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I'm completely with you on that paulr. A shadow box is clean and modern and the white border is a photographic convention that it's nice to show anyway. It displays the actual material a photograph...

Hi Andreas - Its in Woolich South East London, a rather down at heel, insalubrious area where strangely enough a terrorist attack happened today. You might see it on the news.

An old fave of mine too Andreas, I was going to post it myself. As an aside I live in London and last year went and sought out the uncanny park where the crucial scenes were shot.It's still there,...

I don't know if you've ever noticed Al but people have the annoying habit of spitting as they talk, particularly at something like a private view where everyones had a few drinks and are all gassing...

'Everyone knows the usefulness of the useful. But not everyone knows the usefulness of the useless.' — Chuang-Tzu

Nice pictures Austin, I see you get on with that square format very well.

I want to make B&W contact duplicate negatives to use with an alternative process ( I want to keep master copies of the originals and use the duplicates). Does anyone know if this still exists? Kodak...

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If we're talking LF and colour Richard Mosse is worth looking at.

http://www.richardmosse.com

I'm not sure if watching films counts here -maybe it's too closely related -but I would say the films of Antonioni are masterclasses in composition. 'La Notte' and it's perfectly balanced, black and...

Modern wooden cameras are, I presume, all lacquered with some kind of cellulose lacquer, older outfits must be french polished (shellac based lacquer). Either way waxing is a good idea, these are...

Candida Hofer, Simone Nieweg and Hans Christian-Schink are who first come to mind - sorry for so many Germans so here's a Brit:

http://www.davidspero.co.uk

Clever and understated, I...

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Thanks Bracan, my favourite so far. Theatrical, sinister, amusing and definitely quite odd, a memorable image.

Camera Lucida by Roland Barthes hasn't been mentioned.

Dear Noah, would you mind recommending the company you buy your insurance from? (Is that allowed?) It sounds exactly what I need.

Andrew

I spent ten years trying to make digital work for me, buying better and more expensive cameras, sitting in front of screens with the best technicians endlessly manipulating photographs that to me...

Absolutely... what Roland Barthes would call the 'this has been' -ness of photography.

Photoshopped to death? (excuse the pun).

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Rodney+Graham+upside+down+photographs+of+trees&hl=en&client=safari&rls=en&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=v7Q_UbnNAaPw0gX164CQDw&ved=0CEcQsAQ&biw=1424&bih=764

I always take two Ortlieb drybags with me, one of which gets laid on out on the ground and used in the same way as your tarp.

I'm not sure how we see it in real life is relevant in this instance. Eliminating (or at least reducing) converging lines is part of the process of composing a final,two-dimensional picture. This has...

I've just arrived back from my trip to South America via The West Indies. I can categorically say that at all the borders I crossed (including my own in the UK) you don't have a snowflakes chance in...

Are you sure? I only ask because on my 210 the image is fine when focussed on a far object which must mean it's down to the extension of the bellows.

Thanks C.D. and thanks Bob, I only really noticed because my other lenses are centred.

Thanks very much C.D. Sorry to be a dullard - second witness mark?

How amazing! Thanks very much for that insight Vaughn. I wish I had time to experiment - I'm off on a big trip tomorrow and slightly nervous about trying it out. Does one have to be careful damaging...

Thanks Vaughn, could you elaborate on your thoughts about pulling the front of the bellows forward.

Andrew

Hi there, I am attempting to use my new 5x7 adaptor back on my Wista VX. I'm trying to make portraits with a 210 Sinaron S which supposedly has a very adequate image circle of 310mm. With all my...

Hi there, I'm very new to LF and am just about to set off for the first time with my Wista VX on a serious and remote trip. My problem is I have at the last minute received a 180 Nikkor W 5.6 and...

I like to print all my ( mostly colour) photographs optically and have a great relationship with an old fashioned lab here in London. However I have recently been wondering whether I shouldn't scan...

My Wista VX with it's 5x7 adaptor back which I'm trying out for the first time today.

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Brilliant, really enjoyed reading that. I would second (at least trying) to avoid cliches as being the most important 'ethical' code for any photographer, student or otherwise.

Thank you very much Kirk for bringing up one of my favourite bugbears. I've always thought the ideal viewing distance idea to be a defensive attempt to rationalise shortcomings.
I walk back and...

Dan-
Thanks for those ideas, I don't think the diplomatic pouch is a possibility; British embassies abroad are well known to be thoroughly unhelpful to their citizens ( love the idea of 'carnet...

The question of carrying sheet film through airports is particularly vexing me also at the moment. In a couple of months I am flying to South America to continue on a project that I have been working...

I was quite mildly making the point r.e. that if you do mail or fedex your film it just ends up in the hold of an aircraft and that surely means it is subjected to the very same xrays as all the...

Many many discussions I know,but always with a general consensus that taking it through hand luggage is way preferable to putting it through checked.

Surely Fed ex is subject to the same level of x rays as checked luggage?

Wow- I've taken photographs in some pretty risky places, but next time I'm in the States its the LF photographers I'll be wary of!

I have been enjoying Hans-Christian Schink recently, I think his 1h Project ( though black and white) is particularly both conceptually and physically beautiful
http://www.hc-schink.de/index_e.html...