Post Photos of YOURSELF with your camera

[Jim Galli]

Very cool photo, Austin!

Yes! Bravo! How did this slip by the photo police. You're obviously planning to blow that building up. You've got a beard.

[Robert Oliver]

Rae Lakes Loop - Sequoia National Park

[Nathan Appel]

Me and my homemade 16x20. Under $100 including filmholder that I also made, but not including lens. Tried it out with a paper negative and it worked great. Waiting for film from the ULF Ilford order. Doubt I'll be taking this camera very far. I love the detail of a 16x20 contact print, but the 500mm lens has such a small depth of field there are few landscapes that I can think of that it would be a good fit for. It was a fun project nonetheless. Bellows were made from two garbage bags, heavy construction paper, and lexel glue. Filmholder was built off a 16x20 picture frame.

http://i289.photobucket.com/albums/ll201/PolarBear1973/DSC_0662.jpg

BADASS!!!!!!

[PolarBear1973]

I also posted this under the "homemade camera" thread, but here is a video of the homemade 16x20 out in the field:

http://www.vimeo.com/25990755

[austin granger]

Well obviously it's not my large format camera, but I figure that you've all seen enough Deardorff Specials to imagine it. I also figure that what you REALLY want to look at is my magnificent beard, and I aim to please. Truth be told though, I shaved moments after making this picture. Everyone hated the beard, but more than that, somehow after awhile I just wasn't feeling like myself anymore. Sometimes, while strolling around Portland, I'd catch a reflection of myself in a store window and it was actually startling: "Whoa, who's that crazy looking dude?" But anyway, here's me:

In Another Cheap Motel Room, Christmas Valley, Oregon
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6015/5989751306_6f4ae54a90_z.jpg

[Forrest Cooper]

http://i190.photobucket.com/albums/z125/RepoocTserrof/Cooper-Century-007.jpg

First shoot with the 7a after restoration. What a wonderful camera!

[cosmicexplosion]

Me with my Sinar P2

http://benneh.net/archives/8x10/1.jpg


Was shooting this in the in the image above:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3148/3098055560_bc1902b5cf.jpg



i love those two shots!

bravo!

[David Hedley]

Me with Sinar in the Rhône-Alpes last week;
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6023/5994228823_366c62f531_b.jpg

[Mark Woods]

Niiiiice!

[Drew Bedo]

Nathen: Great job on the ULF!

[Scott Walker]

On the trail up to Idaho Peak British Columbia
http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg90/Beecool/HeadingupIdahoPeak3.jpg
Sinar P2 8x10, modified surveyors tripod, hiding in the back pack.... RB67 & 3 lenses, 4 lenses for the 8x10 and all the assorted gear associated with the cameras.
Note the bear spray clipped to the right side harness

http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg90/Beecool/HeadingupIdahoPeak.jpg
My wife who was running the digi had all the film holders in her pack along with lunch and a few extra bottles of water

http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg90/Beecool/HeadingupIdahoPeak2.jpg
Almost 6,000 feet above Slocan Lake which is at about 1,700 ft

[Ari]

Posted this in another thread, but it belongs here, I suppose.
My daughter and I with the Toyo 810G.

[Robert Hughes]

With my 8x10 box camera and changing bag/black cloth, shooting paper negatives last week:

[Ramiro Elena]

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6205/6050510220_fb85d17c5a.jpg

On vacation with the Aero/Speed and my 8 month old son :)

[Annie M.]

Me & she... right now... ubiquitous webcam. Long time no see!

[Denise Dognini]

That's me with my old Linhof Technika III.

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6185/6070515735_677ee5df7b.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/denisedognini/6070515735/)

[Drew Bedo]

Spent two weeks at rocky Mountain National Park in June.

[cdholden]

In Another Cheap Motel Room, Christmas Valley, Oregon
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6015/5989751306_6f4ae54a90_z.jpg

Just the other day, I spotted a Dave Grohl look-alike on this forum. Today I find a young Fidel Castro!

[David R Munson]

In Kyoto, Japan, earlier this summer.

https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/s720x720/320995_10100335062753474_12322143_51326691_1011843464_n.jpg

[Mark Woods]

This is a great thread!

[Jay DeFehr]

Scott Walker, you're an animal! packing an 8x10, OR an RB outfit up that trail is a feat, but packing BOTH is heroic.

[Armin Seeholzer]

Hi guys!

Show you just my guns, if everybody would olny shoot with cameras there would be peace on earth, maybe!
Just a dream!

Cheers Armin

From the left to the right Sinar P 8x10, Burke & James 8x10 Red bellows society on facebook, Sinar F1 4x5, Horseman HF 4x5, Hans Fröhlich Studio Portrait Kamera 4x5!

[redu]

Hi. This is me at home with my Cambo Master PC and my Linhof Technorama posing. I am waiting for the arrival of the compendium and the filter holder to begin with the test shootings on 4~5 different lenses at around macro ranges.

[David Higgs]

Linhof 4x5
impossible film - polaroid spectra

[Roger Cole]

Here's one of my with the Tech III.

[Bill_1856]

Here's one of my with the Tech III.

Roger, what make/model is that tripod?
Thanks, Bill

[Stephane]

You cannot really see anything, but it is me setting up my wista 45sp somewhere offshore NE Greenland...

Just showing off ;)

[Mark Woods]

Very cooool Stephane!

[IanG]

Aged 2½ with my first camera, aged a touch older (57½) with my Houghton Duchess Half plate camera (and the same sister) :D

Ian

[cyrus]

some.. but the ones I know aren't members in here...

I have images of two:

1: my former girlfriend
2: My girlfriend

Wait, you actually let your girlfriends touch your cameras?

[Roger Cole]

Roger, what make/model is that tripod?
Thanks, Bill

Replied to your PM but it's a set of Bogen (in those days it was Bogen Manfrotto here) 3021 legs with a 3028 head. It's what I happened to already have for 35mm when I got into LF and it seems to be perfectly adequate for the Tech III though I probably wouldn't put anything much larger and heavier on it. The current replacement per the info on B&H's site are the Manfrotto 055XB legs.

[Scott Walker]

Aged 2½ with my first camera, aged a touch older (57½) with my Houghton Duchess Half plate camera (and the same sister) :D

Ian

Cleaning the lens with your thumbs I see :p
Cool images

[SamReeves]

You cannot really see anything, but it is me setting up my wista 45sp somewhere offshore NE Greenland...

Just showing off ;)

That is pretty cool.

Now I need to ask to bring my 4x5 on the F/V Northwestern. LOL.

[regorrengaw]

Using the F-Metric on commissioned work in the Bretagne (France), September 2011.
Best to you all.

r.

