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4x5 for 365 Project details: greggobst.photography/4x5-for-365
Camera: Calumet 45NX 4x5 large format monorail view camera.
Lens: Fujinon-W 210mm F5.6 lens in a Copal B shutter. Yellow-Green filter on the lens to improve contrast.
Film: Ilford HP5+ 400 ISO Negative Film, shot at 200 ISO.
Exposure: 1/60th second @ F22.
Lighting: Alien Bees B800 studio strobe @ 3/4 power in 22" soft white beauty dish with diffusion sock, positioned above and slightly in front of camera position. A 45" white reflector on reflector stand positioned to camera left to bounce some light back onto the subject. A second B800 strobe @ 1/32 power in a 12X48" gridded strip box positioned horizontal to the table at camera right. Strobes triggered with PocketWizard Plus II radio triggers.
Development: Self Developed in Kodak Xtol 1+2 dilution in Paterson Universal Tank using the Taco Method. 13 minutes @ 20 degrees Celsius. Kodak indicator stop bath. Ilford Rapid Fixer. Photo-Flo rinse.
Scanning: Negative scanned with Epson V600 in two scans and merged back together in PhotoShop since the V600 doesn't natively support 4x5 scans in one pass. Cropped to desired size in Lightroom 4.
Toyo/Omega 45F
Nikon Nikkor-W 210mm (82A filter)
T5.6/8
1/60 shutter
Arista EDU Ultra 200 (rated 100 ASA)
develop: LegacyPro L76 10 minutes
scan: Epson 4490
Gelatin-silver photograph on Ilford MG V photographic paper, image size 24.7cm X 19.3cm, from a 8x10 Kodak Tmax 400 negative exposed in a Tachihara 810HD field view camera fitted with a Fujinon-W 300mm f5.6 lens.
My Shen-Hao large-format view-camera getting some action :)
See what it took.
Taken whilst travelling through Lochalsh area on holiday hunting scenery.
Cliff detail, Otway Coast
Arca-Swiss 4x5 F-Line & Universalis hybrid, Rodenstock APO-Sironar S 150mm, Fujichrome Provia 100f 4x5
Building # 17, one of the last remaining original buildings on the campus of Norristown State Hospital. The institution was originally known as the State Lunatic Hospital at Norristown. This structure dates to around 1880 and was designed by Wilson Brothers and Company. Norristown was historic as being the first institution in the United States to allow female physicians to practice.
UPDATE: This building has now been demolished.
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Camera: Calumet CC-401 4x5 large format monorail view camera
Lens: Rodenstock Geronar 150mm F6.3 lens in a Copal 0 shutter
Film: Arista EDU 100 Ultra 4x5 B&W sheet film which I shot at 64 ISO
Settings: Shot at F45, 1/8th second shutter speed. Metered with a Pentax 1 degree spot meter.
Development: Self Developed film in Kodak Xtol 1:2 in Paterson Universal Tank using the Taco Method. 9 minutes @ 20 degrees Celsius. Tap water stop bath. Ilford Rapid Fixer. Photo-Flo. Hung on shower curtain to dry on film clips.
Scanning: Negative scanned with Epson V600 in two parts and merged in Photoshop CS5 since the V600 doesn't natively support scanning 4x5 sheet film and I haven't stepped up to the V700 yet.
This was my first attempt at developing with Xtol after having used Rodinal and I have to say that I think I like Xtol better. The blacks seem richer and the overall tonal values seem much more defined than with Rodinal. I still have to work out some issues with the scan lines in the sky. I'm going to look into getting a better scanning mask to flatten out the negative a bit more during the scanning process. My large format learning experience marches on...
Testing how easy it is to shoot the Linhof handheld, since it was way too cold (5 degrees wind chill) and windy for a tripod. I focused the camera to infinity, and locked it there, since I don't have a cam for the lens. It seemed to work pretty well and having the Linhof vary finder really helped.
Linhof Technika V, 90mm Fujinon SW
f/22 at 125/sec
Kodak Tri-X 320, Developed in FS Xtol using the dip and dunk method.
This is another shot from the early 2000s. This large format shot is of the shallow end of Teneya Lake in Yosemite NP. It was a great day for shooting, an early snow began to fall and the light was beautifully soft. If you look close on the "floating rock" a few snow flakes. I love photographing this lake, even though I haven't photographed it a lot.
Sometimes you find things in the most unexpected places. Wandering through the Saginaw zoo we entered the wolf area. They have an old cabin setup where you view the wolves from. In there among the other antique type things was this camera. Being the photography freak I had to gab a picture.
Old camera, new year. Hope you all have a great new year! Happy 2011.
This freight station, located on Lackawanna Ave in Scranton Pennsylvania, was built in 1891. It is of the Romanesque Revival style of architecture, very fanciful for a freight terminal. The building has remained unused since the Lehigh Valley Railroad, who took over the Central NJ Railroad after bankruptcy shutdown station operations in 1972. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.
One of these days when I am shooting 4x5, Mother Nature will grant me a sky with interesting clouds. This was not that day.
Shot with the Calumet CC-401 4x5 large format monorail view camera
Rodenstock Geronar 150mm F6.3 lens in a Copal 0 shutter
Arista EDU 100 Ultra 4x5 B&W sheet film
Shot at F45, 1/400th second shutter speed. Metered with a Pentax 1 degree spot meter.
