Well seen Chris. Was the Dallmeyer intended to be a soft focus lens?
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Well seen Chris. Was the Dallmeyer intended to be a soft focus lens?
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Like the big picture a lot!
the detail crops perhaps
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Originally Posted by olegkasko
Thank you! I think it was made as an all around lens. It’s when you remove the middle lens element it gets very soft around the edges while remaining sharp in center. I have yet to use it unmodified but I think it would be fairly sharp overall .Quote:
Originally Posted by Ironage
https://scatteredlightblog.files.wor.../sheet0126.jpg
Chamonix 45H-1, Fujinon T 400/8
Great shot!Quote:
Originally Posted by lassethomas
Beautiful!Quote:
Originally Posted by gmed
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...a5a17a15_z.jpgDawes Oriental Garden by Nokton48, on Flickr
4x5 Sinar Norma 90mm F8 Sinar Norma Super Angulon EFKE PL100 PMK+ Aristo 8x10 #2 RC Multigrade dev
Down in the woods again. Depth of field is the big problem; here I tried to use front swing and tilt to make the focal plane follow the trail. TriX film, 150 mm lens, scan from FB print.
[IMG]https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...18073d17_k.jpgNeg18AHokey VI comp by John Olsen, on Flickr[/IMG]
Haven't posted in a while, here are three shots from the same trip to a local beach (which is exceptionally hard to get to).
This one is velvia 50, dynamic range was a bit too much for slide film to handle.
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...02de5d77_b.jpg
This one was ektachrome 100 but shot at EV 80 which I feel works a lot better than 100. Just after the sun had gone down so it was a ~15 second exposure.
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...1fb00bd9_b.jpg
This one was Portra 400, was hard to get a composition that included the big rock as everything else around the scene was very busy but I think the rock pools reflecting the sky helped a lot.
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...e9cfdfaa_b.jpg
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...d1d78fe1_c.jpgimg725 by Chris, on Flickr
Sherborn, Massachusetts
Chamonix 045n-2
CM Fujinon W 125mm f5.6
Delta 100
I just started with a 4x5 and am learning tilts. I find that in shots like this it doesn;t work because the tree extends through the whole vertical leaving the tops of the trees out of focus. I have to try just working with smaller apertures and leave tilts alone for these type shots.Quote:
Originally Posted by John Olsen
Another option is to tilt halfway and use apertures to finish the job.Quote:
Originally Posted by Alan Klein
That compromise is pretty much included in the shot above, but perhaps could have been done more skillfully. Actually, in the same location work the previous week I used TMZ 35 mm and got much nicer results. I'm loaded now to return to a nearby spot that has less tree presence in the near field. That should help.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gary Beasley
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Though I am looking forward to moving to 8x10, I have to say I do enjoy my 4x5. Guess it will have to do until I can find the right 8x10.
Managed to find some time to get to the beach and capture this image. I’m relatively new to large format but really enjoying the process and images.
Cheers
Matt
4x5
180mm Fujinon
Ilford delta 100. DDx 1+9 40 minutes
https://laurentbaig.files.wordpress....5333c5582.jpeg
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This goes back a long time, I was 13. The photograph was made in 1954 on a trip with Brett Weston and my dad. We were passing through Bridgeport, California, late afternoon on our way home to the Bay Area. I was using a 4x5 Brand 17 camera and 250mm Zeiss Tessar lens. The three of us set-up here that afternoon. In case it looks familiar, Brett's photograph was published soon after in the US Camera Annual.
Scan from contact print.
Nicely done in what looks to have been pretty tough conditions!:) If you're not a traditionalist when it comes to 1:1.25, you might think about a 3:5 aspect ratio across the bottom of the frame--"pruning" the top of the tree might help unify the two major components of the image.Quote:
Originally Posted by ljb0904
Thanks! And i do like the crop suggestion.Quote:
Originally Posted by CreationBear
Hi MattQuote:
Originally Posted by Swami
Yes, I really like this + that you didn't go down the oft chosen 'f64 route', so something a little different.............
Details of the location would be good
regards
Andrew
Top of Cedar Grove Trail, 150 mm lens, TriX with yellow filter, scanned from Ilford FB print.
[IMG]https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...be91ae1b_b.jpgNeg8Bb flkr by John Olsen, on Flickr[/IMG]
I like the framing -- the first thing I thought of was a movie studio portrait of John Wayne in some western shoot-em-up.Quote:
Originally Posted by ljb0904
And at the bottom of Cedar Hollow Trail: 150mm lens, yellow filter, overcast skies, scanned from FB print.
