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    My first 4x5 image.

    Here is my first ever photo taken with a 4x5. Shot on TMax 100, developed in D-76 1:1 for 11:15. I believe the exposure was 1/15th at ƒ/22. Taken with a Horseman L45 and a Rodenstock 210mm. Just scanned, cropped with minor level adjustments. I just now realized that I didn't tilt the back after correcting for distortion using the front standard. Oh well.

    I didn't have a spot meter so I took an ambient reading in the direct sunlight, and another in the shadows and adjusted from there.

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    Re: My first 4x5 image.

    Congratulations!

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    Re: My first 4x5 image.

    There is no turning back now. Congratulations!

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    Re: My first 4x5 image.

    An excellent start! May all your tonal scales be properly graduated!
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    Re: My first 4x5 image.

    Quite the upstanding image

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    Re: My first 4x5 image.

    Good picture!

    What do you mean by "not tilting the back after correcting for distortion using the front standard"?

    If the camera is level, the position of the back determines whether or not the verticals are parallel or converge. It looks to me as if the camera was level and the back was plumb (vertical). The position of the front standard would not affect that. If you had used rise on the front standard, that would affect what was in the frame. Tilting it could affect what was in focus. It appears from what is in focus in the picture that the front standard was tilted little or not at all.

    Distortion usually refers to lines being turned into curves as in pincushion or barrel distortion. Large format lenses have little distortion and what there is would not be detectable to the eye. Also, if there is pincushion or barrel distortion, there isn't anything you could do with the front standard to affect it.

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    Re: My first 4x5 image.

    Quote Originally Posted by Leonard Evens View Post
    Good picture!

    What do you mean by "not tilting the back after correcting for distortion using the front standard"?
    Well let me correct that I was below the monument and I had the camera tilted up, I tilted the front standard to compensate for the converging lines, but I did not adjust the back back to vertical before I took the shot.

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    Re: My first 4x5 image.

    Quote Originally Posted by Shootar401 View Post
    Well let me correct that I was below the monument and I had the camera tilted up, I tilted the front standard to compensate for the converging lines, but I did not adjust the back back to vertical before I took the shot.
    The front standard is typically used to correct focus, the rear standard is typically used to correct perspective and distortion such as converging lines.
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