Post your first (LF) shot [Archive] - Large Format Photography Forum

Lachlan 717

19-Jun-2009, 04:45

I suggested this in another thread, but feel that it got a bit lost. I think that it warrants its own Thread.

When I first started here, I was somewhat intimidated by the quality of results that people were submitting in various threads.

But we all must have started somewhere.

So, I would like to start by posting my first 4x5 shot. Due to some conflicting opinion on what constitutes LF, I won't put my first 6x17 shot...

So, for better or worse, please feel free to add your first LF shot.

Perhaps we can direct all Newbies to this Thread when they introduce themselves to show that there is light at the end of the tunnel!!

Lachlan.

Horseman LE 4x5
Kodak TriX 320
Unmarked 240mm Petzval
1/60th @ f4 (approx. f-stop)

monkeymon

19-Jun-2009, 04:59

http://www.taidejakonsti.fi/muutos/TEMP/viltsu_kulomaki_snadi.jpg

Old beaten up 75$ anniversary speed graphic & Uncoated ektar 127mm, 1sek f4.7, fortepan 400 film.. can't remember the dev.

I think i developed this on normal 120rollfilm jobo tank, with two same side spirals and one sheet off film cramped between of them. So, it's less than ideal.

Bill_1856

19-Jun-2009, 05:56

Probably not my very first LF shot, but the only one I have saved over the years.
Camera: 9x12 cm Gaumont & Cie, Lens: 15 cm Steinheil Unifokal, Film: Ansco Isopan, Developed in Kodak Tri-Chem Pack. Probably contact printed on Kodak Velox developed in Kodak Tri-Chem Pack (Dektol).

Patrick Dixon

19-Jun-2009, 07:01

I already posted it, but here it is again:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3062/3527995465_03b91ef627.jpg

Busch Pressman, Ektar 127mm/f4.7, Provia 100F

Chris Strobel

19-Jun-2009, 08:02

venchka

19-Jun-2009, 10:03

Chris that is way too good for a first shot.

dazedgonebye

19-Jun-2009, 10:34

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3457/3189751652_2ee6e59c10_o.jpg

manfromh

19-Jun-2009, 10:42

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3088/3155664807_efdd716fda.jpg

timbo10ca

19-Jun-2009, 12:24

bvstaples

19-Jun-2009, 12:40

This was the first shot I ever made on my then brand new Shen-Hao 4x5.Lens is the 150mm Nikkor-W that came with the Badger Graphics kit, and the film is Type 55.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3649/3484889370_a7bb7668f5_o.jpg

This is a fabulous shot, and I feel also attests to the capabilities of Type 55. I wish somehow that the photo gods would see fit for someone to fill in for Polaroid's error in judgment.]

I'd love to see a print of this image.

Brian

Denis Pleic

19-Jun-2009, 12:56

The usual Speed Graphic & Ektar 127/4.7 combo. Film was Efke PL100, souped in Rodinal 1+50.

My first LF shot, first use of sheet film. I still remember the excitement - it wasn't that long ago :)

Chris Strobel

19-Jun-2009, 13:14

Chris that is way too good for a first shot.

Thanks!Yeah it really was.I had done tons of reading, hanging out here, etc. before buying my kit from Jeff at Badger.I still have 2 boxes of type 55 in the fridge, but am reluctant to shoot it.Been waiting for that 'perfect' subject you know :confused:

Eric James

19-Jun-2009, 14:09

Here's mine (Fuji 240mm A @ f16 on Velvia 100F:) ).

Don Hutton

19-Jun-2009, 14:58

Here's mine (Fuji 240mm A @ f16 on Velvia 100F:) ).
That's funny! Seen some of those...

Daniel_Buck

19-Jun-2009, 15:22

I'm pretty sure this was my first shot, I set it up and took a shot of our building at work:

I forget the lens, but the camera was my Uncle's Wista 4x5, probably 200mm?

http://404photography.net/wip/4x5/4x5_hayden_01.jpg

Chris Strobel

19-Jun-2009, 16:42

[QUOTE=Daniel_Buck;478940]I'm pretty sure this was my first shot, I set it up and took a shot of our building at work:

I forget the lens, but the camera was my Uncle's Wista 4x5, probably 200mm?

I like it!Nice tonality

Bill_1856

19-Jun-2009, 19:27

Here's mine (Fuji 240mm A @ f16 on Velvia 100F:) ).

By Gawd, an honest man at last!

jamesklowe

19-Jun-2009, 19:43

http://i462.photobucket.com/albums/qq350/killerwailkillerwhale/iforeidolon-sarah.jpg

i was underexposed by a stop.

alec4444

19-Jun-2009, 19:55

First image was with a rented 4x5 camera on polaroid film:
http://www.alec.com/photos/Fountain_small.jpg

After buying the 11x14 camera some weeks later, I reshot the same fountain. While this wasn't my first 11x14 shot, it was within the first 10 photos. Printed it reversed as a personal preference:
http://www.alec.com/photos/poseiden.jpg

dave wagstaff

19-Jun-2009, 23:47

Went out in the fog last week to test out the 4x5. Looks like I missed a bit on the image circle and some light leak on the left side. Also the right edge is getting soft, might have to lens shop in the future. Used a Nagaoka field camera and a 13.5cm Zeiss Tessar, Fujifilm Pro160 and Kodak 320TXP. I've got a ways to go yet. :p Constructive critique is welcome.

Cheers, Dave

Lachlan 717

20-Jun-2009, 00:30

Patrick Dixon

20-Jun-2009, 06:26

http://i462.photobucket.com/albums/qq350/killerwailkillerwhale/iforeidolon-sarah.jpg

i was underexposed by a stop.

Great idea though.

victor larue

20-Jun-2009, 07:56

My first shot with result. In fact the first one left no trace because the sheet fell down when I removed the film hoder out the camera.

This one was also bad inserted in holder showing this result.

MPP VIII - Optar 135 mm - Ilford FP4

kociamber

20-Jun-2009, 09:18

My first LF shot, Chamonix 45n1, Nikkor 135mm, Wephota np22, Diafine.
After first dozen or so frames I realize that I'm loading sheets to jobo reel in wrong way (emulsion outside ) scratching every frame. Well RTFM :)

http://www.pawelkrawczyk.com/photos/4x5_2_Scan-081004-0001_small.jpg

Brian Ellis

20-Jun-2009, 09:55

You mean the first one that had a discernible image?

dave wagstaff

20-Jun-2009, 14:11

Nice to see you here, Dave!

Thanks Lachlan! If I hadn't bumped into you and your big camera in Sydney I'd probably not have ventured into this.

Cheers,
Dave

Janko Belaj

20-Jun-2009, 14:23

This one isn't my very 1st LF shot, (the 1st one was done in studio just to check what LF can do and have been buried somewhere in my archive) but this one was my 1st landscape attempt, as far as I can remember now… With "overtilt" to get unreal architecture. Sinar F1 and Super-Angulon 90mm f8 on Tri-X.

http://belaj.com/unsorted/Lukavec.jpg

Richard M. Coda

20-Jun-2009, 15:58

http://members.cox.net/rcoda/photo/82-001.jpg
Lakeside Bridge, Pompton Lakes, NJ, 1982

Used an Air Force Speed Graphic with the Ektar 127mm lens. Didn't know anything about movements... just wanted to play with my new toy I found in the basement. Tri-X, FG-7. I left the defects in (light flares and scratches from the wooden clothes pin I used to hang dry the film in my mother's basement laundry line).

Chris C

20-Jun-2009, 16:50

This was the 3rd shot from memory. The first two sheets suffered from the usual fogging/horrific scratches/etc usually associated with someone shooting LF and not knowing what they're doing.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3576/3404557490_43d7c37f8b.jpg

Vaughn

20-Jun-2009, 18:02

Here's mine (Fuji 240mm A @ f16 on Velvia 100F:) ).

Copy-cat!

jvuokko

21-Jun-2009, 13:41

I don't know what I saw on that scenery, but then it seemed to worth for a first picture...

It was hot and humid, I had troubles with focusing, the film back was not properly on it's place so part of the picture was cut out...

Embrassing moment.

Ofcourse, depth of field wasn't exactly where is meant to be.

http://jukkavuokko.com/linkatut/lf/shinjuku-gyoen.jpg

Jiri Vasina

21-Jun-2009, 14:04

Jukka, but I like it... And quite a lot... ;)

Jiri

Steve M Hostetter

22-Jun-2009, 12:17

Taken with a Toyo 4x5 fitted with a 90mm f8 SA I traded work for in 1988

covered bridge at north entrance to Brown County state park

Craig Moyer

22-Jun-2009, 12:49

I suppose this is my first shot.

The ghosting is because I loaded the film in the holder backwards but flipped it around after taking an exposure and reloaded it emulsion side out.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v187/craigm1987/09-05-001.jpg

TXFZ1

22-Jun-2009, 19:02

One of the first batch with a photo of the first on the table. Fuji Instant Film. All my packages from Badger are still on the table.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2465/3651958031_89c315e301_o.jpg

David

Alan Davenport

22-Jun-2009, 20:11

Once I had the kit assembled, it was jump in the truck and drive for an hour to this little spot I knew... Velvia 50 RVP, shot at f/45 as I recall about 22 seconds including reciprocity correction.

It took me over an hour to get the camera set up and focused for this shot! I've gotten a little faster but I'm still pretty slow.