[IMG]https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...cd299c3e_b.jpgNeg20Ac flkr by John Olsen, on Flickr[/IMG]
NiceQuote:
Originally Posted by mijosc
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Sunset by the Bay, San Francisco, CA 1994
FP4+, Metol/Acetone, Print scan
First Ive heard of acetone in a developer, did autocorrect strike again or is that really a thing?Quote:
Originally Posted by Merg Ross
No. Water/Acetone/Sodium Sulphite/Metol. The acetone combines with the sodium sulphite to form sodium hydroxide, which acts as the accelerator. Simple, clean, and proven to produce beautiful negatives!Quote:
Originally Posted by Gary Beasley
Ordinary sodium carbonate would seem to be an easier accelerant to fine-tune that sodium hydroxide, which is used in crystal form for very high contrast A&B lith developers, no acetone involved. But there's no arguing with Merg's results, which as usual are a delight to see.
Merg
Thanks for going back into your archives with the last few days posts. As Drew just said they are a delight to see.
That is quite interesting. Is the formula posted anywhere we can see it?Quote:
Originally Posted by Merg Ross
This may work.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gary Beasley
https://www.photrio.com/forum/thread...2#post-1578910
Scroll down to pages #32 & #35.
There is an interesting history here. The original Metol/Acetone formula that many use as g. Paul Bishop's formula, was refined in collaboration with my father. Paul was a very fine portrait photographer working out of Berkeley. The initial experiments were for 120 film. Another person involved in the development was John Below, also of Berkeley, who was a professional chemist. John made Amidol for Brett Weston on a barter basis. He ultimately had an excellent collection of Brett's prints! John devised the Phenidone print formula that I presently use and was a good friend for many years.
Thank you, Alan and Drew.Quote:
Originally Posted by Alan Curtis
I should add, years of experimentation went into the final formulation of the referenced g. Paul Bishop developer. A talented group was involved, using the known chemical options. It was concluded, with the introduction of acetone, the developer had unique qualities. I was involved in some of those experiments, once developing a 120 roll that resulted without a trace of an image! But, they finally got it right.
Love this one, Daniel! Near, far, texture, overall composition--well done!Quote:
Originally Posted by Daniel Unkefer
Thanks Michael! Your comments are much appreciated :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Michael Roberts
https://scatteredlightblog.files.wor.../sheet0156.jpg
Åkerholm in southern Sweden
Chamonix 45H-1, Super Angulon 75/5.6, Fomapan 400 9x12
Trevose Head Lighthouse, Cornwall UK.
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...7e661093_b.jpg
Schneider 58mm XL
Ilford HP5+
Developed in XTOL
Trevose Head Lighthouse
Quote:
Originally Posted by MattKHardy
Lovely image!
MattKHardy, I really like the luminous qualities of that image...Bravo!
It all you are looking at are online images - it is easy to miss reality from the real thing.Quote:
Originally Posted by kev curry
7x17 negative scan (and digital processing) of St Botolph's Church over the River Alde at Iken, Woodbridge, UK. Negative shot and developed 10 years ago and stored under the bed until recent scanning and processing. Just un-mothballing "The Beast" and trying to get back into the swing of ULF! Wish me luck.
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Many thanks! Normally the sea needs a polarizer to remove the shine but this time it was used to darken the sky behind the lighthouse.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dugan
Luck!
Quote:
Originally Posted by keeds
The photo is really very beautiful
https://realcanadian.win/
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...59be4471_o.jpg2014-10-27 Житом обл 001 web by Yuriy Sanin, on Flickr
Ukraine. Linhof III, Symmar 135/5.6, Shanghai GP3 100
keeds,
vert nice work. Happy to hear that you're getting back into the game.
Bamboo Forest
East Palisades Trail, part of the Chattahoochee River NRA near Atlanta, GA
Mercury 4x5, Schneider 47mm XL, T-Max, Pyrocat
http://www.esearing.com/Bryan/AV/pho...boo-5506ss.jpg
This is a great composition. Congratulations.Quote:
Originally Posted by orgraph
Bravo !Quote:
Originally Posted by Corran
Thank you Ken.
Very nice--if you're pushing a pack through bottomland in this humidity, you've earned a PhD in moisture management at the very least.:)Quote:
Originally Posted by Corran
:)
It's been a little while (pandemic) and I was really feeling the heat/humidity out there! But we got to the trailhead at 7am and was out around 12, which helps.