Post Yer Still Lifes take 2

[Marko]

I'd just like to say I'm really really appreciating and enjoying the work between Christopher and Jim; I'm learning a lot. My $0.02; for some reason, I find the book really incongruous.

And Miguel and Alex and... I agree, this is one of the best and most productive threads I've followed in quite a while and all without even mentioning gear except for the optimal focal length. It makes me want to start doing still lifes myself. I might soon, when the weather gets hot again...

A big thank you to all who contributed, most of all to Christopher for great instructions.

[mandoman7]

Here's some garlic. FP4 in D76, 4x5 w/Goerz 6".

[Jim Galli]

White (evident !) bottle
Mentor 10x14
4x5 neg
scan neg

Numerator, Machinery Series, BGA ambrotype 8x10"

Striking Clock, Machinery Series, BGA ambrotype 8x10"

Miguel and Alex, both of these posts are just beautiful! Miguel, the light on that bottle is sublime.

[Incoherent Fool]

Toyo 45AX w/ 150 Nikkor, T-Max 100, f/5.6, 1/60

It was dead, so it counts! This shot was handheld because I forgot my tripod plate. Doh!

[Maretzo]

Dry rose on rotten wood.
Another dead animal..
Delta 100 in Rodinal. Chamonix 45 and Rod. 120

[Miguel Coquis]

To start the week
Getting Very Near Sound
Xenon 125 mm f:2
speed graphic
scan neg

[Ted Stoddard]

Toyo 45AX w/ 150 Nikkor, T-Max 100, f/5.6, 1/60

It was dead, so it counts! This shot was handheld because I forgot my tripod plate. Doh!

I have one similar to this done in color with seaweed that was taken back in the early 1990's on the Santa Cruz Beach & Boardwalk....

It looks like the the seaweed are entrails coming out of the seals stomach area... I know sick but I love this image...

[mandoman7]

I knew a young photographer who had took a road flattened cat and stood it up and took a shot with the road in the background. It was kind of sick but it worked, strangely enough.

JY

[Jim Cole]

OK, so here we go again. I wanted to be able to get closer with the 12" RR lens and since my RW45 only has a bit over 12" extension, I had to get an Ebony extension lens board which I fortunately found on the LF Buy/Sell forum. Once I got that I had to figure out how to mount the brass lens on the extension board. Turns out I needed a #3 Copal cap for the Ebony board which gave me about 1mm of leeway for the screw holes. It was a close fit, but it works like a champ and I have an additional 35-70mm of extension.

So after reviewing what I had learned from Christopher on my last few shots, I gave it another try. This is very hard! I can certainly recognize a great composition when I see one in nature, but creating one from scratch with a bunch of related items is really, really difficult.

As usual, all comments are welcome. I have very thick skin and I DO want to see if I can eventually do still lifes. So please, let me know if anything here did or didn't work. It just may be the subject material which is a hard start.

[Andrew O'Neill]

I knew a young photographer who had took a road flattened cat and stood it up and took a shot with the road in the background. It was kind of sick but it worked, strangely enough.

Laughed my arse off! Would love to see the photo!