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/100/274395161_ab314a58f8_o.jpg

Michael Wynd

22-Jun-2009, 22:55

Very nice, Alan. Just what I was photographing on Saturday. But half a world away.
Mike

jim kitchen

23-Jun-2009, 11:02

I think it was something really important... :)

jim k

kev curry

23-Jun-2009, 11:21

I love that shot Jim... It has a real sense of mystery about it;)

Andrew O'Neill

23-Jun-2009, 12:10

Jim, that's very much like some of my coal mine shots in Japan...

Bill_1856

23-Jun-2009, 12:54

Jim, is that the negative or a print? We need the additional information to evaluate our critiques.

jim kitchen

23-Jun-2009, 17:48

Gentlemen,

I apologize for presenting such a mysterious, coal mine like, "negative image," where I truly welcome your comparisons, and your excellent critiques... :)

I know my first experience occurred more than once and I had to share my grief.

jim k

Bill_1856

23-Jun-2009, 19:10

Well, Jim -- I certainly enjoyed the total lack of burned out highlights, but frankly a little more fuel in the shadows might have added fire to the Anthracite.

Gary Beasley

24-Jun-2009, 07:07

Good grief I feel left out. My first was so long ago I can't remember what it was. I had a Crown Graphic then and tray processed the Tri-X. I'll have to do some digging and see how old a neg I can find.

Ulrich Drolshagen

24-Jun-2009, 07:28

This one is my first LF-Shot. Wista 45, f/5.6 / 210mm Sironar N

http://www.ulrich-drolshagen.de/tmp/buswartehaus3.jpg

The Wista was loaned to me to try it out. It was fine but for me the bellows draw was too limiting. I have a Chamonix now.
Taking interesting pictures where I live is somewhat challenging. At least you can get some which are typical. These bus stop houses belong to our countryside. I'd much liked to make use of the 75mm which belonged to the the cam but the Road is rather trafficy. Chances were I hadn't survived the attempt.

Ulrich

soeren

24-Jun-2009, 22:46

kev curry

24-Jun-2009, 23:57

First shot. Scanned 5x4 contact.

Garfield Gautama!

thafred

25-Jun-2009, 00:00

here´s my first LF shot.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3167/2464043342_7898b1aaaf_b.jpg

Anniversary Speed graphic + Ektar 127 f4.7, HP5 in Rodinal 1:25

I thought the speed G is a good idea for street photography back then. I really underestemated how tired it makes you running around all day with a heavy beast like that :p ...barnack invented the Leica for a reason!

still enjoy doing street now and then with the monsters thou :)

Ulrich Drolshagen

25-Jun-2009, 05:29

LOL, I drive by one of these every day on my way to work. Its Isolated on a sideroad (?) and really make a good subject. I just havn't come around to make a shot of it yet, then again never mind now it has been done :)
Best regards
Interesting, I have never seen them anywhere else. To have seemingly taken their picture the first time ever is really gratifying to know :)

Ulrich

Steve M Hostetter

25-Jun-2009, 05:38

Anders Korhonen

25-Jun-2009, 06:31

Uhh.. had to test DoF? vintage cambo 4x5, 180mm symmar, @5.6, hp5 id11

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3034/3117102281_2fde22a451_o.jpg

Bill_1856

25-Jun-2009, 06:44

...barnack invented the Leica for a reason!

Oskar Barnack had severe asthma. He was a dedicated amateur photographer, but was completely exhausted with toting a a 13x18 outfit through the woods. He even invented a method for making many small images on a single plate, but it was unsucessful because of the excessive grain.
The breakthrough came when he constructed a predecesor to the Leica as an kind of exposure meter for a movie camera he invented for Leitz. Apparently the grain of movie film was much finer, and by doubling the size of the standard movie frame he was able to take pictures which could be enlarged to the staggering size of picture postcards. (Nearly as large as the contact prints from his 13x18 negatives.)
After that, it was only the matter of 10 years work (and the poaching of some Zeiss patents) until the first production Leica was produced.

Ulrich Drolshagen

25-Jun-2009, 07:38

Interesting,, looks like this is out in the middle of nowhere... So in Germany do you take the bus to the bus stops..? hehe wagons east
Germany has about 230 inhabitants per km². Striktly speaking there is no such place like in the middle of nowhere in Germany. That's why Germans are so enthusiastic about places which really are and try to let places appear as so they were. :D
At the spot from where the picture was taken there is a road junction with a house on the corner. The road goes to a small village about half a mile away.

Ulrich

Jehu

25-Jun-2009, 08:13

The largest film my scanner would handle was 120 so this is my first result. I keep meaning to rescan this so I can get the full 4x5 aspect.

http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z95/Jehu10842/LF_BW/LFmailbox1-3.jpg

It's my neighbor's mailbox. He built it out of an industrial sewing machine that was used to sew burlap sacks closed with bailing wire .

Steve M Hostetter

25-Jun-2009, 08:25

Germany has about 230 inhabitants per km². Striktly speaking there is no such place like in the middle of nowhere in Germany. That's why Germans are so enthusiastic about places which really are and try to let places appear as so they were. :D
At the spot from where the picture was taken there is a road junction with a house on the corner. The road goes to a small village about half a mile away.

Ulrich

It really makes me wonder just how many bus stops I could find here.. I know I wouldn't find anything near this photogenic.. who knows ,, the stops downtown are plain Jane but that doesn't mean there isn't something unique there..

Gary Beasley

25-Jun-2009, 09:44

This was one of my oldest 4x5 negs, couldn't say it was my first but pretty repesentative, warts and all. I was already using an 18x26 copy camera at the time so I didn't find the Crown Graphic very intimidating. I could have taken better care of the negative.

Lachlan 717

29-Apr-2010, 23:50

Seems to be a good number of new Members here, so thought that I might bump this back to the top and see if anyone's up for posting.

So, bump.

nray

30-Apr-2010, 06:57

My first 4x5 taken last September. Astia 100 Quickload using Caltar II-N 90mm/6.8

http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o131/nray53/Scan-179.jpg

Scott --

30-Apr-2010, 09:09

My first sheet, just over three years ago. Of course, of one of my kids.

http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j185/bliorg/crop218.jpg

Lachlan 717

30-Apr-2010, 15:36

Both very brave first subjects!! Well done.

bvaughn4

30-Apr-2010, 20:26

Hi to all. This is my first post here. Shot with a Crown Graphic 4x5 loaner to see if I really wanted to do LF - I think I do!
There was some damage to the film I was given to test drive which you can see in the image.http://billvaughnphotography.com/lf/bin/images/small/house.jpg

Lachlan 717

30-Apr-2010, 21:54

sultanofcognac

1-May-2010, 02:00

Greetings all,

Here is my first-ever 4x5 of the back door of my house (three years ago), taken with an Arca Swiss Basic Model A, Fuji Provia 100f and a Schneider G-Claron 240 and no ground glass.

It's a miracle that anything came out of it, as the ground glass wasn't held in properly and, seconds after I thought I had a good focus, the gg just fell out of its seat and hit the aluminium Gaoersi loupe that was around my neck, shattering the gg (of course).

I stood with my mouth open for a minute or two, then (muttering a few things I can't repeat here) stepped back to grab the film holder anyway, which, of course, bumped the camera sitting on the ball head which wasn't 'completely' locked down and went for a spin and tilt of its own!. . . so I just manually reframed and (amidst quite a few expletives) took the (expletive!) shot.

It took five weeks to get another ground glass – so had only taken one shot before being crippled. :o This event gave me more time to practice tightening down everything before I make any moves, but couldn't practice camera movements or focusing because I couldn't see anything! :mad:

About this time I was seriously doubting many of the posts on this forum extolling the fun and relaxation attributes of shooting LF :confused:

Fortunately, it's been all uphill since :cool:

Johnny

bvaughn4

1-May-2010, 06:57

Thank you Lachlan. I believe I will come to love this format more and more. The encouragement shared in this forum among everyone is great.

CarstenW

1-May-2010, 06:59

Wow, Johnny, that must have been an incredibly discouraging start :( Makes for a great story though, which in the long run may well be worth more :)

dylanm78

30-May-2010, 09:11

My first LF shot taken a few weeks ago. (4x5 RVP 50), and my first post on this forum after lurking (and learning) for quite some time.

Many things I need to get used to, but I had a great time on my first outing with the "accordian" camera (a lot of the people in the park made this comment).
Can't wait to get out and use it again.

Dylan

Steve M Hostetter

30-May-2010, 12:27

Seems to me that, considering this is your first shot, you SHOULD keep going! Nice start.

I agree! this is excellent

john wood

3-Jun-2010, 23:12

ok...way too much fg...but the world was upside-down...I think it took 20 minutes to actually take the pic, by which time the fog had all but burned off except in the Boonville valley below... Anyway, a great learning experience as I fiddled with knobs and darkslides.
canham dlc45, apo-sironar-s 150, disneychrome 50 (old emulsion, with its 'anything in shade *must* be cyan' attitude)...sometime around march, 2000

http://i138.photobucket.com/albums/q278/johnhwood/2366364089_efd2fcb143_b.jpg

tbeaman

5-Jun-2010, 23:46

Lachlan 717

6-Jun-2010, 00:03

That's pretty stunning for your first image!

I hope to post my first LF image here some time in the future, but alas, I have yet to see it myself! I've gone through a whole 50 sheets of shanghai film since Christmas, but it's all still sitting in the fridge waiting to be developed. Let's hope they don't turn out to all have light leaks on them once I do!

Fair roll of the dice!!

