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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...
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.
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.
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
Pentax K10d with Helios 44/2 58mm f2 tilted with Geometry tilt&shift self-made device . More info about the device here bluescargo.gr/geometry/
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
Porcelain sculpture in the photography store.
"Watch the Birdie" seemed like the obvious title; but
"Hold it, I think you're going to like this picture!"
from the old Bob Cummings TV program also comes to mind.
A behind-the-scenes view of a recent barnyard photo shoot near St. Ignatius, Montana. A curious chicken checking out my Chamonix F-2 4x5.
There are a number of critical errors present which result in this being just a preview to the final image to come. The second long exposure of modeling lamp that followed the initial flash failed to provide adequate light to expose the motion/blur effect of the signer's hands in motion. The signer was instructed not to use the facial expression that would normally accompany the signs. Shifts between exposures due to switching filters, 4x5 slide film holders, and shutter winding. It was also very difficult for the signer to stay so still for that long yet continue to move just the arms and hands.
I took the already developed negatives to a lab in Richmond back in May that I will not mention. This is because the scans were awful. Terribly dusty. I paid 34.50 for three 'custom scans at high resolution'. Custom meaning I asked for the borders of the film to be included in the image rather than cropped. At such a high resolution I would expect extreme attention to the removal of dust from the negatives and scanners. I may have developed them myself but dust is nothing new to me, I do everything I can to avoid it. My B&W gelatin silver prints made myself were virtually immaculate.
Taken with a Sinar 4x5" monorail view camera and a 135mm lens on f/8. It might have been Rodenstock, but I forget. I know they were very nice and very sharp. Two 750w flashes at 45 degrees behind camera at full and 1/4 powers.
Linhof Kardan Standard / Polaroid 104 plastic lens / Polaroid Chocolate
For those of you who think that Polaroid beat Kodak at its own game (that is, making cheapo plastic cameras for dumbs), you should take a look at Kodak instant cameras. Kodak made it again: a camera still more low-end than even a Polaroid 600. Even more anti-ergonomical than a Polaroid. Gratz, Kodak.
You know, yester I was looking at Ansel's 'The camera'. Funny thing: in an entire chapter dedicated to instant photography, where ole Ansel praised the virtues of Polaroid pro cameras and films, there were only two lines about Kodak instant system. He, or whoever wrote the book for him, only said about it that it was aimed at amateurs and that he had not tried it. At least, if guys there in Rochester had shown Ansel the color of money Kodak instant system would have had a few more lines in 'The camera'. Who knows if we could even have quoted a beautiful epitaph from the book. Tsk tsk. Very ugly thing from you, Ansel, taking into account that your first pics of the Half Dome were shot with a Brownie. Damn good pics, tho...
My friend Le Fras agreed to help me with a shoot and showed up with a suit on, We went to an abandoned building site and took a few photos. Shot using my DIY large format camera. Arista Ortho 2.0 film. 4 second exposure at f32.
Zeiss Ikon 7.5cm f6.8 (wide open)
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