Self Developed film in Rodinal 1:100 using semi-stand development in Paterson Tank using the Taco Method. Tap water stop bath. Ilford Rapid Fixer. Photo-Flo. Hung on shower curtain to dry on film clips.
Negative scanned with Epson V600 in two parts and merged in Photoshop CS5 since the V600 doesn't natively support scanning 4x5 sheet film and I haven't stepped up to the V700 yet.
This series I shot with a 4x5 studio view camera
I wanted to explore shapes, geometry, lines, patterns. I always start out with such simple ideas.
What I started to discover was a magnificent palette of colors that made it's presents in the work. Each building was beautiful in my eyes and how colors better complimented the body of work. I had almost shot this in B&W.
Yet again another layer began to unravel itself. The fine detail of shooting 4X5 brought me to discovering that there was much more to this body of work than I had originally intended.
As I was focusing on Patterns, Repetition, Colors, Geometry, etc....I started to notice a very individualistic quality to each building. Within the patterns and repetition was something that wasn't at all a pattern or repetition-Human beings and the spaces in which they inhabited. I know...Duh...people live, work, and party in buildings.
But really though. Look at the work from a far and appreciate the first layer. Then look again an start to notice the finer details. The small traces of man that makes it's presents within this cluster of patterns and repetition.
Conceptually, it reflects the human population. How we build up when we can no longer build on the ground. The vastness of our presents on this planet. Our population only gets bigger and our cities only become more crowded.
Enjoy.
"The Ship and the Choir” by Pieter Saenredam (1597-1665). painted on the wall by DeStrakkeHand in april 2020
CamTech:
Cambo ActusGFX Fujifilm GFX50s CarlZeiss Contax645 35mmf/3.5
Gelatin-silver photograph on Ilford MG IV FB, image size 24.5cm X 19.6cm, from an 8x10 Tmax 400 negative exposed in a Plaubel monorail view camera fitted with a Fujinon-W 300mm f5.6 lens.
Zeiss Ikon 7.5cm f6.3 (wide open)
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Camera: Toyo-View 45GII, Fuji Fujinon NW 125mm f5.6, filter IR820, exposure @ ISO 12, f11, 1s. Developed in Rodinal 1+50, 20°C, 12min.
This is my 5x4 Monorail View Camera. I got it off eBay a few years ago and haven't used it as yet. 5x4 is a problem to use anyway but I'm thinking of modifying the back to accept one of my EOS 20D bodies. I'd need a wideangle lens though.
This full page cartoon of a police photographer struggling to take a mug shot photograph of a prisoner is from an 1873 Harper's Weekly. I have never seen a mug shot that suggested that the prisoner had to be restrained.
This print is framed and hangs on a wall with some of our mug shots in the guest room AKA The Mystery Room.
Shot with a 4x5 large format film camera [210mm] on Ilford HP5 (ISO 400). Scanned with a tablet as a light source, sandwich bag diffuser and a camera+tripod for actual image acquisition.
Zeiss Ikon 7.5cm f6.3 (wide open)
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Camera: Toyo 45 GII, Schneider Symmar-S 240mm f5.6. Exposure: f32, 2s . Film: Ilford FP4+, developed in Rodinal 1+50, 14:20 @20.2°C.
Taken at Falls #1 on the North Fork of the Big Pine Creek in the John Muir Wilderness area of the Eastern Sierra mountains, just west of Big Pine. After starting to process these rolls of film, I noticed that I have a constant light leak that affects every frame taken with my 6x9 roll film holder. Since the leak only affects the top and right edge of the frame, I can still use some of the images, though mostly they will be processed as black and white as it's easier to correct of the fog without having to deal with color correction.
Linhof Technika V, 210mm Nikkor
Fuji Provia 120 film, f/32 at 4 sec with Polarizer.
Film developed in Jobo Processor with Tetenal E6 chemicals
Realised I have never actually posted a picture of this camera - posted quite a few taken with it...
This was a challenging shot for composition and lighting. Although overcast, the graves were backlit so I overexposed and reduced my agitation during development.
Some nice dramatic clouds would have enhanced the scene nicely but wasn't to be on this day.
f32 @ 1/2 second
ShenHao HZX45-IIA + Fujinon-W 135mm f5.6 + Arista EDU Ultra 100 @ 50 iso + HC-110 (9mL syrup + 600mL water) @ 8 min (Tray developed)
Horseman L45
Rodenstock ApoRonar 300mm F9
Ilford Ortho Plus
Rodinal 1+50, 15mins (slightly lower agitation per min)
Epson V850
f45 @ 1/4 second
ShenHao HZX45-IIA + Fujinon-W 135mm f5.6 + Arista EDU Ultra 100 @ 50 iso + HC-110 1:200 @ 60 min (Jobo Tank, 1 min initial agitation followed by 3 turns @ every minute for next 5 minutes, slight turn at 30 minutes, stand developed)
An example of Fuji's breadth as a lens manufacturer, here their view-camera lenses take on a somewhat German-dominated segment of the market.
Arca Swiss large format camera with polaroid film back
Fuji Fp-100c instant film negative reclamation
model: Marina Mui