Great! The balance of light-dark across a panoramic is always a challenge to work with. The triangle of sky in the upper left is handled very well. I enjoy the way the skyline echoes the right...
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Great! The balance of light-dark across a panoramic is always a challenge to work with. The triangle of sky in the upper left is handled very well. I enjoy the way the skyline echoes the right...
I have been doing this with a light-weight 4x5 rail camera in the field since the early 80s (but less as I moved up in format). Changing the orientation on my camera was not easy -- removing screws...
Which is exactly the OP's intention...to have people write of their long list of needs, factors and more, when it comes to a 5x7 that fits them and their needs. It should be taken for granted that...
The Merced River is right behind me, so I posted this in another thread already on water-side images.
I had been thinking of this sort of image for awhile. I have had several earlier attempts,...
An assistant holding a large golf umbrella upwind from the camera.
...or one does strange and bizarre things like being an artist-in-residence in a National Park and have a kick with the line of people high along a trail, waiting for their turn to look through one's...
No. Just don't hit anyone with one and don't be obnoxious where one sets it up.
Good point, Michael. Once one gains experience and bends the bellows a few times into a knot, learns what the camera movements can do, and that sort of thing, that experience and knowledge allows...
Starts May 21st.
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Hoods can come in handy on bright foggy days -- lots of stray light coming in from all angles. It can be more of a problem than with a sunny day when one is usually more aware of possible light...
I did like that tree!
No. The preference is for light-weight field folders with as much flexibility as most rail cameras. So as a tool it can be used for all kinds of photography that can use such a tool.
Perhaps the...
I had an Indian copy (exact) of a Deardorff Special. Bought new with a 4x5 back, I found a Deardorff 5x7 back that fit perfectly. It had front swing. It was a sweet 5x7 set-up until it got ripped...
It might help, but you still might have trouble with that lower right area circled -- swing will make that area worse...you need to go to f45 or f64. The diagram above shows what happened. You just...
My appreciation for Yosemite began long before I started to take photographs...one of my earliest memories was getting lost in the campgrounds on our way back from seeing the Firefall off of Glacier...
The quest was for people's opinions of what they likes in their (or imagined) 5x7 field cameras. Monorails are rarely considered 'field' cameras, but of course many of us have used them outdoors. I...
No -- I am not always in the woods! I do have a 4x5 that is either one or the other -- but because it is difficult to change (undoing screws and stuff that can get lost in the field), it is easier...
Lens can stay on the camera, quick set-up, the way they mount to the tripod lends itself to be carried over the shoulder (folders do not, as they are a square perpendicular to the orientation of the...
Can't find what I want -- almost, though.
Non-folding, bellows draw of ~300mm, back tilt, full front movements, horizontal and vertical capabilities. Except for the front movements, my present...
Try to find a copy of The Ansel Adams Guide to Yosemite. It comes complete with sample images to take and maps for locating his tripod holes. The AA Gallery is now open, so you can probably buy a...
Alan....You have near/far (fence and base of barn) right next to each other. They cannot exist on the same focus plane using just tilt.
Many Pool Canyon, Zion National Park
Taken in April 2018
8x10 Kodak Copy Film
Expired 11/1989, with a healthy amount of base fog.
carbon print
It is all so objective. I have been using 12x16 for 5x7s and 4x10s. It is so handy to keep the number of different frame sizes down. But I matted three 5x7s in 11x14 frames for this last show and...
The latana image is interesting, but I would have approached it without as much tilt and allowed the background to go a little softer to match the degree of softness behind the fence (with tilting...
That is what has kept me from desiring one!
Generally about a half inch more weight on the bottom...sometimes a little more with vertical images. Aim for about 3" to 4" of mat border. Still working on mat sizes for 11x14s -- 12x22 for the...
Very good, Steven!
Oh...just a local show in a cooperative gallery I belong to here in Humboldt County. My sister was in town and snapped the photo on Friday morning and the show came down the next day after I got my...
Yes...both make great use of the light -- love the sense of the undulations of the foreground they create in the first image...and the more graphic shadows of the second.
Hanging out with a few new platinum prints at the gallery a couple days ago...
Top images are from 5.5x14 negs, the waterfall is a cropped 8x10,
Except if one is carrying the camera on the tripod in hand, with a shoulder bag for the meter and holders. A couple pounds of camera weight become important...speaking from much experience. Although...
Alan, stop listening to things people say. Especially things like:
It is all on the GG. Upside down is good! It helps to remind us we are making images with light, not things.
I work along the same lines, so I am biased in that direction. I think about it as image management on the GG, with depth of field being just one of the factors I am working with. In my mind's eye I...
I agree, I just do not think swings and tilts are "special techniques". Point and shoot LF cameras are the 'special' ones.:cool:
And in learning -- it is always good to take things too far. Twist...
And brakes on a car are specialized tools for specialized situations...such as stopping. I use them when I need them. And certainly do not use them when I do not need them. I am glad we teach...
I use every movement the camera can make for every image I make -- it just happens I use many of the movements zeroed out a lot.
And the darkened corners work very well with the image...adds to it rather than being neutral or distracting.
Welcome to LF!
I have found moving the back standard, focusing on the nearest and then farthest parts of the scene I want to be in sharp focus, and moving the standard halfway between to be very handy when the...
A 210 f6.3 Computar Symmetrigon if you happen across one would be an excellent lens -- they were sold with a metal lens shade, nice if it still has it.
PS -- this is not a plasmat, nor a process...