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For Advanced Commercial Photography class. Final 10 image.
Ring pops - selective focus
4x5 view camera shoot
Shot on Fuji Velvia chrome film
Assistant: Aleksandr Romanovich Kats
Reminiscing of Summers gone by. It was -3.5 degrees with a wind chill of -24 on Tuesday morning and I miss the flowers. I broke off this dried up branch in our backyard from what is usually a very nicely flowered plant in the Spring and Summer months.
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.
Film: Fuji Super HR-T 30 medium speed green sensitive X-Ray film. Purchased as 8x10" sheets and cut down to 4x5" using a rotary trimmer under 11w red bulb safelight.
Exposure: The original metered exposure was for 1/2 second @ F64 but after adding compensation time for bellows extension and reciprocity, the final exposure was 6 seconds @ F64. Lots more exposure experimenting to be done with this X-Ray film.
Lighting: Alien Bees B800 studio strobe using only the modeling light as a constant light source @ full power in 22" soft white beauty dish with diffusion sock, positioned above and slightly in front of camera position. A 30" silver reflector on reflector stand positioned to camera left to bounce some light back onto the subject.
Development: Self Developed film in Rodinal (Adox Adinol) 1:100 in three reel Paterson Universal Tank using Mod54 six sheet 4x5 insert. 6 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 scans and merged back together in PhotoShop since the V600 doesn't natively support 4x5 scans in one pass.
Town Beach at Port Macquarie. Lack lustre sunrise but still comes out kinda nice on the Velvia.
Taken on a Cambo SC 5x7 studio view camera with a Shen Hao 6x17 roll film adapter for 5x7 and using a 120 mm Super Angulon.
Took an image on the Canon 7D to get exposure. Image not as good as this Velvia shot:
"There ain't no devil, there's just god when he's drunk."
-Tom Waits
"It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better... while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more."
-Woody Allen
Trying different film types with my 4x5" camera. 2 strobes.
Symmar 180mm
Ilford HP5 plus EXP.10/2018
dev. 7' in TMAX 1+4
11. Dezember 2025
Cliff detail, Otway Coast
Arca-Swiss 4x5 F-Line & Universalis hybrid, Rodenstock APO-Sironar S 150mm, Fujichrome Provia 100f 4x5
The negative turned out a little thin, and it didn't have the contrast range that I was hoping for. So, I decided to print it darker to make it look like it was taken in moonlight.
Camera: Deardorff 8x10 with a 5x7 back.
Lens: 19" Goerz APO Artar.
Film: Ilford HP5+ developed in PMK Pyro.
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I often say "flickr made me do it" when I make a post. In this case it was paws22 who was the vehicle for a four image addition to my photostream.
Looking through paws22's set of photographer's marks, I noticed a well know mark for S.A. Wolfe of Sacramento, California. I could not resist pulling out one of our Wolfe cabinet cards and scanning the front and back. I found that I had not erased the price we paid for the card, 50¢! Ah the good old days! We bought the card because of the Wolf logo on the back but it is also a very nice image. A well dressed little girl stands by a brocade upholstered and fringed chair with a fur throw. The background is an outdoor scene with a bridge and water. I have always wondered why photographers mixed outdoor backdrops with indoor sets and vise versa. (Note to self... maybe that should be a set)
The next step was to photograph our French metal photographer figure that, without doubt, is the original basis for this drawing.
Thanks paws22 for the nudge to do it.
Check out this blog post by photographer David Hayden about his experience using our 4x5 Stitching Adapter: www.davidhaydenphoto.com/post/large-format-from-a-full-fr...
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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.
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
When two project collide -- The Maddy Project and the Mr. Innerman Project. This was created, in camera, on film and is not a collage. The magic of light.
I introduced a couple of changes into my 4x5 photography ...
1. Introduced a new subject. I thought that a focus on industry as a topic may be interesting and lend itself well to the 4x5 format.
2. I have gone back to tray developing is I feel it offers way more control. For the first time, I tried stand development with a tray. For this negative, I used HC-110 @ 1:200 with agitation for the first minute and then at the 2nd & third minute, followed by slight agitation at 30 minutes. Total stand time was 60 minutes.
Considering this shot was taken directly into strong light, with the sun hiding behind the clouds, I though that the stand development managed the highlights quite well.
