Large Format Landscapes

[AnteroP]

This is engaging. Well done. Is it New England?

Thanks! Vääksynjoki river in Southern Finland.

[AnteroP]

Old (retired) Powerplant.
Expired Kodak Portra 160 NC 4x5. Super Angulon 75mm f8 @f22
Selfdevelopment.

[Jim Jones]

Good subject and great choice of time-of-day. Is it stitched from two shots?

[Ulophot]

Well seen.

[AnteroP]

Good subject and great choice of time-of-day. Is it stitched from two shots?

One shot, 75mm wide angle lens.

[Corran]

Ward Creek Trail

Wehman UL 8x10 w/ Chamonix 4x10 holder, Schneider 90mm XL, Ilford FP4+, tray developed in Pyrocat 1:1:100:



So I just bought this film holder from a fellow LF photographer. It is shaped like an 8x10 holder but has a 4x10 film area instead. Works perfectly and makes it possible to use my 90mm XL on this panoramic format! I have read the 72mm XL also covers 4x10 barely so I will have to try that. For this kind of shot it works great, since it's impossible to use a half-darkslide solution due to the extreme bellows compression (unless wanting to force a 2-inch rise or fall, which may be interesting for architecture, but also has problems with 8x10 coverage). Anyway, I took this photo with my Widelux and knew it would be good to shoot with LF so shot it again today to test out the holder. Wish I could shoot it with 8x20 but I don't have a wide enough lens for this composition.

[pepeguitarra]

Just walking around the neighborhood, here is one of my first shots with the Chamonix 45F2:


Trabuco Creek Between Storms by Palenquero Photography, on Flickr

[Steven Ruttenberg]

Ward Creek Trail

Wehman UL 8x10 w/ Chamonix 4x10 holder, Schneider 90mm XL, Ilford FP4+, tray developed in Pyrocat 1:1:100:



So I just bought this film holder from a fellow LF photographer. It is shaped like an 8x10 holder but has a 4x10 film area instead. Works perfectly and makes it possible to use my 90mm XL on this panoramic format! I have read the 72mm XL also covers 4x10 barely so I will have to try that. For this kind of shot it works great, since it's impossible to use a half-darkslide solution due to the extreme bellows compression (unless wanting to force a 2-inch rise or fall, which may be interesting for architecture, but also has problems with 8x10 coverage). Anyway, I took this photo with my Widelux and knew it would be good to shoot with LF so shot it again today to test out the holder. Wish I could shoot it with 8x20 but I don't have a wide enough lens for this composition.

Nice, looking into getting into 4x10. Do you cut your film to size or buy it that way?

[Corran]

Steven, I literally just got this holder and this is the first shot I took. Included with the back was a mostly-full box of FP4+ 4x10 film. From what I can see, the 4x10 FP4+ is about 10% more expensive than buying 8x10 and cutting it, so IMO not worth it. Of course if you want to shoot color film...well I guess you better learn to cut down film.

[CreationBear]

Wehman UL 8x10 w/ Chamonix 4x10 holder.

Definitely something about 1:2.5 that's like Wallace Stevens' proverbial "jar in Tennessee." FWIW, that Wehman/Chamonix holder combo strikes me as about perfect if you're making contact prints in this part of the world.