Still-Life Images, 2011

[cjbroadbent]

4x5 Ektachrome, 135mm Sironar with some softener.

[cjbroadbent]

My last sheet of 8x10 Ektachrome, a year past expiry with a
240mm Sironar. Two sheets of gray paper for the niche.

[Tri Tran]

My last sheet of 8x10 Ektachrome, a year past expiry with a
240mm Sironar. Two sheets of gray paper for the niche.

Very nice Christopher. I do enjoyed your work.

[Sart_S]

Stlll-Life with the 9x12cm, Toyo 45C on Fomapan 100,dev. in Pyrocat HD. Fujinon 135mm f5.6 lens at f16.

[Jim Cole]

Stlll-Life with the 9x12cm, Toyo 45C on Fomapan 100,dev. in Pyrocat HD. Fujinon 135mm f5.6 lens at f16.

Sart,

Very nicely done. I thought at first glance that it was one of Christopher's.

[lmlmlm]

My first decent exposure of my first decent still life setup. Please do comment.


Fomapan 100, 8" at f/11

[Steve M Hostetter]

My first decent exposure of my first decent still life setup. Please do comment.


Fomapan 100, 8" at f/11

Hi ,, I think it would help to have a seamless white backdrop ... The cones kind of disappear but exposure looks good

[Jim Galli]

electrical aparati

[Sart_S]

Sart,

Very nicely done. I thought at first glance that it was one of Christopher's.

Thanks for the compliment!

[cjbroadbent]

Lucian, That teapot is looking good. The lens is short enough to to get some tangible perspective.
Steve mentions a seamless white background - something I've been fighting against for a couple of decades. Here's why: Seamless white backgrounds were a magazine kludge. They were used to make it easy to cut out (knock out) the subject for a printed page before computers came along. Seamless grey backgrounds have been used traditionally to 'formalise' a full-length portrait done with a medium format camera that cannot reproduce the shallow DOF of a large format camera. For still-life, a horizon makes it easier for the reader to locate his own position in space with regard to the subject. A horizon also makes it easier to adjust the tones beyond the subject so that they contrast and set-off the edges.
Serge, That's another blast from the past - totally different and less mature style compared the glass jars. I've been flipping through Fox-Talbot to find it's ancestor.
Jim Cole, I'm just an old f*rt.