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There's a learning curve to large format photography, isn't there? I'd love to see the first shot you were really happy with. I've only been doing LF photography since 2003 or 2004 so I'm a relative newbie. I'm sure there are folks here with much older pictures than mine.
This shot from 2004 was the first one that made me say "Yes! Success! This is why I'm doing this. This is why I'm lugging all this heavy, cumbersome gear up and down the mountains." I was thrilled when I got this transparency back from the lab.
This picture comes from Petroleum Lake high in the Colorado Rockies. It took me at least 30 minutes to set up this shot, I was quite new to using camera movements and I used front and rear tilt for this. EDIT: At the time, I was using a ball head with a 4x5 camera and really struggling with it.
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Tachihara 4x5, Caltar II-N 75/4.5, Velvia 50.
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This of father was too easy, I borrowed a loaded 4X5 Speed, took it to location, metered, shot it, my instructor developed it. I was in his college class 1998.
My real first LF was pinhole 4X5 selfie, same class
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...4f95e2f5_b.jpgFather 1998 by TIN CAN COLLEGE, on Flickr
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A small waterfall at the side of a trail in South Chagrin Reservation, Cleveland, Ohio
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It was the first large format photograph I ever made. It was made with a Graphic View I for a freshman university course. Luck, obviously, was on my side.
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Nice! It's better to be lucky than good!
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I think this was 1973, and yes I was trespassing.
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Is that ex Mr T home?
In the 60's it was my teenage hideout
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This is my first image (screen shot from my youtube video). I forgot my light meter and it was developed using the taco method. Here is a link to the video also.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjid...=JohnTomasella
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took this around 1988 when I bought a speedG
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I'd love to, bu whatever few from photo major in art college are long gone, and the first I made with my own camera, in '78, was a book cover with a very political theme -- the reason for purchasing the the camera and 75mm lens -- which would not be germane here.
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Nope, it's the Pullman factory that someone had recently torched. I had a lot of customer's in Lake Forest, but sadly not Mr. T