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I think Sandy King posted some extreme crops that clearly showed them quite a while ago. Maybe he could re-post.

As for myself, I've tried all different kinds of film/developer combinations with...

Consider everything suggested so far, but if you still end up running in circles with it, attack the problem backwards: level the camera back visually by way of lining up verticals to the grid, ...

Mine starts with Chapter 1: "How We See"

My chapter 5 is "Matching the Characteristics of the Film and Printing Material"

There's only 46 pages devoted to the first 4 chapters so I doubt...

Unfortunately, I don't know any great photographers, but I do know that most of my own personal best shots are very intuitive and painless.

About a year ago they were slowly dismantling a large...

I also have used Rodinal without gloves for years. And remember that with stand development you're probably talking dilutions of 1:150+ and spending very little time with your hands in the soup...

"But I was secretly very surprised that the print made the aisles appear to be radiating out from my position"

That effect isn't surprising. Faced with that perspective, the viewer can only...

I'll be staying home to save gasoline this weekend too, though that's just because I can't afford it and NOT out of any sense of civic duty. Bush can appeal to my sense of civic obligation just as...

It also depends on your shooting style. While a center hotspot in a photograph may be tolerable, use of camera movements that shift the hotspot towards the edge of the shot can make things look...

Isn't there some reference in the daybooks about Weston being exhausted after a day of making enlarged negatives? Those gorgeous 11x14 contacts may not necessarily mean he was working with an 11x14...

Sorry, Steve, but I find that silly. Nothing wrong with asking what tools went into some kind of work -- even getting the answer won't tell you how to use them. That's where the hard work comes in.
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That's why it's rarely worth asking about any photographer's technique -- the immediate assumption is that you want to copy his work. What's wrong with wanting to know how someone achieves some...

Nice site, Domenico. I missed your portraiture though. I know that's extremely personal work that brought you some flak from a few idiots on PN, but it's great stuff that I'd hoped would still be...

Thanks, Kirk. Very interesting.

His stuff is beautiful, no doubt about it.

Kirk,

What's "green developer?"

Thanks...

I'm scanning with a cheap Microtek flatbed

That could be your problem right there: only expensive scanners can tell how long the exposure was and adjust accordingly.

Seriously, there's no way...

" it increases only the highlight density leaving the midtones and shadows unchanged. "

Brian, with all due respect, this simply isn't true. Try this: take a junk negative, stick a piece of...

Thanks for the link, QT, it was very helpful.

I've never given digital printing a whole lot of consideration, but this thread made me curious so I checked out the epson site. Am I right that a full complement of inks for one of these printers...

I use the Combi-Plans for C-41, but only as a dip'n dunk operation -- emptying and filling the tank as intended was always too frenzied an operation for me. I start with a slightly elevated ...

"a definition for what "isn't" Art"

Art isn't functional. Any design decision, even of a "purely functional" object, which isn't dictated by that function, is an artistic one (the choice of John...

Sandy,

Since you mention "standard bellows," does that mean bag bellows are available? I've got the 4x5 flavor with both standard and bag bellows, and am thinking of moving up to 5x7.

Thanks,
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Andrew,

The first time I looked at the ground glass of my first LF camera my heart sank and I thought, "good god, what did I get into? This is never going to work for me!" Indeed, I ended up...

It's not only landscape shooting that sometimes gets your heart racing. My favorite subject matter is a series of abandoned and decaying grain elevators in this area and I often climb to the top of...

Nothing really to add to the excellent responses above, except to underline the likelihood of film shift/movement being the problem. It's something that bedeviled me for many months before I realised...

Philip, here's an exercise that might help: set up one of your modern cameras with normal front tilt as you'd use to get an extreme near-far focus landscape shot. Now tilt the entire camera up so...

Do all flourescent tubes glow? I've seen this problem referred to several times now, but I swear my tubes don't do it. I load film within 6 feet of the extinguished overhead flourescents without any...

The plastic bags were a vast improvement, IMO. Peanuts are the curse that I have to collect (mostly off the floor) and store until I can drag my butt to local shipping place for reuse. I hate the...

I'd suggest the Eskofot-ultragon 210 to be had on ebay for $50.00 or less. Sharp as a tack and I even use it to shoot at infinity, though I think it's optimized for closer work. Don't spend more than...

Ralph is correct that access to controls is the big issue, particularly if it's a "big" 90mm. I've got a big 72mm XL on a standard Linhof recessed board and always have to take the lens off the...

Great link, Tim. Masterful use of DOF.

I have the 210mm and it covers 8x10 @ f22. It's a super sharp lens, but uncoated and obviously without shutter. I've seen these things fetch $30 as a "process lens" on ebay and, within a week, $100...

JM,

Did you extend the front standard all the way? Remember you can swing the front standard way out past vertical to get that extra bellows extension. Take a look at...

72mm to 300mm.

The 72mm can be used without bag bellows and recessed lens board if you're not looking for movements. The 300 is usable only to about 6 feet closest focus distance.

I use my watch. It's got tiny little glow in the dark ends on the hands and I just stick it close to the light bulb and pump those suckers up 'til they're ready to pop before turning off the lights...

I reversed the board, found a can that snuggly hugged the light trap ring and apoxied it to it. It's not that the can snapped on or anything, but the can/ring combo created enough surface contact...

I don't think emphasis on camera is totally misplaced because, more than lens, it's the thing that most obviously affects the field experience. When I set up for a shot I know I spend time wrestling...

...um, that should be "shutter." The film-shitter interplay only happens after I view the proofs -- different part of the process entirely.

James.

"A few of my images were out of focus and it was clearly due to film shrinkage. "

Funny, because I just came back to the thread with the idea that even un-shifted film could affect focus...

Thanks for all the replies.

James,

"should be common practice by all LF shooters."

Yeah, well it always takes me a couple years to discover what common practice should be ;-) In my defense,...

Tim,

It's not bellows leak or flair -- I'm an expert at both ;-) No, it's always just a vertical (read gravity) offset of the image as a double. Sometimes the double is faint suggesting the neg...