Post Photos of YOURSELF with your camera

[Drew Bedo]

Post a ohoto of you with your camera.

Zone VI (Wista) below the sea wall at Galveston.

[Richard M. Coda]

All from two years ago in Superior, AZ. First time out with the hybrid Arca/Canham 11x14"

[TheDeardorffGuy]

Ok, This is a bit awkward......I work on Deardorffs keep that in mind!
The large group of cameras and just me is part of my Deardorff Collection.
If you have questions please ask!
The second shot is what I did for a number of years. My son Collects Steam tractors
and we do tractor shows. While he was out running and plowing with steam I was documenting the tractors and selling prints. Correctly called engines. The only problem was after a few years I had shot nearly every engine in Indiana and Ohio! But I've met some great people and my son has a full time business restoring engines.

[Bill_1856]

Speed Graphic c.1977

[Kirk Gittings]

Not my current camera. This is a Zone VI I sold a while back. I will look for one with the Phillips.
http://sitemanager.sitewelder.com/users/KirkGittings2359/images/KirkGittings2359173295.jpg

[vinny]

here I am.

[TheDeardorffGuy]

Speed Graphic c.1977

The dark cloth is great!!

[Jay DeFehr]

This is me with one of my cameras.

[Rob Klurfield]

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5188/5614943129_997e5d719d_z.jpg

my first LF. alas, it doesn't work. see this link for a thread on rangefinder forum about the sad saga of my crown graphic. pictures from it will probably wait for another day....

http://www.rangefinderforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=104501&highlight=crown+graphic

[Jim Galli]

http://tonopahpictures.0catch.com/OPF/Me_N_BigDs.jpg

Me 'n the V11 Deardorff at Keeler Depot.

Done with the Nikon D200 fitted with a Bausch & Lomb Plastigmat Portrait made for Cine.

[Vlad Soare]

This is me with my first large format camera, in the summer of 2008.
My assistants were checking the tripod, making sure everything was OK. :D

[Payral]

"The eyes of the photographer" - Selfportrait with my Canham 5x7"

[drh151]

With my Chamonix at the Race Track, Death Valley.

[Emil Schildt]

Ok, This is a bit awkward......I work on Deardorffs keep that in mind!
.

you're forgiven....:D

Cool images everyone - nice to put a face on your names...

so here's me..

First checking the model cheching the camera... :-)

then me a few years later.. (and I'm NOT working at Deardorff...;-))

[Bill_1856]

The dark cloth is great!!
Thanks. Embroirdered towells were a christmas gift from an elderly maiden aunt.

[John Bowen]

Bill, I literally burst out laughing. Thanks, I needed that!

[Frank Petronio]

I am promiscuous, from left to right: Sinar Norma, Crown Graphic, Linhof Technika, Arca-Swiss. None of which I still own. And I don't approve of handheld large-format photography either, it is a sin.

[Ken Lee]

http://www.kennethleegallery.com/images/forum/oldandnew.png
First camera, 1962. Five decades later, with 5x7 Sinar P

[goamules]

I found few of myself with just a camera, but some where I'm holding lenses near a camera (go figure). Holding a Scovill Peerless (digital snapshot) and a Gasc & Charconnet, (5x7 with a Protar V).

[Ken Lee]

Great looking lenses, and great looking Kodak 2D - especially with the huge lens on the front, and supplemental support device.

[David R Munson]

Well, there's this:

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/26/36320387_4dd2fdc459.jpg

[Gem Singer]

Me, with my Canham MQC57 with a Nikon/Nikkor 120SW lens mounted on a Manfrotto 475 tripod.

Also posted this photo on the "show off your camera" thread.

[Preston]

Low Pay Meter Readers--Myself, Maggie, and Harley Goldman-Yosemite

http://www.gildedmoon.com/images/canp/Harley-PB-Yosemite-2-Web.jpg

Cool thread! It's nice to meet everyone.

--P

[John Bowen]

Where is Maggie's camera?

[tgtaylor]

Here's two images of me in Yosemite with my Toyo-Field 45AX taken in February, 2009:

[Gudmundur Ingolfsson]

Two old pictures of me with my beloved 8x10" cameras; a brand new SINAR P in 1983
(that camera was used on a daly basis for 18 years) and a Phillips Advantage Series
(with a 210 Apo Sironar W) in 1993

[Mark Woods]

Here I am at the Disney in Los Angeles with my 8x10 Sinar. Now I usually shoot with a V8 or a Chamonix 11x14. Good to see you all!

[Richard M. Coda]

Here I am at the Disney in Los Angeles with my 8x10 Sinar. Now I usually shoot with a V8 or a Chamonix 11x14. Good to see you all!

Didn't they harass you at Disney Concert Hall? They harassed me and it was 7 AM on a Sunday morning.

http://rcodaphotography.blogspot.com/2008/11/halls-are-alive-with-sound-of-music.html

[Mark Woods]

This was a get together of LF shooters. We assembled on the roof of the parking lot across the street. This was also early on a Sunday morning. Hugo, Jim Fitzgerald, and a number of other guys were there too.

[jb7]

With my Plank- first version- picture by Sinead-

http://josephburns.ie/images/plank-one/154.jpg

[paulr]

Disintegrating print. From the streets of Providence, 1990s.

[Jay DeFehr]

Very nice, Joe. If I squint you look like a furry, faceless creature!

[Colin Graham]

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5230/5650404912_22d4e99fd3_z.jpg

w/ 5x12

[Ari]

Here are two photos taken of me with my first 4x5 in 2007.
It was a clunky B&J, and I believe the model was the "Shitbox".
It served me well for a summer, though.
Also in the photo are a never-seen-since 'stache, borrowed tripod, home-made darkcloth, and Zone VI lunch pail. :)

[Merg Ross]

With my first view camera, 1954.

