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Hugo Zhang
31-Mar-2007, 22:13
I will start with two made with my 10x20 camera and 8x20 reducing film holders. 14" Trigor lens. 30 seconds exposure. 100 speed film in Pyro.

roteague
31-Mar-2007, 22:33
Nice Hugo. Where were these taken?

Frank Petronio
31-Mar-2007, 22:34
just lying around... handheld 4x5 Technika, 150mm, wide open, HP5

Jim Galli
31-Mar-2007, 22:53
Really beautiful Hugo. I need to "exercise" the 8X20! Here's a fun little shot with a single crappy meniscus on the 5X7.


http://tonopahpictures.0catch.com/57MeniscusLens/Ford85.jpg
Ford 85

Hugo Zhang
31-Mar-2007, 23:11
Thanks, Robert. Zion National Park three months ago.

Jim, Thank you for your kind words. Inspired by your portraiture, my P&S No.3 Visual Quality IV is waiting impatiently for its flange. :)

vinny
31-Mar-2007, 23:48
4x5 velvia 50
90mm grandagon, pola
wehman 8x10, homemade shenhao reducing back
I wish i'd made the exposure w/o the polarizer.

Saulius
1-Apr-2007, 01:34
4x5 Astia
Church interior Italy,2006.

Frank Petronio
1-Apr-2007, 05:21
I like em all but Vinny and Saulius's stand out to me. That church is subtle and aublime.

Sometimes it seems that tthe ULF is more about being ULF than anything else.

Ken Lee
1-Apr-2007, 06:58
http://www.kenleegallery.com/images/gallery/daffodilswide.jpg

I like the wide ratios available via ULF, but I have to slum along with 4x5 and 5x7.
So when the mood strikes me, I mask my groundglass with blue painter's tape and... pretend !

Colin Graham
1-Apr-2007, 07:29
Sweet work everyone. The Streaked Wall, from Zion last fall. 5x12, fujinon 250 WS

Kevin Klazek
1-Apr-2007, 08:13
Very nice work so far...as usual
5x7 FP4 with 210 Symmar-s

naturephoto1
1-Apr-2007, 08:32
First photo:

Dark Hollow Falls, Shenandoah National Park, 1992
Linhof Super Technika IV 4" x 5", Rodenstock 90mm f6.8 Grandagon N MC, f45 at 6sec, Fujichrome Velvia 50.

Second photo:

Undine Falls, Yellowstone National Park, 1993
Linhof Super Technika IV 4" X 5"; image taken I believe with Rodenstock f5.6 150mm Sironar MC and Horseman 2X extender or Schneider f5.6 210mm Symmar S MC, 1/2 Sec or 1 Sec, Aperture NR, Fujichrome Velvia 50.

Rory_5244
1-Apr-2007, 08:34
8x10 FP4+, cropped to 4x10.

Ken Lee
1-Apr-2007, 09:31
Rory - Was that a rather long exposure ? Looks like the clouds have moved. It gives a remarkable effect.

Mark Sawyer
1-Apr-2007, 10:36
Here's a fun little shot with a single crappy meniscus on the 5X7.

It's not fair... every time I come up with a crappy lens, Jim has an even crappier one... :(

From the 12" IWSWG lens, this time on a B&J 11x14. (It covers close up...)

roteague
1-Apr-2007, 11:01
Here is a new one that I haven't had much time to work with:

http://www.visionlandscapes.com/working/au4141aa.jpg

The image is from Ormiston Gorge, part of the West MacDonnell Range National Park, in the Northern Territory of Australia. This image was little after sunrise, and sun was over the horizon and streaming in over my right shoulder, hence the lightness of the top part of the image. There is a lot more detail in the highlights on the transparency, but I haven't been able to get it across in the scan. Steve Nicholls, another forum member, and I spent about a week photographing in and about the canyon.

jnantz
1-Apr-2007, 13:36
11x14

Rory_5244
1-Apr-2007, 13:38
Great pictures Mark And Robert! Hi Ken, yes that's about 2 minutes on a windy day.

DrPablo
2-Apr-2007, 04:00
Mt. Auburn Cemetary, Cambridge MA
8x10 Agfa with Schneider 300 f/5.6 convertible symmar
FP4+ in XTOL, selenium toned

Scott Davis
2-Apr-2007, 04:41
here's one...

This was done on my Century Master studio camera with a Seneca 6.5x8.5 Portrait lens (most likely a Wolly Vesta by another name).

Gary Smith
2-Apr-2007, 04:41
Mikkatsuki Waterall in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan. This was taken with a Toyo 45AII and a Fujinon 90mm SWD lens at f/32 for 6s on Velvia 50. One of my favorite waterfalls, I try to get up there at least once a year. This time, the water was quite a bit lower than usual.

Thanks for looking.


Gary

Louie Powell
2-Apr-2007, 05:44
Street scene in Rhinebeck, NY.

scrichton
2-Apr-2007, 07:53
Hi all, Now I have started posting I may as well continue.

Small story for this one. I was bored on a sunday and the 6x12 back had just been re-sanded after much in the way of scratching and general film destruction . So armed with the back and my christmas present from Gayle of a 6x12 finder I got in the car to go somewhere. Where to go ... don't know ... so I aimed the car in one direction and drove for about 30 miles until the road stopped. Grabbed the camera, tripod and meter then walked as far as I could down this track until my less than waterproof footware could take no more. Setup. Took this picture, then backtracked back the way.

All in all totally pointless and with me driving a fuel drinking a 1980's Porsche (not in good condition, just owned to say I owned a porsche :-) ). Anyways to draw a long story short. This is possibly one of my favourite landscapes I have taken in the panoramic format and I'd like to share it with you all.

Technical details : f22 on TMax 400 pushed to 800 in TMAX -RS ( the best developer in the world for all round use ) Super- Angulon 5.6 90mm MPP Mk8 . Shen Hao 6x12 back and finder with scale focusing on self made calibrated scale and DOF marks. I think probably 8 secs as far as I recall.

Post is Epson V700 scan and then burned the sky and spotted the dust.