My first roll film camera had interchangable lenses on those stupidly large nose cones (DaYi pano camera). I'd decided to travel 3 hours to the premier National Park in my area and pinged off 5 or 6 rolls, not knowing that the screws had to be super tight. Thus, I had banding across all rolls.

Luckily, I'm not anywhere near good enough as a shooter to have lost any keepers, but lesson learned!! I know test the camera/equipment on rubbish shots before getting serious...

All the best for your shots!

cjbroadbent

7-Jun-2010, 10:59

Burke&James 8x10, Suter Stella 360mm wide open , about 1969.
http://lh6.ggpht.com/_OR3U2BmIDuk/TA0xTm--ZLI/AAAAAAAAFMI/mShZJEddQWc/s800/tinJug001.jpg

tgtaylor

7-Jun-2010, 11:39

My very first photograph with a large format camera (4x5):

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4004/4679695794_1e7c6b7d77.jpg

First light with my then brand new Toyo 45CF (without Fresnel). Rodenstock 150mm Apo-Sirona S, Fuji Velvia. It took me 45 minutes or so to set it up, focus, and finally open the shutter.

Critiques are welcome!

Andrew O'Neill

7-Jun-2010, 12:06

Scott Walker

7-Jun-2010, 12:15

My very first photograph with a large format camera (4x5):

First light with my then brand new Toyo 45CF (without Fresnel). Rodenstock 150mm Apo-Sirona S, Fuji Velvia. It took me 45 minutes or so to set it up, focus, and finally open the shutter.

Critiques are welcome!

45 minutes very well spent in my opinion

Lachlan 717

7-Jun-2010, 13:38

This was my first image using 8x10. It's cropped a wee bit at the bottom.
I started using 4x5 in '93, but pretty sure I chucked my first 4x5 neg when I moved back to Canada... it dumped a lot of crap then.

Geez, got to admit I'm tempted to make a joke about this being a shithouse photo, but that would be just too lowbrow...

Makes me wonder what you crapped, I mean cropped? And nice pun about it being a wee crop.

I can probably keep going!!

tgtaylor

7-Jun-2010, 15:12

45 minutes very well spent in my opinion

Thanks Scott!

This particular location, known as Round Valley here in the San Francisco Bay, was a ancient religious site among the indigenous Indians that once inhabited the area. The camera was purchased from B&H in September '02 and delivered in early November along with the lens. So that dates the image to late autumn, 2002 and it was first light for both the camera and lens.

Andrew O'Neill

8-Jun-2010, 09:31

Lachlan 617, You caught that little pun, eh? This toilet had been abandoned at the mine for about 5 years when I photographed it. Lots of snakes, rats, bees, wasps to contend with, along with the humidity. At least there was no smell.
There's no way in hell that I'd actually use it. I had a good laugh at the foot pads. "stand here. take aim".

tgtaylor

9-Jun-2010, 20:17

My very first photograph with a large format camera (4x5):

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4035/4687213610_1cc0642829.jpg

First light with my then brand new Toyo 45CF (without Fresnel). Rodenstock 150mm Apo-Sirona S, Fuji Velvia. It took me 45 minutes or so to set it up, focus, and finally open the shutter.

Critiques are welcome!

alex best

10-Jun-2010, 13:31

Still have to work on my scanning skills and probably need a new lens but at least I loaded the film properly and exposed correctly.

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4027/4688492017_319842a0be_b.jpg

You can view larger at my flickr (http://www.flickr.com/photos/randomalex/).

BrianMackey

18-Jun-2010, 16:19

Only back into 4x5 for about 2 weeks, man I so happy to be back :)

regards,

Bri~~

Rhemz

18-Jun-2010, 20:20

wow, your guys firsts are all really good.

my very first 4x5 shot had a huge light leak and was largely out of focus

http://www.be-logic.org/uploaded/1_img001.jpg

David Woods

19-Jun-2010, 16:07

My first 4x5s since then I've learnt to focus with a loupe and don't shoot in heavy wind. The B&W is ILford the colour neg is Velvia.

tbeaman

23-Jun-2010, 23:05

Fair roll of the dice!!

My first roll film camera had interchangable lenses on those stupidly large nose cones (DaYi pano camera). I'd decided to travel 3 hours to the premier National Park in my area and pinged off 5 or 6 rolls, not knowing that the screws had to be super tight. Thus, I had banding across all rolls.

Luckily, I'm not anywhere near good enough as a shooter to have lost any keepers, but lesson learned!! I know test the camera/equipment on rubbish shots before getting serious...

All the best for your shots!

Sorry, just noticed this! Thanks, I appreciate the good will and spirit! So far, I haven't let myself get too attached to the intents and expectations with these images (time for the enthusiasm to wear off helps with this). In that way, they really feel more like test shots, or "for fun" shots. And maybe that's all it ever should be, but I do have a small hope that some of them may end up being at least a quarter as delicious as some of the others in this thread!

andrewh

24-Jun-2010, 14:21

A lot or work setting-up; but well worth it. Nicely done!

Andrew

Bernard Kaye

27-Jun-2010, 13:36

Thank You for letting me be a member of LFPF.
Bernie Kaye

John Daly

3-Jul-2010, 08:09

I'm just getting into large format photography. Here is my first shot with an eBay Toyo-View 45G on Ilford Delta Film. Scanned at 600 with an Epson 3200 photo scanner.

My later shots have been a little better focused (and level:-). My primary interest is historic preservation and my goal is to learn to produce HABS/HAER quality photos of some of the few remaining historic buildings in my area of Florida.

This is the original Community House in Melbourne Village, Florida, adapted from a WWII barracks. The building is interesting because of the window structure. The sash windows are a later addition. The original windows are the narrow 24"x36" windows near the eaves. Most of these buildings had normal double hung sash windows. Inside, the building has a gorgeous oak floor that appears to be original. Most such temporary buildings had pine floors.

Comments more than welcome.

sultanofcognac

4-Jul-2010, 10:43

First things first. . . level the tripod & camera. That house is horizontally challenged. Those gorgeous oak floors won't hold a chickpea in one place! And you're also correct about the focus. . .

I'd give more to the tops of the trees and less foreground, or just crop the larger trees and foreground out altogether.

My opinion only, mind you.

Good job - keep the pics coming! :cool:

kdoco

5-Jul-2010, 04:50

Hello,

here is my first VF

Park Stromovka, Prague
Meopta Magnola 13*18
Orwo NP15, R09
Belar 210/4,5

http://rapelik.wz.cz/fotky/stromovka1_w.jpg

monkeymon

5-Jul-2010, 06:09

Hello,

here is my first VF

Park Stromovka, Prague
Meopta Magnola 13*18
Orwo NP15, R09
Belar 210/4,5

http://rapelik.wz.cz/fotky/stromovka1_w.jpg

really nice!

miss_emma_jade

5-Jul-2010, 06:54

all these pics are wayyyyyyyy better than my first LF pic, and i'm almost ashamed to post the first really bad one on this thread!! I think i will tho, and also the first one (negative 10) that i'm halfway proud of. comments anyone? they were taken with my Graflex 45 and efke 25 speed film. http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs107.snc4/35736_409189613647_649178647_4192376_3856983_n.jpg

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash1/hs517.ash1/30437_409850103647_649178647_4210115_3569499_n.jpg

Emma

Nigels

6-Jul-2010, 06:14

My first was well over eposed but as I was unsure I bracketed and although it was also overexposed I got this out of it using photoshop on the scanned tranny. March 2002.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2587/3747580700_e82fd30db3_o.jpg
Rock Strata in Castlemartin bay in South Pembrokeshire, Wales (Ebony RSW on Fuji Velvia 50, 90mm, 1/2 sec @ f/32, 0.9ND Grad)

paulr

6-Jul-2010, 07:56

http://www.paulraphaelson.com/portfolios/southwest/05dump.jpg

This was an open dump in the San Luis Valley in Colorado, made during the only photo class I took in college. Amazing place. Ancient appliances, strange cultural cast-offs, dead livestock. The smell was hard to take.

I used the school's equipment ... a huge calumet studio camera (it comes in a coffin-like case that leaves your shins black and blue if you have to carry it more than a few feet). An old, very fuzzy caltar lens.

I still like this picture. It's a stroke of luck that it survived at all ... I managed to destroy the next dozen or so negs through ham-fisted tray development and routine camera mistakes. There's actually a lot of spot tone in that sky. Took me a while to figure out how easy it is to scrape the emulsion off of a neg with the corner of another one.

Robert Hughes

6-Jul-2010, 09:16

In the trash dump vein, one of my first (2006) LF experiences was hiking the watershed area of Montgomery County, MD. Back in the Good Old Days, folks would dump any old thing out there, cars included:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3202/3093958580_1fcd13f45f.jpg

paulr

6-Jul-2010, 16:42

That looks like a bit like a crime scene ...

BrianShaw

6-Jul-2010, 16:55

It's been so long I forgot which is my first, but here is my last (meaning,"most recent").

BrianShaw

7-Jul-2010, 20:01

Mods, Lachlan requests I remove my post. Would you please do that for me? Thanks.

lmlmlm

14-Jul-2010, 23:29

nothing special about my first 4x5.. i am just happy about it, turned out better than i expected

Helen Bach

15-Jul-2010, 21:13

Here are my first two. Polaroids shot in '73, to the best of my memory.

