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[stawastawa]

Rich, lovely tones, details, and luminance. a very rich image, one to pause with and take in. The form also invites the imagination to probe its past.
Hendrick, that bird is a strong and sad image. the Buffed chest seems so proud and strong.
Ken, I really enjoy the detail, and the way the napkins transform into an abstract as they recede to black.

Here is a lili I received and photographed on my Birthday last month.

Birthday Lili
Tachihara 4x5, 135mm Nikon W f/5.6.
Kodak Ektachrome 4x5 6116 (expired)
developed in Rodinal 1:50 for 8min with minimal agitation
scanned and adjusted in lightroom

responses and critique always welcome

[Rich14]

Thanks, Nicholas

[Rich14]

Cup & Zebra Wood

Calumet/Cambo 4x5 View Camera
Nikkor-W 210mm, f 5.6
Arista EDU Ultra 100 @ EI 100
f 16 @ 9 sec
Bellows factor 2.8
Reciprocity correction 2.5->9 sec
RO9 1:50 8-1/2 min

I recently built some zebra wood shelves for our kitchen. My wife loves them.

[Darko Pozar]

Prada Luxuria by Darko Požar, on Flickr


Horseman 45L 4x5" with Movements.
Schneider 135 f5.6 Apo Symmar
Ilford FP4
Processed D76 1:1

[Rich14]

Freshly roasted coffee beans. I used to shoot a lot of food displays. Shooting food is great - you get to eat what you shoot!

I roast coffee in small batches - 70g at a time in a hot-air popcorn popper. I make about a pound each roasting. This is about 100g. The glass dish is about 5" across. Fresh out of roasting - smells great!

I'm trying to wrestle Arista Edu Ultra 100 (Fomapan 100) into submission. I'm not liking this film too much. Mostly soot and chalk rendition. I've been through HC110 1:64, RO9 1:50 (previous postings). The reciprocity correction needed for this film is ridiculous.

This image was processed in D23 for 11 minutes. D23 is by far the best to this point. At least I'm getting some mid-tones. And it looks sharper. I'm waiting for some Xtol to arrive.

Calumet/Cambo 4x5 monorail view camera
Nikkor-W 210mm f/5.6
10 sec at f/16
Base exposure 1 sec
Bellows factor 2.3
Reciprocity correction 2.3 -> 10 sec
"Scanned" with D800e in 4 overlapping quarters, processed in Adobe Bridge/ACR/Photoshop

Lens tilt 30 degrees. This is a lot of tilt, accomplished by both tilting the whole camera and forward tilt of the lens board. I can only get 15 degrees of tilt by the lens board alone. Film plane tilted back to vertical. I thought I had correctly calculated for the plane of the beans in the cup and the beans lying on the table in front. But I missed the front group. Both should have been in the plane of sharp focus, but it was very hard to focus on the ground glass with this much lens tilt. In any case, the beans in the cup are sharp front to back. Without the tilt only a shallow band would be sharp.

Rich

[gsinico]

SA 90mm , about a feet from the nearest part of the subject... HP5+ souped in HC B.

[Nodda Duma]

Scan of a dry plate negative. A 4"x5" glass plate was hand-coated with a homemade emulsion. Camera is a Seneca No. 2 plate camera from ~1900.

My kitchen window.

[alanbutler57]

Test shot with Green X-ray film, Microphen stock, Super D, Ektar 190 at max bellows:

[jon.oman]

Scan of a dry plate negative. A 4"x5" glass plate was hand-coated with a homemade emulsion. Camera is a Seneca No. 2 plate camera from ~1900.

My kitchen window.

Very nice image!

[Nodda Duma]

Thank you!