All pictures need a proper story so I hope all my posts are as interesting as this, or mundane and annoying dependent on your point of view.

Steve

Kerik Kouklis
2-Apr-2007, 08:58
Made over the weekend... 8x10 wet plate collodion on aluminum. 15" meniscus lens.

Christopher Perez
2-Apr-2007, 09:34
Made over the weekend. 150 Germinar W to Type55

http://www.hevanet.com/cperez/palladium/images/sliife_1005_500.jpg

Scott Davis
2-Apr-2007, 09:40
Christopher- what do you do to get your T55 to print so nicely in Pd? I have had a devil of a time with it and have had to resort to scanning/digitally enlarging my negs to print well.

Christopher Perez
2-Apr-2007, 09:50
Scott, I shoot the Type55 at ISO 20 and let the neg get fairly dense. Also, I'm using Formulary's chemicals. Though if you use B&S you should be able to get better contrast than I sometimes get with my thinner negs.

Is this what you were looking for? If not, try me again. :)

I dumped a bunch of Palladium images up on my Flickr site:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/christophersoddsandsods/

Polaroid really works nicely once you get the image density up. Oh, and I shoot my Zone 3 on Zone 4 with this material. Helps hold the shadow details. Then I let the highlights go where they will. A little sloppy... I know... but it works... :) :)


Christopher- what do you do to get your T55 to print so nicely in Pd? I have had a devil of a time with it and have had to resort to scanning/digitally enlarging my negs to print well.

Scott Davis
2-Apr-2007, 09:54
Christopher- that's in the right track. I've been shooting my T55 somewhere around ISO 25 also, I think, but it has been a while since I used it, having gone over mostly to 5x7. I was having contrast problems with my negs - perhaps they aren't cleared enough. I'll try shooting some new stuff with it soon, and see how it goes. Are you processing in-pod, or are you pulling the film out and doing it in other chemistry? I've heard of some folks doing that to get more printable negs for pt/pd - they pull the neg without processing in the Polaroid stuff, then soup it in Pyro. Or re-develop in Pyro later. Have you ever tried that?

Christopher Perez
2-Apr-2007, 09:57
Scott, I process in-pod, wash for 5 mins, then clear in Ilford Rapid Fix for 5 mins, and then wash for 20 mins. I believe the trick here is to let the highlights fall where they will, even in contrasty situations.


Christopher- that's in the right track. I've been shooting my T55 somewhere around ISO 25 also, I think, but it has been a while since I used it, having gone over mostly to 5x7. I was having contrast problems with my negs - perhaps they aren't cleared enough. I'll try shooting some new stuff with it soon, and see how it goes. Are you processing in-pod, or are you pulling the film out and doing it in other chemistry? I've heard of some folks doing that to get more printable negs for pt/pd - they pull the neg without processing in the Polaroid stuff, then soup it in Pyro. Or re-develop in Pyro later. Have you ever tried that?

Scott Davis
2-Apr-2007, 10:04
Scott, I process in-pod, wash for 5 mins, then clear in Ilford Rapid Fix for 5 mins, and then wash for 20 mins. I believe the trick here is to let the highlights fall where they will, even in contrasty situations.

I'll have to give that a try- I have not been clearing with a rapid fix- just doing the sodium sulfite clearing bath, which obviously isn't cutting it.

walter23
2-Apr-2007, 12:47
This is from a couple of weeks ago, and it's the image that spurred my moaning about carrying a backup camera (about a minute later, a really spectacular red light show appeared, and I was out of film). I guess with the already high saturation of the slide film it may have been too much though.

Carl Radford
2-Apr-2007, 12:51
The first is a 5x7 pld of a set of Horn Croppers:

http://www.scottishmonochrome.co.uk/images/horn-croppers.jpg

and the second is from a print made from a 5x4 neg on Kentmere Fineprint WT Semi-Matt of a pile of Milk Churns and a pitch fork!

http://www.scottishmonochrome.co.uk/images/churnsandpitch-fork.jpg

Jim Galli
2-Apr-2007, 13:10
The first is a 5x7 pld of a set of Horn Croppers:

Ouch! Very pretty.

markinwaterloo
2-Apr-2007, 13:16
Taken with Ebony, 75mm on Delta 100.

Carl Radford
2-Apr-2007, 13:41
Ouch! Very pretty.

A wicked bit of kit - the arms are long and so a lot of force could be exerted!

Chris Strobel
2-Apr-2007, 13:50
Excellent work everyone.Old balls, Type 55

http://www.pbase.com/cloudswimmer/image/76564242/original.jpg

Bob Bell
2-Apr-2007, 20:17
Fantastic image of the baseballs / softballs. Would of been great for USA Today or SI with the start of the baseball season.

Ray Bidegain
2-Apr-2007, 20:56
This is a 5x7 platinum palladium print from February.

Ray Bidegain

Ray Bidegain
2-Apr-2007, 20:59
And this one is a 5x7 Platinum palladium from this past weekend.

Ray Bidegain

walter23
2-Apr-2007, 21:22
I want to photograph beautiful naked women, but I've got no idea how to find them. I'm too married to find them in the traditional way.

Frank Petronio
2-Apr-2007, 21:24
http://www.modelmayhem.com

Don't be a creep and it works well because people can check references. Of course there are plenty of flakes and sketchy people, but if you use common sense you can find plenty of interesting amateur models, male and female, all ages and types.

I found this lady there, she is 40-something body-builder, pretty amazing body and attitude really.

Pete Skerys
2-Apr-2007, 21:38
Since there were a couple of waterfall shots earlier in this post here's one i had lying around.

Strathbogie weir. Taken winter last year (probably the last time they got any reasonable rain).
Crappy flatbed scan of neg. 810, J&C Pro100, Pyrocat-HD, Caltar (Rodenstock) f5.6/300.

Perhaps in future picture posts could be thematic? It would make it easier to find some of those exceptional inspirational images in the future... just a thought.

Carl Radford
3-Apr-2007, 01:58
This is a 5x7 platinum palladium print from February.

Ray Bidegain

Lovely tones Ray!

