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Cuppola and water wheel, Echo Lake Park, Mountainside, NJ.
Canham DLC, Bogen (Congo) 180/6.3 lens, HP5+, Pyrocat, negative scan.
Short story behind this image. I'm trying to find the absolute minimum equipment package that will let me use my 4x5, as opposed to my usual Photobackpacker pack with 4 lenses, 6 film holders in a PB case, two meters, filters, Gitzo tripod, etc. I narrowed it down to my Canham, 2 holders in a plastic baggie, the Congo lens which is the most compact of my 6 lenses, a Sekonic L-308B incident meter (smaller than my favored Pentax Digital spot), a black T-shirt, and FLM Traveller tripod all of which fit into an unpadded messenger bag. I realized there was a park near my dentist's office, so I could combine an appointment with a "proof of concept." I discovered the stripped down kit was workable, with two inconveniences: the 180 is a bit longer than my most used 150mm lens, and I missed my little set of repair tools when I found out that a bellows hold-down on the Canham had loosened, and the light leaks cost me two negatives (so I needed one hand to hold the bellows securely to the front standard before pulling the slide).
https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1962/...abffd621_c.jpgecholakepark-1 by Peter Lewin, on Flickr
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That's almost a universal image, that could have just as easily been taken within minutes from my house on the other side of the pond.
It does still have quite a color cast to it, but that is easy enough to take out.
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I love this! Have a grouse in flight arcing over the corn and you have a Van Gough!
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Bravo !
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Matt, this is fantastic!
Lucky you to "catch" it.. I saw a few similar scenes two days ago, but every time it was blown away (literally) before I set up my camera... :(
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Half Dome
Taken in ~1989 on TMAX 100. Cambo 4x5. Negative needed some work as I didn't have a split neutral density filter in those days.
https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1974/...83fa193d_z.jpg
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Very nice image!
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From one of my favorite places in Washington State, taken in 1971 on a 10-day backpack trip with my new Sinar Norma. 8x10 print on Galerie. Info on negative is unavailable, since I wasn't into note-taking in those days; but from memory it was 4x5 Tri-X developed in D-76 (1+1), tray shuffling. I used a polarizer to remove a bit of surface reflection from the tarn to show the rocks underneath better which also darkened the sky a tad.
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Ah, the legs we had back then!
Wonderful image -- have not been there...but a couple trips just to the north in the Glacier Peak Wilderness.
