Flowers Anyone?

[cjbroadbent]

...I was not sure whether it works or if the background is too plain (toned) "grey". ...Jiri

LF really does flatten a background, so anything goes to shade it off. But your shot is so clean and simple that it needs no help from behind.
Thanks Steve & Allen for your appreciation. The Sironar at f5.6 is 'nicer' than the old Suter portrait lens. I think the Suter comes into it's own at about f16 because it stays soft.

[ljsegil]

Master Technika 4x5 Kodak E100VS shot with Heliar 210mm at f/4.5.
LJS

[Jan Pedersen]

From a tree that i bought a few months ago. This is a Dogwood Kousa, the little tree paid me back with lot's of white flowers.
4x5 on PN55 150 SSXL Orientals new WT

[Ken Lee]

Peony Blossom
Sinar P, 135mm Carl Zeiss Jena Tessar
5x 7 Kodak TMY, Pyrocat HD

[soeren]

Peony Blossom
Sinar P, 135mm Carl Zeiss Jena Tessar
5x 7 Kodak TMY, Pyrocat HD

Great shot
Ken, Is that shot cropped or does the 135mm Tessar really cover 5X7"? Will the 135mm Heliar?
Best regards

[Roger Vadim]

...here are a couple

Regards
Sven

great thread, truly inspiring!

sven, what technique did you use here, truly love your tonal values.

cheers, roger

[Ken Lee]

Is that shot cropped or does the 135mm Tessar really cover 5X7"? Will the 135mm Heliar?

The shot is cropped, but only along the sides. I mask my camera to a more narrow format, closer to 4x7.

As you may recall, a 135mm lens will require 135mm bellows draw at infinity, but as we focus closer, more bellows draw is required. To reach 1:1, a 135mm lens will require 270mm of bellows draw. Any normal lens will require 2x the infinity extension, at 1:1.

At twice the extension, the image circle is 2x the size of the circle at infinity. So any lens which can cover 4x5 at infinity, can cover 8x10 at 1:1.

(Just remember that at 1:1, the area of the circle is 4x the normal size. We need to adjust the exposure by a factor of 4, because the same amount of light, has been distributed over a circle of 4x the area).

The same principle is true with all lenses - other than special designs like telephoto or retrofocus.

[soeren]

Is that shot cropped or does the 135mm Tessar really cover 5X7"? Will the 135mm Heliar?

The shot is cropped, but only along the sides. I mask my camera to a more narrow format, closer to 4x7.

As you may recall, a 135mm lens will require 135mm bellows draw at infinity, but as we focus closer, more bellows draw is required. To reach 1:1, a 135mm lens will require 270mm of bellows draw. Any normal lens will require 2x the infinity extension, at 1:1.

At twice the extension, the image circle is 2x the size of the circle at infinity. So any lens which can cover 4x5 at infinity, can cover 8x10 at 1:1.

(Just remember that at 1:1, the area of the circle is 4x the normal size. We need to adjust the exposure by a factor of 4, because the same amount of light, has been distributed over a circle of 4x the area).

The same principle is true with all lenses - other than special designs like telephoto or retrofocus.

(at myself) DOOH Offcource it will cover at 1:1. Should have figured that Funny though that at 5X7" it doesn't look so much like a close up, remedy from my 35mm days hmm gotta dig up my Sinar and start shooting.
Best regards

[Sven Schroder]

Roger

Its a combination of things including

My Studio set up.

The film was 4x5 Berger 200, dev in ilford LC29 with a time reduced by a third and then a Borax bath for the time taken off (I think it came from a Barry Thornton artical).

Contact printed on forte polywarmtone in agfa neutol WA

Regards
Sven

[Ken Lee]

Peony
Sinar P, 180mm Carl Zeiss Jena Tessar
5x7 TMY, Pyrocat HD