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    Re: February Still Life

    The press was to separate the last bit of liquid after removing from the churn.

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    A reminiscence of the late sixties.
    Everything was shot on 8x10 but pretended to be wide-angle 6x6. White limbo with overhead window-light. Sinar with Super-Angulon 8/121mm tilted way forward. Urgh!
    The empty space is for a headline.
    Ektachrome shipped to Italy in those days should have been binned in the factory. It was way over tolerance and sometimes required 30CC to 50CC correction.

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    Re: February Still Life

    OK, I give up. What's a "white limbo"?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Will Whitaker View Post
    OK, I give up. What's a "white limbo"?
    That horrible seamless white background. Extinct towards the end of the last century.

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    Re: February Still Life

    Taken using circa.1910 Demaria-Lapierre & Mollier 13x18cm camera with Hermagis Apl. No.5 f=310mm Serie II lens. Ilford Delta 100, Hc110 dil. B: Contact Printed.
    regards, Tony

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    Re: February Still Life

    Quote Originally Posted by cjbroadbent View Post
    That horrible seamless white background. Extinct towards the end of the last century.
    What is used today ?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ken Lee View Post
    What is used today ?
    A plane with a horizon (For horizon, read far-edge-of-table, skirting-board). Whatever brings you down to earth and provides a visual clue for orientation.
    Once apon a time the photolith people had a hard time 'knocking out' the subject an putting it on the white page. Even drop shadows, a step in the right direction for orientation, were frowned on.
    Nowadays, for products on a white page, we shoot on a white table against a white background with the horizon almost blending but not quite. The plane is shiny or glass-covered so that there is a hint of a reflection at the base of the subject to give it weight. Like this.

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    Lightbulb Re: February Still Life

    Quote Originally Posted by Ken Lee View Post
    What is used today ?
    A sweep.

    Large piece of white plastic, horizontal at the front and following a smooth curve up in the back, so the rear edge is out of the frame.

    - Leigh

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    Re: February Still Life

    Don't they still use cycloramas?

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    Re: February Still Life

    Playing with a Petzval today:


    Artichoke-y... by Scott --, on Flickr

    Un-named 5-1/2" f/3.4-ish Petzval, 4x5 Efke PL25M

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