Joe Forks
3-Apr-2007, 06:20
My lab decided to push process these negs on my first test of Rollei Infrared. I guess I need to be doing my own processing.

Wista Metal Field, 110mm, Rollei Infrared and Hoya R72

http://logojoe.com/wista/yucca_faxoniana_g.jpg

Pete Skerys
3-Apr-2007, 06:31
Sharp image, Joe!

Amund BLix Aaeng
6-Apr-2007, 18:52
Finally got around to print a little.

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/179/448945428_1a7719defe_o.jpg

5x7 contact print.

Chris Strobel
6-Apr-2007, 23:46
Caumet C-1, 300mm Sironar-N, Fp4+, PMK, Epson 4990

http://www.pbase.com/cloudswimmer/image/76770797/original.jpg

Ash
7-Apr-2007, 11:05
Edit

great7
21-Apr-2007, 05:02
Stunning works everyone.

Below is my very first post here.

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/189/466210434_e761fe2cd5_o.jpg

Ken Lee
21-Apr-2007, 06:41
I'm liken' it

Patrik Roseen
21-Apr-2007, 07:40
I posted this photograph as a respons to another thread about E6 pull or push, but I think it fits in this one as well.

I brought my LF Technika 4x5" to Tenerife in march this year. Tele-xenar 270mm and shot on Ektachrome 100. I am standing on the cliffs on the other side of a small bay. The model is my girlfriend.

Model in landscape (http://thumbs.photo.net/photo/5875996-lg.jpg)

dominikus bw
21-Apr-2007, 09:13
Seven... made by Sinar F1, Componon-S 5.6/150, TMY 400

Jorge Gasteazoro
24-Apr-2007, 14:19
One I am working on, the contrast is not right just yet....but you can get an idea.

roteague
24-Apr-2007, 15:17
One I am working on, the contrast is not right just yet....but you can get an idea.

Good to see you back, Jorge!!

Amund BLix Aaeng
24-Apr-2007, 15:24
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/222/471008144_10e6e96b14_o.jpg

Shen-Hao 5x7, 12" Ilex Paragon, Foma 200 in PMK.

Rory_5244
24-Apr-2007, 19:35
8x10 kodak E100VS

Remigius
25-Apr-2007, 02:40
Shen-Hao 5x7, 12" Ilex Paragon, Foma 200 in PMK.
Amund,

Is this 5x7" or 13x18cm? Where can you get the Foma 200 in this size? I'm looking for BW film in 13x18, but all other than 100 ISO is difficult to get.

Ken Lee
25-Apr-2007, 03:03
Rory - A most mysterious image. It conveys the feeling you get out in those fields, at that time of day... a bit like being adrift in the ocean.

Amund BLix Aaeng
25-Apr-2007, 03:10
Amund,

Is this 5x7" or 13x18cm? Where can you get the Foma 200 in this size? I'm looking for BW film in 13x18, but all other than 100 ISO is difficult to get.


It`s 5x7, I buy mine from www.fomafoto.no , he only has the Foma 100 in 13x18cm..

You better buy some 5x7 holders... :)

matthew blais
25-Apr-2007, 09:48
I found the location, then searched for a model to fit. The silver print was the original idea, then moved her to do an 8x10 (cyanotype/tea)

Ebony 4x5 & KMV 8x10

ageorge
26-Apr-2007, 17:02
Love seeing everyones work.

Here is my contribution....

Shen Hao 4x5, Nikkor 210mm, TMAX 100.
Low Tide, McClures Beach, Point Reyes National Seashore
http://alan-george.com/tmp/05.jpg

Chris Strobel
26-Apr-2007, 17:21
Here is my latest dabble in 8x10, a conch shell.Calumet C-1/Sironar-N 300mm, 70 sec.@ f/64 on fp4+, 8 min. in PMK @ 70 degrees, Epson 4990

http://upload.pbase.com/cloudswimmer/image/77798595/original.jpg

Joe Forks
27-Apr-2007, 16:29
I didn't like the comp on this one at first, but it's growing on me

Wista, 110mm, Rollei near infrared and Hoya R72
http://logojoe.com/wista/yucca_faxoniana_e.jpg

william linne
27-Apr-2007, 16:48
Portronic Paragon

Colin Robertson
28-Apr-2007, 02:37
William, what a fine set of photographs on your website. There was a recent thread here about 'sharpness'- your images are a perfect illustration of what can be done by limiting and controlling both depth of field and the point of focus.

d lee
28-Apr-2007, 14:56
not yet dust spotted

william linne
28-Apr-2007, 15:06
Thanks,Colin.

Shen45
28-Apr-2007, 21:04
This was taken last week.

Steve

Flexnib
28-Apr-2007, 21:44
Hello All,
5x7 Seneca View contact print 210 B&L. My first attemp at LF photos. Sorry I don't yet have a scanner but wanted to contribute to this wonderful thread.
Thanks,
Arthur, NYC
http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c393/flexnib/IMG_1611.jpg

Dawid
29-Apr-2007, 01:22
Arthur

I really like that shot. If thats your first attempt at Lf, keep it coming !

Cheers
Dawid

Brian K
29-Apr-2007, 05:24
Here's one not yet printed, from a neg scan.

Michael Graves
29-Apr-2007, 06:57
14" Artar on a 5x7. Aristo Edu Ultra 200 in HC-110, 1:64 for 11 minutes.

Ken Lee
29-Apr-2007, 08:17
Here's one not yet printed, from a neg scan.

Lovely ! I'd like to see a larger version.

Robert Hughes
29-Apr-2007, 08:35
Here's a 4x5 from a series I'm working on of old & abandoned dwellings in rural Maryland. New World ruins... Busch Pressman D / Raptar 135mm, Era 100, D76.

Mchilly
29-Apr-2007, 21:18
Great pics here, hope I could also post some of the great photos I've taken. But not this time I'm kinda new to photography, afraid of the negative criticism wink!

Photomax
29-Apr-2007, 22:32
Hi Robert,

I would love to see some more work taken with the Busch Pressman!