[Jim Galli]

With my first view camera, 1954.

Easily the coolest picture with a LF camera ever :cool:

And you haven't changed a bit.

[Jay DeFehr]

Very, very cool, Merg.

[Hugo Zhang]

With the new toy and older one.

[Alan Curtis]

My first LF camera 1948, I'm 2. 1989 Zone VI.

[brianjnelson]

Is that a Gowlanflex Hugo?

[Hugo Zhang]

Yes, a Gowlandflex. :)

[Eric Woodbury]

Both taken Feb 2011. First by Jim Ginney, second by Nathanael Kuenzli

[Maris Rusis]

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1428/5116111731_21d5fcb610_z.jpg

Me in a parallel universe.

[windpointphoto]

Gee, and they love me using digital, so who cares who hates digital.

[TheDeardorffGuy]

Gee, and they love me using digital, so who cares who hates digital.

Ok you win!

[Vaughn]

By Kate Jordahl, while on a workshop in the Redwoods.

Zone VI 8x10 held up by my magical dipod...

Vaughn

[Michael Kadillak]

Michael Roberts (on the left) and I at Arches National Park last year shooting 8x10. Hope he does not mind that I used an image that his wife Theresa was kind enough to shoot of us.

[Merg Ross]

Easily the coolest picture with a LF camera ever :cool:

And you haven't changed a bit.

Thanks, Jim. Truly a large format moment, captured by my father with his 8x10 Agfa/Ansco on Isopan film developed in Pyro.

For those not familiar with the Brand 17 4x5 cameras, there you have it; a marvelous camera, dual rail, rotating back, solid, and designed to accomodate wide angle lenses. Purchased from Brooks Cameras in San Francisco in 1954, including a couple of holders, for $35.

[HeinrichVoelkel]

here I am.


great pics. you're not a studio guy.


p.s.: which darkcloth are you using?

[Lachlan 717]

Wow... Lots of beards here.

[Emil Schildt]

Wow... Lots of beards here.

yes - I thought it was mandatory....:D

[Ole Tjugen]

My wife took this of me, with a 5x7" Technika trying it as hand held. I too had a beard at that time, but that's likely to change without notice whenever I remember to shave.

http://www.bruraholo.no/bilder/minime.jpg

[Drew Bedo]

Leonard: Good for youc . . .every time I try nude photography, I catch a cold or get sun-burned!

[Douglas Henderson]

Took a day trip to Yellowstone on Saturday, the first nice day here in a long time. Took along a flotilla of pinhole cameras, a digital Sigma DP1s and my 4x5 Crown Graphic. Got lucky with last day's light atop a high hill near the north entrance--with a visitor.

[philipmorg]

Me, making a photograph in Glacier, NP with my Sinar Norma.

http://philipmorgan.net/miscphotos/philipwithnorma.jpg

[kq6up]

http://chrismaness.com/backend/4-23-11_Janice/content/bin/images/large/IMG_9457.jpg

Here i am with my Burke and James at Laguna Beach.

Regards,
Chris Maness

[gary892]

My 12x20 Korona, just west of Bishop California, October 2010.
54857

[Colin Graham]

http://www.largeformatphotography.info/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=54778&d=1303666760

Heh, that shot reminds me how much my legs used to ache when I first started doing the LF isometric focus squats.

[Robert Hall]

I see you are using one of your sharp lenses, Jim. I can tell it's you! ;)



http://tonopahpictures.0catch.com/OPF/Me_N_BigDs.jpg

Me 'n the V11 Deardorff at Keeler Depot.

Done with the Nikon D200 fitted with a Bausch & Lomb Plastigmat Portrait made for Cine.

[Ari]

Heh, that shot reminds me how much my legs used to ache when I first started doing the LF isometric focus squats.

Thighs of steel, my friend!
I was (and still do) shooting portraits from low angles, using rise to fine-tune the framing.

[BetterSense]

http://chazmiller.com/images/hwmbfcwob.jpg

[Bill Poole]

Why does my Deardorff make me look fat??

http://www.poolephotography.com/Public-Galleries/5X7-B/2011020313/1196900292_vw7Px-O-1.jpg

[Mark Woods]

Bill, it's too small!! Get a V11 and you'll look more svelte. ;-)

[John Jarosz]

Muley Point (but you knew that) - 2009

[Brad Rippe]

Yosemite!

[Scott Davis]

Here's me with the Canham 14x17.

[David Karp]

Here is one my wife took of me with my Walker Titan SF near Kenai Alaska.

[Richard Mahoney]

Despite its shortcomings a constant -- though often a profoundly irritating -- companion:

http://camera-antipodea.indica-et-buddhica.com/about/equipment/lumix-dmc-tz1.jpg


Best,

Richard

[sapata]

you're forgiven....:D

First checking the model cheching the camera... :-)



Taking the "View" camera name to a new level... I should try that one day as well:D

This is me and my little toy, last year self portrait.

[munz6869]

Here's me in Sweden & Switzerland with the Wista!

Marc!

[munz6869]

Here's me in Sweden & Switzerland (with the Wista 45DXIII) in 2009!!

Marc!

[Emil Schildt]

found one more..

Yes it actually IS me, and it is actually in my living room....

(looks more like a museum..)

:rolleyes:

[Ken Lee]

My wife took this of me, with a 5x7" Technika trying it as hand held. I too had a beard at that time, but that's likely to change without notice whenever I remember to shave.

http://www.bruraholo.no/bilder/minime.jpg

Notice the ingenious high-tech supplemental stabilization device, positioned between the rear of the camera and the attachments of the distal biceps tendons.

