Rowsley Sweet Chestnut Tree 2 by
David Fearn, on Flickr
Here goes...
My second ever large-format shot: please be gentle! A shot of a nice Sweet Chestnut Tree in Rowsley, Derbyshire (UK)
I can blame a mixture of Ben Horne, Alan Brock, Tim Parkin, Richard Childs, and David Ward, whose online presentations of the virtues of shooting large format finally convinced me to give it a go.
This is a cropped in because of vignetting caused by an overdose of front rise. The second shot, since for the first, where the composition was a little better, I miss-read the lightmeter, and only realized the error after I had packed up the shot.
Early lessons learned: read meter correctly, do not be hasty; vignetting here wasn't in fact an issue because the crop works; even when you think something major has gone wrong with a shot, get all the sheets processed so you can fully assess.
17/2/16, 11.30am
Linhof Technikardan S45
Nikkor SW75
Ilford Delta 100 (N+1)
1/4" f/32, 32mm front rise (i.e. too much) and 5mm of rear backward tilt. Processed by Peak Imaging.
The rear tilt was a tip from Jack Dykinga's book about how to compensate for wide lenses that vignette and don't have a centre-filter. Seemed to have worked OK (if understood and applied it correctly).
Since I don't yet have a film scanner, this was "scanned" with 4 frames shot onto lightbox with D800E and 60mm micro, stitched in CS6.
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