[austin granger]

Self with Camera, Utah
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6156/6192789469_9546c3bb17_z.jpg

http://www.flickr.com/photos/austingranger/

[ROL]

Self with Camera, Utah
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6156/6192789469_9546c3bb17_z.jpg

http://www.flickr.com/photos/austingranger/

Never ceases to amaze me how you rain people so love the desert (...mad dogs and englishmen...)

[ROL]

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2756/4352584856_6e25a06801.jpg

Last February in the snow

Best diffusing device I've ever seen on a lens.

[ROL]

Wait, you actually let your girlfriends touch your cameras?

Ahh, I think you've hit on Gandolfi's "secret".

[ROL]

http://www.largeformatphotography.info/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=56221&d=1306067431

One more horse's ass:

http://www.rangeoflightphotography.com/SupportPics/Kit/BenSalmonRStanleyID.jpg
Upper Salmon River, Stanley ID, ca. 2010

This thread certainly answers the question "how old are we?", and what sex.

[h2oman]

I went through this thread for the first time today, start to finish. It was definitely a lot of fun to put faces with many of the "names." I was definitely astounded by the arrays of cameras some folks have! (And the sizes of some single cameras!)

First image: I guess I was about to shoot myself in the head, in despair over the impossibly flat light. Taken a couple weeks ago during the Oregon Coast Workshop with Stu Levy and Don Kirby. Wista SP with, from the looks of it, my Fuji 240A mounted up.

Second image: Stu and Don at Bandon Beach.

Both images were taken by Ken Karagozian, another participant in the workshop.

[Ari]

Maybe those of you "of a certain age" who wear a beard can tell me why they're so prevalent (the beards, that is) amongst forum members/LF shooters.
Or maybe I'm on the wrong site, instead visiting a ZZTop fan club? :)

[Daniel Stone]

Ari:

built in face warmer :), well, that's my reason :D

-Dan

[DanK]

Maybe those of you "of a certain age" who wear a beard can tell me why they're so prevalent (the beards, that is) amongst forum members/LF shooters

Or maybe I'm on the wrong site, instead visiting a ZZTop fan club? :)

As one with 'facial hair'...I would guess maybe it's a sense of anonymity....to photograph, yet not be photographed...

But...

I am more concerned with the number of LF photographers named "Dan"....or "Jim"...

Cheers,
Dan

[Jim Galli]

Maybe those of you "of a certain age" who wear a beard can tell me why they're so prevalent (the beards, that is) amongst forum members/LF shooters.
Or maybe I'm on the wrong site, instead visiting a ZZTop fan club? :)

Blurs the many chins........:o :p

[MIke Sherck]

The state of Indiana, where I live, recently decreed that you couldn't smile when they were taking the photo for your driver's license. Apparently, smiling screwed up their facial recognition software and instead of buying real software (as opposed to something written by a vendor's pre-pubescent child,) they decided that we just weren't going to be allowed to smile.

So, I decided that if I couldn't smile I'd grow a beard, get my license photo, then shave it off. Think of it as software QA; inquiring minds want to know what would happen?

Then my wife saw me with the beard and decided that the less she could see of me the better she liked it. Plus, the dogs got used to it and I'm afraid they won't let me back in the house if they don't recognize me. So, at least for now, I've joined the fuzzy revolution!

:)

Mike

[lecarp]

[QUOTE=Ari;783383]Maybe those of you "of a certain age" who wear a beard can tell me why they're so prevalent (the beards, that is) amongst forum members/LF shooters.
Or maybe I'm on the wrong site, instead visiting a ZZTop fan club? :)[/QUOT

Maybe they do the Mall Santa thing for film money?

[jon.oman]

I've had a beard for so long, I forgotten why I grew one!

But then, that might be another problem.......

[Mark Woods]

I'm just into the stubble and shave about twice a week. I've had beards over the years for a number of years, but like me better without the beard. I found myself kind of messing with it without thinking about it. Hummmmmm.........

[Ramiro Elena]

I'm lazy...

[Darin Boville]

I don't have many images of myself and I don't think there are *any* of me working or using a camera but then I came across this one by my 12-year-old shot this past August. The yearly "clean everything and make sure it all works." Just back from six weeks on the road, looking a bit shaggy and tired. :)

http://montarafog.smugmug.com/Other/darinbovillecom-stuff/i-P7xdHSb/0/L/P1050320-L.jpg (http://montarafog.smugmug.com/Other/darinbovillecom-stuff/14206239_gJHfRX#1504916357_P7xdHSb-A-LB)

--Darin

[Thom Bennett]

A friend of mine is teaching photography at a local university (Dillard) and asked me to show her class the 8x10.

[atlcruiser]

A friend of mine is teaching photography at a local university (Dillard) and asked me to show her class the 8x10.

Looking good in the uber-arty all black :)

[Howard Tanger]

The students do not appear excited about being there. Howard


A friend of mine is teaching photography at a local university (Dillard) and asked me to show her class the 8x10.

[Darin Boville]

The students do not appear excited about being there. Howard

Should have brought a 4x5 and a case of Fuji Instant...

--Darin

[Ari]

The students do not appear excited about being there. Howard

Why should they get excited?
That camera can't send text messages or answer some inane Facebook survey while sending a photo of your BFF to your 300 closest friends AND tell you what Taylor Swift wore to the MTV awards.


Ok, I'm done now.

[unixrevolution]

I don't have many images of myself and I don't think there are *any* of me working or using a camera but then I came across this one by my 12-year-old shot this past August. The yearly "clean everything and make sure it all works." Just back from six weeks on the road, looking a bit shaggy and tired. :)

http://montarafog.smugmug.com/Other/darinbovillecom-stuff/i-P7xdHSb/0/L/P1050320-L.jpg (http://montarafog.smugmug.com/Other/darinbovillecom-stuff/14206239_gJHfRX#1504916357_P7xdHSb-A-LB)

--Darin

Nice assortment of machinery there! Is the camera with the eye-cup a Mamiya Press or a Polaroid 600SE?



That camera can't send text messages or answer some inane Facebook survey while sending a photo of your BFF to your 300 closest friends AND tell you what Taylor Swift wore to the MTV awards.

I don't care much what Taylor Swift wore to the MTV awards, unless it was very pretty...and there are pictures...

[Darin Boville]

Nice assortment of machinery there! Is the camera with the eye-cup a Mamiya Press or a Polaroid 600SE?

You know your gear! It's a 600SE, or "The Goose" as my kids says...

--Darin

[unixrevolution]

You know your gear! It's a 600SE, or "The Goose" as my kids says...

--Darin

I have a Goose myself...with the 150 and 127 lenses. Just about to send it out to Mr. Tony Sansone for service...

Do you have a roll or sheet-film back for yours?

[NicolasArg]

Well, Hello board :)
http://db.tt/5Qmcup3g

[E. von Hoegh]

The students do not appear excited about being there. Howard

Why should they get excited?
That camera can't send text messages or answer some inane Facebook survey while sending a photo of your BFF to your 300 closest friends AND tell you what Taylor Swift wore to the MTV awards.


