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First Large Format photo Ektar 100 by NGUSS, on Flickr
This is mine, nothing great. After taking my first 2 photos I dropped the box of film on the floor when I went to reload the film holders which came open in the light and ruined the rest of the box. Most expensive photo I ever took.
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My first LF shot was a very long time ago when I was just a teen. Plus I went through a divorce and three floods. Nothing remains.
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Tyneside is a great place to shoot. So many options, both of the river and the architecture around it. Only "decent" (read film) camera I've had whilst there was an Xpan; love to have a LF next time...
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My first two LF shots don't show! In the darkness in the basement I did not really know what I was doing and didn't realize there was a thin sheet of paper between each sheet of film. So I happily loaded the film holder with the pieces of paper. After all the care of composition and exposure, not to mention the hour-long standing development in Rodinal, all that remained was a piece of very wet (and probably surprised:p) piece of black paper at the bottom of the developing tank. :D It turned out that the second exposure of the day, on the other "film" in the holder, was also a bummer.
A new try a couple of days later resulted in this:
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And with details like this I am very happy:)
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Camera is unknown but lens is a xenar 150/4.5 and the format is 4"x5". My scanner only do 6 cm wide strips at most so I stitch with DoubleTake.
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My first exposed and processed 4x5 photograph taken on my Toyo C Monorail Camera with a Schneider 90mm f8 Super Angulon Lens on Kodal Tri-X 320 and rated at ISO 640 the exposure was 1/15th Sec at f32. This was Semi-Stand processed in Caffenol CL (1.4g of KBr) @21 degrees C using the Taco Method of 4x 4x5 films in a Paterson Universal Tank with constand agitation for the 1st 30 seconds and 3 inversions of the tank after a following 2, 4, 8, 18 minutes with the Caffenol drained out after a further 40 minutes. After 4 tanks of water constantly agaitated the films were fixed with an Alkali fixer for 4 minutes. After washing the films for 8 minutes they were hung up to dry in my film dryer.
The film was then scanned using an Epson V750 scanner using the Epson dual 4x5 film holder and Silverfast 8 64 bit AI Studio. The films were scanned at 3200 dpi which gave a 16 bit, 340MB image (14912 x 11825). The image has been worked upon in Photoshop CS5 and also some localised processing using the control points in Nik Silver Efex Pro 2.
I got the inspiration for this image when looking through Ansel Adam's The Camera (trying to make sense of how the monorail camera works) and seeing an image of 'Boards & Thistles' when I realised that I had something a little similar at the bottom of my garden (for garden read 'jungle').
Although this was my first developed 4 x 5 sheet of film (actually 1 of 4 but 1st exposed and safely stored), I have to confess that I had tried 2 previous exposures (both in the same film holder and both ruined) on this subject as I had managed to insert the films into the dark slide groove and after exposing the films could not get the dark slides back into their slot, a lesson learned. I have also learned how difficult it is to get the film out of a Fidelity Deluxe DDS whilst I had no trouble at all with the Fidelity Elite DDS.
The negative has a fantastic range of tones and I am really pleased that after my recent trials with the Caffenol CL and Semi-Stand development gave me the knowledge to expose this film rated at 1 stop higher than the box speed.
Using the monorail camera seems a steep learning curve even with my previous experience with my Canon Tilt/Shift lenses and my Fuji GX680 cameras. It engenders a much slower way of working and requires serious thought on the photographer of what he is trying to acheive, not least because each frame of Tri X costs over £1 (1.5ish euros/dollers).
Old Garage Window, Brambles and Boards
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Old Garage Window, Brambles and Boards by Ed Bray, on Flickr
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Nice one Ed. Wonderful range of tones. Congratulations!
Peter
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Really nice Ed, great tones in that one.
Thanks Lachlan 717, Tyneside is nice, there are loads of places to go. I will have to get out properly with the camera soon. It is only about 7 mins away but I never seem to go.
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Thanks Gents, I'm sure I will revisit it again when the light is better, especially since it's only 40 yards from my back door. ;)
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My first was in the mid '80s. Before I purchased a Toyo 45A (now sold in favour of a Chamonix,) I briefly used a Bender 4x5 that I built from kit, of course. I can't remember the lens for this shot.
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My first ever LF shot was an action shot...
Frisbee Girl - Xenotar 150/2.8 @ 2.8 and Ektachrome 100 Plus on a Chamonix 045-N2:
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Larger (12.5 megapixel, 20 megabyte) version: http://www.flickr.com/photos/genotyp...737153/sizes/o