Hi everyone,

I haven't posted much yet. For the past years I have been doing very little work in LF. But lately I got the itch again to go out with the wooden beast - and do portraits, which I have never really done in LF. This weekend was a fitting opportunity: The reenactment of a battle leading up to the "battle of the nations" near Leipzig, Germany, in 1813, where Napoleon received one of his final blows. In this case, hundreds of volonteers reenacted the battle of Großgörschen (also called battle of Lützen), a victory for Napoleon. The reenactment took place on the original battlefield, a pasture where once 20,000 people died.

I used my 4x5" Tachihara with a 4.5/165mm Meopta Correctar enlarging lens (Heliar type) behind a Packard shutter, loaded with 9x12cm blue sensitive graphic arts film rated at 3 ASA. Exposure time was between 1/4 and 2 seconds at f5.6. The color rendition of the film sure led to weird eye and skin colors...