Max

David Schaller
30-Apr-2007, 05:34
14" Artar on a 5x7. Aristo Edu Ultra 200 in HC-110, 1:64 for 11 minutes.

Michael,
I've driven through Wells River many times and have always wanted to photograph that mill! Nice job.
Dave

Frank Petronio
30-Apr-2007, 06:03
Kind of getting behind with my scanning and image prep -- gotta huge stack to do -- but here are a couple of new ones. Just fun and wide open of course.

Ash
30-Apr-2007, 09:19
Crazy as ever frank!

Conley 10,5"/4 convertible RR test shot. Wide open.

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y43/second-belated/conleyhorse1asm.jpg

Scott --
30-Apr-2007, 10:54
Wasting film this weekend: Graflex Super Speed Graphic, Optar 135/4.7, Arista.EDU Ultra 200 in HC-110 dil H. Click for a big'un.

Dust spotting? Wha's that? ;)

http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j185/bliorg/crop288.jpg (http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j185/bliorg/crop288a.jpg)

Jim Galli
30-Apr-2007, 10:57
Wasting film this weekend: Graflex Super Speed Graphic, Optar 135/4.7, Arista.EDU Ultra 200 in HC-110 dil H. Click for a big'un.


Looks more like a treasure than a waste to me. Likewise, I've been printing the weekends trophies this AM and hope to get a few posted.
;)

william linne
30-Apr-2007, 13:32
Among others thing I've lost.

Cooke f2.5 165mm.

Ash
30-Apr-2007, 13:41
Is that the same young lady in a few mono portraits in your folio William?

Brian K
30-Apr-2007, 17:54
Here's a neg scan of a new one.

Hugo Zhang
30-Apr-2007, 18:43
Brian,

Can you tell me how you made this one? What did you do with the foreground? It's very very nice!

William,

If you decide someday to run a portraiture workshop with models like that, I will sign up and drive up.:)

Brian K
1-May-2007, 04:37
Lovely ! I'd like to see a larger version.

Thanks for the kind words Ken.




Brian,

Can you tell me how you made this one? What did you do with the foreground? It's very very nice!


Thanks Hugo,

There's nothing unusual about the bottom of the image except that my use of a long exposure smoothed the water. The image posted is a negative scan so there hasn't been any print manipulations yet. Yellow or red filter, early morning light, a small storm passing through.

Ken Lee
1-May-2007, 07:09
Dunno know you're going to print them, but both of these are among the few images I can recall that feel best (to my limited seeing of course) in a silvery rendition, IE not warm-toned.

william linne
1-May-2007, 11:59
Graflex Series C with Cooke 165mm F2.5 lens, wide open.

Amund BLix Aaeng
1-May-2007, 12:46
Shen-Hao FCL-57 w/4x5-back. 210mm f/5.6 Sironar-N, Foma 200. Wide open

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/185/480282460_b2ae2d8d41_o.jpg

Jim Galli
1-May-2007, 12:56
http://tonopahpictures.0catch.com/405Kodak18PlastigEtc042907/DesertShoes_405Kodak.jpg
Desert Shoes

Done with the 405 Kodak Achromat wide open.

Ash
1-May-2007, 13:02
That really glows!

Colin Graham
1-May-2007, 14:45
along the Straits of Juan de Fuca. 5x12, fujinon 250 WS

roteague
1-May-2007, 15:54
along the Straits of Juan de Fuca. 5x12, fujinon 250 WS

Ohhh.... that is a great use of the panoramic format. :)

Colin Graham
1-May-2007, 16:05
Thank you Robert. I like the apsect ratio so much it almost feels like cheating.

william linne
2-May-2007, 16:53
Eagle Quick Acting Petzval Lens.

vinny
2-May-2007, 18:54
Konica 750 infrared, 135mm nikkor, Wehman 8x10, 89b filter.
Here's a scan from my trip home in march. This is from my new shen hao roll film back that replaced my previous model. I hadn't had light leak problems before but you can see the left and right edges are affected by something. I made two exposures since and both have spots on the neg. Hopefully they don't show enlarged with my diffusion head.
vinny

vinny
2-May-2007, 23:27
What i meant to say was; i made two exposures and both have spots on the negs which look like developing issues that i haven't had recently. This is the 5th roll i've put through the holder and the left and right edges are over exposed in a line from top to bottom.

Shen45
7-May-2007, 18:55
These cost me $1.20 and will be eaten.

Foma 200 5x4 in PMK. 162mm lens @ f22 for 1 minute 29 secs.

J Peterson
8-May-2007, 07:15
Eagle Quick Acting Petzval Lens.


William, this is a very beautiful shot!!

william linne
8-May-2007, 10:34
Thanks, J. That's actually the last picture i made with that lens and the last picture I made of that model.

Sheldon N
8-May-2007, 20:16
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/193/490725768_3164ddcfa3_o.jpg


Taken last weekend near Maupin, OR on the way to the John Day Painted Hills.

Wista DX, 120mm APO Symmar-L, Red Filter, Tri-X 320 in Xtol 1:1.

Mike Boden
15-May-2007, 16:09
This is one of my most recent images that I shot on March 4, 2007 on the East side of the Sierras, just south of Mammoth.

http://www.zoeticlight.com/images/Shack_Web.jpg
"Shack (http://www.zoeticlight.com/product_info.php/products_id/170)"

Toyo 45AII, Velvia 50, Rodenstock 90mm Grandagon-N

Jiri Vasina
15-May-2007, 23:38
As those are my shots #47 and #48 since I started LF (and only less than 2 years since I started developing my films), I'm quite happy with those...

All shot with CZJ Tessar 165mm on Fomapan 100 with Ica Ideal vintage camera

http://www.vasina.net/photos/web/p9x12-047_web.jpg

http://www.vasina.net/photos/web/p9x12-048_web.jpg

Mark Sawyer
15-May-2007, 23:45
Lovely work, Jiri!

J Peterson
16-May-2007, 05:06
Thanks, J. That's actually the last picture i made with that lens and the last picture I made of that model.