Although this is an unmanipulated scan of the negative, if I were to print this negative, the final result would likely look much different with the clouds selectively burned in as well as the right and left corners of the lake to enhance the sun on the water in the middle of the frame.
f32-45 @ 1 second + Orange Filter
ShenHao HZX45-IIA + Fujinon-W 135mm f5.6 + Arista EDU Ultra 100 @ 50 iso + HC-110 1:200 (4mL syrup + 800mL water) @ 60 min (Tray developed)
Camera: Toyo 45 GII, Schneider Super Angulon 90mm f8.0, 394mm bellows extension, f32, 3min 30s exposure. Film: Ilford FP4+, developed in Rodinal 1+50, 15:30 @19.0°C.
Shot with "Geometry" , the SLR to View Camera Conversion I have designed and constructed , using a Pentax K10d and a Mir 26B at f/16 with tilt at both front and rear standard . Here is some more info about the gear used bluescargo.gr/geometry/
What a lovely little gem of an camera. Weigh 1,369 Kg and very portable. Condition is great and in fully working order. Folded it measures just 6 3/4" x 6 3/4" x 2 3/4".
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...
Today's 4x5 for 365 project entry continues on with shots of items from my vintage analog photography collection. This is my Minolta SR-T 202 35mm film camera. These were made around 1975. It features all manual exposure with a TTL option if you have the battery for it. It has a fully mechanical cloth focal plane shutter with speeds from 1-1/1000 sec plus bulb mode for long exposures. The shutter makes this amazing "PLACK !!!" sound that is very metallic and satisfying in a tactile kind of way. There is a self timer mode as well. The camera can flash X-sync up to 1/60th of a second and has a built in pc-sync port as well as a standard hot shoe. This particular SR-T 202 came with a Rokkor 50mm F1.7 lens which was the standard lens that usually came with this model and also a Minolta 70-210 F4 telephoto lens.
4x5 for 365 Project details: greggobst.photography/4x5-for-365
Camera: Calumet 45NX 4x5 large format monorail view camera.
Lens: Rodenstock Geronar 150mm F6.3 lens in a Copal 0 shutter.
Film: Fuji Super HR-T 30 medium speed green sensitive X-Ray film. Purchased as 8x10" sheets and cut down to 4x5". Film rated at 100 ISO.
Exposure: 1/60th @ F32.
Lighting: Subject placed in light tent and lit from above with one Alien Bees B800 studio strobe in a 22" white lined beauty dish with diffusion sock @ full power. Strobe triggered with PocketWizard Plus II radio triggers.
Development: Self Developed film in Rodinal (Adox Adinol) 1:100 in three reel Paterson Universal Tank using Mod54 six sheet 4x5 insert. 7 1/2 minutes @ 20 degrees Celsius with minimal inversions. Kodak indicator stop bath. Ilford Rapid Fixer. Photo-Flo. Hung to dry.
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.
A hobbists' camera I acquired and developed further. It's an old 1/4 plate camera that someone (not me) mounted on a monorail. I changed the lens and added film backs etc to get it working. This was my original camera to practise movements, and is still useful to shoot that wonderful old 1/4 plate glass.
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.
Friday evening at my hometown (actually it's a city).
Everything is quiet, moody is stagnated. The feeling is like there happens nothing when looking at the boats at the river.
Occasionally there's some drung youngsters or oldsters wandering around and dringing more to get more drunk.
However I like it. Expect those drunkard.
Toyo 4x5 camera, Adox CHS 100 Art B&W film, developed in Thornton's D-23 variant.
Symmar-S 5.6/150mm lens and 2 minutes exposure.
A precursor to my Interstate 80 project, Space Available explores the various spaces left unutilized on the Midwestern roadside. Space Available is also the name of my daily photography blog:
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.
My Shen-Hao large-format view-camera getting some action :)
See what it took.
Taken whilst travelling through Lochalsh area on holiday hunting scenery.
Gelatin-silver photograph on Ultrafine Silver Eagle VC FB photographic paper, image size 21.4cm X 16.3cm, from a 4x5 Kodak Tmax 100 negative exposed in a Tachihara 45GF double extension field view camera fitted with a Nikkor-W 210mm f5.6 lens. Titled and signed recto, stamped verso.
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.
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)
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.