From this series I did in college.
From this series I did in college.
The photographs in this thread are all very nice (and I'm not referring to my own) - my personal favorite so far being the 'work shoes' by Jim Galli.
As for hijacking another thread: The tilt/swing + short DOF is obviously something we who use LF really enjoy...but do people in general appreciate these pictures? I'm honest to say that it's good if I appreciate my own pictures, but I'm even happier if other people do it too. When posting a picture on e.g. photo.net for critique the feedback usually varies quite alot. I guess some people would take a quick glance at Ole's picture above and conclude that something must have 'gone wrong'' during exposure, development, or printing (I myself love it !) and give it a low score. I received feedback on a picture like that saying "it looks as if the negative curled up during scanning or something". Or "Just because you can tilt&swing doesn't mean you should".
What is your experience in this area...and do you at all care?
Wide open... nothing like a Noctilux f:1, but then that's not LF
"Wide open... nothing like a Noctilux f:1, but then that's not LF"
While obviously the Noctilux is very fast, from the standpoint of depth-of-field, that f1.0 Noctilux will still have more depth of field wide open than say an 18" f4 portrait lens (a la Hurrell). i have nothing against Leica - they are beautiful cameras, but as much as the Leica-philes wax on about how great thier bokeh is, I've always figured that it is just because they are comparing thier shots to those made on other 35mm outfits only.
Darlot Portrait 8x10.
5x7
William - simply lovely.
i've been having fun shooting wide open too.
graflex d 21cm tessar - 3.5
ilex seminat -3.5
Cooke PS945 Wide open(f4.5)
BTW Frank, every modern Copal shutter I own has 7 aperture blades making up the iris, not 5...
Let me try again....
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