavy piece of glass demands.
Carlo was able to quickly solder together a metal cone, permanently attached to a clone of a Plaubel lens board (which he cut and carved by hand !) where the heavy 12 Inch Aero Ektar f2.5lens would snugly fit.
The lens was to be further supported by a metal bracket that Carlo created, inspired by a plastic telescope lens bracket I had showed him earlier, but much, much sturdier than the original one.
Now came the shutter: we opted to drill a hole in a pine wooden board the size of the large packard shutter we were going to use (1/10th of a second maximum speed !!!).
To attach the “shutter board” to the lens Carlo hand-carved a slot of exactly the same diameter of the lens front element rim on the back. Once the rim slid into this groove, a couple of elastic bands were sufficient to stabilize and firmly attach the entire contraption to the camera body.
The heavy 12Inch Aero Ektar Lens can be a wonderful tool, giving you a very Shallow Depth Of Field and a Creamy Bokeh at a great Focal Length for portraiture (at 12 Inch FL this lens does cover 8x10 although I prefer using it on 4x5 and even 6x9, something I am able to do on the old Plaubel Supra camera by just changing the back).
It’s just that the lens is freakin’ big and heavy to mount anywhere but on a military aircraft!
Carlo was able to find a really good and elegant solution (in a retro-post-industrial style) that I truly love !!
My heartfelt THANK YOU to this wonderful, genial, inventor friend of mine!
photo: MPP 4x5 +boyer beryl 90mm + fp4 + GAF125
print: this is a 6 layers chiba leimdruck print. before printing, the paper was glued on aluminium plate with hide glue, so the paper stay in place during all layers. this is a pigmented print very close to gum printing, made with two process idea the first is chiba system using ammonium ferric citrate as polymerizer/hardener and the leimdruck process made by heinrich Kühn, using animal glue as colloid. the glue i use is fish glue. this is one of the first print i made. i improve the process since this print.
cascate del Dardagna Italie 2018 print 2021
It's difficult for my 11 year old to sit completely still for an 8 second exposure time so laying her head down was the option for the day. This is a 8x8" wet plate collodion tintype shot with my large format camera and 1870's Dallmeyer lens.
Out looking for Fall color in Kansas City last weekend...not quite ready though. Here at the WWI Museum and the Liberty Memorial tower. It was a nice partly sunny day and there was just enough early sun to create some nice illumination on the Liberty Memorial. Image captured with my Linhof Technika IV camera on Reflx 100 film. Self-developed with CineStill's C41 kit.
Viðareiði is the northernmost settlement in the Faroe Islands and lies on the Island of Viðoy.
Shot this with my 4x5 Intrepid camera on expired Kodak plus-x aerographic 2402 aerial reconnaissance film wich i cut to sheets in my darkroom.
Intrepid 4x5 view camera
Fujinon-w 150mm/f5.6
Yellow filter
Plus-x aerographic 2402 exp 05/2000 ei200
Rodinal 1:50 13min
I finally 3D printed a lens board for my No. 3 Acme Synchro so that I could use it on my B & J View Camera. So cool.
Now I need the weather to improve so that I can get outside and catch some photos.
2023 Winter
Sakai Minato, Tottori pref
This winter, I made a short trip to Sakae Minato bay in Tottori pref. I have always known the photographer Shoji Ueda(1925-2000), who made plenty of surrealistic photographs at the Tottori Dunes since the 1950's.
I have always assumed that he must have resided somewhere in Tottori prefecture, somewhere near the famous Dunes (which is quite far from this town), but I never knew he was born and lived in Sakai Minato, and even runned his own Camera Shop here.
This large format camera was shot at this UEDA CAMERA shop, now became a small camera museum showing most of his precious camera collection over the window.
I accidentally bumped into this "museum" which I never knew that existed so it was a surprising incident for me.
This accident was one of the highlight of my trip, since I stopped by this town after the business trip in Matsue city, in Shimane Pref.