Quarantine Pictures Any Format

[Ken Lee]

New England Town Hall

[tonyowen]

We'll go no more a sailing - boarded up and locked slipway access
Taken from my property

regards
Tony

[Peter Lewin]

There is a short story attached to this, and probably a universal truth about photography. I posted a similar image in this thread, #112. In that image, taken handheld with my Rollei 6006, I was concentrating on showing the relationship between the flowering trees of springtime and the flag at half-mast due to Covid-19, and didn't even see the car which drove by just as I clicked the shutter. I saw the car when I developed the film, and it bothered me, just as it bothered Philip who offered a valued critique. So I returned on the next fairly sunny day (we are getting a lot of grey days here in NJ) determined to redo the image. This time I brought my 4x5, so I could set up on the tripod and watch for cars, people, etc. (plus I simply enjoy using the 4x5 more). I think the redo was successful, but revisits are never quite the same, both because the field-of-view of 80mm on 120, and 80mm on 4x5 are a bit different (the fact that my wide-angle LF is an 80mm is coincidence), but more importantly weather and lighting are never really the same. Also, while both are HP5+ developed Pyrocat, the tonalities are different, accentuated because this is a scan of the negative (haven't had time to print yet), while image #112 was a scan of an RC work print.

VirusFlagMadisonLFWideCrop by Peter Lewin, on Flickr

C&C always invited.

[Iga]

Well done Peter !
Personally, I would crop this one to square format.

Best wishes,
Igor.

[Peter Lewin]

Thanks, Igor. Will consider crops before making a final print. This image is already cropped a bit on the left from the full 4x5 negative, the bag bellows I need for displacements with my 80mm intruded un-noticed.

[Iga]

Dead Rose
13x18 Fomapan 200 Rodinal 1+50
Heliar 30cm @ f11

Best,
Igor.

[Iga]

Window View
Rolleiflex SL66 Sonnar 250mm
Fomapan 400ASA HC110

Best,
Igor.

[Two23]

Don't have any official quarantine in my state but I have taken the month off from work. I've been driving out in the countryside and looking for things to photo. This was taken with my Chamonix 4x5 and a 135mm Rodenstock. Redfield, South Dakota. taken on a very gray and cold April day.


Kent in SD

[tonyowen]

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An rehashed image of one shown earlier, a different mood' and tighter crop
regards
Tony

[Iga]

Virus !

Rolleiflex SL66 120mm
Fomapan 400ASA
LR tweaked.

Best,
Igor.