shooting small things with LF

[caleb]

How about a new picture thread of images made of small things using a big camera.
Here a couple of mine to get it started. -Caleb

[Alan Davenport]

OK, I'm in:

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/174/407369738_3786776c26.jpg

[Brian_A]

Here are a couple... Nothing special. This was a class assignment on bellows draw and macro capabilities when I took LF in college... We had to take a macro shot zoomed in at greater than 1:1 and one AT 1:1. The subject is a 2.5" wide notebook hard drive. Taken with a Cambo SC with a Nikkor-W 150mm f/5.6 lens on Kodak T-Max 400. I hope this is small enough :D

-Brian

http://www.AkersonStudios.com/lfforum/hdd.jpg

http://www.AkersonStudios.com/lfforum/hdd_whole.jpg

[jnantz]

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[Shutter]

http://artbase.jagatee.net/Untitled-2-1.jpg

Sinar F2 + 75mm Super Angulon 8.0
Provia100

A yellow stagshorn (calocera viscosa)

[jss]

http://schlachet.net/images/glassrelay-650v.jpg

carl meyer 12" at f/16, burke&james 8x10 racked way out to 2', speedotron 202vf head at 50w-s, two novatron heads at 120w-s each on background.

[Miguel Coquis]

Japanese maple tree, autumn leaves

[Pete_6109]

I mounted my digital SLR body to a mini Speed Graphic and came up with these shots
using a 135mm enlarging lens.
http://www.ramaglia.com/100_0567copy.jpg
http://www.ramaglia.com/100_0555copy2.jpg
http://www.ramaglia.com/B1.jpg

[vinny]

size 12 adams, toothpick
120mm nikkor macro
4x5 film

[Ken Lee]

http://www.kenleegallery.com/images/forum/f6.jpg
Rudbeckia Flowers
Sinar P, Vintage 135mm Carl Zeiss Jena Tessar
5x7 Ilford FP4+, Pyrocat HD

[Darryl Baird]

http://schlachet.net/images/glassrelay-650v.jpg

carl meyer 12" at f/16, burke&james 8x10 racked way out to 2', speedotron 202vf head at 50w-s, two novatron heads at 120w-s each on background.

Nice one, is it really on Polaroid (or Fuji) material?

[Shutter]

a test for my upcoming micro-photography series

sinar f2 4x5", TriX-320(4x5")

it's far from being perfect but after all it works...now I can play with the light and perspective :-)

[ljsegil]

Two attempts with a Master Technika shooting new Velvia 50, the former with a Nikkor 120mm AM, the latter with a vintage Protar 6 3/8" lens wide open to f/6.8 (or was it 6.3?). Both times the camera was pretty tilted and twisted, or at least the photographer was/is/probably always will be.
LJS
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[ljsegil]

Two more, because I lack the artistic sensibilities to critique my own work (or the artistic talent to justify critique in the first place), first shot on a Canham 5x7 using Portra 160NC with a wide open 9" Verito Diffused Focus Lens at f/4, second on the Master Technika with Velvia 50, same lens and aperture. This time the camera is a little less twisted and tilted than the photographer, much more the norm around here. Oh for some Velvia 50 or Kodak E100VS in 5x7, though I think the Portra does a reasonable job here.
LJS

[Bosaiya]

Polaroid Type 55

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Polaroid Type 55

that's amazing! how did you get this perspective? I tried to place the insect on a glass holder but that didn't really work out :-/

[Bosaiya]

Thanks! Years of practice and patience and many crushed and crumbled mistakes, much like my hopes and dreams. It's almost a zen state these days. The only thing I worry about is running out of film and paper!


that's amazing! how did you get this perspective? I tried to place the insect on a glass holder but that didn't really work out :-/

[jss]

Nice one, is it really on Polaroid (or Fuji) material?

yup, that's a flatbed scan of a polaroid 54.

[Drew Bedo]

How about a light bulb?

[pfarand]

How about a simple pile of coins- with hand-colored pennies?

T-Max 400, Horseman monorail with a Schneider 150mm APO Symmar L, lit by window light with color added in Adobe Lightroom- so much fun!

[Drew Bedo]

Lemesee..alwayse have to figure this out...

[Drew Bedo]

Got it now.

[Kirk Gittings]

size 12 adams, toothpick
120mm nikkor macro
4x5 film

My favorite fly!

[Frank Petronio]

The bellows compensation was a real bitch on this shot:

[Turner Reich]

I like the black-eyed Susan's best.

[Kirk Keyes]

The bellows compensation was a real bitch on this shot:

Good job capturing electrons in that photo. Every time I've tried to do this, the the electrons in my photo change momentum when I fire the flash and they get blurred. I uncertain how to fix this... ;^)