Bracket Fungus on Banksia
Gelatin-silver photograph on Ilford MGIV VC FB photographic paper, image size 24.6cm X 19.5cm, from a 8x10 Kodak TriX Pan Professional negative exposed in a Tachihara 810HD triple extension field view camera fitted with a Fujinon-W 300mm f5.6 lens.
Signed, titled, and stamped verso.
Photography:first utterance. Sir John Herschel, 14 March 1839 at the Royal Society. "...Photography or the application of the Chemical rays of light to the purpose of pictorial representation,..".
Juniper Detail, Sonora Pass
Tachihara 4x5
180mm Fujinon w/ 81b
Astia 100F
July 2005
Just another from the archive. Comments are always appreciated.
There sure is very fine work in this thread!
--P
Preston-Columbia CA
"If you want nice fresh oats, you have to pay a fair price. If you can be satisfied with oats that have already been through the horse; that comes a little cheaper."
Preston,
I love the richness of this.
Jim Cole
Flagstaff, AZ
Very nice Preston. It looks rather birdlike
Sinar Norma 4x5 w/ Sinar Copal shutter
150mm Rodagon
f16, 1/2 second
Provia 100
Anyone who has seen my posts knows that I shoot a lot with a particular special order (SO) aerial duplicating film that expired in 1984. This is mainly for the cost savings; it allows me to shoot 8x10 (or close) for pennies per shot. (The roll is 6.6" wide and is 400 feet long and cost me $35.) The trade off has been that the film is blue sensitive, so skies go white and foliage often goes darker than I'd like, it's really slow (EI 1.5), and it's been a struggle to tease subtle tones from it. However, my patience and testing is finally starting to pay off. The image below, a test shot of my backyard, is one of the first images I've made with it where the exposure and development have given me results close to what I have been aiming for. I say all this for the sake of anyone else who might stumble across this film. It has its limits, but with patience it can be tamed!
Kodak 2D 8x10, 210mm Hugo Meyer Doppel-Anastigmat, Kodak Low Contrast Aerial Duplicating Film (SO-277), 45 second exposure.
Jonathan
Jonathan, it looks as good as all your other photographs. I don't know the film you're using but I have a few boxes of Ultratec I haven't been able to tame. The film doesn't even seem to be ISO1.5 and the results are very grainy and contrasty. It's a shame because I have about 600 sheets of it. Which developer do you use?
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