Best,
Helen

chemicalbrother

18-Jul-2010, 00:11

Here are two of my first 4 x 5 and also development
The color was shot last week Test w/ a B& J press Not wide enough Schneider 210 @ f/32 Expired Fuji provia 100 F
Thanks,
http://www.flickr.com/photos/13989337@N08/4586165858/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/13989337@N08/4804187864/

antinapple

19-Jul-2010, 03:19

Old beaten up 75$ anniversary speed graphic & Uncoated ektar 127mm, 1sek f4.7, fortepan 400 film.. can't remember the dev.

neoro

19-Jul-2010, 20:42

This isn't my first, but certainly the first the came out of my first batch of shots from the development tank.

Shot on a Chamonix 45, Rodenstock 120mm Macro
Am I short of movement here with the top part of my picture? I did do a fair bit of movement for this shot.

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4116/4809658284_717b34f0b5_b.jpg

Putrajaya International Convention Centre or PICC is the main convention centre in Putrajaya, Malaysia. This building is located on the top of Taman Puncak Selatan in Precinct 5

The design idea of this unique and impressive building is based on the shape of the eye of 'pending perak' (a silver Malay royal belt buckle). However, the structure of the roof was designed similar to a folded origami to alleviate the plain roundness of the structure. From the frontview, the building's eaves or wings are lifted at the sides, creating broad overhangings over the raking wall. Most of the walls are made of glass, so natural sunlight can easily illuminate the auditorium through the raked and shaded windows.

Source : Wikipedia

sully75

20-Jul-2010, 16:03

Minus about 10 4x5 negatives I made 5 years ago, this was my first. 5x7 HP5

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3001/4564936531_964a837111_b.jpg

E S

12-Aug-2010, 13:35

Well, here goes. This is very definitely my first LF shot, taken in the shade on my front terrace shortly before I had my lunch. Can you guess what lunch consisted of? ;)

Lachlan 717

12-Aug-2010, 14:10

Well, here goes. This is very definitely my first LF shot, taken in the shade on my front terrace shortly before I had my lunch. Can you guess what lunch consisted of? ;)

Tough subject in tough lighting.

I would have given up and tried to get my head around how to make a good shot of an empty bottle in late afternoon light...

E S

12-Aug-2010, 23:49

Tough subject in tough lighting.

I would have given up and tried to get my head around how to make a good shot of an empty bottle in late afternoon light...

Oh dear. Now you're giving me ideas. And it is almost the weekend!

xiaubauu

13-Aug-2010, 01:54

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2233/1803946677_b2d73f9737_b.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/kimyeesan/1803946677/)
Kim Wei, My Brother by 津, on Flickr (http://www.flickr.com/photos/kimyeesan/1803946677/)

William Barnett-Lewis

17-Aug-2010, 16:40

http://lh6.ggpht.com/_H7131G65COY/SOo8bZ8eMmI/AAAAAAAAAbs/ifkQzwSATYo/s640/crop0043.jpg

Anniversary Speed Graphic 4x5
5x8 B&L F6.3 Zeiss Tessar Series IIB in barrel
Tmax 400 at about 1/200&f16 but it's been a few years since that one. I remember the Tmax though because it's my least favorite film.

I had the camera balanced on my knees while I focused on the ground glass and made the shot. I didn't forget the tripod after that...:rolleyes:

William

skrystos

31-Aug-2010, 04:54

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4139/4927714012_5b77c2b9bd_z.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/okiemcyklopa/4927714012/)
Paper boat (http://www.flickr.com/photos/okiemcyklopa/4927714012/) by okiemcyklopa (http://www.flickr.com/people/okiemcyklopa/), on Flickr

Nothing special, this is one of my first 4x5 shots. I've had some problems with developing in Jobo processor (streaks) and I've made this to check the new method of pouring soup.

Cambo SC2 Wephota np-15 Rodinal R09 1+50 Fujinon W 210mm

Lachlan 717

31-Aug-2010, 05:08

skrystos

31-Aug-2010, 05:12

Sorry I don't understand

jon.oman

31-Aug-2010, 12:49

Sorry I don't understand

He means that whatever problem you were having with the Jobo processing appears to be fixed with this image.

Jon

skrystos

1-Sep-2010, 17:12

Thx ;) I have some problems with english from time to time

feppe

2-Sep-2010, 12:39

Finally got my Gowlandflex 4x5 CLAd and did some test shots - here the very first one! There's some newbie mistakes which might be apparent from the scan, but I'll get better.

Although I tried to get the most of the subject matter, it's still dull - it's from my balcony late in the evening, and I just wanted to test everything out.

Technical specs

Camera: Gowlandflex 4x5
Lens: Schneider-Kreuznach 180mm f/5.6
Film: Fuji Velvia RVP50
Exposure: f/5.6 @ 45 seconds
Scanner: Epson V700 @ 300dpi, 48-bit color, default unsharp mask, Digital ICE, straight to JPEG so no other processing

Feedback on the composition, and ideas for improvement on the technical aspects much appreciated!

Peter Mounier

2-Sep-2010, 13:25

Maybe it would be better if you were at ground level, rather than your balcony. Looks good otherwise.

Peter

Frank_E

2-Sep-2010, 13:43

Steve M Hostetter

2-Sep-2010, 13:48

I can almost read the maker of the lens cap:D

feppe

2-Sep-2010, 14:17

you appear to have lost some detail in the shadows......but otherwise it has a nice solid feel to the composition......

Thank you! Solid is the word... I might have underexposed just a tad.

I can almost read the maker of the lens cap:D

That wasn't it :p Although I have a Mamiya C220, it has a dual lens cap, so forgetting the lens cap on the taking lens is a real threat with the Gowlandflex.

I either slipped the film incorrectly in the film holder and didn't notice it, or somehow managed to get the dark slide on the wrong side of the film when putting it back in after exposure. Out comes the film holder, with a brown evenly exposed film flapping around :eek: At least it was the right way around!

edit: found out what went wrong: the used film holder I bought had a sheet of film left in the holder, and I didn't notice it when inserting my film. Gives a whole new meaning to double exposure. Too bad the film was exposed when I fiddled with the holder - perhaps it was a sheet of film from Ansel Adams!

craig nye

2-Sep-2010, 22:12

this is my first LF shot, I have posted this elsewhere on here i believe. i have shyed away from large format and been concentrating on 35mm, but these big negatives... i'm currently looking at some sort of press camera option that wont cost a fortune so i can shoot more easily and more portable than my mono-rail 4x5.
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4023/4373767833_ab8d8ebb81_b.jpg

JamesFromSydney

3-Sep-2010, 08:34

searover

4-Sep-2010, 05:54

This is from my first batch, if not the exact first one, of large format in 30 years. All I had was the Super Angulon 65mm, shot about f22 in the late afternoon.
Taken wandering Selby Gardens in Sarasota near closing hour.
Metered using the Zone System as best I could.
First attempts at scanning were dismal (posted elsewhere on forum), first I tried a fluorescent bulb over a HP OfficeJet. Then I bought an Epson 4490 scanner for $129 new (it is NOT a full width scanner at 70mm, but works for the price with PS) on *bay and laid the neg on the glass, scanning the left first and then the right side. Photomerged the two images in CS4 Photoshop and finally a good scan.
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4153/4956345173_e47a2820bd_b.jpg
Taken with FP4+ and developed in Caffenol in a Starbucks thermal mug.
Some fogging in lower left, possibly from the bellows not being properly secured, all criticism is welcome. = my dear wife don't like this much...

This forum is great exchange of like-minded artists. Kudos to all who venture here.

Getting started in 4x5 can be affordable, just take it slow and KISS.

John Allaman
(Sarasota)

Hovmod

4-Sep-2010, 06:02

Yeah, I'll post my first one, now that it's like two weeks old!

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4135/4900665083_96b718a512_b.jpg

(this was before I got that I could scan two halves and stitch...)

craig nye

5-Sep-2010, 22:06

I just sold my field camera after getting a crown graphic. Being able to shoot hand-held, with a rangefinder, is really useful for candid portraits. You can of course put a press camera on a tripod, if necessary.

You should be able to get one for $200-$300 in working condition with a lens.

(we're flickr contacts, btw)

cool, thanks. i'll look in to it. i think i'll sell my 4x5 mono-rail (i don't have any studio lighting anymore so doubt i will use it) and my 360mm and 180mm lenses, keep the 150mm and pick up a press camera later on in the year.

Liam:

6-Sep-2010, 03:22

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4153/4956345173_e47a2820bd_b.jpg

I really like this as the roots draw my eyes straight into the image. There is a tree near to me which is similar, I think I might have to load some film and have a go so cheers for the inspiration!
:D

pound

9-Sep-2010, 20:31

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4086/4975979200_77bc510f62_z.jpg

This is a old style of playground where you still have a sand pit instead of some bouncy mat.

Finally i bought a Canonscan 9000f and stitch 2 scans together to make the complete photo.
The film was not loaded all the way into the film holder. That is why the right side was abruptly cut off although it was complete in the ground glass.

Left bottom corner suffers from vignetting which i never notice in the GG.

hiroki

10-Sep-2010, 07:08

This was my first LF shot.
Shot with a Linhof Master Technika (4x5) on Fuji Acros 100. Processed in a lab.
Scanned with Epson F-3200, blue duplex in PS.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2150/1933423235_0569bd6a3d_z.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/hirokun/1933423235/lightbox/)

Sompo Japan Building
Nishi-Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan

merelyok

12-Sep-2010, 11:30

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4107/4983702324_ce056b87f5_b.jpg

My first 4x5 shot ever..a quick and dirty portrait of my dad. I was anxious to see if i loaded the film holder right ( i didn't muck up, thankfully). I was more apprehensive about the developing ( i did this in an AP tank meant for 135/120 film..via the 'taco' method) and i'm glad to report it works rather well).