[MumbleyJoe]

That's me and my 4x5 Tachihara up at North Dome, in Yosemite (in case that's not obvious)
http://www.tylerwestcott.com/ABOUT/tyler_westcott_yosemite.JPG

and at Inspiration Point in Bryce, on a brisk February morning.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3407/3271005738_1e9832c7a4.jpg

Sadly no beard, unlike so many others. Perhaps that explains what's missing in my photography. :-P

[Scott Walker]

http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg90/Beecool/MeMyCamera.jpg
Setting up in a somewhat warmer climate, spring 2010, Cave Creek, AZ
Sinar P2 8x10

[Thomas Greutmann]

Me and my Crown Graphic (photo courtesy by my sister Barbara)
http://www.blackandwhitegallery.de/sample/crowngraphicsnow.jpg

I was just taking this very picture (posted on this forum before in another thread):
http://www.blackandwhitegallery.de/sample/000593-ll-bielefeld-creek-winter.jpg

[ThinkDefyUnite]

Gee, and they love me using digital, so who cares who hates digital.

Is that an Ikeda Anba? Why am I looking at the camera?

[Hector.Navarro]

here I am...

http://hectornavarroagraz.com/image/hna.jpg

[Monty McCutchen]

Here I am with the 20 x 24

Monty

[bob carnie]

Thats one Ugly Dude, camera looks nice though.

Here I am with the 20 x 24

Monty

[Monty McCutchen]

There's no doubt I look better underneath the darkcloth than out and about in the daylight!

I would love to get the camera up to Toronto for a round of portraits. Do you have a shorter tripod I could use? It would be shame not to include your eyes in the photo.

Congrats on the show. Wish I could be there to support it. Hope it goes well. Don't tell Dinesh where it is, he'll only ruin it.

Monty

[Randy]

Me and the 8X10 Schwing in 2002 - Tobacco Warehouse District, Danville, VA.

http://rsphoto.fileave.com/me1.jpg http://rsphoto.fileave.com/me2.jpg

[Pawlowski6132]

With the new toy and older one.

Wow. What kind of tripod is that in the second shot?\

[Kevin Crisp]

Death Valley dunes, with my Crown Graphic

[Pawlowski6132]

Death Valley dunes, with my Crown Graphic

Dude! I have that same lens!

[TheDeardorffGuy]

Me and the 8X10 Schwing in 2002 - Tobacco Warehouse District, Danville, VA.

http://rsphoto.fileave.com/me1.jpg http://rsphoto.fileave.com/me2.jpg

Wow! Just like the Wizard Of Oz. Cover yourself with the darkcloth and the scene gets all magical and in color!

[Jim Fitzgerald]

Well, I dug up a few! 11x14, 8x10, 8x20 and 14x17.

[PaulRicciardi]

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

Last February in the snow

[ndavid813]

http://www.flickr.com/photos/813ndavid/4071162937/
Scoutmaster with beard AND camera

[Steve Sherman]

There's no doubt I look better underneath the darkcloth than out and about in the daylight!

I would love to get the camera up to Toronto for a round of portraits. Do you have a shorter tripod I could use? It would be shame not to include your eyes in the photo.

Congrats on the show. Wish I could be there to support it. Hope it goes well. Don't tell Dinesh where it is, he'll only ruin it.

Monty

Often I've seen him hang upside down, that may be your fix

[anglophone1]

My assistant Guy, Linhof and I encouraging a group of drunks on Hiiumma Island, Estonia, August 2010.

[Mark Woods]

Jim, you're looking good!

[Vaughn]

Jim, you're looking good!

And his home-made cameras don't look half-bad either! :D

Vaughn

[Jim Fitzgerald]

Thanks guys. I've always felt the cameras looked much better! The older photos and two newer ones the newest being with the 14x17.

[keith english]

Me and 4x5 Zone VI and Jacksonhttp://keithbenglishphotography.com/images/19413225_mdq8.png

[alex from holland]

Ok, here's mine.
It's not a picture but a movie. Hope that's ok ?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ajhI0WIZlM

[Scott Walker]

Ok, here's mine.
It's not a picture but a movie. Hope that's ok ?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ajhI0WIZlM

Fine by me Alex, I think I have watched that 4 or 5 times now :)
Beautifull camera

[Panoman617]

Yes very nice video alex from holland

[Panoman617]

Vinny it looks like you like the snow!!

[Pawlowski6132]

found one more..

Yes it actually IS me, and it is actually in my living room....

(looks more like a museum..)

:rolleyes:

Are you smoking a bong?

Joe

[lenser]

Journey to the Smokies a few years back with my beloved Zone VI.

[Erik Larsen]

Me down near Moab Utah photographed by the local newspaper photographer who happened to be hiking near by. It ended up in the paper:)

[Barry Kirsten]

Fine by me Alex, I think I have watched that 4 or 5 times now :)
Beautifull camera

Fine by me too. I've also seen it before (when you took delivery, I think). Amazing camera - how's it going?

Barry.

[Thad Gerheim]

These Photos were taken last wednesday, 4/27/11. Spring is a little slow in arriving around Stanley, Idaho! The second photo is of the Sawtooth Mountains that were to my back.

[Richard K.]

Taken just this morning...

http://i300.photobucket.com/albums/nn15/RichardK47/photokid400.jpg

OK OK will post one as soon as I get my brand new 10x12, any second now...

GREAT THREAD!!

[John Jarosz]

Good to see all these individual shots. Proves to me (and my wife) that I'm not the only batshit crazy nutcase out there

[Thom Bennett]

Erik, Is that an 11x14 Century?

[Erik Larsen]

Erik, Is that an 11x14 Century?

Thom, it is a gundlach camera. It looks similar to a bunch of different companies offerings.
Regards
Erik

[Miguel Curbelo]

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-uD2dIR_QM-s/Tb3GKAJ6ZoI/AAAAAAAAAjI/687DMyo8SPU/s1600/shen+and+me.jpg

8x10 Shen Hao and me -picture taken by my eldest daughter on her tiny Olympus Pen.