Ok, I'm done now.

What the hell is a"BFF"?

And who the hell is Taylor Swift?

Never mind, if it's on farcebook I don't want to know.

[unixrevolution]

What the hell is a"BFF"?

And who the hell is Taylor Swift?

Never mind, if it's on farcebook I don't want to know.

Best Friend Forever.

Taylor Swift:

http://www.8notes.com/images/artists/taylor_swift.jpg

[Rain Dance]

What do you do when you wake up first thing in the morning? Take a picture of yourself. :)

https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/s720x720/308414_1758026370260_1827033275_1168252_1319120781_n.jpg

[Vaughn]

Maybe those of you "of a certain age" who wear a beard can tell me why they're so prevalent (the beards, that is) amongst forum members/LF shooters.
Or maybe I'm on the wrong site, instead visiting a ZZTop fan club? :)

Scrapping one's skin with sharp metal is so barbaric...

Also, the ladies like how it tickles their thighs...:D

[Richard K.]

What do you do when you wake up first thing in the morning? Take a picture of yourself. :)

That Acih -say camera is quite rare!

[Darin Boville]

I have a Goose myself...with the 150 and 127 lenses. Just about to send it out to Mr. Tony Sansone for service...

Do you have a roll or sheet-film back for yours?

Two Polarid pack backs, or maybe three. I forget. Only one lens :(

--Darin

[Andrew Plume]

That Acih -say camera is quite rare!



well I'm sure you're dead right but if that shot had been posted over on the UK Large Format forum site, the mod's would be after you :( as you're not showing off a LF camera - that's why this forum is so much more versatile :)

andrew

[Rain Dance]

What does he mean by it? :)

[unixrevolution]

Two Polarid pack backs, or maybe three. I forget. Only one lens :(

--Darin

I have two backs and two lenses. Pro Tip: The Polaroid backs from the Polaroid 201 and 401 MiniPortrait cameras fit the Goose.

Which lens do you have? I have a 150 with a broken shutter blade and a 127 that's gone all exploded-view on me...the shutter is fine but the focusing helicoids came apart in my hands.

[austin granger]

Just in case you missed it the first time around...
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7198/6822348852_76b794c6c8_b.jpg
BOOKS FOR SALE! Hey everybody. I've gone it alone on my Point Reyes project and published it myself. Actually, the work has been split into two books; one with the photographs (83 photographs!) and the other with the text (260 pages of text!). Obviously, this is bad news for those who want both, but good news for those who like my pictures but despise my writing, or vice versa. Anyway, both books can be fully previewed on blurb. Thank you my friends. And please, pass it on!
http://www.blurb.com/user/store/angranger
http://www.flickr.com/photos/austingranger/
http://www.austingranger.com/

[Frank Petronio]

ALL Polaroid belong 2 US

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[SamReeves]

Just in case you missed it the first time around...
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7198/6822348852_76b794c6c8_b.jpg
BOOKS FOR SALE! Hey everybody. I've gone it alone on my Point Reyes project and published it myself. Actually, the work has been split into two books; one with the photographs (83 photographs!) and the other with the text (260 pages of text!). Obviously, this is bad news for those who want both, but good news for those who like my pictures but despise my writing, or vice versa. Anyway, both books can be fully previewed on blurb. Thank you my friends. And please, pass it on!
http://www.blurb.com/user/store/angranger
http://www.flickr.com/photos/austingranger/
http://www.austingranger.com/

Is that a rotary phone? Points for you if it is! :D

[Emil Schildt]

two oldish ones...

I really don't know what I was thinking in the first one.... :confused:

and the secone one I don't remember what I was thinking....:rolleyes:

[austin granger]

Is that a rotary phone? Points for you if it is! :D
Of course it is Sam! You never know when someone might call. I had a lamp too, but I thought that was just a little too over the top. :)

[Chris Strobel]

Me working the beach with my favorite photographic tool. (the card not the stick :D)

http://www.pbase.com/cloudswimmer/image/130936966/original.jpg

[Tony Lakin]

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With my Devere Devon 8X10 approximately 25 years ago, where do the years go.

[Scott Davis]

Chris- is that at Land's End in San Francisco?

[Joakim Ahnfelt]

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With my Devere Devon 8X10 approximately 25 years ago, where do the years go.

Love the vest Tony.

[Chris Strobel]

Chris- is that at Land's End in San Francisco?

Hi Scott, no it's Crystal Cove State Beach down here in So.Cal.

[Tori Nelson]

Wow, talking about coming late to the party... but yes, there are some of us on this forum.
This was taken by my friend Galina Karpova last October while in Santa Fe, NM.
Canham 8x10

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[Tony Lakin]

Hi Joakim
How are you, the vest is really a fishermans vest not an expensive photo one, very practical though especially in warm weather as it is made from lightweight cotton, I still have it.

Are you and the guys returning to Skye this year?

[Brian Vuillemenot]

From the Oceano Dunes get-together last month

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[alexn]

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Me and the Linhof Kardan Super Color ST on the rocks. Mooloolaba Beach, Mooloolaba, QLD. Australia. These are my LF stomping grounds, and the first location I ever shot Seascapes, Then first seascapes on 35mm film, first seascapes on MF and also the location of my first LF seascapes. (and first real use of my Pentax digital spot... Its a real happy place for me...

[Mark Woods]

Here we are at the Jade Ribbon Bridge in the Huntington Gardens.70575

[vinny]

I didn't think they allowed tripods in there?
Damn it, I always wanted to go back there with my 8x10. I guess next time I'm back in town I'll give it a go.


Here we are at the Jade Ribbon Bridge in the Huntington Gardens.70575

[Mark Woods]

Hello Vinny, I'm a member of the Gardens Art Guild and can go in off hours and when it's closed. Next time you're in town, I think I could get you in.

[unixrevolution]

Well, I'm finally here!

Somewhat unsharp self-portrait in mirror, Me and my Toyo 45F and Super Graphic. Picture taken by Toyo 45F on 4x5" Fuji 3000B.

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[Joseph Dickerson]

Wow, talking about coming late to the party... but yes, there are some of us on this forum.
This was taken by my friend Galina Karpova last October while in Santa Fe, NM.
Canham 8x10

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Hi Tori,

Judging by the smile you've tamed the Canham. I missed the Oceano Dunes Volquartz reunion/tribute, did you make it?

JD

[Noah A]

Ciudad Nezahualcoyotl, Mexico with the MT2000:

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And another shooting in Mumbai at sunrise:

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[mds721]

after the shoot with my Horseman View with Sinar Fully Automatic Shutter and Verito 9 inch Diffused Focus f4 lens mounted in a No1 Studio mounted on a graphic lens board on a Sinar/Graphic lensboard
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[jcoldslabs]

I pretty much do all of my LF work alone, so there is no one around to take any photos of me. This is the best I can do:

http://www.kolstad.us/ebay/4x5%20-%20Shadow%20with%20Camera%2C%20Wakefield%201987%20900.jpg
____________________________________________________________________________________________________

Jonathan

[jb7]

Jonathan- maybe we should start a new thread-

This one doesn't get out much, but the first good weather of the year prompted me to take it out for a drive-
36" f/6.3 AM Lens on 8x10- or maybe it's the other way around...