Toyo 45CFL
Fujinon 210mm
HP5+
HC-110 Dil G (semi-stand)
Scanned via an Epson V700

feppe

13-Sep-2010, 11:08

My first shot is earlier in the thread, but this is the first properly exposed.

Old Town (aka Red Light District), Amsterdam. Gowlandflex 4x5 with Symmar-S 180mm, Fuji Velvia RVP50, scanned at 3200dpi with Epson V700.

Using sunny 16 I got f11 @ 1/30, and this is a bracket half a stop over. I think I'll have to rate Velvia 50 slightly slower, as the mid and low brackets were too dark and there was plenty of headroom in the highlights when I scanned.

I was surprised by the shallow DOF - I knew it was shallower moving to LF, but still. According to Cambridge in Colour's DOF calculator I should have gone all the way to f/32 to get the church steeple sharp!

Got also burned by the framing; I found a reason for the guides on the ground glass :D

BetterSense

13-Sep-2010, 11:14

Some fogging in lower left, possibly from the bellows not being properly secured, all criticism is welcome. = my dear wife don't like this much...
John Allaman
(Sarasota)

I like it a lot. I wasn't there at the scene, but I might have tried to point the camera a little left, so that the tree trunks more evenly divided the upper part of the image.

asph

14-Sep-2010, 09:14

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2375/2381854863_0b7f42870a_o.jpg

my first post here and also my first LF shot from back in 2008. hi!

sinar f2/210mm/kodak epy

feppe

27-Sep-2010, 14:50

Here first successful shot. Amsterdam Old Center.

Gowlandflex 4x5, Schneider-Kreuznach 180mm f/5.6, Fuji Provia

http://www.harrijahkola.com/img/Netherlands_Amsterdam_(Old_Center_-_Canal_I).jpg

Ian Lascell

27-Sep-2010, 15:36

October 1992, Treman Park, Ithaca, NY
Shot on Tri-X, with a really heavy monorail camera. That is all I can remember of the details. This was also my first stab at using the zone system.

Greg_Thomas

30-Sep-2010, 17:50

I figured I do the most awkward, wrong self-portrait possible with my first shot and then everything would be improvement from there on out! FP-100C45 on my Crown Graphic, May 2009.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2184/3535806698_ba74e396d8.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/getphotos/3535806698/)

baronvonaaron

30-Sep-2010, 19:43

First ever shot for a LF class at FSU, circa september 2007. Toyo-view 4x5 w/ 210mm lens (i think), ilford delta 100 (i think).

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2079/2266987621_be5992daa2_b.jpg

Scratched Glass

13-Nov-2010, 09:21

My first 4X5 shot, taken with a toyo 45A II in 1998(?), and one of my first scans with my new Epson V750 today. Unremarkable in all respects.

http://i1189.photobucket.com/albums/z422/sabaia29/img012.jpg

Bob Kerner

13-Nov-2010, 11:26

This thread popped up just in time for me to share my first shot since recently returning to LF. Didn't want to stink up the "Landscape" thread with it.

A few weeks ago, eddie gunks was kind enough to let me use one of his cameras to "ruin some film" as he put it, to determine whether or not to try my hand again at 4x5. This image is a scan (with a humble Canon all-in-one device) of a contact print of an image made on Ektar. I cropped it to conceal some blemishes in the sky, most likely dust from unloading in a changing bag in the field.

It's soft because I didn't use a loop and forgot to zero the standards when I first set up. Live and learn. But nice enough to cause me to keep trying.

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4145/5172469008_ebb83b9a6b_z.jpg

Chuck P.

13-Nov-2010, 19:30

Shade trees on the local community college campus----bad dust problem

Sirius Glass

13-Nov-2010, 20:13

A humpback bridge in the western part of Virginia. Taken with my 1953 4"x5" Pacemaker Speed Graphic hand held with the 135mm lens.

Steve

MumbleyJoe

13-Nov-2010, 23:53

I stopped by an Oak grove not too far from my work the day I got my new 4x5. I took one film holder with me as I hiked out looking for a scene to shoot. After spending FOREVER getting the thing focused I snapped what was technically my first shot, and as I put the dark-slide back in the film fell out (and its not the last time that happened). I flipped the holder over and shot this frame - my first "successful" LF shot.

There was certainly a realization about what a change it was going to be at that moment - I took me about an hour from parking the car to actually taking the shot, and I had no more film with me and had to head back... very different from firing off digital shots of course.

Given how long it took me to get even remotely comfortable with my camera, this first shot actually didn't turn out too terribly on a technical level. Of course, there's not a creative element to it at all either. :-P

http://i190.photobucket.com/albums/z135/MumbleyJoe/TW1st4x5.jpg

Tachihara 4x5, Schneider 90mm f/8, Fuji Provia 100F - June 2008

gnuyork

18-Nov-2010, 22:59

October 1992, Treman Park, Ithaca, NY
Shot on Tri-X, with a really heavy monorail camera. That is all I can remember of the details. This was also my first stab at using the zone system.

I clicked on your image without reading your post and I said "hey I know that place" and sure enough... I was just there last spring. My dad and I did a 20 mile backpacking trip along part of the finger lakes trail and ended our trip at Treman. I was planning to bring my 4x5, but by the time I had my pack full of the essentials, I knew it was just too much to bring the all the gear.

We did the trip in 2 days and brought our dogs (two labs). I was beat. It would have been much worse carrying all the camera gear in addition, but I sure wish I had it once we were inside Treman park!!

icanthackit

9-Feb-2011, 23:04

Wow, some of your "first shots" are pretty nice... lol.

I took this just a week ago with my school's only 4x5 camera, a Tower Press Camera. It's just a view out the back of my apartment.

Robert Brazile

15-Feb-2011, 12:42

Well, have to get started somehow. Here's my first LF shot, taken from the front porch on New Year's Eve with a Calumet CC-400, developed in D76 1:1 in an old Chromega print drum, with a stitched scan because my Epson V500 can't do 4x5 in one go. New to all of it: LF, film developing, scanning and printing the results. Still a lot to learn, but was so pleased that I at least got something...

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5083/5310701728_1aaf5e135f_z.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/rbrazile/5310701728/)
First large format shot (http://www.flickr.com/photos/rbrazile/5310701728/) by rbrazile (http://www.flickr.com/people/rbrazile/), on Flickr

Robert

Scott --

15-Feb-2011, 13:24

It's exciting to see that image, isn't it, Robert?

Here's my first LF shot, from back in '07:

http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j185/bliorg/crop218.jpg

taulen

15-Feb-2011, 14:03

Oh my, I can see she has grown ! :D
Much better than my first :)

Robert Brazile

15-Feb-2011, 19:16

Scott, you are so right.

Robert

Jiri Vasina

16-Feb-2011, 13:40

I don't think I have posted here those yet... back in 2005 when I was starting my LF affair... with a pretty old Ica Ideal 325 10x15cm camera (http://www.vasina.net/?page_id=17) from approx. 1923, with a homemade "reducing" back for standard 4x5" holders...

http://www.vasina.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/p9x12-006_full.jpg

http://www.vasina.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/p9x12-007_full.jpg

Jiri

Kburg928

16-Feb-2011, 19:27

I've had my 4x5 for a few years now but I never used it. Well that changed a few weeks ago on a photo trip. Here's my first image ever taken with the 4x5.

http://www.pbase.com/tissot/image/132578959/original.jpg

Taken with Fuji Pro 160S

Keith

austin granger

17-Feb-2011, 14:19

Hey now, posting your first "successful" shot is cheating! :)

Here is my honest to goodness, first ever LF photograph. It was made with a Calumet Green Monster. I can't remember the lens, but it was very old. Obviously, this photo has some problems. I don't think I'd figured out front rise yet, nor the fact that I had a very leaky film holder.

I still love it though, as it is of my wife and oldest son, who will soon be nine years old. In his lifetime, I have probably exposed another five hundred sheets of film, and I can humbly say that I think I'm starting to get the hang of it!

Austin
www.austingranger.com

GabrielSeri

17-Feb-2011, 14:28

Very cool Austin and appreciate your honesty. I think the light leak actually works, brings a spiritual element to the image.

taulen

17-Feb-2011, 15:34

Here's my first shot, really boring, and all that. Just wanted to see if I could manage to get a shot, and develop it :P So, yeah. Nothing to see here, move on ;)

jon.oman

17-Feb-2011, 18:01

Professional

18-Feb-2011, 04:07

I am so new to LF, and i have 3 LF cameras, so should i post my first from one of them or post from each? Speed Graphic Pacemaker is my first ever LF bought it last year used, but i've got Shen Hao about 2 weeks ago [or 10 days], i will use Shen Hao first then Speed&Crown Graphic later.

JustinB

22-Feb-2011, 08:02

My first REAL LF shot:

http://justinberman.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/1-Edit.jpg

Stats: Sinar F2, Fujinon 210mm f/5.6 Lens @ f22 1/8 second, no rise or shift, 10-12 degrees back tilt for subject isolation.
Film: Ilford FP4
Intent: Honestly, I was not prepared for how cold it was the day I took this. It was supposed to be mid forties and sunny. By the time I got to the fountain it was mid thirties with a windchill down to mid twenties. I was not dressed appropriately and if I had been I would have spent more time controlling the composition. I placed the arm touching the boat on a thirds line, and the elbow and a thirds intersection point.
I had seen the statue before and had intended to shoot a 5-6 frame study of the thing, but when I was there it was just too much cold for me.
Lastly, I need to figure out how I got that strange lightness on the edge, I could and should crop it from the shot (I have lots to work with), but I wanted you all to know it was not intentional and it was not at all an attempt at vignetting.