I was really sad to read you sold that lens. Firstly because I really think you had something extrodinary happenning there. Every shot I saw of it that you'd taken really took my breath away. And secondly because i didn't buy it :)

william linne
16-May-2007, 07:06
Yeah, I wasn't too thrilled with the situation, either. But still, I've got a lot of brass lenses and there's always a really special one buried in there somewhere.

W.

Hugo Zhang
16-May-2007, 14:58
Mission San Juan. 8x20" with 14" Trigor. I am not happy with the poor scanning. Actual print is lighter and has more details.

dominikus bw
16-May-2007, 16:35
Here is my new picture,
Sinar F1, Symmar 210, TMY 400.

Louie Powell
17-May-2007, 15:43
From Weston Beach at Point Lobos -

Rory_5244
17-May-2007, 20:35
Hey, dominikus, how did you get the background to look like that? Is that mist? Great "shack" Mike B. It reminds me of home, minus the backdrop.

Here's my most recent. Shark River, Trinidad. 8x10 Kodak E100VS, Tetenal developer. Called Shark River because, er, sharks like to swim in it. Very popular bathing spot. ;)

dominikus bw
20-May-2007, 02:03
Rory, yes that's a mist but there's narrow, It was taken around 6 - 6.30 in the morning, I placed the background it in to Zone V-VI1/2 and N+50% development was given, actually the result was suprising me because it's equal with my illustration when the picture was taken.


Hey, dominikus, how did you get the background to look like that? Is that mist? Great "shack" Mike B. It reminds me of home, minus the backdrop.

Here's my most recent. Shark River, Trinidad. 8x10 Kodak E100VS, Tetenal developer. Called Shark River because, er, sharks like to swim in it. Very popular bathing spot. ;)

dominikus bw
20-May-2007, 02:07
nice shot Sheldon
120mm is my dream lens... :D


http://farm1.static.flickr.com/193/490725768_3164ddcfa3_o.jpg


Taken last weekend near Maupin, OR on the way to the John Day Painted Hills.

Wista DX, 120mm APO Symmar-L, Red Filter, Tri-X 320 in Xtol 1:1.

Sheldon N
20-May-2007, 14:42
Thanks Dominikus. Here's another from the same trip. Scott Rosenberg and I did about 500 miles and 18 hours in a one day shoot.

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/229/506552371_164d7ab18e_o.jpg

John Day Painted Hills National Monumet at Sunset, Wista DX, Nikkor-M 300mm f/9, B+W Polarizer, Fuji Provia 100F.

Hugo Zhang
20-May-2007, 15:53
That's a beautiful one, Sheldon! I am usually color-blind, but this one really impresses me.

Here is one with an Euryscop IV No. 6 lens.

bsimison
23-May-2007, 18:19
Great images, everyone.

Here's one from this weekend. A portrait of my bride-to-be in her traditional Chinese wedding dress. Tachihara 4x5, Schneider 210mm ƒ/5.6 Symmar-S, Fuji Velvia 100 Quickload -- the only color film I had in my bag.

http://clients.brettsimison.com/20070518_AYuen/images/BJS-20070522_4x5_003.jpg
Amy

George Kara
23-May-2007, 18:24
Hey Brett

Lovely bride, great picture. Good luck together!

Ben Chase
23-May-2007, 21:18
Thanks Dominikus. Here's another from the same trip. Scott Rosenberg and I did about 500 miles and 18 hours in a one day shoot.

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/229/506552371_164d7ab18e_o.jpg

John Day Painted Hills National Monumet at Sunset, Wista DX, Nikkor-M 300mm f/9, B+W Polarizer, Fuji Provia 100F.

Sounds like you guys are as bad as I am when it comes to getting sleep on photo trips....Sometimes I have to FORCE myself to get some rest on the way to my next setup.

Ben

vinny
14-Jun-2007, 16:41
Here's one with my 120mm ed nikkor macro. Wehman 8x10, 4x5 classic pan 400 in pmk, 60sec. @22, 4stops bellows extension. The fly was a Size 12 Adams, about the size of a nickel stuck in a toothpick.

Scott Squires
15-Jun-2007, 11:53
El Capitan, Yosemite.
Canham 8x10 Standard Wood
Fuji 300mm CM-W
Bergger BPF 200


Scott

65Galaxie
15-Jun-2007, 18:25
Local cemetary. Memorial day weekend. Speed Graphic. Forget whether it was the 135 Optar or 90 Optar lens. Metered for the light on the flags.

Michael Graves
15-Jun-2007, 20:17
Winooski River near Richmond, Vermont
5x7 Toyo, 250mm f6.7 Fujinon, Arista 200 Ultra film in Pyrocat HD 1:1:100 for 12 minutes.

Ben Chase
15-Jun-2007, 20:32
Well, here's something I don't have on my website:

It is on the way up Steptoe Butte in the Palouse with the wind blowing about 50+ MPH, air temperature somewhere between -10 and -20 degrees F.

I still shiver when I look at this photo.

Cold Road.

Jan Pedersen
15-Jun-2007, 20:41
Ok, this one is a Palladium print 5x7 on Cot320 Film Fomapan 200 in Pyrocat MC Eastman 2-D / 210 Heliar

vinny
15-Jun-2007, 20:59
Northern Michigan, March 2007
24" red dot artar 4x5 efke 25 in rodinal.

Hugo Zhang
15-Jun-2007, 22:07
Kodak 2D with P&S Visual Quality IV No. 3 at about f8.5. This is where the lens gets sharp and loses its magical glow.

Tri Tran
15-Jun-2007, 22:12
Definitely a classic Jan. I like it .Thanks for sharing.

Tri Tran
15-Jun-2007, 22:16
Kodak 2D with P&S Visual Quality IV No. 3 at about f8.5. This is where the lens gets sharp and loses its magic glow.

It's worth every penny. Good job Hugo.

al olson
17-Jun-2007, 19:33
Here is a scan for my contribution.
Linhof Teknica IV, 4x5, with Schneider Symmar 150mm, f/22, on Kodak 160VC.

al olson
18-Jun-2007, 06:58
And another
Linhof Teknica IV, 4x5, with Schneider Symmar 150mm, f/22 for 20 sec, on Fuji NPS.

