Post your odd camera positions......

[Preston]

ROL,

I think this is the same place. From a geological standpoint, this meets the criteria for a glacial tarn. It was scoured by ice and the erratics were left behind when the ice melted. In any event, the Yosemite tarns, and this one in particular, are very pleasant places to visit.

Nice image!

--P

[Andrew O'Neill]

Scott, how do you keep the camera level and the image sharp? I tried shooting from a dock and it almost drove me mad.

[Preston]

Scott, how do you keep the camera level and the image sharp? I tried shooting from a dock and it almost drove me mad.

Gyro's? A really big anchor, or two? I was wondering the same thing.

--P

[Scott Walker]

Scott, how do you keep the camera level and the image sharp? I tried shooting from a dock and it almost drove me mad.

It is a challenge, and of course some compromises have to be made. My usual procedure is to set the bow anchor then set a stern anchor and tighten it up a bit with the bow windlass. Even on a calm day the boat is still moving a bit so I don’t compose quite as tight as I might on solid ground. When the water is a bit rough I anchor so that the boat is rocking on only one axis (front to back or side to side). This way in every cycle of the boat rocking it is dead still for a moment, twice in each left to right or front to back cycle. Once anchored I compose and focus like I would with any other subject except I know there will be a bit of cropping and adjust for that by adjusting the boats position between the two anchors, which is surprisingly about as difficult as picking up your tripod and camera and moving it forward or back a few feet (something I can't do on the boat). One of the biggest challenges has been to learn how to compose the image and get it in perfect focus when the image is moving in and out of the ideal spot. I use viewfinder pro on my iPhone as a secondary viewing screen so that once I have everything set on the camera I can insert the film holder and pull the dark slide and wait until the view on the iPhone sitting on top of the rear standard is the same one I visualised on the ground glass, at this point I pull the trigger and hope for the best. I am going to build a bracket for the rear standard so I can mount an iPad and give myself a better viewing screen than the little iPhone. I am also going to make a screen overlay that matches the ground glass image for each of my lenses perfectly.

[chris_4622]

I recently developed the negative from this shot, it looks good. I'll try to remember to post the print when I get around to the printing phase.


camera on ledge by chris_4622, on Flickr

[Kirk Gittings]

Damn that will make your heart pound!

I recently developed the negative from this shot, it looks good. I'll try to remember to post the print when I get around to the printing phase.

camera on ledge by chris_4622, on Flickr

[ShawnHoke]

For the past few summers I have been working on a project with my Sinar P2 8x10 from the back of my boat, mostly 4x10 images.

Here's one from the Gulf Islands

This is fantastic. I've thought about this with my father in law's boat. Don't know if he would appreciate the tripod on the boat deck though.

[Jim Galli]

Up on Mt. Brougher with the #10 Cirkut Camera;

Three of us packed it up there. My brother and nephew were my sherpa's. But I used the wrong focal length lens and did it over 2 days later . . . by myself.

The wood structure was built by F. W. Sheelor 100 years ago to do the 1913 picture we're re-doing.

[welly]

Getting my feet wet in LF...



...in one of the tarns along the Tioga Road.

--P

Hulk Hogan is an LF photographer? Who would have knew!

[chris_4622]

Damn that will make your heart pound!

It did. But more than that it tightened up another part of me where your couldn't have pulled a needle out with a tractor.