[alex from holland]

Fine by me too. I've also seen it before (when you took delivery, I think). Amazing camera - how's it going?

Barry.

I am still working on it.
have to make a larger silver bath, inlays, tropd etc.
so lot's to do ...... (unfortunately)

Alex

[Ari]

Good to see all these individual shots. Proves to me (and my wife) that I'm not the only batshit crazy nutcase out there

I don't think she's any happier knowing that :)

[Uri A]

On a 60" boom with the P2

[Michael Kadillak]

On a 60" boom with the P2

Awsome! You get the award for the photograph with the most unique perspective. Hopefully, the hourly charge for the vertical mobilization equipment was reasonable.

[Uri A]

Thanks Michael,
Luckily I have a few friends in high places, so get to bum a ride quite regularly :)

[Roger Thoms]

I fixed you photo since you're in ɐıןɐɹʇsnɐ 'ʎǝupʎs. :D :D :D

[Frank Petronio]

Joseph, Oregon, 1983 with Marmot as assistant, old Wista wooden camera, ridiculous Bogen piece of shit tripod, Lennox-Hill knee brace, by John Tyzek.

[windpointphoto]

I fixed you photo since you're in ɐıןɐɹʇsnɐ 'ʎǝupʎs. :D :D :D

That's funny.

[Uri A]

Thank you Roger! Now I'm giving you all a 'thumbs down'. Much better :D


I fixed you photo since you're in ɐıןɐɹʇsnɐ 'ʎǝupʎs. :D :D :D

[Stephane]

In Morroco last Xmas...

For the top picture
Sun has gone, moon about to rise, no need of a dark cloth with my 360/2.8 magnifying glass!

[Sean Galbraith]

Shots of my with my old Crown Graphic. Don't have any, yet, with the new Shen Hao PTB.

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5269/5655910248_bb579f5c7e_z.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/por3laind0ll/5655910248/)
2010. (http://www.flickr.com/photos/por3laind0ll/5655910248/) by porc3laind0ll (http://www.flickr.com/people/por3laind0ll/), on Flickr

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4085/5055517997_535536494a_b.jpg

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5136/5514483068_877d10ca10_b.jpg

[Sean Galbraith]

Well, there's this:

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/26/36320387_4dd2fdc459.jpg

I absolutely love this, and am going to steal the idea shamelessly. (with inspiration credit)

[jb7]

Frank, got to say, I like that picture-
Is it behind glass?
Has it had any modern processing?

That looks like a pretty serious brace too-

I still use one of those pos Manfrottos myself, though it doesn't travel far-
Actually, apart from the weight, it's not so bad, and it does go up tall...

And yes, great picture David, i noticed in your profile ages ago-

[mikanel]

http:/www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=409691893878&set=a.382949823878.162277.608678878&type=1&theater

[Michael Wynd]

I like the middle one Sean. It makes you look like a mean mother.
Mike

[Frank Petronio]

Frank, got to say, I like that picture-
Is it behind glass?
Has it had any modern processing?

No the guy was a student and didn't fix or spot it properly, but it is degrading quite nicely, it looks a bit like one of those fancy alternative processes that people here spend thousands of dollars and hours trying to replicate. But instead of being high art it is just sloppy conventional processing of a muddy print....

lol yep cell phone photo through glass, it is fading in my workshop....

Yes I had knee surgery in 1982 and quite the recovery... nowadays the same injury would be done in a day with a minor 5mm scar.... I have twin 8" scars as a result.

[norman valentine]

This is me circa 1970. I think it was a Kodak 2D. It only cost me £100 complete with a Kodak 12" lens in a shutter. Complete with 1 DDS. and everything worked. I kept it for a couple of years and then sold it for £100. So I was happy.

[Sean Galbraith]

I like the middle one Sean. It makes you look like a mean mother.
Mike

Thanks! I just play one on tv.

[Richard M. Coda]

Nice threads... boy have times changed! :)


This is me circa 1970. I think it was a Kodak 2D. It only cost me £100 complete with a Kodak 12" lens in a shutter. Complete with 1 DDS. and everything worked. I kept it for a couple of years and then sold it for £100. So I was happy.

[Mark Woods]

I bought my Kodak 2D with a TR triple convertible 12" 21" 28" with 8 8x10 holders for $50. Sold just the camera last year for $250. Kept everything else. With inflation, probably broke even.... Oh, that's right I have the lens, but the holders don't work.

[palsphot]

Post a ohoto of you with your camera.

Drew Bedo (2010) with 4x5 Zone VI on Velbon CF 'pod.
Drew Bedo (2006) with 8x10 Kodak 2-D on Ansco tripod
Drew bedo (2011) with 4x5 Zone VI: Below the seawall at Galveston.

your Camera is cool .

[Sean Galbraith]

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3433/5696403133_db5d3acaa2_b.jpg
A poor imitation of the original

[Hugo Zhang]

When I post a picture of myself with a Chamonix, you should consider it as a commercial. :)

This one was taken last Monday in Jim Galli's Tonopah workshop with photo credit to Asher Kelman. I was really sweating carrying that beast all the way up to the abandoned mine shaft. No intentional showing nude here....

[Barry Kirsten]

When I post a picture of myself with a Chamonix, you should consider it as a commercial. :)

This one was taken last Monday in Jim Galli's Tonopah workshop with photo credit to Asher Kelman. I was really sweating carrying that beast all the way up to the abandoned mine shaft. No intentional showing nude here....

What a hunk! (I mean the camera, of course ;) )

Baz.