Professional

22-Feb-2011, 08:30

My first shot, double exposure by mistake
http://img52.imageshack.us/img52/4532/img140ni.jpg

Shen Hao HZX45 IIA, Rodenstock APO Siron.-N 150mm, Acros 100, lab developing, my scanning.

Zaitz

23-Feb-2011, 20:42

Not what I had in mind but it is what it is:
http://img210.imageshack.us/img210/9385/img003ic.jpg

FredWilson

26-Feb-2011, 22:02

http://www.ipage.fredtj.com//images/photos/images/old_adobe_building_bw.JPG

Old, abandoned adobe building (from the 1800's), downtown barrio, Tucson AZ

Tower Press Camera, 127 mm Kodak Ectar
Ilford HP5+

Fred

Liam:

27-Feb-2011, 08:22

I really like that Fred!

ypres.bass

12-Mar-2011, 06:00

my first LF shot
Graflex SpeedGraphic 1.A
2,25"x3,25"
Ektar 101mm f/4.5
Efke PL50 in R09 1+50

Rick A

29-Mar-2011, 11:12

My daughters first 4x5 shot with Calumet cc-401 150 Caltar S on PolaPro 100 film
She was 12 at the time. Metered with Sekonic L-398 Studio Dlx. incident mode.
This is her camera kit, stolen from me:cool:

C.T. Greene

29-Mar-2011, 18:32

GeoffreyO

29-Mar-2011, 20:26

Not my first LF shot, but my first 8x10 :)

53565

Rick A

2-Apr-2011, 15:44

Nice eye & she grabbed the old man's camera . . what she up to now?

She is the total package. She uses all my cameras, OM-1, Yashica D, Mamiya C-220 and C-330, Calumet cc-401 and cc-400, video, and sculpts draws and paints. She's been a great darkroom assistant and now has her own darkroom. She has made a couple of stop action animated shorts using the creatures she makes with polymer clay. BTW, she can outshoot me on pheasants(grumble) and clay pigeons, helluva shotgunner and archer, been shooting since three.

Tony Evans

2-Apr-2011, 16:31

High Level Bridge #1.

Well at last! My first ever LF shot. Was a cold day and was not dressed for it. Makes fiddling around not much fun. Any way tried a little front left swing and rear back tilt, focused and let'er rip. Nailed the focus between the first and third supports but too soft left of the first and right of the third. Quite a few beginner lessons.
Dress for it. LF takes a lot of time.
Set the tripod at head height (to the GG). Crouching while trying to use the loupe does'nt help lower back problems.
Wear the dark cloth like a cloak, closed around the neck. Simply pulling over the head and forward to the camera proved easiest.
I think with just these 3 improvements, the job of setting the movements and focusing with the loupe would proceed much easier.

Shen-Hao 45IIA, Fujinon 90/f8.0, 1/15 @ f22.5. Acros 100 @ EI 100, Rodinal (1+50) 13.5 mins MDC. Paterson/Taco.

Comments, criticism and advice sorely needed and appreciated.

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5104/5583231290_074265eefb_b.jpg

Sean Galbraith

3-Apr-2011, 09:52

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1194/3173157445_630eaa49d7_o.jpg

Rented Sinar F1, Portra VC (wrong film choice), didn't factor in reciprocity failure.

Barry Kirsten

11-Apr-2011, 19:37

I'm pretty sure this was my first - it's the first entry in my LF field notebook and although I visited this spot at later dates, the other negs. don't match the print. Small cascade on the Cann River in Far East Gippsland, Victoria, Aust. 22 May, 1986, 12.45 pm.

Scan of contact print on Galerie grade 3 developed in Ansco 120. I don't have a fine print (except a framed one) or digital scans of this neg.

Toyo 810G, 480 mm Apo-Ronar @ F/22. FP4 developed in D-7 pyro, probably 5 min.

Brings back fond memories.

Barry.

atlcruiser

11-Apr-2011, 20:07

Not really number one...actually number 7 or 8. The previous were pretty funny :)

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5186/5608108393_6642752d17_b.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/53092319@N04/5608108393/)
cc mid122.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/53092319@N04/5608108393/) by urbanlandcruiser (http://www.flickr.com/people/53092319@N04/), on Flickr

Linhof kardan 4x5
90/8 super angulon
shanghai 100 film
rodinal 1:50 14.5 min uniroller tank

David R Munson

20-Apr-2011, 05:56

As far as I know, my first ever LF shot:
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/50/130797736_a0b5c9a6dc_z.jpg

And, my first shot on 8x10:
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/32/36280321_224cfe20de.jpg

austin granger

20-Apr-2011, 16:30

My first shot, double exposure by mistake
http://img52.imageshack.us/img52/4532/img140ni.jpg

Shen Hao HZX45 IIA, Rodenstock APO Siron.-N 150mm, Acros 100, lab developing, my scanning.

If this is a mistake I think it is a good one. A very evocative and interesting photograph!

Austin
www.austingranger.com

Professional

22-Apr-2011, 15:26

If this is a mistake I think it is a good one. A very evocative and interesting photograph!

Austin
www.austingranger.com

Thank you very much Austin!

In fact i am not sad about the mistake, i got double exposure as a mistake and it came out nice, but i feel happy that i got both shots even ended up as one double to be good, i think the exposure was not that tough so even i expose the sheet twice it didn't go bad, i can imagine if both shots were separated exposed on each sheet then it will look nice, getting something as a start is better than nothing ;)

Corran

25-Apr-2011, 18:09

Wanted my first shot to be awesome...but oh well. I still have much to learn. Only been shooting film for 6 months, mostly with a Pentax 67 until now (Toyo GII).

Velvia 50, 90mm Schneider f/8

Liam:

26-Apr-2011, 00:56

Lovely colours in the trees and sky Corran.

John Rodriguez

1-May-2011, 11:05

First shot: Acapulco Cliffs, Merced River, El Portal
Portra 160NC, Nikkor 135mm f/5.6

http://i54.tinypic.com/jzbjuv.jpg

Fav shot from that day: Merced River Tree and Rocks, Yosemite
Provia 100, Nikkor 135mm f/5.6

http://i51.tinypic.com/2gyb0ci.jpg

Marshal.F

2-May-2011, 21:50

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5187/5682125767_096477714d_b.jpg

My first LF exposure

Burke & James 4x5 Field Camera
Voigtlander 135mm f/4.5 lens
Fuji Acros 100 EI 160
f/10
1/50

elycerose

5-May-2011, 20:49

Okay, these are the first shots I took:

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5062/5685943494_6425ee5686.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/laurenrosenbaum/5685943494/)
Untitled (http://www.flickr.com/photos/laurenrosenbaum/5685943494/) by lauren {elycerose} (http://www.flickr.com/people/laurenrosenbaum/), on Flickr
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5063/5685939218_41c273790a.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/laurenrosenbaum/5685939218/)
Untitled (http://www.flickr.com/photos/laurenrosenbaum/5685939218/) by lauren {elycerose} (http://www.flickr.com/people/laurenrosenbaum/), on Flickr
Taken with a Speed Graphic 4x5
Kodak Aero-Ektar 178mm f/2.5
Fuji 100C 45 ~ converted to black and white by the scanner

Myxine

6-May-2011, 07:28

First one is really amazing! Especially considering it's a first shot

Robert Hughes

9-May-2011, 08:29

That girl-in-the-bathtub shot is pretty - but I had the Mpls Police Dept bash down my front door and wreck my house a few years back because of some similar naked shots I'd taken of my 4 yo daughter.

Eric James

13-May-2011, 19:34

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5293/5566672630_fc7765f0bd_b.jpg

Sassy and Friends on Eklutna Peak, Chugiak Alaska (Nikon 90mm f8; cropped from 4X5 Astia)

Leigh

13-May-2011, 20:18

Well, my first 4x5 LF was over 50 years ago, and I have idea where it might be now.

How about my first 8x10 LF shot? From last week, yucky thick clouds.
http://www.mayadate.org/pix/GbT1_96.jpg

No awards for this guy, just a shot.
Tachihara w/Nikkor-W 360/6.5. FP4+ in Diafine, scanned @ 2400dpi and resampled down to 96 dpi to post.

- Leigh

Carterofmars

13-May-2011, 21:47

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3385/5714656724_7c48987a78_b.jpg

Rob Klurfield

13-May-2011, 22:00

not my first, but my fifth, from just a week ago. Otto, one of our not very intelligent, but rather lovable dogs, was nicely in focus in the foreground but then decided to dart off into the shadow. frankly, that was much more interesting and so I snapped as he was emerging. crown graphic, 135/4.7 optar, Arista EDU 100 in Rodinal.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2660/5708830357_67622e668a_b.jpg

archer

13-May-2011, 23:07

Dear Eric James;
Your photograph is one of the three finest color images I've ever seen and is first among equals. It is magnificent. The composition and subtlety of color is simply timeless. It is an image of which, one would never tire. Congratulations!
Denise Libby

chij

14-May-2011, 04:11

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5293/5566672630_fc7765f0bd_b.jpg

Sassy and Friends on Eklutna Peak, Chugiak Alaska (Nikon 90mm f8; cropped from 4X5 Astia)

ooh lovely

Tony Evans

14-May-2011, 06:05

Carterofmars,
Exquisite. Go to the top of the class!

