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

[scheinfluger_77]

I kinda like it. Great Heinlein reference.

And I was surprised (by my stupidity, as always) on discovering an accidental Vivian Maier moment:


The Door Into Summer by chrism229, on Flickr

[scheinfluger_77]

I dunno, this looks pretty nice. You seem to do better by accident than many do on purpose.

Story time. I took this photo on 4x5 out of pure frustration. The composition was absolute garbage so I cropped it heavily, to about 50x100 millimeters. I was very mad at myself because I had just broken my camera.

Our last day of vacation, we woke up at 4:30am to get out to the beach for sunrise. We had some unfortunate traffic on the one-lane road for some reason and the horizon was lighting up with all kinds of gorgeous colors. I was really excited, but I had planned to take my 12x20 out on the beach...it was too late for that, at least for sunrise. So I quickly grabbed my Intrepid 4x5, which is the newest black version with 3D-printed parts...

I slapped it on the tripod, using the Arca-style clamp I have been using. About 3/4 of the way to the beach (we had to walk in because the park is technically closed, but you can pay and walk in from the gate), the camera inexplicably just fell off the tripod. I have no idea if my rushing somehow knocked it off or I just haphazardly didn't tighten things down like I normally do, but it crashed into the sandy path. No big deal, I've done worse I thought...but nope, it hit right on the front standard and ripped out the bushing for attaching it to the focus track. Great!

So I went down to the beach and we saw a spectacular sunrise. I grabbed my Instax camera and snapped a few square images (which were gorgeous) but then I looked at my 4x5. What a mess. Now I have to see if I can get spare parts. Really mad, I just aimed the camera in the general direction of the sun because it was honestly astoundingly nice and this is what I got.



Afterwards we went back to the car, I grabbed the 12x20 and made 2 more images. Really, the right way to do this is to get to the beach about an hour and a half before sunrise (5am), at least if I want to not be rushed, but this was our 7th day on the road so we were tired. Well so it goes.

[Corran]

Thanks Philip and Steve.

I think the credit goes to nature and a quick Rule of Thirds default composition approach!

As an aside, I was able to fix that camera. I removed some of the splintered 3D-printed material and got the front standard to sit flush on that attachment point. Ended up not being all that bad damage-wise, other than cosmetic.

[austin granger]

Along Highway 82, Eastern Oregon by Austin Granger, on Flickr

[Alan Klein]

Well done Steve on both.

[Iga]

Finished product. This one will be printed.
Rolleiflex SL66 Planar 80mm @ ƒ2,8
Fomapan 400 HC110

[Deyoung]

Somewhere in Northern Indiana.
Hasselblad 500c w/80mm Planar. TMAX 100 in XTOL at 1:1

[Michael Graves]

Last weekend we were driving around the vicinity of Taney County down near the Missouri-Asrkansas border, where "Winter's Bone" was filmed. Came across this.

[Skiper75]

Hassel with 40mm on Tmax 100

[Corran]

Needed to finish a roll of Delta 100 that I shot last weekend. Another architectural image:



And, a fun shot of my car since the sun was out, finally. I recently passed 25,000 miles on this car. By my calculations, I've saved over 300 gallons of gas with the hybrid compared to my old Camry.



Both still with the 80, but w/ a yellow filter on the car, and dev'd in Pyrocat. I also wanted to see how bad the flare would be.