[eddie]

I was really sweating carrying that beast all the way up to the abandoned mine shaft.

whoa whoa whoa! i helped carry that beast most of the places.....no credit for your favorite mule? :)

[Hugo Zhang]

whoa whoa whoa! i helped carry that beast most of the places.....no credit for your favorite mule? :)

Extra credit to eddie!!!! Not only he helped me to carry that beast all the time and helped me to get everything right so I could just click the shutter, he also helped me with a vertical shot that I was not tall enough to put the film holder in from the top and pull the dark slide. :) Great time hunging out and drinking with eddie as well. :)

[eddie]

Great time hanging out and drinking with eddie as well. :)

:)

fun times had by all.

photos and video of galli's workshop coming soon to a new thread near "you"

eddie

[Jim Graves]

... and I want credit for sitting inside the room to adjust the lens and make the 9 minute exposure for you 'cuz your camera was too damn big, filled the door, and you were stuck on the outside (that's the profile of my foot in front of your knee.)

[David R Munson]

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3433/5696403133_db5d3acaa2_b.jpg
A poor imitation of the original

I like it!!!! :)

[al olson]

This is a great thread. Here are my photos.

This is my 8x10 Arkay Orbit (aka Calumet C-1 or Burke & James Orbit). It doesn't get much outdoor exercise anymore.

http://photo-artiste.com/images/basic/alportrait1.jpg

Here is my first Super Graphic, ca. 1959. I bought it in '57 and sadly traded it in for a Nikon in '62. Big mistake. I now have a similar model that was produced by Toyo in '76 that I purchased in '98.

http://photo-artiste.com/images/basic/alportrait2.jpg

This is my Linhof Technika IV. It has since been recovered in black. (Photo credit to Jeff Laydon of Pagosa Photography.)

http://photo-artiste.com/images/basic/alportrait3.jpg

And lastly this is my Linhof Color. It is a nice little rail camera for studio work. It also gets some outdoor exercise.

http://photo-artiste.com/images/basic/alportrait4.jpg

[Jay Decker]

Photo by my 9 year old daughter this evening...

http://monkeytumble.com/tmp/CenturyandMe.jpg

[Jim Galli]

Photo by my 9 year old daughter this evening...

Shorts?? We're freezing our butts off down here. Gonna send it back up to you. :D:D

Great shot btw.

[Panoman617]

Jim Galli its going to be 80 here in Michigan today you can have it. 50 -60 is much better.

[Jay Decker]

Shorts?? We're freezing our butts off down here. Gonna send it back up to you. :D:D

Great shot btw.

Thanks Jim, I'll tell her you liked her photo. My daughter is quite a nut, she thought this one was pretty funny too...

http://monkeytumble.com/tmp/IMG_0200.jpg

It has been cold here this spring, this was the first evening in the 70's...

[Drew Bedo]

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?

[Ari]

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?

I thought somebody covered that question with the beard comment :)

[Panoman617]

Here's a few of me with my 617.

http://www.imagehosting.gr/out.php/t1541153_cn20949-21.jpg (http://www.imagehosting.gr/show.php/1541153_cn20949-21.jpg.html)



http://www.imagehosting.gr/out.php/t1541161_cn-24447-27.jpg (http://www.imagehosting.gr/show.php/1541161_cn-24447-27.jpg.html)

:D

[Diane Maher]

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?

I noticed that. :D However, I need a current photo of me using an LF camera. :eek: I've lost weight since the ones that used to be posted were out there. My old website went away and those went with it. :mad: Maybe in the workshop next week, I can get someone to take one. If not, I have one at home from last year's workshop of me with my Canham 8x10. :D

Diane

[bbuszard]

A shot of me lining up something or other in the Smokies a couple of years ago. Camera phone (shudder) photo credit goes to my intrepid and patient hiking buddy Norm Sandridge.

[evan clarke]

Me in the warm with my big camera and then with one of my Arcas in the not so warm!

[Drew Bedo]

Dian: Not to worry. Post whenever you feel ready.

[chij]

Joseph, Oregon, 1983 with Marmot as assistant, old Wista wooden camera, ridiculous Bogen piece of shit tripod, Lennox-Hill knee brace, by John Tyzek.

uncanny

[dbla]

Me'n the Linhof...

[MIke Sherck]

Me and the Burke & James 8x10 monorail, this past winter. I used a point n. shoot with self-timer, set on the roof of my car.

Mike

[Kimberly Anderson]

Last Sunday on the Great Salt Lake. Shooting the Canham 8x10 with the 4x10 back in 50+mph winds.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ekZqe5tpJko/TdXkmrDrnuI/AAAAAAAAAkE/rron9BIgG2k/s1600/msladeshooting8x10oncausewayGSL.tiff

[Frank Petronio]

Old shot, I'm younger now.

[Mark Woods]

Lookin good Michelle and Frank. Frank where're your models?

[Panoman617]

Nice 4x10 camera Michael. I like your images on you web page in 4x10 also.

[cjbroadbent]

With a reflex modded for a Suter 360mm
https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/_OR3U2BmIDuk/Tbfbd0VTzSI/AAAAAAAAI2Y/Hs3FQgd2j_o/s800/Reflex%2BSuter.jpg

[Frank Petronio]

Toe Jam ewwww

[SamReeves]

^ Best one yet. :D

Here I am farting around in Hope Valley, California a few years ago with the Tachi.

http://www.samreevesphoto.com/posts/sierraa1.jpg

[paulr]

This is the most interesting picture thread I've seen on the site. Keep em coming!

[paulr]

Well, there's this:

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/26/36320387_4dd2fdc459.jpg

This looks something Man Ray or Dali would have done. Reminds of a taxonomy of literary symbols compiled by Milan Kundera, in which he declares "hat = magical object."

[jb7]

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3499/3292638016_604f8525ce_o.jpg

Another from Sinead, this one from the Mournes-
Picture of me taking a LFPF Print Exchange picture, from a few years ago...