Eric James

14-May-2011, 15:35

Thanks Denise and chij !

Gary Tarbert

15-May-2011, 16:05

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5293/5566672630_fc7765f0bd_b.jpg

Sassy and Friends on Eklutna Peak, Chugiak Alaska (Nikon 90mm f8; cropped from 4X5 Astia)Pretty impressive first effort here . Cheers Gary

Eric James

15-May-2011, 16:25

Thanks Gary! It's been all downhill from there.

ederphoto

15-May-2011, 16:46

My first shot ever on large format . Taken with a 4x5 Omega F and a 180mm Linholf lens .Film was Ilford HP5 processed on Ilford chemicals as recommended by the manufacture and printed on Ilford Multigrade glossy paper .

http://images.orkut.com/orkut/photos/OgAAAPFLp0avudZcIj-2NBiM7GYIwGCP65UNi6w7AHBu8yVMfJhHahq4rpZJ3HgqtgBhAtdarFbWECUaGECKn62PRwEAm1T1UGaxujK9miDh_5QfVbvEn_GG-9hV.jpg

lbenac

6-Jun-2011, 21:34

My first shot on large format
Chamonix 4x5 Nikkor 180/5.6 Ilford FP4 in Pyrocat HD 1+1+100

http://www.lucbenacphoto.com/img/v26/p815086149.jpg

Cheers,

Luc

Corran

7-Jun-2011, 05:17

Hi Luc, glad to see you here. I enjoy your shots at the Pentax forums.

lbenac

7-Jun-2011, 06:59

Hi Luc, glad to see you here. I enjoy your shots at the Pentax forums.

Thank you - new learning curve ahead :)

rpsez

26-Jun-2011, 14:26

Certainly nowhere near the caliber of most of the pictures in this thread... but it was the very first time that my 4x5 was used in anger.

(...and 45 minutes to make two pictures? LoL. I used to wonder why people said 'make pictures' instead of 'take pictures'. I now know.)

Horseman L / 210mm Schneider Symmar-S / Delta 100 / HC-110 Dil B

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6048/5873968511_ca7fde012e_b.jpg

As soon as I figure out the light leaks, I'll be all set.

Rick

cuypers1807

26-Jun-2011, 20:16

Finally found time to develop my first few shots. I still can't believe that I didn't screw up the first batch. Here is the first:
Chamonix 045N-2
Schneider 150 L 5.6
Delta 100
D-76 1+1

mikezvi

27-Jun-2011, 13:05

its been a few months since I dove in but I may as well post it! This was my first shot, from sometime this winter.

Sean Galbraith

13-Jan-2012, 19:01

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7141/6691802887_49ab51a282_b.jpg
My first 8x10 shot. Delta 100, 300mm. "Scanned" by holding the negative up to a window and taking a digital photo of it.

John Conway

14-Jan-2012, 12:01

I think this was my first. Toned with Van Dyck toning. Taken with 8X10 camera and Fuji 300 5.6 wide open.

http://i42.tinypic.com/2nu0u8l.jpg

John Conway

14-Jan-2012, 12:31

I remember my son was losing his patience, sitting in front of the big camera, and wanting to get back to his video games. The negative printed nice and I did a 16x20 that looks great. I think the scanning softened the contact print a little. Or it may be the toning.

Steve Smith

15-Jan-2012, 02:30

This one is from the first four sheets of film I used in my new (at the time) 5x4 camera which I built myself.

http://www.apug.org/gallery1/files/1/2/2/2/9/tree5x4.jpg

Steve.

snay1345

15-Jan-2012, 07:00

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7155/6700998921_5b20db64fd_z.jpg

Here is my first shot from a speed graphic. It was of the beach in Oceanside CA from the pier.

Jody_S

15-Jan-2012, 19:52

My first-ever lf shot? Why not?

http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a8/Kingsmeg/firstever4x5.jpg

Crown Graphic 4x5, I forget which model, with Fuji Velvia 50 (loaded and processed by the lab that did my 35mm). I don't remember if I had the Ektar 135 or if that particular camera came with a Xenar 150. I do remember buying a couple of lenses that year, including a convertible Symmar 210-360 because I wanted to attempt bird photography with a 4x5. That didn't go so well. Not to mention the Crown Graphic didn't have enough bellows to use that Symmar at 360.

alexn

21-Jan-2012, 03:11

Nice first shot... You'd have to be happy with that.

Dr_Rocks

25-Apr-2012, 21:28

72712

Limestone Kilns in a nearby state park.

Toyo Monorail, xenar 150mm, TMAX 400, scanned the negative on a normal flatbed scanner.

Nguss

26-Apr-2012, 13:21

http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6142/5940873830_b84aefe77e.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/nguss/5940873830/)
First Large Format photo Ektar 100 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/nguss/5940873830/) by NGUSS (http://www.flickr.com/people/nguss/), on Flickr

This is mine, nothing great. After taking my first 2 photos I dropped the box of film on the floor when I went to reload the film holders which came open in the light and ruined the rest of the box. Most expensive photo I ever took.

Old-N-Feeble

26-Apr-2012, 13:26

My first LF shot was a very long time ago when I was just a teen. Plus I went through a divorce and three floods. Nothing remains.

Lachlan 717

26-Apr-2012, 14:56

http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6142/5940873830_b84aefe77e.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/nguss/5940873830/)
First Large Format photo Ektar 100 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/nguss/5940873830/) by NGUSS (http://www.flickr.com/people/nguss/), on Flickr

This is mine

Tyneside is a great place to shoot. So many options, both of the river and the architecture around it. Only "decent" (read film) camera I've had whilst there was an Xpan; love to have a LF next time...

emjos

26-Apr-2012, 23:40

My first two LF shots don't show! In the darkness in the basement I did not really know what I was doing and didn't realize there was a thin sheet of paper between each sheet of film. So I happily loaded the film holder with the pieces of paper. After all the care of composition and exposure, not to mention the hour-long standing development in Rodinal, all that remained was a piece of very wet (and probably surprised:p) piece of black paper at the bottom of the developing tank. :D It turned out that the second exposure of the day, on the other "film" in the holder, was also a bummer.

A new try a couple of days later resulted in this:

72748

And with details like this I am very happy:)

72749

Camera is unknown but lens is a xenar 150/4.5 and the format is 4"x5". My scanner only do 6 cm wide strips at most so I stitch with DoubleTake.

Ed Bray

28-Apr-2012, 03:53

My first exposed and processed 4x5 photograph taken on my Toyo C Monorail Camera with a Schneider 90mm f8 Super Angulon Lens on Kodal Tri-X 320 and rated at ISO 640 the exposure was 1/15th Sec at f32. This was Semi-Stand processed in Caffenol CL (1.4g of KBr) @21 degrees C using the Taco Method of 4x 4x5 films in a Paterson Universal Tank with constand agitation for the 1st 30 seconds and 3 inversions of the tank after a following 2, 4, 8, 18 minutes with the Caffenol drained out after a further 40 minutes. After 4 tanks of water constantly agaitated the films were fixed with an Alkali fixer for 4 minutes. After washing the films for 8 minutes they were hung up to dry in my film dryer.

The film was then scanned using an Epson V750 scanner using the Epson dual 4x5 film holder and Silverfast 8 64 bit AI Studio. The films were scanned at 3200 dpi which gave a 16 bit, 340MB image (14912 x 11825). The image has been worked upon in Photoshop CS5 and also some localised processing using the control points in Nik Silver Efex Pro 2.

I got the inspiration for this image when looking through Ansel Adam's The Camera (trying to make sense of how the monorail camera works) and seeing an image of 'Boards & Thistles' when I realised that I had something a little similar at the bottom of my garden (for garden read 'jungle').

Although this was my first developed 4 x 5 sheet of film (actually 1 of 4 but 1st exposed and safely stored), I have to confess that I had tried 2 previous exposures (both in the same film holder and both ruined) on this subject as I had managed to insert the films into the dark slide groove and after exposing the films could not get the dark slides back into their slot, a lesson learned. I have also learned how difficult it is to get the film out of a Fidelity Deluxe DDS whilst I had no trouble at all with the Fidelity Elite DDS.

The negative has a fantastic range of tones and I am really pleased that after my recent trials with the Caffenol CL and Semi-Stand development gave me the knowledge to expose this film rated at 1 stop higher than the box speed.

Using the monorail camera seems a steep learning curve even with my previous experience with my Canon Tilt/Shift lenses and my Fuji GX680 cameras. It engenders a much slower way of working and requires serious thought on the photographer of what he is trying to acheive, not least because each frame of Tri X costs over £1 (1.5ish euros/dollers).

Old Garage Window, Brambles and Boards

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7247/6974771382_aecec120ca_b.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/edbray/6974771382/)
Old Garage Window, Brambles and Boards (http://www.flickr.com/photos/edbray/6974771382/) by Ed Bray (http://www.flickr.com/people/edbray/), on Flickr

Peter Mounier

28-Apr-2012, 08:10

Nice one Ed. Wonderful range of tones. Congratulations!

Peter

Nguss

28-Apr-2012, 14:03

Really nice Ed, great tones in that one.

Thanks Lachlan 717, Tyneside is nice, there are loads of places to go. I will have to get out properly with the camera soon. It is only about 7 mins away but I never seem to go.

