Really dig both of these, especially the first one, Bryan.Quote:
Originally Posted by Corran
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Really dig both of these, especially the first one, Bryan.Quote:
Originally Posted by Corran
Thanks Brandon!
edit: and 6x6TTL!
Everyone seems to like the 300mm. I am partial to the 90mm. I imagine it may depend on print size.
I love the snap in the 300mm shot, and the tones in the 90mm one.
Bryan, these are stunning! Love the waterfall and the lighthouse photos.
Pali
Possibly. There's a bit of abstraction in the 300 shot, as if the strands of water were hair. More graphic, and definitely a unique perspective, at least that's what my eye tells me...Quote:
Originally Posted by Corran
Thanks Pali!
Agree Brandon. I'll have to make some prints and see what I can get, with the focus issue I mentioned above on the 300mm shot.
I have solved most of sudden out of focus issues with a Cham by two things:Quote:
Originally Posted by Corran
* Replacing the original nuts on the rear standard with wing-nuts from Home Depot. The original nuts are weak and wear out.
* Using a short piece of aluminum carpet trim (its length slightly exceeding camera bed width) squeezed between front and rear standards when I assemble the camera to shoot with 58-150mm lenses. That is to keep the standards precisely parallel to each other. Not needed for longer lens as with these lenses the front standard can be precisely aligned against the edge of the bed.
These are good suggestions for helping alignment. I need to do some tests to see if my film plane is out of place from the GG image, rather than an alignment issue.
Bryan,
I like the images of Yellow Branch Falls. Also, it occurred to me that if the same shot were taken after the leaves had fallen the water would look like icicles.
Keith
I am in the early stage of making a set of small clamps to use on my Chamonix 45H-1 to keep the front and rear standards parallel. I find that the rear one especially can get a slight swing in it that you wouldn't notice unless you look for it. So for now, I have got in the habit of checking front and rear standards as part of my set up routine. I know your supposed to do this any ways, but since these are held by friction, it really needs to be done each time. The clamps will prevent this and will be used to zero out if swing is ever used. They will also allow shifting without any swing being introduced.
Keith, I definitely need to return in the fall/winter!
Steven, interesting that the H model is still problematic. I figured the refined design would be less prone to misalignment. I'm still slumming with the very first model (that I bought used back in like 2011).
Hi Steve,Quote:
Originally Posted by Steven Ruttenberg
Technical question - I had to wait until back at home to look at my scanning software! Scanned as linear raw 48bit RGB and converted to 16 bit grey later.
Cheers
Graham
That works great. You will get the benefit of the 48bit rgb but output to grey. I usually keep it as 48bit rgb which gives me options in photoshop for the processing. I can pass it thru Nik SilverEfxpro if wanted or use many different options for the final black and white. But your method works great as well.
Would love to see the setup once it’s done and all.Quote:
Originally Posted by Steven Ruttenberg
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Okay. Need to get a machinist to make them. Pretty simple. I have the parts, just need to have it made.
Here is a very neat comparison of same image, but one is digital IR and the other is Tmax100. Digital is 15mm lens at f/2.5, the 75mm on Tmax was at f/4.5. If you look closely you will see the film caught stuff digital did not and vice versa since I was using 720nm filter on a full spectrum sensor. Notice the IR picked up a bolt coming straight at us and thru camp where as the Tmax did not (since it wasn't sensitive to IR) This would be interesting to use IR film.
Tmax
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...147117aa_o.jpg[
Digital
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...687f9e33_o.jpg
Nice idea about the IR film. Hope you weren't standing too close to a metal tripod.Quote:
Originally Posted by Steven Ruttenberg
Chamonix 45n-2, Ektar 100, polariser and 3 stop soft GND. It was blowing a gale and I was a bit rushed for time but I think it turned out pretty well.
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...8618edda_b.jpg
Nice work
Carbon fiber tripod. I was more of a lightning rod than tripod. My cars were too.Quote:
Originally Posted by John Olsen
Linhof MT / 90mm XL
http://www.garrisaudiovisual.com/pho...eek-4152ss.jpg
Really good, Bryan!
Thanks Peter! LF user esearing and I spent the morning out at this place. Eric likes "Rocks and Roots" so I was thinking of him while I set up this quite literal rock and roots photo :).
Nice
Wow. May I ask what you used to scan this and where this was shot?Quote:
Originally Posted by AndrewBurns
Cheers! It was shot at a place called Matapouri on the north island of New Zealand, I was just up there for the weekend. 'Scanned' with my Sony A7RII and a macro lens with a light table to illuminate the negative. Two photos merged together in Lightroom and a plugin called Negative Lab Pro to invert the negative into a positive image.Quote:
Originally Posted by unityofsaints
Also here's another from the same day, FP4+ with a 6-stop ND filter this time:
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...10f93e03_b.jpg
Well done!.Quote:
Originally Posted by Corran
Thanks! This is the view, looking the opposite way more or less. Cropped to 1:2, still with my 90mm XL:
http://www.garrisaudiovisual.com/pho...eek-4151cs.jpg
Nice one!Quote:
Originally Posted by Corran
Thanks Jon. I saw this shot months ago when I just had my 35mm camera on me and so have been meaning to go back and do it properly.
