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Thanks Alex,
It was a great day for shooting. Clear blue sky, lots of UV about. You can see Madalaine squinting slightly due to the brightness of the light all around. Love it when a shoot goes as...

Yesterday's effort with the wonderful Madalaine:

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5x7 CGA
Poe Boy collodion
Hypo fix
Black Art camera w/ 300mm Zeiss f/4.5
5 seconds, outdoor shade
Curves adjusted slightly in PS

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'Lilies'
(Lilly holding a lily)
Old Reliable collodion, no ether, CGA
Studio CFLs @ 16 seconds
No headbrace

One week shooting wetplate and I'm fairly happy with the result so far!
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Clear glass ambrotype
Poe Boy collodion formula
Black Art Woodcraft 8x10 camera
w/ 8" no-name brass petzval @ f/4.5...

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8x10 wet plate camera. Just received from Steve @ Black Art Woodcraft.

Kate's one of the best. And very patient with large format photographers :)

Many thanks to all for their kind comments!

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Kate @ Mount Alexander, 2012
Speed Graphic w/ no-name petzval
llford FP4+ in XTol

Not my first LF shot, but my first 8x10 :)

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Well I'm always open to critique / criticism! :)

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Rosemary
Speed Graphic w/ 150mm f/4 petzval

Playing with infrared and petzval lenses :)

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Camera: Speed Graphic
Lens: Unnamed petzval, 150mm f/4
Film: Efke IR820 in XTol 1+1

Another from our waterfall shoot
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(The waterfall itself was small and lacked visual impact,
so most of our work that day was focused elsewhere)

Speed Graphic w/ No-name Petzval 150mm f4

Thanks so much! We battled heat, humidity, mud, HUGE spiders, flies, mosquitoes and locusts to reach the location, so you can imagine how pleased I am to produce an acceptable photograph :)

My first serious foray into large format nudes:

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Rosemary
December 2010
Speed Graphic w/ no-name 6" f/4 petzval
Shanghai GP3 in X-Tol
Epson V700 scanner

Currently 2/2 with KEH. Just received a replacement front element for a 240mm Symmar-S. Better than expected and at a bargain price :) There was no photo and no description in their online catalog,...

Still waiting to be able to post scans of LF negs. In the meantime, here's a humble D80 snap from last year:

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43 in a few weeks. Dabbled with LF in my early thirties, now completely hooked :)

/wave
Howdy neighbour! :D

Hey, awesome, more Victorians! :) I'm usually fairly quiet myself, unless it's something important. I'm much more of a reader than a speaker! :)

Hi Carey and thanks! Must get up to your neck of the woods one day, and I'm still planning on that photographic trip to NZ! :)

Heya Chris,
Great to hear from you. Thanks for the welcome. I really must get up to Canberra one day. Never been north of the Murray! :)

Hi Paul, many thanks! I've sent them an email, so I'm hoping they can point me in the right direction :)

I first read about alternative printing methods way back in '84 when I started photography, and was particularly fascinated with platinum/palladium printing. Years later, and with an 8x10 camera on...

Oh yes, I remember hiking the Lake District in mid-October and that was cold enough! :D
Convoy sounds like a plan :)

Hey Vick,
Aw, Australian Shepherds are adorable. Lucky you! I'm owned by a ginger cat called Jonesy, and he doesn't like having his photo taken :P Just my luck, but I guess trying to photograph an...

Hey Brian,
Cheers, great to be here and lurk all these wonderful threads. Hope to have some work up in the new year when I can finally get some of it scanned. I'm from Bendigo, which is not too far...

Hi Michael
Thanks for the welcome! I'll head on over to the other thread and poke around. Cheers!

Hi Lachlan,
I hail from Bendigo, central VIC. Used to be a quiet country town but now a bit too big for my tastes. Now it's not so easy to pitch a tripod in the middle of the main street! :D
A...

A big hello from Oz! A recent member of this rather fine site, so I thought I'd better say hi and let you all know a little something about myself (briefly, promise!)

Basically I've been an avid...

Hi all,

This is my first post on the forums and I thought I'd show everyone my fixer-upper, a Toyo 45G! Currently I think it has the 150mm Schneider lens attached, but there is also a Schneider...