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[jp]

after the shoot with my Horseman View with Sinar Fully Automatic Shutter and Verito 9 inch Diffused Focus f4 lens mounted in a No1 Studio mounted on a graphic lens board on a Sinar/Graphic lensboard
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Nicely lit and composed! Welcome!

[unixrevolution]

after the shoot with my Horseman View with Sinar Fully Automatic Shutter and Verito 9 inch Diffused Focus f4 lens mounted in a No1 Studio mounted on a graphic lens board on a Sinar/Graphic lensboard
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She's holding it like it's a BAR. I like :)

Reminds me of this video:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awq90APEVgw

[Peter De Smidt]

Joseph, that's neat!

[Tori Nelson]

Hi Tori,

Judging by the smile you've tamed the Canham. I missed the Oceano Dunes Volquartz reunion/tribute, did you make it?

JD
Hi Joseph, no, I didn't make Oceano. Too many people : - ) Would Love to see you guys again though, we should try to put something together.

[jcoldslabs]

Joseph,

Holy smokes! I've got a B&L 24" f/6 Aero Tessar that I managed to mount to my Century 10A studio camera, but just barely. It never occurred to me to try to mount it on a camera for outdoor use. And yours is even bigger. Ingenious!

Jonathan

[jb7]

Thanks Jonathan, Peter-

Peter, neat is the last word I might choose- I call it the Ugly Monster-
Jonathan, you'd need to be a little crazy to want to use that 24" f/6 outside...

[alexn]

Here is one more just for good measure.. Me and my monorail in the field.

[jcoldslabs]

Jonathan, you'd need to be a little crazy to want to use that 24" f/6 outside...

Now isn't THAT the pot calling the kettle black!

J.

[dperez]

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From left to right:

1. Ebony RW810, El Matador State Beach, CA
2. Arca-Swiss 4x5 (in my backpack), Coral Pink Sand Dunes State Park, UT
3. Ebony RW810, Oceano Dunes. Photo taken by Robert Oliver.
4. Arca-Swss 4x5, Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest, CA

[Denise Dognini]

Bertioga, SP, Brazil

Workshop Nana Sousa Dias - Landscape

Kodak 2D and me

http://img687.imageshack.us/img687/5733/img0875copyz.jpg
By denisedognini (http://profile.imageshack.us/user/denisedognini) at 2012-04-10

http://img560.imageshack.us/img560/3938/img0840copy.jpg
By denisedognini (http://profile.imageshack.us/user/denisedognini) at 2012-04-10

[Drew Bedo]

Denise: Nice sunset colors, great beach.

If you can ever find a sliding tripod block for your 2-D you will wonder how you ever worked without it.

Bet the sand felt good under your feet!

[David Swinnard]

Summer 2010, Gooseneck SP Utah. Shot from behind by a patient wife. A "let's see what's down that road..." on the way to Monument Valley. A worthwhile detour.

My Technika V being screwed onto my 3 series Gitzo. (The only shot of me with my 4x5 after all these years.) The yellow is so I don't leave it behind...

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[Fragomeni]

These images were taken a few years apart. The B&W is little while back in West Fork, AZ with my 8x10 Deardorff V8 and the color is with my 11x14 Deardorff V11 and 8x20 Korona just yesterday before packing up the cameras for my cross country trip out east.

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[Frank Petronio]

Kudos Francesco, I really like your images, site, style.

[Fragomeni]

Thanks Frank! I appreciate the complement! :D

[jcoldslabs]

I posted this in the April portrait thread, but I suppose it really belongs here.

http://www.kolstad.us/ebay/T64---J.-in-Mirror.jpg

Jonathan

[Mark Woods]

Jonathan & Fragomeni, great shots and wonderful style. This is a great thread!

[Tri Tran]

This one was taken by Jim Fitzgerald from the last portrait session here at my house. We did had a blast with 20x24 and 14x17 shooting side by side .
http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/4475/tricamera.jpg (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/208/tricamera.jpg/)

[zenny]

I also posted this under the "homemade camera" thread, but here is a video of the homemade 16x20 out in the field:

http://www.vimeo.com/25990755

Truly cool and useful videos you posted! Thanks for your effort.

/z

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[zenny]

This one was taken by Jim Fitzgerald from the last portrait session here at my house. We did had a blast with 20x24 and 14x17 shooting side by side .
http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/4475/tricamera.jpg (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/208/tricamera.jpg/)

@TT awesome camera! :-D

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support http://thehumanape.com

[Tri Tran]

Thanks Zenny. To be honest, I do care for this lens more than the camera :)

[Keith Pitman]

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Road Canyon with Ebony 4x5, about February, 2006. Pardon my backside!

[Howard Tanger]

Hi Tri: Beautiful camera, beautiful patio and beautiful orchids. My wife Chiyoko has 300 + orchids and is a member of the Conejo Orchid Society here in Ventura County. Howard Tanger

[Tri Tran]

Hi Tri: Beautiful camera, beautiful patio and beautiful orchids. My wife Chiyoko has 300 + orchids and is a member of the Conejo Orchid Society here in Ventura County. Howard Tanger

Hi Howard,
Thanks for the compliments and Congrats to Chiyoko . My orchides collection mostly are Dendrobium, Lilea Ancept, Lilea Cattleya and Cattleya. My Cibidiums now are out of control , sometime I have to give them away .
Hopefully we will meet some day either at the Orchides show or LF shoot out in the future. Have a great weekend!

[TheDeardorffGuy]

Why are the legs of the tripod not splayed out? How are they tightened?

[Jess C]

This one was taken by Jim Fitzgerald from the last portrait session here at my house. We did had a blast with 20x24 and 14x17 shooting side by side .
http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/4475/tricamera.jpg (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/208/tricamera.jpg/)

A Minox it ain't ! Beautiful camera!!

[austin granger]

Me with my lucky hat (you have a lucky hat don't you?) on a very windy ridge in Nevada's Black Rock Desert.
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Here's the picture I was making:
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8009/7167160649_b28169d761_z.jpg

http://www.flickr.com/photos/austingranger/

[jcoldslabs]

Excellent, Austin. I always love to see behind the scenes.

Jonathan

EDIT: What compendium shade is that you're using? Is it mounted to the lens as opposed to the camera standard?

[austin granger]

Excellent, Austin. I always love to see behind the scenes.

Jonathan

EDIT: What compendium shade is that you're using? Is it mounted to the lens as opposed to the camera standard?

