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Full of intrigue, looks like a gold toned print.

Beautiful, love the dark road in contrast, is it IR?

I expect it's quite something in the silver, 8 x 20, that's some commitment!

I got "The head is fuzzy unsharp but, say, the collar of the shirt is fuzzy sharp(ish) - slight focus error"

But I wouldn't shoot f5.6 on my 4x5 and expect much to be in focus! My tripod setup was...

I have calipers with a depth gauge, don't know why I didn't think of trying that, thanks

Yes, not relevant for most LF work, I don't think anyone shoots 8x10 handheld! My tripod could be sturdier though, going to steady everything and try again - just wondered if there are any tips from...

I had considered this but the thought was too distressing, I quickly moved on :). I'm using a aluminium and carbon Gibellini (one of the older models) with a Chamonix or Fidelity film holder - so the...

Looking for some portrait advice. I'm a landscape shooter, but recently have been taking some family portraits on 8x10 with a Fujinon 250mm/6.7 mostly at f8 or 11 on Fomapan 200 for around 3-10s....

I didn't, but did a quick search for these and am intrigued. Very expensive new, at least at B&H, but yes, in a way something that is light, portable and provides an easier more practical solution...

flying over to Oregon might blow the budget on this one

Yes exactly

Has anyone made a focusing hood with a internal mirror and lens for a 4x5? a project I am thinking about, but don't know enough about optics to know how to set it up right. The attachment would be...

Sort of LF related, an LED light source for a Devere 504, a programmable timer, and a powerblock with relays to power it along with the safe lights, a paper flasher and light box.

The LED light...

thank you

thank you, I admit I placed the leaf there! it's from a neighbouring oak, I saw a perfect oak leaf there the last time I shot this scene on MF and came back for it with the 4x5 placing the leaf to...

After a few cold days as the lake's ice was breaking...

Ebony 45su with Fujinon CM W 125mm / 5.6 on TMax 400 in Xtol....to be printed in the darkroom, will clean that finger print off the top...

A few sweet old chestnuts in my local woods.

Ebony 45su with Fujinon CM W 125mm/f5.6, Tri-X 320 developed in Xtol

These are negative scans, I'll be printing in the darkroom them later, though...

I've printed on Art 300 a lot. I've concluded that it works best on images with plenty of highlight and midtone, and less well on shadow biased images. With heavy black prints shadow detail is lost...

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In my local woods after some felling was done to the pines one foggy morning when the light was just the way I like it.

Taken...

books are excluded from any such treaties in my house

Intriguing, I've recently been reading the Hidden Life of Trees, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28256439-the-hidden-life-of-trees

How rude, I forgot the details:

Ebony 45SU with Fuji CM-W 125mm/5.6
on Kodak Tmax100, developed in Adox Adonal
Scanned for now, print pending a lens board for my Devere 504 being shipped from...

4x5 of some felling in my local woods
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50698526297_a3aa943189_h.jpgSawn by Faraz Ravi, on Flickr

I bought my Ebony off a guy who had it in a box since the 90s, it's mint and was unused until recently! So too scared to mark with pencil!

I like the idea Gary, residue-free stick-on to preserve that lovely wood finish

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50583102036_76ac52ff42_b.jpgA Wheatfield, some clouds and a moon by Faraz Ravi, on Flickr

Not entirely happy with this one, the composition is what I wanted,...

Thanks, that's great to know. I guess I'll have to make a few changes to the timer since mine switches between the power and the enlarger/transformer, but straight forward enough.

Thank you - I found a cord at RH Designs, expensive but should work. Failing that also found the pin diagram and could fabricate something, though I'd rather not. My home made timer should be fine,...

I'm thinking to pick up a Devere 504 Mark 4 with Dichromat head + transtab. These aren't cheap (anymore :( ) and so I'm try to do my homework on this.

Does anyone know if I can use a standard...

I'm shooting 5x8 on an 8x10 by masking the back standard behind the film holder. It gets me 2 shots per sheet, but more importantly its the size I want to contact print. Bit tricky to track which...

I'm actually masking to expose 2 x 5x8" on a single 8x10" sheet. Just developed my first sheet and I double exposed (more mental focus needed when shooting!), the second sheet was ok, 2 exposures...

I've been wanting to return and take this 5x8" (masked 8x10) to achieve a comp similar to your 1:2 suggestion. But it's been just too hot to even think about it. Faffing around with the 8x10 in that...

Uprooted tree, taken on my Ebony 45su with Fuji CM-W 125mm/f5.6 at f45 on Tmax 100

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50187483818_53d2e7b4ba_o.jpgUprooted by pixelscape, on Flickr

My first attempt at using xray film, just a quick test. It's on Carestream MXG, shot 8x10 (cropped here) at ISO 100, developed in PQ Universal by inspection. This is a scan with some tonal...

I've just sold the last copies of my small run of books featuring around 50 sepia and selenium toned prints. Printing to satisfaction was a challenge.

The trouble with Blurb and any digital...

Spoke to soon, little poking around and check what I've got and a Ultimaxx backpack for a Phantom Pro 4 drone works really well. Lens is in a wrap in the main compartment which is not ideal, but got...

I get my 4x5 into a LowePro ProTactic 450 II easily but just tried the Gibellini 8x10 and there's no chance of it even almost fitting! Also have a monster Nikon 360mm f6.5 to compound matters. I just...

Little tree in a wheat field. Always thought to photograph it passing it by on my bike, finally did it with the 4x5 on Fomapan 100, f45 around 30s without the orange filter I was trying to find.
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Hiking on the west coast of Scotland many years ago much to my bewilderment I spotted some of those palm trees on a beach. Come to think of it, it may have been on the Isle of Harris

Bizarrely there are actually 2 sequoias close to where I live. I assume an enthusiastic Victorian planted them. They haven't reached the height of their US cousins but still nice to have little...