Image was made on a half sheet of 4x5 using a dark slide, cut in half, to mask the top. Then the back is rotated 180 degrees and the half dark slide is used to mask off the top for the next exposure.

ljb0904
18-Jun-2007, 09:22
Great stuff everyone. Here's one from the San Pedro river valley south of San Manuel, north of Benson, AZ.
http://homepage.mac.com/mrljb/Galleries/NPN/lf2007_046_01.jpg

4x5
velvia or provia
3G SS

Chris Strobel
18-Jun-2007, 13:04
Ok out of sheer bordom

http://upload.pbase.com/cloudswimmer/image/80638324/original.jpg

Edwin Beckenbach
18-Jun-2007, 13:37
Los Angeles, April 21st 2007. Backside of the last decent cold front this spring.
EBony 45SU, Fujinon-C 300mm f22, 1/8"

Clay Turtle
19-Jun-2007, 09:01
Yes, sometimes it does get boring so I thought up my own version of 'something to shoot':) Actually I wanted to thank those who had supplied data [formulas] for bellows extension. http://www.usefilm.com/image/1320901.html F16@8 with 150mm lens & 410mm (max) extension with Cambo 4x5.http://www.usefilm.com/image/1320901.html

Ash
19-Jun-2007, 09:20
This is also in the post here - http://www.largeformatphotography.info/forum/showthread.php?t=26394

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y43/second-belated/Untitled-1a-3.jpg

Quick test shot with the dagor, 1 sec at 6,8. Kodalith Ortho developed 1:50 Rodinal for 11 minutes.

Michael Graves
19-Jun-2007, 09:41
That's a very nice shot, Ash. Sometimes testing results in art.

Jan Pedersen
19-Jun-2007, 09:50
Ash, my compliments too. Like it a lot.

Ash
19-Jun-2007, 09:57
Thanks Michael, Jan.

Here's a shot before I had fixed the lens into the shutter properly.

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y43/second-belated/lydiard1sm.jpg

About f/16 I believe.

cobalt
19-Jun-2007, 14:58
This is also in the post here - http://www.largeformatphotography.info/forum/showthread.php?t=26394

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y43/second-belated/Untitled-1a-3.jpg

Quick test shot with the dagor, 1 sec at 6,8. Kodalith Ortho developed 1:50 Rodinal for 11 minutes.

Very nice. If this is a test shot, love to see what you do when you are not testing.

Donald Qualls
19-Jun-2007, 16:22
Ok out of sheer bordom

Okay, that's more than a little creepy -- but well done.

Chris Strobel
20-Jun-2007, 08:55
Okay, that's more than a little creepy -- but well done.

Well I HAD forgotten to take my medication that day :D



Thanks!

Robert Hughes
21-Jun-2007, 18:02
Think I better put up this junk car shot before they're outlawed on the forum. No barns or calla lilies, sorry, just weeds...

And how did they get that car all the way into the woods, anyway? Kinda like putting the Alamo in the middle of downtown San Antonio.

C. D. Keth
21-Jun-2007, 21:59
Here's one with my 120mm ed nikkor macro. Wehman 8x10, 4x5 classic pan 400 in pmk, 60sec. @22, 4stops bellows extension. The fly was a Size 12 Adams, about the size of a nickel stuck in a toothpick.

That's a very neatly tied adams. I bet that's a great print to look at. Flies are so beautiful but you rarely look at them very closely like that.

SAShruby
23-Jun-2007, 13:24
Finally, I can post one as well. After getting Epson4990 Scanner and Internet with static IP address, new website will be in two months, here it is:

E_Aiken
24-Jun-2007, 12:27
Good to see the ol' 120L at work, Sheldon!

here's one from a current project. 110XL/Ebony RW45/Portra 160NC that was supposed to be pushed a stop and the lab forgot. Exposure is several hours at f/32

http://www.eamonn-aiken.com/content/bin/images/large/001.jpg

vinny
24-Jun-2007, 13:02
Nice work E Aiken. Great tonal range and the hot spot in the center against the dark bricks looks fantastic.

J Peterson
25-Jun-2007, 12:31
Good to see the ol' 120L at work, Sheldon!

here's one from a current project. 110XL/Ebony RW45/Portra 160NC that was supposed to be pushed a stop and the lab forgot. Exposure is several hours at f/32

http://www.eamonn-aiken.com/content/bin/images/large/001.jpg


W-O-W This is hot. Can I asked how you calculated exposure with reciprocity?

Ben Chase
3-Jul-2007, 19:47
Good to see the ol' 120L at work, Sheldon!

here's one from a current project. 110XL/Ebony RW45/Portra 160NC that was supposed to be pushed a stop and the lab forgot. Exposure is several hours at f/32



Wow, that is fantastic! Several hours at f/32? That certainly takes some skill to pull off.

curtis roberts
3-Jul-2007, 23:00
A test shot with a Wollensak 8x10 Extreme Wide Angle
100 at f 64 200 speed 4x5

domenico Foschi
3-Jul-2007, 23:47
Mhmm let's see if this works...

http://i10.tinypic.com/4kmilop.jpg

Matus Kalisky
3-Jul-2007, 23:58
Domenico, this is a wonderfull photo - wouldn't you mind to tell us a bit more about it as it does not seem to be done in a "standard" way ... ?

cyrus
4-Jul-2007, 00:05
Mhmm let's see if this works...


ACH! Don't give it away before it appears in the book! :p

Ken Lee
4-Jul-2007, 03:12
Splendid photo !

Ole Tjugen
4-Jul-2007, 04:17
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1334/709011598_a63e05f4dd.jpg

Speed Graphic with 15cm f:6.8 Zeiss Doppel-Amatar, 1/10s at f:16 on Fuji Provia.

Ken Lee
4-Jul-2007, 06:49
Very mysterious.

Amund BLix Aaeng
4-Jul-2007, 10:12
Johnny Depp seems to be popular here in Norway too, found him taped on a wall :rolleyes:

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1207/710687794_3bc53ae48d_o.jpg

PViapiano
4-Jul-2007, 11:28
you didn't waste a sheet of film on Johnny, did you?