Hi Jonathan. The picture of me was made by a friend with my Yashica Mat. If you've ever handed a TLR to someone who has never used one it is very funny to watch them try and get things level ("Wait! This is all backwards! This things's crazy!"). :) Anyway though, the shade is a Lee wide angle lens hood, which is funny because I don't even use the lee filters which are supposed to slide into the built in slot it has. But yeah, you have to first thread an adapter into the lens and then the shade hooks onto that. It's not the most intuitive piece of equipment in the world, but it's well made (it's outlasted a few view cameras) and I've been using it for so long I'm just used to it now.

[jcoldslabs]

Thanks, Austin. I've only ever had big ol' bolt-on compendiums for my 8x10 and while they are worth using, they are also a PITA. I've never seen the Lee hood, but I'll look into it. Something a little more modest in size and weight would be nice.

Clearly you are trusting and patient. I have never handed my Rolleiflex to anyone! To be fair, I am never with other people when out with my cameras. You'll be shocked to learn I tend to keep to myself. ;)

Jonathan

[austin granger]

The Lee hood is modest in size and weight, however, it is not modest in price (I just looked it up-$239!). That's outrageous! Seriously, I couldn't possibly have paid that, even at my most flush. Come to think of it, I probably picked mine up back when I worked at a camera store and had access to some pretty good deals.

If I had a Rolleiflex I might not hand it to anyone either.

[jcoldslabs]

$239? Hmmm, maybe I can live with my heavy compendium!

Jonathan

[Roger Cole]

I've handed my Yashicamat to several people who had that reaction. The two worst: one a (rather talented actually - she shot our wedding) digital photographer who was utterly disgusted with it, WAY too soon to have learned it, and pronounced film itself something she could never deal with, much less "this crazy camera" though she thought it looked very cool. The other loves (35mm) film and was fascinated with my Linhof and actually borrowed my copy of Using the View Camera to learn about LF but, again, decided in about 2 minutes of playing with it that she wanted no part of the TLR.

Which is funny, because I don't think she had any idea how much easier the TLR is to use than the Linhof, how the view becomes second nature in a day or two of actually using the thing etc, not to mention having about 1/100th as many ways to screw up an image than the view camera. But hey, upside down on a tripod she could deal with. Right/left reversed at waist level was just too weird. ;)

[Vaughn]

Vaughn's Shadow Takes a Vacation

(with the shadow of his 5x7)

[austin granger]

Vaughn's Shadow Takes a Vacation

(with the shadow of his 5x7)

Maybe it's just me, but your camera looks a little like a giant bird, a flamingo maybe. Seriously though, cool shot.

[NicolasArg]

A friend took this shot of me working with my 4x5 in the Andes (Aconcagua range) at about 13000ft on a cold autumn morning...

http://www.ricardolapiettra.com/images/signed/nb-penitentes-sunrise-fb-ricardo-la-piettra.jpg

[bracan]

Me and my P8x10 with Rodenstock 300 :)
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[sestese]

Me with my 8x10 P&S handmade with Wollensak 159mm. 75181

[mandoman7]

Me with my lucky hat (you have a lucky hat don't you?) on a very windy ridge in Nevada's Black Rock Desert.
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Here's the picture I was making:
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8009/7167160649_b28169d761_z.jpg

http://www.flickr.com/photos/austingranger/
Looks like a Deardorff 5x7 and a Berlebach.

[austin granger]

Looks like a Deardorff 5x7 and a Berlebach.

You are correct sir-what an eye!

[Vaughn]

You are correct sir-what an eye!

Anyone can take a photo with a Deardorff...just try doing it with a flamingo! LOL!

(Thanks!)

Vaughn

[mandoman7]

Here I am in Goldfield, NV, photographed by the legendary Mr. Galli. Using a Deardorff fitted with a custom made technika board adapter.

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[Michael Rosenberg]

This is a good thread. Here are a couple of me:7528375284

Both pictures taken by my wife. The one was taken at Lower Calf Creek in 2008, with the Crow trying to figure out if it can get my granola bar. The other is from Ireland in 2006.

Mike

[RHITMrB]

Here's one of me in Iceland, taken by my girlfriend. The BTZS darkcloth is fantastic in that it doubles as a rain cover.

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7253/7411569436_573f91e0af_z.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/amylaurensantee/7411569436/)
Isaac (http://www.flickr.com/photos/amylaurensantee/7411569436/) by amylaurensantee (http://www.flickr.com/people/amylaurensantee/), on Flickr

[Mike Bates]

Me with my new Chamonix 8x10. The camera is a work of art unto itself.

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[Robert Kalman]

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Nicaragua, early 1990's. My first 4x5 - a Zone VI with a Schneider 210

[Frank Petronio]

nice

[Fragomeni]

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This was taken yesterday while I was photographing from the Highline in the neighborhood of Chelsea in Manhattan. 11x14 Deardorff V11.

[Philippe Grunchec]

Me with my 7x17" Canham
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[TheDeardorffGuy]

My 4x5 Special. Sort of souped up camera, revolving graflok back and a special Wide angle bellows. 70mm Centigor.76647
I'm shooting a 2x3 knob wind Graflex roll film holder whos film opening was milled wider so there is no gap between the negs. I get a slightly wider neg. 6x91/2.

[daniel w.]

I work along the high line, around 28th. Its usually where I eat lunch :)
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This was taken yesterday while I was photographing from the Highline in the neighborhood of Chelsea in Manhattan. 11x14 Deardorff V11.

[Fragomeni]

Daniel, keep an eye out for me and if you spot me stop by and say hi. I plan on photographing from the highline a few more times at least.

[Michael Kadillak]

Glad that you are allowing that marvelous camera the ability to see the light of day. The visual experience of seeing an 11x14 ground glass is a special event that is highly addictive and facilitates the efforts of getting said beast to location. I am guilty as charged for the identical set of operating conditions.

[Professional]

I had a pic of myself with my 4x5 taken in studio and i used it as an avatar for my facebook main pic, but i will post here one day when i will have larger format, 5x7 or 8x10 or larger, i WISH.

[Frank Petronio]

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Not me, my daughter. She can focus and use the spot meter but movements are are a pain.

[Alan Gales]

That's great, Frank. It's a photo that you will treasure!

[Keith Pitman]

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Chamonix 4x10 in the Great Sand Dunes in May, 2012. Photo courtesy Dan Ballard who I met in the dunes.

[jcoldslabs]

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Chamonix 4x10 in the Great Sand Dunes in May, 2012. Photo courtesy Dan Ballard who I met in the dunes.

What an epic photo to have of yourself with your camera!

Jonathan

[Jim Fitzgerald]

Well what the hell! Shameless marketing I tell you!

Me with my 14x17 that I built and the Voigtlander Portrait Euryscope.

