Thanks! I'm thankfully standing under a bridge just out of shot, but yes, muddy, but just out of the rain; this is a farm track, so lots of other stuff as well as mud...
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Thanks! I'm thankfully standing under a bridge just out of shot, but yes, muddy, but just out of the rain; this is a farm track, so lots of other stuff as well as mud...
My old stamping grounds, Dave - nice dry stone walls!
Neil
Not the right lens for the job, but I'm still satisfied with the imperfect results:
The Schneider Xenotar 135mm f/3.5 technically covers 5x7, but you can see where in the corners the image circle degrades dramatically. What I need is a wide lens that's actually designed for the format...budget problems.
f/22 & 20 seconds
https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1470/...0c899a68_b.jpg
Whatcom Falls by Mike Aubrey, on Flickr
Nice picture anyway. As a wide angle for the format i can recommend a Fujinon 105mm f8, which aren't too expensive and have loads of coverage.
Great composition!
- McCoy
Something about this image brings up a lot of memories. So many times when I was a kid my cleaning obsessed mother would send me and my sister out with my dad while he would hang around with old farts on cold, wet, muddy farm tracks and fields, while she spent the hours hovering.Quote:
Originally Posted by DaveF
Those days were never highlights of my childhood. :)
If I'm right in thinking this was taken on a cold, wet, miserable day, then fair play to you for getting yourself out there. Those are the kind of days I could never make a picture. And yet those are probably some of the days that make the best pictures.
Nice work!
Beautiful image , reminds me of the burnt snow gums in the Victorian high plains.Quote:
Originally Posted by Maris Rusis
https://drscdn.500px.org/photo/10652...90a6e16ed56b79
Spring is in the air so thought i'd share this spring time photo i took last year. If i recall correctly it was taken on Ilford Delta 100 4x5 using my 210mm lens. Not sure if i used a yellow or light red filter. Definitely used a grad of some description. It was early evening and the fields were just glowing.
Nice one Vallantho!
You're very kind indeed, very thoughtful.Quote:
Originally Posted by Vallantho
This is a location which I've been familiar with for many years, but the composition only jumped out at me over Easter. This is the mid-point of a walk I used to do while at school in the area some decades ago; it's also the start of a walk I did with my wife the day after our wedding - needless to say it was throwing it down with rain then also.
My wife and I did a quick walk around the village on the Easter weekend, when I just had my iphone with me. I found the scene, and composed a shot with Artist's Viewfinder, determining that 150mm on 5x4 would do the trick. I was then keen to revisit to get the 'proper' shot. It was raining and drizzling throughout when I returned the following day, but the bonus here is that I have positioned the camera just under a railway bridge out of shot. This isn't to say that I or the gear didn't get wet while setting up, because they did, but the shooting experience and process wasn't hampered by the conditions; perhaps most importantly there wasn't very much wind that I remember. I just took the gear out of the bag when I got home and let it dry out for a while.
As regards setting up the shot, as a newcomer to large format having only bought my Technikardan second hand a month or so ago, I can, oddly, say that I find the process less fussy than with digital, within the shooting parameters that the format allows. Shooting with my Nikon on these circumstances (which I actually can't do since I don't have a tilt-shift normal lens), I would have been hassled with using a rain sleeve, and worried about changing lenses etc. With a lump of metal, leather, and a ground glass (plus the excellent paramo waterproof dark cloth), I feel far less stressed and am happy to swap out lenses, knowing that the film is safe in the bag until the moment it is needed.
I'm still struggling with choice of exposure occasionally, but I'm loving the whole experience. Wish the kit didn't weight *quite* so much, but, with two exceptions, I haven't yet had to walk too far from the car!