My first 4x5 - road trip to Maleny

[krzys]

I developed two of the 5 photos last night. Fp4 in Rodinal 1+25. I hope that 4x5 becomes a long love affair for me, shooting and developing it is fantastic.

I did not use any filters because it was totally overcast, now I wish I had used a GND to take down the brightness of the clouds. In the first photo I burned the sky in photoshop asif I would in the darkroom but it came out grainy. I might make another edit later but these are just test scans from a canoscan 8400, stiched in photoshop.

Please comment on any problems you see in my developing technique, as I think I see some uneven development in the second photo, or perhaps its just the clouds - completely overcast. It is amazing that altogether I found two tiny scratches! The wind was blowing hard so any foliage is blurred in the photos.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2773/4380457682_1d17c67136_o.jpg

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4043/4380810710_2dce5cb98a_o.jpg

This photo is a test of the front rise, not the most interesting subject to sky ratio in the end.

[Dirk Rösler]

Congratulations - Looks good to me, wish my first results were as good. Welcome to the world of LF, it'll get even better from here (and bigger :D )

[Michael Wynd]

I've already warned him that using LF is addictive and that he'll be wanting an 8x10 next.
Mike

[krzys]

I wouldn't mind 8x10 ;)

[Dirk Rösler]

Then you'd be wise to choose lenses accordingly... and no word of this to the wife hahaha

[Sascha Welter]

I like that 2nd picture! Never mind any ratio-questions, that round/pointy hilltop with the tree and the aerials next to it, the line of fence posts running up, they're just interesting to me. Definitely a picture I'd hang on a wall somewhere.