[Fragomeni]

A friend just took this photograph of me and the 11x14 Deardorff yesterday while I was photographing in a Manhattan wine cellar. I thought it was a great shot and you really get a feel for the size of the camera :)

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[Mark Woods]

Very cool. I hope you sampled the contents of the cellar. ;-)

[Fragomeni]

Oh yes!!

[Mark Woods]

Wonderful!!

[MenacingTourist]

Portrait workshop in Hoboken, NJ a few years ago.

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[Robert Budding]

Has it occured to anyone that most (all?0 of the photographers posting to this thread are MEN? Are there no women doing Large Format photography?

A female friend of mine, probably 5' 6" on tip toes, shoots 8x10 and contact prints with Platinum. She doesn't frequent forums, though.

[Cletus]

And I just posted this in the "show off yer camera" section last week...should'a been here I guess. Anyway, here's me and my camera. Not a very good shot of me OR my camera, but that's what I got!

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[Cletus]

Note the strange tripod head anomaly. That's just about how talented I am in the 'digital domain'. I have no idea how that happened, I thought this was straight out of the digicam and converted to monchrome. Go figure.

[Stephane]

Last 1st September offshore NE Greenland on sea ice. Asked the captain if we could take the zodiak out and climb on a piece of floating ice for a photo session.
Yet to be developed...
The boat we used is a schrimp fishing vessel (behind). Saw a polar bear during the trip, but not the same day!

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8311/8010337144_0d474e6693_b.jpg

[Michael Kadillak]

Last 1st September offshore NE Greenland on sea ice. Asked the captain if we could take the zodiak out and climb on a piece of floating ice for a photo session.
Yet to be developed...
The boat we used is a schrimp fishing vessel (behind). Saw a polar bear during the trip, but not the same day!

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8311/8010337144_0d474e6693_b.jpg

Awesome shot.

[mamanton]

Abhazia. Mountains.
And clouds under my feet...

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[Andrea Gazzoni]

me, daughter and 8x10 Wista a couple years ago

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/94184552/P1070850.JPG

[dmeckert]

A friend of mine is teaching photography at a local university (Dillard) and asked me to show her class the 8x10.


The students do not appear excited about being there. Howard


The students do not appear excited about being there. Howard

Why should they get excited?
That camera can't send text messages or answer some inane Facebook survey while sending a photo of your BFF to your 300 closest friends AND tell you what Taylor Swift wore to the MTV awards.


Ok, I'm done now.

so...really ancient quoting. but i had to chuckle 'cause it's so true. lol

but...

i'm setting up my 4x5 in my classroom as i get it put together (old calumet...film holders and nikon 210/5.6 on the way), and my high school photo students are going crazy over it. lol. they can't wait to use it, and jockey for position to look at the ground glass (under a black trash bag, until i bring a more proper dark cloth). it's blowing their minds. i'm planning a large scale project where they'll all get a chance to use it (most likely with Harman direct positive).

i'm also planning on setting up a class hashtag so we can have a social media gallery to peruse weekly. should be interesting since most of them have a smartphone and instagram or twitter.

no photo of me and the camera...yet. but it'll come. :D

[Drew Bedo]

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Zone VI 90mm/f-8 Nikkor

At Cub Creek in Morane Park, Rocky Mountain National Park Colorado

[Andrew O'Neill]

Me with my Canham Light Weight 8x10 at Ladner Creek Trestle last week. Photo by John Fee.

[Vaughn]

The bearded one out standing in the field with the 11x14. Note the nicely placed dark slide hiding the stomach muscles!

Photo by my nephew, Levi Barker.

In a hay field outside of Spokane, WA (Mt Spokane in the background). This past summer.

[munz6869]

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Me with the Wista aroundabout here: 47.067486,9.433755

Marc!

[polyglot]

OK, so this thread got me off my arse this weekend.

http://www.brodie-tyrrell.org/pad/img/2012/09/22/display.jpg (http://www.brodie-tyrrell.org/pad/index.php?id=2012/09/22)
4x5 Efke-25, shot with a Toyo 45a and Symmar-S 240/5.6. Camera in the photo is a Toyo-View. The bellows looks saggy because there's a flash in there and I'm using the GG as a softbox.

[Michael W]

Bravo, Polyglot. Well done.

[SamReeves]

Me with my Canham Light Weight 8x10 at Ladner Creek Trestle last week. Photo by John Fee.

Now rebuild that track, and run a freight!

[Mark Woods]

Very well done!!

[Mark Woods]

Very well done!!

[polyglot]

Bravo, Polyglot. Well done.

Thanks! Lighting ratio was wrong (my face ended up further from the GG than I metered so it's about 2 stops too dim) so I might redo it later. The light on the back of my head was meant to be just a touch (skin at Zone IV) but ended up being the dominant exposure because I buggered up the front flash level.

[Tinojeda]

Me and my homemade 16x20. Under $100 including filmholder that I also made, but not including lens. Tried it out with a paper negative and it worked great. Waiting for film from the ULF Ilford order. Doubt I'll be taking this camera very far. I love the detail of a 16x20 contact print, but the 500mm lens has such a small depth of field there are few landscapes that I can think of that it would be a good fit for. It was a fun project nonetheless. Bellows were made from two garbage bags, heavy construction paper, and lexel glue. Filmholder was built off a 16x20 picture frame.

http://i289.photobucket.com/albums/ll201/PolarBear1973/DSC_0662.jpg

can u make me one ?

[C. D. Keth]

I don't have any of me with a LF camera. I have a couple others, though:

https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/37708_1520837296423_6925948_n.jpg
https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/77927_10100294669062875_737692574_o.jpg
https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/34164_648891803705_1747662_n.jpg

[Frank Petronio]

Couldn't get the Liquify brush in to fix my tummy....

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[DennisD]

Nice photo Frank ! You look so innocent and friendly !

BTW what tripod are you using? Looks like carbon fiber, but whose?
I've been looking for a decent lightweight design for a 4x5 and sometimes 5x7. Yours Also seems to have good height.
Thanks,
Dennis




Couldn't get the Liquify brush in to fix my tummy....

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[Frank Petronio]

Thanks ;-p

That tripod is dangerous, highly recommended if you can swing it, makes the Gitzos look cheesy: http://reallyrightstuff.com/ProductDesc.aspx?code=TVC-34L&type=4&eq=&desc=TVC-34L-Versa-Series-3-Tripod&key=it

[Alan Gales]

That tripod is too tall for you, Frank. You're going to need a ladder to look at the ground glass! :)

[Wes Stewart]

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Chamonix 4x10 in the Great Sand Dunes in May, 2012. Photo courtesy Dan Ballard who I met in the dunes.

Wonderful image!

[goamules]

Canon RF 50/1.5:

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8053/8142599077_4195cc6168_c.jpg

[Ramiro Elena]

Nice photo, better shirt!

...and original bellows!

[bracan]

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Sinars P4x5, 8x10...