Tell me you didn't....

Amund BLix Aaeng
4-Jul-2007, 15:14
:rolleyes: ;)

Frank Petronio
4-Jul-2007, 15:41
Chopping wood warms you two... err, three... ways

Ash
4-Jul-2007, 15:46
Frank, was that the same model from the recent album you linked me to, or is that another girl??

Frank Petronio
4-Jul-2007, 16:43
I forgot what I pointed you too, but it is Cristina Puccia, I've photographed her many times and she is all over my website and portfolios, she is about to be signed by a national agency.

Ash
5-Jul-2007, 06:45
I last saw the big set after a road trip - must have bee 2-3 weeks ago now. The model definitely looked familiar when I first saw the picture.

I take it your shots of her helped boost her own folio towards getting signed? ;)

Frank Petronio
5-Jul-2007, 07:40
Well I don't want to waste time shooting with someone who won't help my portfolio and vice-versa. It is still evolving but after a few months of shooting pretty regularly, I seem to be at a crossroads of going towards either fashion versus portraiture. Or both. But this new attempt at professional photography is going to be very narrowly focused and precisely targeted whatever it ends up being...

Frank Petronio
11-Jul-2007, 13:44
another but it is too damn happy

bsimison
11-Jul-2007, 13:48
another but it is too damn happy

No, Frank...there's certainly nothing sexy or artistic about a smiling model. ;-)

Jeffrey Sipress
11-Jul-2007, 14:01
I like to hike in remote areas. Here is a section of Buckskin Gulch in the Paria Wilderness in very southern Utah. I stopped here for lunch in a cave that looked like the one across the slot canyon that was my subject. I shot out of one looking at the other. Toho 4x5, Rodenstock 90mm, Astia, drum scanned.

http://machinearts.com/fredphotos/bgulcharch1.jpg

Donald Qualls
11-Jul-2007, 14:11
The local photographers' Meetup group. Speed Graphic, 150/5.6 Componon wide open, hand held and focused on the ground glass; .EDU (Fortepan) 400, Parodinal 1:25.

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a183/dqualls/Speed%20Graphic/02.jpg

GhoSStrider
12-Jul-2007, 08:50
another but it is too damn happy

A beautiful young woman, scantily clad on the bed smiling at you...and that's a problem? I wish I had your problems! ;)

GhoSStrider
12-Jul-2007, 08:54
The local photographers' Meetup group. Speed Graphic, 150/5.6 Componon wide open, hand held and focused on the ground glass; .EDU (Fortepan) 400, Parodinal 1:25.



Cool Shot, Donald. If you don't mind me asking, how did you focus on the ground glass while hand-holding, stick a film holder in and manage to still get good focus while wide open?

GhoSStrider
12-Jul-2007, 08:56
Jeffrey, beautiful shot. I really should spend more time in Utah. Have only been there a couple times...and it's right next door!

sparq
12-Jul-2007, 09:10
I am posting this picture as a proof that I not only buy LF gear, but also try to learn how to use it. But who cares anyway. ;)

Southern Maine
Tech IV + Symmar-S 5.6/210 + Fomapan 200 in Barry's 2 Bath + V700

Scott --
12-Jul-2007, 10:08
I'll throw one in. Still waiting on my new bellows, but I've been going out with my Seneca Competitor and my trash bag bellows (click for larger version):
http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j185/bliorg/crop004.jpg (http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j185/bliorg/crop004a.jpg)

Seneca Competitor 5x7, Sironar-N 210/5.6, Arista.EDU Ultra 100 in HC-110 dil H

Donald Qualls
12-Jul-2007, 10:19
Cool Shot, Donald. If you don't mind me asking, how did you focus on the ground glass while hand-holding, stick a film holder in and manage to still get good focus while wide open?

Just a matter of planting my elbows in the same place after inserting the holder that they had occupied while I focused. :) The key is not to yield to the temptation to use the camera's viewfinder(s); in so doing, you'll pull the camera a foot or more away from the subject -- generally a bad thing.

Of course, it also helps to have practiced; I've shot this way on several occasions, and it's nowhere near as hard as it looks; also, practice shooting scale focus at short distances applies, as it gets you used to putting the camera at a set distance from the subject instead of just wobbling the focus back and forth and shooting when it look good. MUCH harder to hold a Speed Graphic steady for a 1/25 exposure... :eek:

Jim Galli
12-Jul-2007, 10:58
1st BS studio still life from my latest mistress, Objectif Anachromatique 385mm.

http://tonopahpictures.0catch.com/anachromatique/Anachromatique_9APHS5small.jpg
untitled

I've been trying to teach myself how to use this beastie. What you see on the GG is not what you get. It is 2 non achromatic menisci opposed and the real image is formed somewhere besides the GG. I don't have any realistic calcs. The lens has some aids stenciled on but none for the distance I like to work at which is about 1 metre. For this test I switched to Freestyle APHS ortho film as it only see's one color and is likely much closer to what the original users had, and also the mfr.s intent. 11 sec @ f9

Don't know about you, but I think it makes a lovely image.

Amund BLix Aaeng
12-Jul-2007, 11:34
Here`s a couple of street scenes I shot Tuesday, both Wehman 8x10, 250mm Fujinon, TXP in Pyrocat HD

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1114/779507829_51825dd7d2_b.jpg

Larger version here (http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1114/779507829_e74de0103f_o.jpg)


http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1245/780591774_64918aef38_o.jpg

Ole Tjugen
12-Jul-2007, 12:15
Breaking the image circle of a 210mm Angulon...

I needed lots and lots of rise on 8x10", so I used my widest lens. The image circle seems to be about 480mm at f:22 - I was shooting uphill!