One more from this waterfall...from up behind the main falls:
http://www.garrisaudiovisual.com/pho...eek-4145ss.jpg
Very nice, but I'm still wanting you to hump that 5x7 back into the country a bit--I'm thinking the arc of the fallen tree upstream would rhyme with a bit more horizontal treatment. Don't ask me where you'll put the tripod, though--that rock face to the right and hard Vibram soles might have you wishing you'd been born with a prehensile tail.:)Quote:
Originally Posted by Corran
Got the 5x7 out yesterday to test some lenses and will probably shoot more now as I have fixed it up a bit (lots of electrical tape on the bellows!). Check the soft focus landscape thread...something a bit different for me.
[QUOTE=Corran;1514971 Check the soft focus landscape thread...something a bit different for me.[/QUOTE]
That first shot on the thread is a great scene--very nice tree presiding.:) I'll have to mull over the SF approach for this AO, though--certainly the f64 approach can provide an overwhelmingly busy result, but I suspect I might prefer to see that tamed in output (e.g. a carbon print) rather with the lens. Hope you find it a profitable journey, though.:)
I am not fond of every tree image, this is interesting
The source, the damage done and quietude
Excellent
Quote:
Originally Posted by Corran
Nice Corran
Winter in the Superstitions, AZ. Acros 100, 75mm Nikkor f/4.5@f/22, Red25A, minimal agitation in Pyrocat at 1:1:175 for 1 hour at 68F. No reason for minimal agitation other than I wanted to try it. I have another version of this with mild sharpening, but uploaded it looks crispied. This doesn't have any sharpening applied at all.
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...3bca5caa_k.jpg
Thanks Randy and Steven.
Steven, I like the atmosphere there. The Superstitions are quite a mountain range. I drove around that area a few summers ago, on the Apache Trail. Absolutely no clouds that day and 110 degrees or something stupid so didn't shoot much of value. I have only visited AZ in the summer - I need to fix that.
Thank you. Yes, it has been up to 118 this summer, winter is great, fall is awesome as is spring. Getting some nice monsoon clouds this week. I think I will try to shoot them at the Superstitions. Shame though, looks like I will be transferred to Oklahoma City this year. Will still go home, but won't be as often as i would like. But at least I get to keep my job!
My parents are buried within view of the Superstitions. Above ground in an east looking outside urn box.
Steven I did like the mist or fog in your image.
Thank you. Do you have an address? I know of one cemetery there.
The Burren, County Clare, Ireland - Walker Titan XL 4x5 with 120mm Schneider lens. Fomapan 100 rated at 50 iso, semi-stand for 30 minutes in Rodinal 1+100.
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...7a88005d_h.jpgMurrooghtuohy 1 by George Sheils, on Flickr
Rio Verdi
I will never go there again
They are in the wrong place
They should be in Sandstone MN
Quote:
Originally Posted by Steven Ruttenberg
Steven, that is a very good photo. I'm a little surprised, though, by how grainy it is given large format Acros.Quote:
Originally Posted by Steven Ruttenberg
. . Friend, Oregon. .New snowfall on farm field and tracks leading to empty homestead, shed & corral.
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...4b14aa9c_k.jpg. . Friend, Oregon by Reinhold S., on Flickr. . Neg # RAnc 112. 4x5 Tachihara, 135mm, O2 filter, Kodak film, 1983
More here... https://www.flickr.com/photos/154287...57690079438365
Reinhold
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...0b4a2bef_z.jpgReprint DII Rock Bridge 3 by Nokton48, on Flickr
I am going through and printing negatives I made twenty-five years ago. I like this one.
Rock Bridge view from below
4x5 Sinar Norma, 58mm Graflex XL Grandagon lens (cable socket added) on custom made deeply recessed board. HP5 D76 Aristo RC #2 Multigrade dev
I read a review of this lens in View Camera Magazine, so I built my own. At the time there was nothing wider that covered in this FL.
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...7987c800_z.jpgCleveland Falls by Nokton48, on Flickr
I got excited when I saw the leaves swirling around in the circular pool.
Sinar Norma, 90mm F8 Sinar Super Angulon, HP5 D76 Aristo #2 RC Multigrade dev
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...c07cbff6_z.jpgCleveland Lily Pond by Nokton48, on Flickr
Sinar Norma 4x5 360 Apo Kowa HP5 D76 Arista RC #2 Multigrade