[Emil Schildt]

Looking old.... relaxing...

[J.B. Harlin]

That is me with my DIY (built from stuff I had laying around in my garage workshop) ultra-light 11x14 camera (13.5lbs) with custom-built backpack sewn by my wife, who also took this snapshot in Zion NP December 2011.

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[briand]

Me with my Home made 4x5 wide and my Tachihara4x5 at Arkaroola
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[Stefano]

Me and my Lotus 8x10" working in Modena(Italy)
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And working in Milan(Italy) with my Lotus 8x20"
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Stefano

[CooperKlineyoung]

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Me with My OMEGA VIEW 4X5

[Andrew Plume]

That is me with my DIY (built from stuff I had laying around in my garage workshop) ultra-light 11x14 camera (13.5lbs) with custom-built backpack sewn by my wife, who also took this snapshot in Zion NP December 2011.

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yep, very lovely - recall the article in Steve Simmons' mag when you built it

andrew

[Andrew Plume]

Canon RF 50/1.5:

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8053/8142599077_4195cc6168_c.jpg

very nice Mr A

best

andrew

[Andrew Plume]

Looking old.... relaxing...

right, that's a set of bagpipes, I guess................

andrew

[jp]

Here's me with my 8x10 B&J Rembrandt and surveying tripod walking along the roadside at golden hour today. Nice 40+f weather and no wind.

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8347/8197257089_9054b908c1_o.jpg
Galaxy SIII camera phone

After the sun went away, I got out the DSLR which works better without hard shadows and bright sun.

[unixrevolution]

That is me with my DIY (built from stuff I had laying around in my garage workshop) ultra-light 11x14 camera (13.5lbs) with custom-built backpack sewn by my wife, who also took this snapshot in Zion NP December 2011.

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That's a gorgeous DIY camera! Wish stuff I made looked half that good.

[Michael Kadillak]

That is me with my DIY (built from stuff I had laying around in my garage workshop) ultra-light 11x14 camera (13.5lbs) with custom-built backpack sewn by my wife, who also took this snapshot in Zion NP December 2011.

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Great looking set up. As I can see a lighter camera facilitates a lighter tripod. Your camera is nearly 1/3 the weight of my Deardorff V11. I can only imagine the places that you can take your 11x14. Wish I had the skills and tools and time to pull this off.

[Joe Forks]

setting up the 12 x 20 for a shot in the sierra de caballo muerto

[saturnus]

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[bracan]

Nice flower Wista:)



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[ROL]

Love the artfully placed floral decoration on your front standard. I may be going out on a limb, but I dare say you may be the cutest one here (Frank aside). Welcome saturnus.

[Renato Tonelli]

Love the artfully placed floral decoration on your front standard. I may be going out on a limb, but I dare say you may be the cutest one here (Frank aside). Welcome saturnus.

Very nice portrait - is it a self portrait?

Frank doesn't belong in the 'cute' dept. (Sorry Frank).:D

[blanc-negre]

Me and my 18x24 Curt Bentzin Camera with Carl Zeiss Tessar 30cm f4.5 (ca. 1912)
Ambrotype autoportrait.

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[Ari]

Me and my 18x24 Curt Bentzin Camera with Carl Zeiss Tessar 30cm f4.5 (ca. 1912)
Ambrotype autoportrait.

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Very cool.

[saturnus]

Very nice portrait - is it a self portrait?



yes,
self portrait ))

[E. von Hoegh]

But in your profile you said you had a 5x7 Gundlach Korona.

[saturnus]

But in your profile you said you had a 5x7 Gundlach Korona.

Yes))
I have 2 cameras.
Vista & Korona

[Robert Langham]

My fabulous wife was iphoning away while we worked at Canyon de Chelly this last September. One from Shiprock. I carry a pack for the Deardorff 5X7 that gets it to here I need to go, but if a car is handy I keep it in a hard case that I can stand on.

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83989 Guide and I.

83990 Hiking Navajo kids have a look.

[Robert Langham]

Deardorffs in CDC and CDM

83991 8X10 set up on some extaordinary cottonwoods and a little piece of road.

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83993 Jackson and I consulting. Neither of us remember this, but Katie was watching with her iphone!

[Robert Langham]

In Box Elder, Texas with an old barn roof.

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83995 I didn't quite get it....but got very close. Maybe a slightly longer lens. This was with 120 Super Angulon. Might go 190 Wide field Ektar and see what happens. Tempted to use red filter and lighten the roof as well.

[Robert Langham]

If I ever see you, I will certainly recognize the camera!

[Robert Langham]

Someone GAVE me this negative. No clue who this is, but he's a kindred spirit!

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[John Olsen]

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With my Deardorff, taken with my Toyo

[C. D. Keth]

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Lovely! Welcome to the forum. I'm looking forward to seeing a bit of Russia through those eyes. I've seen photos taken by a friend who is a director of photography on many Russian films and there are some wonderful places there.



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I love the "just too short for comfort" stance. I think we all know it well!

[Robert Langham]

I'm probably dropping lower to raise head and look through bifocals!

[nonuniform]

From last week at the Racetrack in Death Valley. Yeah, I forgot the dark cloth. It was sitting on the counter, along with the map, when we left. I almost never use the Linhof, but the Heliar in the Copal 3 doesn't really fit on the Wista, so...

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[David R Munson]

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Setting up to do portraits at the Cycle Messenger World Championships back in August. It was a lot of fun, and got to meet/photograph people again that I last saw for CMWC and Kyoto Loco (http://www.flickr.com/search/?w=70117898@N00&q=kyoto%20loco) in Japan back in 2009.

Photo credit goes to Brad Quartuccio of Urban Velo (http://urbanvelo.org/) magazine.

[James B. McCourtney]

My, coming up, fortieth anniversary with this Gandolfi. England, Brasil, Bolivia, Cuba - and my own backyard.

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[MMELVIS]

My, coming up, fortieth anniversary with this Gandolfi. England, Brasil, Bolivia, Cuba - and my backyard.

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Strap the camera to the back of your Triumph and get some shots of breakfast at Wheelers.

[James B. McCourtney]

That definitely sounds like my style. I love portraits.

[Drew Bedo]

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Saturnus: Welcome to the community here on the LF Photography forum . . .and to this thread. Most posters here are bearded old guys. Looking forward to hearing and seeing more from you.

Where are all the other ladies in LF?

[saturnus]

Saturnus: Welcome to the community here on the LF Photography forum . . .and to this thread. Most posters here are bearded old guys. Looking forward to hearing and seeing more from you.

Where are all the other ladies in LF?

:)

[Kirk Gittings]

Me at The stone circle at Castlerigg near Keswick in Cumbria, North West England.

[Pete Watkins]

Kirk, I hope that you enjoyed your visit, no doubt the weather was crap but the beers gotta have been better that you're used to!
Pete.

