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    Re: Post your backlighting, dim light pics

    Low light from window at the rear of the vase.
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    Re: Photography Couples?

    Wynn and Edna Bullock
  3. Re: 2009 Santa Fe Prize winner Hiroyo Kaneko on Japan Exposures

    Beautiful - a worthy winner!
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    Re: What did you compose at Water’s Edge?

    A couple from the waters edge...
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    Re: post your trees!

    A couple for the thread...
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    Re: Large Format Landscapes

    Adding a little color to the mix...
  7. Thread: Flowers Anyone?

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    Re: Flowers Anyone?

    Here's one
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    Re: July 2009 Portraits

    My friend Lisa.
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    Re: June 2009 Portraits

    Really nice!
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    Re: Budget Scanner for Mac

    Many thanks for the response. I am running OSX 10.4.11 on a Mac with Intel core 2 duo. The software for the Epson 3170 is Epson V2.77 A.

    The problem is that the scanner goes into warm up mode,...
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    Budget Scanner for Mac

    I have given up on my Epson scanner as after numerous attempts to get it to work with newer versions of OSX.

    Long and short of it - I need to buy a new scanner, but I am on a tight budget...

    I...
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    Re: Benbo MK II Tripod

    Thanks Martin! I will contact Patterson...

    Best
    Alan
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    Benbo MK II Tripod

    I have one of the early heavier Benbo tripods (mid eighties) - the lever is bust (thread gone)....

    Anyone know how or where I can get spare parts for this older Benbo from ? it is to my mind the...
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    Re: Stephen Shore Video

    Excellent, I really enjoyed that
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    Re: December Portraits

    Very nice Dany - perfect tonality and focus
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    Re: E6 processing by post?

    Many thanks I shall check through on all these!
    Best
    Alan
  17. Thread: Do you collect?

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    Re: Do you collect?

    I collect original prints from Hollywood greats - Bachrach, Richee, hurrell etc

    I have an original Lewis Baltz and a Justine Kurland on my walls amongst others - but the pride of my 'collection'...
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    E6 processing by post?

    Quick question, any recommendation for a low cost/high quality (the ultimate combo!) E6 processing company in the US for my 5x4 transparencies?
    Best
    Alan
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    Re: Post Yer Still Lifes take 2

    Taken 25 years ago (developed a year back) - on a Wista like camera (borrowed) - Ilford FP4 film.... one of my first ever large format shots :-)
  20. Thread: Self Portraits

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    Re: Self Portraits

    Cheerful me :-) - Cambo 5x4 - Polaroid 79
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    Re: New Portrait Thread - August 08

    I like this a lot
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    Re: What 'project' are you working on?

    An ebook I have been planning for a long while - photographs of my time (more than landscapes) on Mull in Scotland.
    However, may have had an exposure disaster with 100 sheets of 5x4 - can't...
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    Re: Photo technique (Jean-Michel Berts)

    I think he may also be using Orange or Red Filters with the original shot to get the contrast and the rich skies.
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    Re: what's your focus routine in LF portraiture?

    I usually use wide apertures such as F8 or 5.6 on my 210mm Calumet (5x4) - and in fact usually focus on the bridge of the nose first, not the eyes. Try it - its a trick from the Hollywood greats such...
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    Re: Yet More Portraits Thread - June 2008

    Many thanks :-)


    It was a Calumet 210mm - and in fact the aperture was 5.6
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    Re: Yet More Portraits Thread - June 2008

    Two from the weekend - last box of Polaroid 79 - 5x4 - out of date etc.

    2 seconds at F4
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    Re: Handheld Large Format Photographs?

    You should (if you haven't already) check out the truly great Nicholas Nixon

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Nixon

    A legend - often using handheld 10x8 and 5x7's for street portraiture -...
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    Re: Using Cambo 5x4 Rail with Manfrotto Tripod

    Thanks- I am actually just attaching the rail directly to the tripod at the moment - I will check out the Linhof and Gitzo attachments.
    Best
    Alan
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    Using Cambo 5x4 Rail with Manfrotto Tripod

    I realize I should be using a bigger tripod - but this is the one I currently have so have to make do. However I am struggling to fix the camera firmly to the tripod head. Have attached a couple of...
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    Re: Yet More Portraits Thread - June 2008

    Out of date Polaroid 79 - 5x4 Cambo - 210mm Calumet - F11 1/15th
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    Re: Yet More Portraits Thread - June 2008

    Here is another - low light 1/4 sec on F8 - Polaroid 79 - Cambo 5x4 - Calumet 210mm

    Sydney - Summer 2008
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    Re: Looking at Photographs---Looking at Art...

    Well for the sake of a good argument let me disagree with you ;-)

    Firstly, of course there are many examples of bad art, and many poorly organized and constructed gallery settings.

    However, I...
  33. Thread: More Portraits?

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    More Polaroid Portraits

    Used some of my dwindling supply (and out of date) Polaroid 79 5x4 film.
    F8 1/4 sec - Calumet 210mm
  34. Thread: More Portraits?

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    Re: More Portraits?

    Wow - if that really is your first, then its very good indeed!
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    Re: Photography&Arts blogs

    Here are four excellent blogs that I check out regularly on my Google Reader.


    http://www.jmcolberg.com/weblog/

    http://exposurecompensation.com/

    http://www.lensculture.com/webloglc/
    ...
  36. Thread: More Portraits?

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    Re: More Portraits?

    Self portrait - Polaroid Type 79 - 5x4
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    Re: Fruit of Your Loins

    My daughter Fiona - Polaroid Type 79 - Cambo 5x4 - natural light.
  38. Re: FILMS BY/ABOUT PHOTOGRAPHERS on the SUNDANCE CHANNEL THIS MONTH

    Thanks so much for pointing these out - I shall set my Tivo up immediately
    Best
    Alan
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    Re: Help with Polaroid Back

    Thanks to you both - I am still not sure 100% what it is - but both of your suggestions sound possible/likely. Trouble is of course disassembling the unit is hard - so I am going to have a go at...
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    Help with Polaroid Back

    I may be doing something spectacularly stupid but I cannot get my polaroid 5x4 back to expose film. When I pull the envelope up to expose the neg, the whole pack is coming up with it - and hence...
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