Search:

Thanks, though I think I'd prefer more detailed critique of my photography than of my English usage.

Another one from me, from back in August. One of my faves of the year, thematizing 'stillness'. A large print of this is in the offing.
...

Very nice. In my experience these wide Nikkors cope very well without centre-filters (even with slide film so long as you are not going wild with movements).
In any case, and for B&W especially,...

Thanks. Specific subject is West Kennet Long Barrow, with Silbury Hill (largest prehistoric manmade earthwork in Europe) in distance.

Cannot recall whether I've posted this before or not: sorry! Nevertheless, I've reprocessed it today anyway. 👍

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50191933641_c1a25ea66e_h.jpg

Avebury,...

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50319674597_8c9aeb4eac_h.jpg

Landscape Window

Isle of Bute, Scotland
13th August 2020, 8:15am

Chamonix 810V, Nikkor-M 450mm f/9
Fujichrome Velvia 50...

That's very kind!

A new one from me, one of my faves on 10x8. Added to new 'favourite trees' page on website. May well try an alt-pro contact-print of this shortly too.
...

Thanks for the comments guys: yes sometimes 10x8s come out rather differently than you might expect for the typical imagery of the location! I would probably have used a grad instead of a red filter...

Another Argyrotype from me

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50345888208_f4f1173d7e_h.jpg


Isle of Bute, Scotland

Exposure
14th August 2020, 7:23pm
Chamonix 810V, Nikkor-M 450mm f/9

Many thanks for this. Here's a a repost (I made the mistake of inverting the neg without turning colour management off in the scanner - hence the wild colours). Bit frustrating: had to rescan and...

Some new 10x8 colour work from me. This one on colour neg.

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50185642233_df503d467e_h.jpg
West Kennet Long Barrow and Silbury Hill
Avebury, Wiltshire
31st...

Another update from me after having completed my first batch of E6 with the Stearman SP810, using the Bellini E6 6-bath Kit and their instructions.

My first stage was to process a roll of 120 in...

Another still life argyrotype from me, this one using a double exposure technique for extra contextual oddity.

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50125609388_e5474b1a9c_h.jpg

Exposures and...

A quick update to say that I've successfully processed my first two sheets of 10x8 Kodak Portra 160 using the Stearman SP810 trays, and Bellini 1-litre C4 kit (which should last for a while, properly...

Thanks! Seems like aeons ago now!

:cool:

Many thanks both: it's a super cool process when it works!!
I'm now actually in the middle of an FP4+ film test specifically for argyrotype, to fine-tune my film developing time (or times) for this...

Clematis Argyrotype from Sunday (original exposure made back in April).

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50062787877_428c3e007a_h.jpg

28/6/20 / 24ºC / 48% RH
10x8 contact print from FP4+...

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50016094107_338f3f9bf0_h.jpg

Latest from me: as before, 5k on Flickr!

New River Ray
Otmoor, Oxfordshire
14th June 2020, 1:20pm

Chamonix 810V, Nikkor-W...

I agree that these trays are very cool. So much easier for 8x10 than the BTZS tubes if you don't have a darkroom (i.e. you don't keep having to go back into a tent to swap caps). I've used these...

Thanks again.

I do think it's worth saying that I am increasingly striving to use 10x8 to think - to make photographs not straightforwardly "of" objects in the landscape at all - so to this extent...

Frankly no. For B&W I don't really bother with filters except when I need a polariser or have a sky to contend with, where I might well use a yellow/orange or light red and/or a grad. For the...

Thanks lol. I cropped out about half an inch from the top because of an encroaching vignette: if I'd had more time I would have thought to use some rear tilt as well. But actually the focus is...

Latest closeup image from me, exposed and developed yesterday.

Church Door Detail

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49991479351_ff826db358_h.jpg

Broughton Castle, Oxfordshire
9th June...

Latest from me, made on Sunday afternoon and developed last night.

With the Rushes

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49990958458_73f1b704ef_h.jpg

Otmoor RSPB, Oxfordshire, England
...

I can strongly recommend the Magnum course. It's about approach and mentality, with some really good thoughts on generating and maintaining a project, narrative sequencing and pacing, and what goes...

Agreed. What is also obvious here is that way that large format can carve portraits out of space, like nothing else (I imagine a top-end Leica with really exotic optics might also do the trick, but...

Many thanks. Definitely one to put in a frame!

I was going to do some more today, but it's raining; shouldn't have said anything about the weather! I have a UV lamp for indoors but the...

Many thanks. I don't recall the details, but the premixed sensitizer has a good shelf life. Certainly better iirc than 2-part old cyanotype (the only other alt process I've yet tried).

Thanks!
Apologies: Nikon D800E and 85PC-E tilt-shift, tripod. 2-frame stitch. Print just lying on large photobook on floor (dried flat quickly in this warm weather we're having).
For printing,...

Clematis Argyrotype

Always a delight when these turn out.

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49964326652_868689f9d6_k.jpg

Original exposure details:
25th April 2020 3:15pm
Chamonix 810V...

Thanks! Bigger more immersive 5k version now over on Flickr ��

A fresh edit of a single sheet of 8x10 from last year. Chamonix, NikkorW300, 450 bellows, FP4+, high-key exposure.

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49955507552_abe45ec351_k.jpg

In my experience the FD times that people state are entirely dependent on personal practice, esp. in the nature of when you set the timer in relation to when you pour the chemistry in and out. It's...

Many thanks for this. I'm always surprised when I find that I shot this as a vertical at all, actually. I do sometimes feel I do need more on the right too.

Some very cool images posted on the last few pages here.

Here is a re-edit of an image of mine from last year, for these rather bleak lockdown times - one from my still-progressing - if paused -...

Thanks:
Yes, I mixed the colour dev wrongly I think and came up with a slide that had a massive cyan cast - bit like an inverted sheet of colour neg. A few layers in post processing sorted it out -...

Blue Streak

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49851863146_c065f1b0e3_b.jpg

Now (after a re-edit...) one of my favourite film photos I've ever taken.

This was one of my sheets of Velvia...

Very kind!