[Kirk Gittings]

I love England (my wife 's mother is British and she has a ton of family still in the Midlands) and I wish I could get there once a year.

This is the golden age of beer in the US. In my small city of 500k people there must be 20 local microbreweries and the whole country is that way right now. In every city I visit I sample the local brews and its oftentimes fantastic. Having said that there is something really special about a fresh Guiness in England at about 11am......

[vinny]

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me, lake michigan, wehman, chinook.

[Drew Bedo]

Ah . . .Large Format wildlife photography!

[Mister Sith]

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Just mocking my teenage peer group!

[Jim Jones]

Self portrait shot with B&J flatbed, Ektar f/7.7 203mm.
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[David R Munson]

Ha! That's great! (and that goes for Mister Sith and Mr Jones)

[Roger Thoms]

Well here I am with my 8x10 Eastman Kodak 2D. See how happy I am, that was before I tried to start the truck. So I should know better, but just to be sure, I took my diesel truck with 8 year old batteries out to Flagstaff in the winter. Had I given it any thought at all I would have realized that was a bad idea. So it late afternoon, I get my shot of the abandon water tank with great bolt shadows, load everything up and sure enough the truck would start. I suppose to get in the low 20's that night, it's getting dark, I forgot my cell phone, plus the cell service is poor, sleeping bags are home instead of in the truck where they belong, girlfriend has a bad hip so the 6 mile walk is going to be tough. Our house is 35 miles out of Flagstaff and 6 miles out on dirt roads and we are right where the dirt road starts. We don't have many neighbors but l luckily one of them was coming home and not only gave us a ride home, but gave me a ride back to the truck in the morning, tried to jump the truck. In the end I had to get AAA out to jump the truck as my neighbors car was just to small. Needless to say I have two brand new batteries in the truck.

Roger

[Renato Tonelli]

Well here I am with my 8x10 Eastman Kodak 2D. See how happy I am, that was before I tried to start the truck. So I should know better, but just to be sure, I took my diesel truck with 8 year old batteries out to Flagstaff in the winter. Had I given it any thought at all I would have realized that was a bad idea. So it late afternoon, I get my shot of the abandon water tank with great bolt shadows, load everything up and sure enough the truck would start. I suppose to get in the low 20's that night, it's getting dark, I forgot my cell phone, plus the cell service is poor, sleeping bags are home instead of in the truck where they belong, girlfriend has a bad hip so the 6 mile walk is going to be tough. Our house is 35 miles out of Flagstaff and 6 miles out on dirt roads and we are right where the dirt road starts. We don't have many neighbors but l luckily one of them was coming home and not only gave us a ride home, but gave me a ride back to the truck in the morning, tried to jump the truck. In the end I had to get AAA out to jump the truck as my neighbors car was just to small. Needless to say I have two brand new batteries in the truck.

Roger

Close call - sometimes you get lucky.

[Mark Woods]

Would you rather be lucky or good?

[Roger Thoms]

Close call - sometimes you get lucky.

I should mention that worst case I would have had to walk in till I found a neighbor who was home, anywhere from 3 to 6 miles. One thing for sure people help each other out there. Still it was a little uncomfortable when we realized how unprepared we where. Did have fun with the camera, as this was the first time I had ever shot 8x10.

Roger

[Jim Fitzgerald]

I should mention that worst case I would have had to walk in till I found a neighbor who was home, anywhere from 3 to 6 miles. One thing for sure people help each other out there. Still it was a little uncomfortable when we realized how unprepared we where. Did have fun with the camera, as this was the first time I had ever shot 8x10.

Roger

Roger, glad to hear that you and Leigh are okay. Close call indeed. I hope the image came out?

[C. D. Keth]

Would you rather be lucky or good?

Yes. ;)

[Antonenko]

Greetings from Russia. The U.S. camera:)

http://album.foto.ru/photos/sm/392280/2842349.jpg (http://album.foto.ru/photos/or/392280/2842349.jpg)

And our photo lab

[Vaughn]

Found this photo online -- I did not even know about it.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/laurencefoto/7388431756/

Someone caught me looking at the light...

[GabrielSeri]

Here I am with my Grover 8x10 camera holding mate tea. :)

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[Nayden]

Here I am with my Linhof 4x5
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Nayden
http://photonaydenov.com

[Robert Langham]

A week ago up near Clarksville, Texas. I think that's my 8X10 Deardorff with a 250 Wide-Field Ektar on it.

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[Pfiltz]

A week ago up near Clarksville, Texas. I think that's my 8X10 Deardorff with a 250 Wide-Field Ektar on it.

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Yeah but what's on that barn?

[Professional]

A week ago up near Clarksville, Texas. I think that's my 8X10 Deardorff with a 250 Wide-Field Ektar on it.

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haha, i love how that bird is posing in front of your 8x10, i am sure he is happy, did you print the image and give it to it???

[polyglot]

Well it's Superb Owl weekend or something in the US, right? ;)

[WmRenick]

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Here I am with my speed graphic and a basic WA brass lens from about 1896. The house is in Wallace,Indiana.
My GGgrandfather and ten children ages from 10 to 29 moved there in Sept. of 1898. Still wonder how they did that.

[Bill McMannis]

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Last week we were driving through the DuPont State Forest near Brevard NC on a logging road. Being on a logging road, it should be of little surprise that we came across some logging along the ridge line. I believe the area that was logged is actually just outside of the state forest, but there was roughly 20 acres that had been clear cut with the large single tree remaining.

The camera is my Technikardan 45S

[taulen]

http://taulen.org/diverse/bilder/forum_bilder/self_portrait_camera.jpg
Myself with my camera (4x5 view graphic) Reinhold Wollaston Meniscus 190mm

[Jim Andrada]

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8110/8615843010_5598bed6b9.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/89514126@N05/8615843010/)
Photo (http://www.flickr.com/photos/89514126@N05/8615843010/) by Kirigakuresaizoh (http://www.flickr.com/people/89514126@N05/), on Flickr

Me with my "unimproved" Seneca and lens in pneumatic shutter. I really like this camera. It needed a new bellows but aside from that it was in good condition. I still haven't gotten around to making a rear extension for it, but I will one of these days.

Taken in my backyard.

[goamules]

Looking good Jim!

[Jim Andrada]

Thanks Garrett

All I need is to make a nice wet plate holder for it! Actually all I need is to stop traveling. I've been flying somewhere every week for a while now and two more travel weeks coming up!

[Kirk Gittings]

At Castlerigg Stone Circle, Keswick, Cumbria, England by my youngest daughter Ashleigh. Zone VI (not my current camera)>

[Jo Geier]

Hi, I absolutely like this thread and all the images threads.
AND...

...thanks, I am not the only one :)

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Me in my "Studio" with Sinar P2 8x10 and Cham 4x5.
The first on my roof with my, hopefully soon, wet plate camera.

Jo

[Uri A]

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