It's mental how beautiful this is.Originally Posted by axs810
It's mental how beautiful this is.
Haha thank you logan.egbert
A photo I recently did of a model I was using for a cover shoot. Since there is no pc cable to sync lights to my old Graflex i set the ss to 1/2 second and fired the flashes manually. Ilford RC Pearl Paper, f4.5 on a 152mm lens.
I frequently drag my Graflex Speed Graphic camera with when I have paid work to do. Which means that I first take the images I was sent out to do with ye old digital camera and then i take out graflex. It is amazing how people's attitude changes when you take out the old camera. Most laymen thinks that these days anyone can be a photographer with digital photography being so "easy and all". You bring out the large format, or even the medium format camera then they suddenly take you seriously. You become a photographer with a capital P. Suddenly they take you seriously. It is a bit funny and very silly but it gets me more jobs. Of course I do tend to find that, especially in portraiture, the client prefers the large format photo in 90% of the cases. Luckily I always have the digital files to help me if something goes wrong. This picture is of world renowned landscape artist Strijdom van der Merwe who won the Jackson Pollack grant a few years ago. I shot this one morning in his overgrown garden. I have the digital files of course but once again the client, and the artist, preferred the old school paper negative version.
f4.5 at 1/5 second with a 152mm Kodak Ektar lens.
Beautiful shot. When I started in photography I didn't have a flash sync on my camera, so I used a short bulb exposure while firing the flash bulb. If I had to shoot hand-held, I had a buddy manipulate the flash. I used the guide numbers, of course, to set the aperture. For pan film I used Ansco Supreme. For ortho, Ansco Super Plenachrome. When I went to work for a newspaper, part time while still in school, I had graduated to a pre- anniversary Speed Graphic with a Heiland Synchronizer. I really like the syncronizer, as it let's you fire the shutter electrically.
A photo I recently did of a model I was using for a cover shoot. Since there is no pc cable to sync lights to my old Graflex i set the ss to 1/2 second and fired the flashes manually. Ilford RC Pearl Paper, f4.5 on a 152mm lens.
Hadn't been productive in a long time but thankfully last weekend proved to be fruitful.
Ilford 8x10 (iso6)
Used both the turner reich Anastigmat and the brass Wollensak portrait
Kodak 2D
R09
David
t0aster,
What's the story? It looks like you've gotten into an interesting project.
I'm still not quite sure, John. I had been in a major slump for a long time and the arrival of my friend coincided with some really good news at work. After some wine and a David Lynch movie we were both in the mood to be creative. I had the gas mask and the baton from a previous project that had not seen fruition and I figured it was good a time as any to use them; he volunteered to put the mask on and things evolved from there. Looking back at the work I've done in large format I can see a few pieces of work starting to coalesce into something that might prove really interesting and fun so I'm going to run with it for a while. I'll continue to post as new work comes.
David
Nice model!)
8x10 Ilford MGIV RC Paper Negative
21" Turner Reich Anastigmat @ f/16
Compard R09
David
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