Ed Bray

28-Apr-2012, 14:23

Thanks Gents, I'm sure I will revisit it again when the light is better, especially since it's only 40 yards from my back door. ;)

Trius

29-Apr-2012, 18:04

My first was in the mid '80s. Before I purchased a Toyo 45A (now sold in favour of a Chamonix,) I briefly used a Bender 4x5 that I built from kit, of course. I can't remember the lens for this shot.

genotypewriter

29-Apr-2012, 23:53

My first ever LF shot was an action shot...

Frisbee Girl - Xenotar 150/2.8 @ 2.8 and Ektachrome 100 Plus on a Chamonix 045-N2:
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7143/6634737153_0a1cd01b88_z_d.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/genotypewriter/6634737153)
Larger (12.5 megapixel, 20 megabyte) version: http://www.flickr.com/photos/genotypewriter/6634737153/sizes/o

sully75

30-Apr-2012, 00:49

This was mine:

http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3001/4564936531_964a837111_z.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/paulmcevoy/4564936531/)
Mike in the Back Yard (http://www.flickr.com/photos/paulmcevoy/4564936531/) by Paul McEvoy (http://www.flickr.com/people/paulmcevoy/), on Flickr

VinnieBoomBah

30-Apr-2012, 21:42

Not my real "first," that one is lost in time. . . but this is by first 4x5 B&W shot and developed in almost 20 years, the first B&W I developed 1:100 in Rodinal, the first I developed using the taco method, and the first I "scaned" by photographing with my digital camera. OH, and the first I shot with my new Kodak 203mm. :cool:

http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/kk236/VinnieBoomBah/4x51.jpg

IBICO

1-May-2012, 11:13

My first one after receiving a second hand Sinar P and Caltar II-N 210mm F5.6 with Tmax 400 film..

I started with large format 4x5 around 2 months ago. Before that I started with digital for 2 years ago. Tried 6x6 hasselblad, but I did not like it. LF is a lot more relaxed.
Got someone locally that do the chemical work and scanning for now. Bought myself an v700 that is coming soon.

This is shot 4x5, but cropped square in Lightroom. scanned at over 10000pixels.. Was a shocker for me after being used to files from my 10mpx 1D MKIII.

72937

Old-N-Feeble

1-May-2012, 11:56

IBICO... That's an interesting image. It's Very E. Weston-like

IBICO

1-May-2012, 12:22

IBICO... That's an interesting image. It's Very E. Weston-like

Tnx.. ;).. I am not so familiar with other photographers yet. So not sure who that is, but I guess he is a good one.
I got the idea before getting the 4x5. Wanted to do a "classic" portrait like a girl with a cigarett holder, but wanted something different. Then I discovered film and large format trough a friend of mine. After that I am sold.. Even selling out on my digital stuff now.

Old-N-Feeble

1-May-2012, 12:25

Look up Edward Weston. :) But, now that I think about it, it's not really Weston it reminds me of. I'll try to remember who. Anyway, he had a very distinct style.

IBICO

1-May-2012, 12:33

Look up Edward Weston. :)

I`ll do that. I am reading lot`s of books now for about 2 years.. also lot online. Got some analog geeks locally that I poke on a lot to learn :)

rince

6-May-2012, 01:27

Well, here we go ... the very first one ... not properly focused to start off with ...
Shen Hao , Nikkor 150 , HP5+
73205

MrJim

25-Jun-2012, 10:05

So I finally got an "inherited" scanner up and running a canon d1230u. Good thing I saved my old XP box, which is now purely dedicated in use for a scanner, hey free is for free you know?... Just so I proudly can share with you guys this...

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7120/7441350546_fe04943bcb.jpg

...woops. Squished the film closing the slide. Better than the other side lol, which is a light leak. 1st lesson, get better loading film, check. Took this a few months ago, getting the hang of making image to the internet is a severe PIA for the first time.

C.T. Greene

25-Jun-2012, 10:30

Used 8x10 Cambo Rail, had it for over a year. Just got around to shooting it so my first 8x10! Bellows leaks light did some repair so I'll have to go out shooting again.

C.T. Greene

27-Jun-2012, 19:09

Actually I lied, rather to say I shot both sides so this is my 2nd shot consecutive photoghraph. The first is similar except the sun isn't above the horizon . . and there is only one light flare in the upper corner. Having scanned these shots I spent some time playing in PS 5, which brought up variations which look as if lens flare may be the culprit? :confused: http://sdrv.ms/MXo2ld What do you think?

bigguy88

27-Jun-2012, 19:18

So I finally got an "inherited" scanner up and running a canon d1230u. Good thing I saved my old XP box, which is now purely dedicated in use for a scanner, hey free is for free you know?... Just so I proudly can share with you guys this...

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7120/7441350546_fe04943bcb.jpghttp://www.edslrvideo.com/line.jpg

...woops. Squished the film closing the slide. Better than the other side lol, which is a light leak. 1st lesson, get better loading film, check. Took this a few months ago, getting the hang of making image to the internet is a severe PIA for the first time.
common issue . nice for the first image :)

EdG

2-Jul-2012, 20:41

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7254/7491776838_364fd7a821_c.jpg

This actually represents a few firsts for me - making a picture with a large format camera (my 4x5 Cambo monorail view camera), printing and developing a negative (using my Omega D2).

The print was scanned on a Canoscan 9000F and then downsized for the net.

Not the most imaginative of shots, that will come as I grow in understanding my camera and what I can do with it.

Larger Version (http://www.flickr.com/photos/bounced_light/7491776838/sizes/h/in/photostream/)

Robbie Bedell

6-Jul-2012, 15:16

I bought a 4x5 Premo Folding View Camera at an auction in 1975 for $20. It had a B&L rapid rectilinear. This is my first exposure taken that year... I am amazed I still have the negative! Robbie

httP://robbiebedell.photoshelter.com

Robbie Bedell

6-Jul-2012, 15:18

I meant to add that this was Tri X in D-76 1:1...

http://robbiebedell.photoshelter.com

Eliverto

6-Jul-2012, 17:15

http://img207.imageshack.us/img207/9087/img026c.jpg

From about a year ago, my first 4x5.

KMV 4x5, Nikkor W 150/5.6, Shanghai GP3, in home brewed D23

jeffsweet

28-Oct-2019, 11:37

Hi all!

Figured it would be appropriate to make my first post here about my first large-format exposure. Which also happened to be my first attempt at film development and scanning. I was sure I was going to screw it up at about a dozen places along the way, so it was such a pleasant surprise for it to turn out at all.

Hard to overstate just how cool it was to hold that first negative in my hands.

196948

Intrepid 4x5 / Fujinon W 150mm 5.6 / Fomapan 100 / D76

Andrew Plume

28-Oct-2019, 12:10

That's a great effort Jeff, kudos to you

regards

Andrew

djdister

28-Oct-2019, 12:37

Not my absolute first LF shot, but an early (1985) attempt of a hand-held panning shot using a Graflex B 5x7
196949

And another Graflex 5x7 shot, with the camera just sitting on a picnic table
196950

jeffsweet

28-Oct-2019, 14:28

That's a great effort Jeff, kudos to you

regards

Andrew

Thanks!

I've been shooting film for about a year and a half now on my RB67, and actually got my Intrepid back in February, but I put off actually using it until this month because I felt a little intimidated by the whole process, from loading the film on. Not to mention the cost--I previously had my film developed and scanned by The Darkroom, but they want $4 for development and $8-$16 for scanning--so that pushed me into just making the jump and buying a Mod54 bundle, chemistry/containers, and an Epson V800. A bit pricey upfront, but it won't take long for that to turn into savings.

I was both relieved and delighted at how comfortable, freeing, and just plain fun it turned out to be--aside from a fair amount of cursing and fumbling as I loaded my first set of holders in a too-small dark bag.

Can't wait to get out there again with my kit.

Corran

28-Oct-2019, 18:31

Good job, I like the light on the tree to the right.

Posting our "first" photo is a great idea for a thread. Thanks for resurrecting it. I started shooting LF in 2011, when I put in a random low-ball bid on eBay for a Toyo GII monorail and won it kind of unexpectedly. I shot these two images after getting it and buying a bit of film and a 150mm f/5.6 APO Symmar, which I still own and use often. The color image is on Velvia and shot at sunrise in a field of crops in south GA, whilst a big panel van unloaded a ton of farmhands behind me to harvest (I left quickly as to not get the cops called and/or shot). Later that morning I took the b&w image nearby, and had a guy chase me away after pulling up in a riding lawn mower from the nearest house up on a hill overlooking this abandoned building.

http://www.esearing.com/Bryan/AV/photosharing/0002ss.jpg

http://www.esearing.com/Bryan/AV/photosharing/0005ss.jpg

Tin Can

29-Oct-2019, 05:18

This is my first LF ever 4X5 handheld 21 years ago, a single RF exposure on a borrowed Crown Graphic, processed by a friend, scanned years later. Most likely Arista aka Kodak

Father in Dementia and his element, now passed. RIP

I didn't shoot another LF for 13 years until I joined this forum

https://live.staticflickr.com/7320/8767819493_593e70a243_b.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/emMngB)4X5 Dad Costco (https://flic.kr/p/emMngB) by TIN CAN COLLEGE (https://www.flickr.com/photos/tincancollege/), on Flickr

This is both parents in WWII, obviously I didn't shoot it, but I did find it and scan it

https://live.staticflickr.com/4762/28405742799_1f83e3ea2a_z.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/Kh7RGc)Mom and dad (https://flic.kr/p/Kh7RGc) by TIN CAN COLLEGE (https://www.flickr.com/photos/tincancollege/), on Flickr