MF (6x4.5,6x6,6x7,6x9,6x12) B&W film images sharing

[tuco]

Tuco,
In our Northwest cloudy winter deep-gloom. I have had some success by taking an incident-light meter reading, opening up 3 stops, and developing my normal time. it works by increasing contrast--which is absent on our darkest cloudy days, I haven't tried this in snow when the clouds are thick.
Keith

Okay, thanks for the tip.

[jp]

I have different approaches to working in the snow and exposure doesn't have much to do with it.

In sun, you can have three dimension changed into two by a photo. Things like light and shadows provide evidence of perspective and depth. You can have texture if you want, modeling on trees and surfaces. In overcast, tones and shapes must be provided by the objects in the photo, not the type/distribution of light. Perspective translates directly from a one-eyeball-look-at-the-scene to film. No modeling of shapes or surfaces. Texture is provided by tones of objects in the scene rather than shapes lit strangely by light. In either case, snow can provide modeling, background separation, etc..


Gray day example of above explanation.


img584 by Jason Philbrook, on Flickr

LF example of perspective derived from light as in above explanation.


img479 by Jason Philbrook, on Flickr

[tuco]

Workflow update on an older image

500C/M, CF 80mm, NDX8 + Orange, Acros


Walk By by tuco, on Flickr

[Eric Woodbury]

Tuco, I love the time dimension of your image. Sweet.



Mamiya 7 w/ rarely used 150mm and FP4

[tuco]

Tuco, I love the time dimension of your image. Sweet.
Mamiya 7 w/ rarely used 150mm and FP4

Thank you. I tried it again when I got my Mamiya 7II. It was fun to see what you get.
I had the 150mm for my M7II too. I'm hard pressed to recall ever using it as well. It looks like it did your trees just fine.

[Corran]

Good images jp. You get a lot more practice than some of us .

[Ulophot]

Eric, very well seen and printed.

[Peter De Smidt]

Great use of motion blur, Tuco. I've tried this a bit myself, and getting the right amount of blur is tricky!

[tuco]

Great use of motion blur, Tuco. I've tried this a bit myself, and getting the right amount of blur is tricky!

Thanks.

Yeah it can be too slow or too fast when you only have 1-stop shutter speeds options on your camera. I wish medium format cameras were made with half-stop shutter speeds. I'd be using them a lot. Also focal length and distance to subject are other variables I found out too.

When I went back with my M7II and tried it with a 65mm (didn't have a normal lens) using the same shutter speed, there wasn't enough blur. That was because I setup at about the same comfortable distance away from the personal space of the person in the chair and with the wider FOV it made relative walking speed slower.

[6x6TLL]

Rolleiflex System 6000
Rolleiflex (and others) Hy6

1/3 increment aperture and shutter speed clicks on all cameras and lenses.

Pretty much any focal length you can imagine, as well as tilt/shift, zoom, and macro lenses by both Schneider and Zeiss.

I have a 6008i2 with a range of lenses between 40mm and 300mm.

https://rolleiflex.us/

https://luminous-landscape.com/sinar-hy6/

Thanks.
I wish medium format cameras were made with half-stop shutter speeds. I'd be using them a lot. Also focal length and distance to subject are other variables I found out too.