[Mark Woods]

I have a copy of that print. Very cool -- literally. ;-)

[Emmanuel BIGLER]

My Arca Swiss 6x9 in the field. The bino viewer is bigger than the camera ;)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/43175600@N00/5077909184/sizes/l/in/photostream/

(picture taken by my LF friend Philippe Ayral (http://payral.pagesperso-orange.fr/))

[jb7]

I have a copy of that print. Very cool -- literally. ;-)

Thanks Mark-

By comparison, I seem to remember your print being quite hot...

[Mark Woods]

LOL. I believe it was. ;-)

[Hector.Navarro]

This looks something Man Ray or Dali would have done. Reminds of a taxonomy of literary symbols compiled by Milan Kundera, in which he declares "hat = magical object."

Something more like René Magritte...

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/92/Wolleh_magritte.jpg/593px-Wolleh_magritte.jpg

[Nicholas F. Jones]

With wife, youngest daughter, and son at home in Pittsburgh. Tachihara 8x10 with a 300mm lens. My technique, such as it is, I owe to Laura Wilson's Avedon at Work in the American West (2003), especially the Sweetwater, Texas 6/15/79 shot at p. 40-41 (sorry, I couldn't get this site to upload my scan). Meanwhile, another source of inspiration in my second image, ... no, not the horse, but the George Eastman House in Rochester.

[Daniel Stone]

Nicholas,

family can make some excellent assistants, mostly cause they're free :). Well most of the time that is

-Dan

[Nicholas F. Jones]

Yes, you're right, Dan. You realize the actual cost of your family assistants, if not the spouse then at least the children, with a conversation that begins "Dad, remember all those times when you took the big camera out and we had to come along and ...?"

And here are some pics of yours truly with 8X10 Tachihara and 5x7 Canham woodfields:

(1) Yosemite, bridge below Vernal Falls (also in a previous post?), July 2002, 8x10;
(2) near Pittsburgh, March 2009, 8x10 with 1200mm (shooting distant water tower);
(3) Ohiopyle Falls, Penna. (near Fallingwater), August 2009, 5x7;
(4) North Park, Pittsburgh, Penna., September 2009, 8x10 with 1200mm (shooting geese on lake).

Nicholas

[Craig Roberts]

At Death Valley, I brought a couple of formats. Also one the pictures from the trip. Craig

[Michael Wynd]

I must try the box under the bellows trick myself. Thanks Nicholas.
Mike

[Diane Maher]

Well, I can't seem to find a current photo of me with a camera. So, the one in the snow is from 2007 (photo by Chris Davinroy) with my Japanese whole plate and the other one is from the North Dakota workshop in 2010 (photo by Tillman Crane) with my Canham 8x10. :cool: :D

Diane

[Ramiro Elena]

Good Lord Diane, you need to tidy up your place! :D

Here's one before some repair (of the camera)
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4954627/dsc_62554.jpg

[Jan Becket]

Photographio ergo sum. (I photograph and therefore I am.)

[Thom Bennett]

Diane,

That is a wonderful ruin!

[Drew Bedo]

Diane: Thanks for posting!

Aren't there any other women doing LF today?

Ok . . . .lets change the parameters of the thread:

Ladies, please post your favorite picture of yourself. Then post a picture of your camera.

[Diane Maher]

Thanks, Thom!

Drew, the only reason I wanted a recent pic of me because I have lost weight since both the 2007 and 2010 pictures were taken , though it is hard to tell with all the winter clothing.

I know there are other women doing LF, but they may not be on this forum.

Diane

[jp]

At Death Valley, I brought a couple of formats. Also one the pictures from the trip. Craig

That IR looking pic is pretty cool!

[Helcio J Tagliolatto]

found one more..

Yes it actually IS me, and it is actually in my living room....

(looks more like a museum..)

:rolleyes:

Great image, Gandolfi!

[Andrew O'Neill]

From my coal mine series, in Japan...

[jp]

From my 6yo daughter with a family point&shoot.

Me with my B&J 8x10 and kodak 305 portrait heading into the woods near our house recently.

http://www.f64.nu/photo/tmp/lff/DSCN1535s.jpg

http://www.f64.nu/photo/tmp/lff/DSCN1540s.jpg

Two years ago at Road Atlanta's annual Mitty historic racing event. Photo credit to Lou Galanos who photographed Steve Mcqueen and other notables of racing back in the day. Speed graphic 4x5.

http://jason.philbrook.us/gallery3/var/resizes/2009year/album138/DSC3487.jpg

[Kerry L. Thalmann]

The second shot is what I did for a number of years. My son Collects Steam tractors and we do tractor shows. While he was out running and plowing with steam I was documenting the tractors and selling prints. Correctly called engines. The only problem was after a few years I had shot nearly every engine in Indiana and Ohio! But I've met some great people and my son has a full time business restoring engines.

Ken,

I'm not sure where that shot was taken, but it reminds me of the Hesston Steam Shows I used to attend as a kid with my dad back in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Do they still have those?

Kerry

[TheDeardorffGuy]

Kerry! My whole family were members for many years at Hesston. He restored and remanufactured his first Steam Traction Engine there when he was 14. He's a ME now. I ran the steam train for 6 years. I hate shoveling coal. This shot is at LaGrange IN. Past South Bend IN east about 40 miles. Today my daughter and grandson saw NKP 765 in N Judson and to keep on a LF subject there were 3 4x5s there A Shen, Tachahara and a Speed Graphic. I was going to take the 12x20 but there really were too many people and the camera draws a crowd. It was bad enough that the old film oriented railfans wondered what my Nikon RF Mount Bessa was around my neck. Have you been to Valpo recently?



Ken,

I'm not sure where that shot was taken, but it reminds me of the Hesston Steam Shows I used to attend as a kid with my dad back in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Do they still have those?

Kerry

[Darren H]

Photographing trees and a creek in a local park this morning. Acra-Swiss Discovery going wide with a 75mm and some Efke 25.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3287/5772087182_b6658e8dfd.jpg

[PolarBear1973]

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

[Ari]

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

Kudos to you, sir!

