FYI: Article about Gordon Willis in yesterday's Boston Globe:
http://www.boston.com/ae/movies/articles/2007/01/14/a_study_in_contrasts/
I love his B&W photography in Woody Allen's "Stardust...
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FYI: Article about Gordon Willis in yesterday's Boston Globe:
http://www.boston.com/ae/movies/articles/2007/01/14/a_study_in_contrasts/
I love his B&W photography in Woody Allen's "Stardust...
And yet another welcome from someone who is on multiple sites...and thanks for your posting re: Nicole....
Bruce is right on about shooting polaroids.
I attended a workshop this past March about Large Format Portraiture and had a blast shooting polaroids.
There is a different dynamic between the...
Not that anybody cares, but "Park Street" should be "Park Avenue" in my post above.
Mike,
A couple of others:
"From Adams To Stieglitz" by Nancy Newhall - another book "to start with".
"Shadow and Substance" - the biography of W. Eugene Smith by Jim Hughes
Ansel Adam's...
Welcome, DrPablo....there are many LF shooters scattered around the commonwealth....I frequently shoot in the scenic town of Harvard, Mass....
Bill Hahn
Just a word to the wise:
After a weekend's frolic with my 4x5, I found my knees were causing me great pain. Didn't stop me from going to work, but I shuffled like an old man when going to the...
Another vote for Strand's "Time In New England"
"Intimations of Paradise" Christopher Burkett
"The Hungry Eye" (Walker Evans photographs)
"The American Wilderness" - Ansel Adams
(At least...
Anybody take a shot, remove the film holder, walk around to the front to open the lens, and
find themselves exclaiming: "Oh, so *that's* how you remove the bellow from the front standard!" ?
Oh dear, I never realized that my Walker Titan SF was "as ugly as sin"....:-)
I bought mine in late 2000 after much research. I've never regretted it, and actually
the fact that I didn't see...
Dave,
Just a quick post from someone who has been using a Walker Titan SF happily for
five years - congratulations. It's a great camera...
-Bill H.
With all this talk of Walker Evans, I just wanted to point out that there is a video called "Walker Evans' America" with some film footage of Evans. It's well worth watching. At one point he...
May I recommend Robert Schumann, Opus 83 No 3, "Der Einsiedler" (The Hermit)
Die Jahren wie die Wolken geh'n,
und lassen mich hier einsam steh'n.
Die Welt hat mich vergessen.
The years go...
North Central Massachusetts USA, small town in northern Worcester county. We got our first traffic
signal a few years ago, though it took some months for the locals to understand it....
...a...
...around the house...
>I for one appreciate the thought, the opportunity, and the challenge (Mark Sawyer)
Ditto.
I'm old enough to remember the gas lines of the 70's - but they didn't bother me, because at that...
John,
Thanks for the link. I recommend to you "Seagulls and Summer People" by Captain Kendall Morse, if you
can find a recording. Morse used to have a program on Maine public tv called "In...
>looking forward to a change of pace....
Which reminds me of the ancient joke about the "summer person" teenager
who was bored out of mind during a Maine vacation. On a walk, she encountered ...
I've been using a leica 6ttl for about three years. (I also shoot 4x5 LF and a Pentax 6x7 MF formats.)
Went to Paul Butzi's site and read what he wrote about the Leica camera, and found myself in...
In the past 2 months I've shot about 6 rolls 35mm black and white, 6 rolls 120 film B&W, and
about 50 sheets 4x5. FWIW.
Wow, I've been reading various photographic fora for about seven years and this is the best thread
I've ever encountered. Thanks everyone for your insights and history.
Just a few quick...
FWIW, I am another satisfied user of a Titan SF.
I'll add my assent to the praise. After viewing the DVD many times, I made a
point of acquiring many of the books Strand worked on; the one about France,
the one about the Italian village,...
I live in Northern Worcester County, one town away from the Mass-NH border. I've been using Dorian Color Labs in Arlington (www.dorianlab.com) - via mailers, I've never visited their labs - for B&W...
"Manhatta" is also on the DVD of "Under The Dark Cloth", a movie made about Paul Strand and available from amazon.
Paul Strand made a movie about Mexican fishermen called "The Wave", and got a...
See the book "Gettysburg: A Journey In Time" by William A. Frassanito; I believe he was the first to notice that the "sniper's" body was moved.
In that book, and in his book on Antietam,...
There is a video called "Remembering Edward Weston", which has some B&W film footage of EW at work. It's available at www.photoeye.com. I don't know if it's the film shot by Willard Van Dyke.
I believe the latest issue of "View Camera" (the one that arrived at my house yesterday) has an article by Mr. Dykinga about packbacking with a large format camera, complete with photographs showing...
I'm also relatively new to large format photography, and I have a motto: sometimes it helps if you make an even number of mistakes!
Example:
I was shooting a stream, had focused, metered (it...
Raymond,
I poked around a little bit using www.google.com, and I think the photographer in question was Nicola Perscheid. Apparently there is also a kind of large format lens named after him. Do...
Richard (Ross),
I haven't used a 90mm lens with the Titan SF, so I can't give you a definitive answer.
You might want to check out the review at www.walkercameras.com, which claims that the...
Hagai,
I use the Rodenstock Sironar-N 135mm lens with my Walker Titan, and it is possible to close the camera with this lens on. Feel feel to email me if you have more questions about the Walker...
See this thread (which I found by typeing "US fstops" into a google search):
http://hv.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=000P49