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Made in Dec., after watching this lighting repeated many afternoons.
4x5, 210mm, HP5

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Very fine, Andrew.

One more question for you PETE experts, since I haven't tried it. Two L would be a good size for my selenium toner and would allow visual inspection for precipitates (I know about filtering it). Any...

Adam, more questions than I can answer, but here's a start.

The TMax films are so named because of the T-grain emulsion, for tabular grain, which Kodak invented and later brought out in the 1980s...

You have portrayed place, time, and atmosphere very well indeed!

Thanks, Jason. I did shoot a couple of the sky and did defocus the white targets. I subsequently developed sheets from the same series in my Jobo rotary tank, and although there was some extra...

Gee, Garrett, I wasn't on the forum in the golden years, but for me it is without reserve the best one going for my photographic concerns. Yes, there are very familiar names, and yes, like most...

Thanks, esearing. I keep Photoflo out of the tank, putting washed negs in a tray of it instead. My normal development is 9 minutes. I may try your long presoak; I have used a 1-minute one, which...

Wow, Kevin, that's excellent. Managing the tonalities of scenes like this is tricky business.

diversey, it's a bit reminiscent of some August Sanders portraits. Well seen.

Welcome, Phaedros! That's quite a résumé already! Let me know if you ever decide to put your hand to making an inexpensive and simple LED light source. There is a fair amount of discussion about that...

Slow sideways rocking is reminiscent of sheet-film-in-hangers agitation, which I know about from reading but never had occasion to try. Perhaps I'll try it, but I suspect it may significantly change...

Thanks, Alan.
HP5+, no pre-soak.
If I understand your agitation, it is explicitly recommended against by Tim at Stearman, so, no, I haven't tried it.

The following post is embarrassing to me, but I’ll survive, especially if a solution if found.

With a little vacation time recently, I finally got around to testing specifically for even agitation...

G was what Kodak called a lustre surface, a bit shinier and more prominently textured than the E surface, as I recall.

Shown in an LF-heretical, or, perhaps, LF-ecumenical pose, Feb. 2020. Made for ad for a local presentation on B&W film photography that Covid prevented. Mamiya 645, HP5.

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Great info above, agreed. Leaving the technical knowledge to the experts -- and this is by no means to ignore their valuable advice -- there are simple things one can do as well, which I do because...

Film (re-)gains another enthusiast. Let's hear it!

lessethomas, a striking image of both time and place.

With a little vacation time, I finally got around to making a handy reference chart to keep next to the enlarger, helping determine how exposure time needs to change going from one contrast filter to...

Bernice, a number of them have; if not for subject matter per se, then for showing the possibilities and potenetial power of the medium. Adams and Eugene Smith for sure.

Well done, Alan.

I also used to take an annual SP, on my birthday. I have used 35, 645, and 4x5. The former have self timers; for the 4x5 I use an inexpensive pneumatic release like this one
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Welcome! Great to find more folks getting interested in LF. I, for one, will much happier to follow you here than on twitter, especially since I have no twitter account!

1953 -- Wow! Maturation date only one longer than I have been alive -- and I'm already 39!

Perhaps. I certainly agree with you regarding the ubiquity of the wide-angle close-up, which, as I recall, came in big-time in the late '60s with the psychedelics. Computer lens design andother tech...

Addendum: Just a note. I have never fully grasped the science, but there appears to be some evidence that the effects of perspective from closer distances are somewhat less pronounced in a print from...

My approach to 4x5 portraiture has become primarily location lighting, supplemented artificially only if necessary. I shoot HP5 at 400 or 200, depending on the development needs. My primary lens is...

Daniel, I like the window in the rocks, with your careful timing and placement of the clouds. Would love to see a final print.

Since I shed my studio 4x5 and tripod for a more portable outfit three years ago in order to concentrate on natural light, on-location portraiture, it's a Tachihara 4x5 with a Manfrotto 3221. Though...

Hi, Campy. Great start for a first time! If I may offer, the potential vagaries of scans, etc. notwithstanding, you seem to have done fine with the textures. The challenge of the image is the...

A striking image, Ken, with your beautiful tonal sensibility.

A very lyrical composition with beautiful tonality, Gabe.

h2oman, this wide view has wonderful counterpoints -- the dramatic clouds and the foreground brush; the house and the plateau at right, whose curve mirrors the stand of trees; the play of light. an...

lassethomas, an intriguing image.

David, well seen. Nice idea.

I'm in Loudoun Cty, VA. Looking forward to looking back on the pandemic and getting out with other photographers occasionally.

At the risk of redundancy, I'll sing my note about portraiture, as an illustration of principle.

Others have noted that the final result, or look, you desire to achieve, is determining. Not every...

Great job with the tonalities.

Bryan, I find the second one exceptionally good.