[Jan Becket]

Photographio ergo sum. (I photograph and therefore I am.)

Whoops. Itʻs Photographo, not Photographio. Those Latin conjugations are brutal: photographo, photographare, photographavi, photographatus.

- JB

[jb7]

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

Very impressive- nothing like actually getting something done-

Is that front rise I see?
And is that a little level on the front?
Must have eaten up 10% of your budget...

Maybe if you painted the whole thing black, people might think you bought it in a shop...

[Mark Woods]

Very nice PolarBear1973!

[Joakim Ahnfelt]

Here's a nice one of me with the Wista. The shot I was taking was crap.

[Phil]

Winter Solstice several years ago.
6 1/2 x 8 1/2 B&L Protar V on a Kodak Master 8x10

[Thom Bennett]

Doing it old school; shooting 8x10 transparencies of artwork to be scanned for 9' output.

[Erik Larsen]

Christened a new to me toy last weekend. Ritter 8x10. Photo taken by my friend Jeff in Road Canyon in Utah.
regards
Erik

[urs0polar]

My assistant Guy, Linhof and I encouraging a group of drunks on Hiiumma Island, Estonia, August 2010.

AWESOME!

[anglophone1]

AWESOME!

Taken by a drunk with a Leica M9!

[Daniel Stone]

Taken by a drunk with a Leica M9!

so that's why its so pixelated :)

-Dan

[Sirius Glass]

so that's why its so pixelated :)

-Dan

I would never pixelate my best friend! :eek:

Steve

[Jim Fitzgerald]

Just finished getting it up to speed.

[Daniel Stone]

Looks like a beauty Jim!

[Carsten Wolff]

Another day at the office....
http://www.flickr.com/photos/37082363@N08/5803598097/

[sgreenberg]

At the South Pole:

[Michael Kadillak]

At the South Pole:

Cool (no pun intended). Making images in that landscape would be challenging at least from a technical perspective relative to the issues with excessive sub zero temps. How is the landscape to photograph?

I purchased that identical jacket for the Western winters from a Canadian outfitter and it is unbelievable.

[sgreenberg]

Shooting at the Pole was not too difficult; it was around -20F. The camera started to stiffen up after about an hour outside, so I went in, warmed it up, and went back out. Everything gets very brittle, so you have to be careful replacing the dark slides, and there's static electricity to worry about, though I didn't have a problem with it.

Altitude there is around 10,000 feet, so carrying equipment can get very tiring until you acclimate. Jacket was great, but, since it was National Science Foundation property I had to give it back.

Can't wait to go back.

[Thom Bennett]

sgreenberg, that is bad ass!

[Duane Polcou]

Christened a new to me toy last weekend. Ritter 8x10. Photo taken by my friend Jeff in Road Canyon in Utah.
regards
Erik

Erik, thanks for posting that shot. I've always wondered about the size of this ruin having seen John Sexton's image, but had nothing of recognizeable size for reference. It's far bigger than I imagined.

[Erik Larsen]

Erik, thanks for posting that shot. I've always wondered about the size of this ruin having seen John Sexton's image, but had nothing of recognizeable size for reference. It's far bigger than I imagined.

It's deceiving Duane, it's not very large at all really. I tried to shoot with a 210 on my 8x10 and it still wasn't wide enough. My tripod was at the edge of a drop off and no room to get any further away. It's kind of tucked in under an alcove high up a cliff face. It is in a beautiful canyon with numerous ruins up and down the canyon. It is a relatively easy hike of maybe a 1/2 hour in and 3/4 hour out.
regards
erik

[Michael Cienfuegos]

Using my Graflex RB Series B 4x5.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3111/5807298972_5e8d2ce6a0_o.jpg

[jss]

http://schlachet.net/images/2011/jss-bj810-by-john-a-640.jpg
taken by my friend john agoncillo (http://www.flickr.com/photos/alapan/5685956568/).

this is a burke & james 8x10 i use for portraits. on the back of that compur there's a gundlach rapid rectigraphic fixed with gaffer tape.

this is on the 4th floor balcony where i made this:
http://schlachet.net/images/2010/john-and-betty-640.jpg

[SamReeves]

Just finished getting it up to speed.

Jim, you'll need a horse drawn cart to get that outside! :D

Fantastic looking camera.

[Scott Walker]

On my boat with the 8x10 photographing Sidney Spit in the Gulf Islands


http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg90/Beecool/Meontheboat.jpg

[Brian K]

Shooting from a cruise ship in Alaska. A Linhof Master Technika 3000, Sinar zoom II roll film back.

[PolarBear1973]

Just finished getting it up to speed.

Wow, that is incredible!

[stephen.taylor]

With my Linhof

57056

[Jerzy Pawlowski]

On my boat with the 8x10 photographing Sidney Spit in the Gulf Islands


http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg90/Beecool/Meontheboat.jpg

Scott, How do you manage your boat ?
I have tried few times, even on flat water with two anchors employed my lens points somewhere else by the time the film holder is inserted. I end it up landing the boat carefully on a piece of rock (enough in my area to change few props a season) or getting out.

[Uri A]

With the Master Tech 2000 at Uluru in April

[BennehBoy]

Me with my Sinar P2

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

http://benneh.net/archives/8x10/2.jpg

Was shooting this in the in the image above:

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

[Scott Walker]

Scott, How do you manage your boat ?
I have tried few times, even on flat water with two anchors employed my lens points somewhere else by the time the film holder is inserted. I end it up landing the boat carefully on a piece of rock (enough in my area to change few props a season) or getting out.

