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Contact print from 8’x10’ Foma film
printed on hahnemüle paper with kallitype process
dev am.cit/sd cit. No toned.
Since the beginning of the pandemic the thing I missed more than anything else has been doing portrait sittings.
With a heavy hearth I shut down my New York portraiture studio last August after a quarter of a century activity, filled up a container with twenty-five years worth of ancient, fragile large format equipment and headed to my native Tuscany.
Last week I finally had the opportunity to photograph my first portraiture session in 2021.
The sitter was Ms. Aminata Fofana, author of best selling books and practitioner of shamanic self-help workshops, based on the knowledge passed on to her by her grandfather during her childhood in Africa.
Our setting was the beautiful Tuscan countryside and despite shooting the entire session outdoors we both followed strict anti-covid safety rules.
I am sharing here my favorite image from the session, where I positioned her right inside a flowering Mimosa tree, not only to crown her majestic beauty with blossoms, but also to celebrate the upcoming Women’s day, March 8th, when Mimosa flowers are presented to women in sign of appreciation and respect.
Technically, this image was shot on orthochromatic 8x10 film, using a Folmer Graphic Century Universal camera (circa 1928) and a Bausch and Lomb Plastigmat lens (circa 1910) which never ends to favorably impress me.
It was a very enjoyable session albeit the discomfort of lugging such heavy equipment between different locations while wearing a face mask.
I dedicate this image to all women in the world and especially to the one I love the most: my wife.
One more shot with the Intrepid 4x5 camera from I think the only model shoot i've done so far from an early on shoot with Aneta
Intrepid 4x5 large format camera + Symmar-S 180mm f4.5 lens + 4x5 Fomapan 100 sheet film
Intrepid 4x5 Blog - mrleica.com/intrepid-4x5-camera-review-large-format-film/
Developing - 750:250 Xtol + 5ml Rodinal, 16min at 25 degrees, Epson v800 scan.
Note: black marks on each side from me loading/ unloading the sheet film and the film rubbing on the side of the film holder - "schoolboy error!" (it was one of the first 4x5 frames i'd shot for ages though so a bit out of practise!) :)
I love the smooth tones of 4x5 film if you compare this to the 'harsh' highlights in my recent 35mm film posts
Fomapan 100 - mrleica.com/120-fomapan-100-film/
Leica M6, Voigtlander Nokton 40mm F1.4 classic. Fomapan 200, Fomadon P (stock) 6' 30'' 20°C. Scan from negative film.© All rights reserved. This photograph is Copyright and may NOT in part or in whole be reproduced in any electronic or printed medium without prior permission from the photographer.
4x4" Wet Plate Collodion Tintype with burnished moon and star, shot with a 5x7 Large Format field camera...
My 4x5 kit. All items total $215 USD. Thrift store finds. Crown graphic 4x5. 127mm 4.7 Kodak. Waltz mechanical timer. Graflex 6x9 120 film back. These Waltz 15-second mechanical timers were the selfie enabling device of the day. Works on this camera, my RB67 and C330.
I rarely leave my home state of Oregon for photographic purposes by I find Washington's Mt. Rainier National Park to be irresistible. I captured this image last July. I shot at sunset the night before and the morning seen here. I was absolutely assaulted by mosquitos, but the morning clouds and the amazing lupine filled meadows made it all worth while. I captured this image with my 4x5 camera, allowing me to tilt my plane of focus, thereby getting exceptionally sharp detail across the image, with a single exposure. For more information about this image and the rest of my fine art portfolio, please visit my website,http://www.mikeputnamphoto.com/
Another scan from the first 6 sheets of Fomapan 100 in the 4x5 Intrepid camera
Intrepid 4x5 large format camera + Symmar-S 180mm f5.6 lens (@f4.5 marked on the aperture scale but the lens front says f5.6) + 4x5 Fomapan 100 sheet film
(For those that don't use 4x5 film the black marks are me scrapping the film on the film holder when loading in the dark). This was the sharpest of the 6 shots. I realised my error on some of the others. For the blog..
* I didn't spot the hand placement when I took the photo but otherwise I think it is one of my best 4x5 photo attempts so far. I will get there! :)
Developing - 1:3 Xtol + 1:300 Rodinal, 11min at 23 degrees, Epson v800 scan
Polish model Aneta
I have been putting this off for ten years, mostly because the camera was nearly always busy. I diligently try to patch all the pinholes (periodically) with liquid tape. But in the end, the beautiful original bellows on my Deardorff 8x10camera were sagging so much that I had to stuff something underneath in order not to let it interfere with the framing ! So on the last day of 2023, my somewhat fearful hands started disassembling the old bellows to replace them with new ones that I had kept in a cardboard box since 2013.... I'll admit It wasn't an overly difficult task, although I relied on a couple of very precious tips from today's highest authority on Deardorff cameras, Ken Hough, who I thank wholeheartedly for kindly sharing his knowledge with us. In the end, I managed the transplant at the best of my abilities and I am happy with the result: I double checked the newly installed bellows for light leaks and I pleased to say there are none.
Now, what to do with the splendid, albeit tired, original Deardorff bellows? Well, I thought it deserved at least to be featured in a selfportrait taken through its brand new cousin !
Camera: 1947 4x5 Graflex Crown Graphic
- Lens: Schneider Kreuznach Symmar 150 mm f/5.6
- Negative: Arista EDU Ultra VC RC Paper
- Exposition at ISO 3
- Developer: Caffenol
Gulgong, NSW, Australia.
November 2020.
Kodak Vision 3.
Developed Cinestill C41 1 hour cold stand.
Chroma Camera Carbon Adventurer 4x5 + DAYI roll film back + Nikkor W 135/5.6.
2min f/45.
Tilas Stoll Persberg Filipstad
Tilas stoll is named after the ore geologist and master Daniel Tilas (1712-72). Stoll is a horizontal mine tunnel, which in one end is connected to a vertical mountain side. This stoll was started in 1767 by two miners from Sala.Persberg, located at Lake yngen and Highway 63, is an old mining community where iron ore mining has been conducted since the medieval period until the closure in the late 1970s. Several mining fields are in the neighborhood.
Toyo metal field camera.
Fujinon-w 90mm/f8.0
Yellow filter.
Adox CHS 100 II.
Rodinal 1:50 11 min.
2016-11-19.
Now with a white background.
Arum Lily on Agfa X-ray film in my #largeformat camera a 10x8 "New Countess" field camera with a large brass Petzval F4 25cm lens
Exposure - 20 seconds at f32 ISO100
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