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Here are some examples from my own work of what I mean. Most of the final images, I’ve posted on one thread or another, so sorry for the repeats. The pairing with the setup is what I want to demonstrate.
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Cameron Cornell
Washington State
www.analogportraiture.com
www.instagram.com/papacornell
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Obviously, this isn’t limited to portraiture. That just happens to be what I shoot.
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Cameron, wonderful work. Thanks for posting, hope to see more of your work and others.
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No one else seems interested in sharing snapshots of their setups!
That’s OK. I’m going to keep it up for a little while and see if it will catch on. I really would prefer to see your setups and shots here rather than mine.
Here’s a setup from May 22 in my garage. We have dinner once a month with two other families in the neighborhood and it was our turn to host. I try to shoot the six kids in our three families each month when we do this. I pay the kids a $2 bill each to pause their playing and sit for a portrait. What follows the setup are two of the three portraits that I printed last Sunday out of eight sheets of film that I shot. These were taken with the 10” Vitax on the 8x10 Kodak Master View. I stopped down to f16 to get a deep depth of field since the kids move around so much, and then I pushed the TMAX to 800.
By the way, the nutcracker was there to help me get focused before inviting the kids out!
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No need to respond to my work. Show me yours!
Cameron Cornell
Washington State
www.analogportraiture.com
www.instagram.com/papacornell
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Zion Canyon, April 2018, 5x7 platinum/palladium print
Digital image by my sister -- my set-ups are not usually photographed...not as useful as for studio work.
Ilford FP4+, f8 at 1/4 second, no filter recorded, but judging by the exposure I probably used a red filter on the 210mm/6.3 lens. Shadows read at 10, the clouds at 16 (Pentax Digital Spot). Exposed at 11, plus 3 stops for the filter. My notes are incomplete for this set-up because after I exposed two sheets of film, I let a dozen or more people look through at the GG underneath the darkcloth and got distracted.
Film developed in Ilford PQ Universal Developer 1:9 (paper strength). The print is a 2:1 mix of palladium to platinum with no contrast agent, coated on COT320. Developed in warm (100F) potassium oxalate.
Edited to add: I was hiking with the camera on the tripod (5x7 Eastman View No.2 on a Gitzo Reporter) in my Zion National Park volunteer uniform. The wood and brass attracted a lot attention, it is a beautiful camera...almost steampunk with the brass gearing and knobs. Quite a few times I had lines of people, all different languages, ages, waiting for their first look at the GG of a view camera...a couple hundred or so over the month I was there.
With the camera on the tripod and the film holders and meter are in a shoulder bag, the camera can be set up quickly and if needed, nothing but tripod touches the ground. In wet areas or chance of branches poking the bellows, a waterproof stuff sack goes over the camera.
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That’s what I’m talking about! Beautiful work, Vaughn.
I believe that a collection of these could be really instructive to others. To that end, any technical details about the execution of the shot and/or the print would be welcome, too.
Cameron