I use the Viewfinder Pro app on my iPhone. Not an exact science but it seems to work fairly well. When I compose the image on the ground glass and get everything in focus etc. I pick something on either end of the horizon within the framed image. once I have everything set and ready to go with film holder in place I turn Viewfinder Pro on and hold the phone against the camera back and just wait until my points of reference come into view on the screen. As the image comes into place I pull the darkslide, once it is there, remove the phone, hold your breath and pull the triger. :)

[Jim Fitzgerald]

Jim, you'll need a horse drawn cart to get that outside! :D

Fantastic looking camera.

I'm glad she is on the stand!

[Richard K.]

With the Master Tech 2000 at Uluru in April

Uluru!?!? Uluru?!?!? You get to go to Uluru?!?!? It's just not fair!!

Hmmm....I remember being there in '87, with the rental car stuck in the sand, waiting for a ranger with lift bag to come, surrounded by the wildest of Dingoes the whole time...scary...:rolleyes: :D

[Jerzy Pawlowski]

I use the Viewfinder Pro app on my iPhone. Not an exact science but it seems to work fairly well. When I compose the image on the ground glass and get everything in focus etc. I pick something on either end of the horizon within the framed image. once I have everything set and ready to go with film holder in place I turn Viewfinder Pro on and hold the phone against the camera back and just wait until my points of reference come into view on the screen. As the image comes into place I pull the darkslide, once it is there, remove the phone, hold your breath and pull the triger. :)
Thanks for the advice. Till I will get iPhone I will try to use my wife's old Canon G9, not used anymore but still working and it has live view. For the reference, with grid on the display, it should work.

[Uri A]

go the polarbear! respeck!

[Uri A]

Richard K: It's one of the VERY FEW advantages to being a photographer in Australia :)

[Kirk Keyes]

Christened a new to me toy last weekend. Ritter 8x10. Photo taken by my friend Jeff in Road Canyon in Utah.
regards
Erik
http://www.largeformatphotography.info/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=56869&d=1307222199


For those that haven't been here, there's a big drop-off right behind the camera position. It makes it an especially thrilling place to take photos!

[Jim Graves]

Well ... with one of my cameras, anyway ... a whole plate with a Verito in Yosemite ......... doesn't get much better than that! I'm a lucky guy! That's my dark cloth rain coat behind me ... and, of course, that's an Oakland Raiders cap.

http://home.comcast.net/~mary.j.graves/Effin-Ansel-web.jpg

[Sean Galbraith]

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2799/5780222692_24411b2919_b.jpg
@ Tempelhof Airport, Berlin. Photo by Chris Marquardt.

[mrbishi]

G'day from Perth, Western Australia :D

http://img221.imageshack.us/img221/1272/20043915850545421059510vvzi.jpg

[Mark Woods]

Geez, Mrbishi you look like the one eyed snake! Very buff, but where are you? :-)

[Scott --]

Me with the 10x12. Just shot the boy. Picture by my 8 yr old daughter.

http://i531.photobucket.com/albums/dd359/smpsweeps/IMG_1892.jpg

[Andrew ren]

Liberal Party, Sheraton Hotel, Toronto. Election day, 2011

[Emil Schildt]

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?

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

I have images of two:

1: my former girlfriend
2: My girlfriend

[Andrew Plume]

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

I have images of two:

1: my former girlfriend
2: My girlfriend


very tasteful Emil

best

andrew

[bbjorkum]

Using my Razzle 4x5 on a ... bike.

[bobwysiwyg]

Clearly you are more agile than I am. :)

[Iga]

Iggy

[Ari]

Using my Razzle 4x5 on a ... bike.

Wait a minute, you still have one free hand.
Can't you juggle knives at the same time? :)

[anglophone1]

Wait a minute, you still have one free hand.
Can't you juggle knives at the same time? :)

He's holding the piece of fishing line that keeps him upright with that hand................;)

[bbjorkum]

He's holding the piece of fishing line that keeps him upright with that hand................;)

Damn ... given away ...

[maurits]

Assignment for school (Photo Academy Amsterdam): make a film noir photo on a view camera. I am running up the stairs pretending to be a reporter armed with an old Linhof and about to surprise a suspected murderer (my classmate Duane). Alas, he is on to me...

Cheers, Maurits

Oh yeah: Toyo-Field 45AII - 90 mm f8 Caltar II - Ilford FP4+ - Pyrocat HD

.

[Louis Pacilla]

Very cool shot Maurits. Very well done.

[Diane Maher]

The problem is that he can see your camera around the corner. :eek:

[austin granger]

Self Portrait, Portland

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5107/5867974055_5c65d6627f_b.jpg

[bbjorkum]

Assignment for school (Photo Academy Amsterdam): make a film noir photo on a view camera. I am running up the stairs pretending to be a reporter armed with an old Linhof and about to surprise a suspected murderer (my classmate Duane). Alas, he is on to me...

Cheers, Maurits

Oh yeah: Toyo-Field 45AII - 90 mm f8 Caltar II - Ilford FP4+ - Pyrocat HD

.



The bellows draw is way too long for a 90mm ...

[Bryan Lemasters]

Self Portrait, Portland

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5107/5867974055_5c65d6627f_b.jpg

Very cool photo, Austin!

[anglophone1]

Very cool photo, Austin!
But what are you holding in your left hand?

[Mark Woods]

It's a light. Austin, do you take that to all of your shoots? ;-)

[austin granger]

How's that? Now you can better see my beard.

Please feel free to use this image for any prospective artwork, including album covers (see Jay Maisel thread).

[austin granger]

It's a light. Austin, do you take that to all of your shoots? ;-)

I could use a light like that. Plus, it could always double as a jousting pole should I get into any scraps. Actually, I think the pole might be holding up a security camera. Maybe I was being watched...

[Merg Ross]

Please feel free to use this image for any prospective artwork, including album covers (see Jay Maisel thread).

Thanks, Austin, I'll do just that. Look for it soon on my website, with a slight crop. Terrific image, full of nuance and intrigue!

Hope all goes well with you and the family.

Best,
Merg