GhoSStrider
12-Jul-2007, 12:20
I've been trying to teach myself how to use this beastie. What you see on the GG is not what you get. It is 2 non achromatic menisci opposed and the real image is formed somewhere besides the GG. I don't have any realistic calcs. The lens has some aids stenciled on but none for the distance I like to work at which is about 1 metre. For this test I switched to Freestyle APHS ortho film as it only see's one color and is likely much closer to what the original users had, and also the mfr.s intent. 11 sec @ f9

Don't know about you, but I think it makes a lovely image

Indeed a lovely image, Jim. I'm curious, though, how do the GG and the film plane differ? Is there some optical phenomenon that causes a sharp (well, relatively) image to show on the GG and not the film?

Jim Galli
12-Jul-2007, 12:32
Indeed a lovely image, Jim. I'm curious, though, how do the GG and the film plane differ? Is there some optical phenomenon that causes a sharp (well, relatively) image to show on the GG and not the film?

GG and film plane don't differ and I doubt I can give a meaningful correct answer. Maybe Leonard Robertson or some of the other real math gurus will help me out. Visual focus is what you see, but because of chromatic aberrations the image the film sees is at a different plane sort of like infrared. Feel free to help me out here guys. I focus for best plane at a set zero point, then for this image I moved the lens a full inch closer to the film. I made a bunch of images yesterday with rulers in the images and good notes so I could compare what I got post adjustment to what I was seeing. This lens is like the original Pinkham Smith lenses that Langdon Coburn used and loved. What's interesting to me is that with a sharp 385mm lens at f9 you wouldn't have near the depth this lens has. Somehow it has made the entire subject seem both sharp and well defined, and soft at the same time. I think I got close on this exposure. It was #9. Baby steps but enough to whet my appetite.

Ole Tjugen
12-Jul-2007, 12:46
... Visual focus is what you see, but because of chromatic aberrations the image the film sees is at a different plane sort of like infrared. Feel free to help me out here guys. ...

You've "rediscovered" why photographers in the pre-orthochromatic age had to know the difference between "visual focus" and "chemical focus"!

The eye tends to assume that if yellow-green is sharp, then the image is sharp. Film (and plates) however was far more sensitive to blue and UV, which can make a lot of difference in focussing.

In addition this kind of lens has lots and lots of spherical aberration, which is one of the causes of so-called "focus shift". But it has the advantage of giving an increased DoF - or rather: a larger zone of acceptable focus. :)

Hugo Zhang
12-Jul-2007, 12:47
Jim,

Lovely picture indeed! I am glad you didn't overpay for it.:) I wouldn't have the patience to expose 9 negatives to figure out its beauty. I haven't spent enough time with my P&S yet.

Hugo

Ken Lee
12-Jul-2007, 13:12
"The eye tends to assume that if yellow-green is sharp, then the image is sharp. Film (and plates) however was far more sensitive to blue and UV, which can make a lot of difference in focussing."

If Jim wears blue sunglasses under the dark-cloth, will that solve the problem ?

Jrewt
12-Jul-2007, 13:27
An abstract that I got in Queensland, Australia..
Wehman 8x10
Fp4, Pyrocat- MC
Kentmere Bromide Grade 3, Ansco 130

http://www.apug.org/gallery/data/500/sand2.jpg

Ole Tjugen
12-Jul-2007, 13:29
If Jim wears blue sunglasses under the dark-cloth, will that solve the problem ?

Partly; but he still won't see very far into UV. :)

A UV filter is actually a far better help - or a yellow one, with orthochromatic film.

Brian K
12-Jul-2007, 16:27
Something shot 2 years ago, only recently printed.

Ken Lee
12-Jul-2007, 16:40
"Partly; but he still won't see very far into UV."

Let's not forget that Jim hails from a rather special area in Nevada. His ability to see UV should not come as a complete surprise.

Eirik Berger
13-Jul-2007, 00:23
I will join in with this picture from the childrens pool in "Pyramiden". It was taken in the end of march this year. I wish I had a wider lens at the time, I will go back there with a 90mm next winter.

Toyo 45CF, APO Sironar N 135mm f5,6, Velvia 100F

http://www.f45.no/barnebasseng.jpg

Jiri Vasina
13-Jul-2007, 03:28
Eirik, that is my idea of Norway - skis everywhere :D

A good one, indeed...

Eirik Berger
13-Jul-2007, 03:50
Eirik, that is my idea of Norway - skis everywhere :D


Hehe, that is a myth that is way over due for busting...:p
And actually this is from an abandoned russian settlement. They left in a hurry back in 1998 leaving everything behind, books in the library, toothbrushes, bed sheets and of course skis in pools...

Here is another one, this is a part of the freezing storage facility.
Toyo 45CF, APO Sironar 135mm f5,6, Provia 100F

http://www.f45.no/fryselager.jpg

Jiri Vasina
13-Jul-2007, 04:03
Eirin, it doesn't matter if it's Russians or Norwegians, I have the impression that all the people of that far north are born with skis on their feet anyway :D

But I'm really looking for the time to visit your beautiful country ;)

dominikus bw
13-Jul-2007, 05:07
An abstract that I got in Queensland, Australia..
Wehman 8x10
Fp4, Pyrocat- MC
Kentmere Bromide Grade 3, Ansco 130

http://www.apug.org/gallery/data/500/sand2.jpg

I like it, sure it's abstract...
what is this?

dominikus bw
13-Jul-2007, 05:15
Something shot 2 years ago, only recently printed.

Brian, great atsmosphere...
feel like in other side of world, where is this?

Jrewt
13-Jul-2007, 06:05
Hey dominikus, it's the patterns in the sand made by the advancing tide. I took this mostly because of the top left corner, and all the tiny little sea things on the sand. You have to stick your nose up to the print in order to see them, it's pretty interesting.

dominikus bw
13-Jul-2007, 07:00
Hey dominikus, it's the patterns in the sand made by the advancing tide. I took this mostly because of the top left corner, and all the tiny little sea things on the sand. You have to stick your nose up to the print in order to see them, it's pretty interesting.

you have a great eye & mind to made this picture.
thank's for your information...

Brian K
13-Jul-2007, 09:59
Brian, great atsmosphere...
feel like in other side of world, where is this?


Thanks,
It's a refinery near Anacortes, WA.

domenico Foschi
13-Jul-2007, 12:02
Eirik, your work is beautiful!