Can I see your favorite LF images...

Carterofmars said:
I'm afraid that if I really get pulled into LF like I think I could, I'll feel all other formats are inferior.
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Sort of!

Try lugging a Crown Graphic around for a few hours, botching the occasional exposure by forgetting to remove the dark slide. You'll start to remember that weeny little 35mm camera quite fondly! :D
 
You can see some of my LF work here and here. The New Mexico work is done with a Crown Graphic, quite stripped down to the basics. The Vermont work is with a Wisner 810. I'm shooting with a Canham now as my hands can't handle the round lock knobs of the Wisner.
 
HEHEHE. Yeah, she had just taken a sip of wine. I was asking her to hold still while I got everything ready so I got the sheepish look after her drink.


Carterofmars said:
enochRoot- The woman's portrait is very comical. Did she sip someones drink? Is she getting ready to? Very mischievous look.

keytar- Good image there. Camera and film?

Shac & Maddoc- Beautiful work.

Rob- Nice relaxed portrait. Love hammocks! Wish I had one at the office.
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Here is my very first Large Format image. *Joy*

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I will join in the "new to LF" gang. I bought franks old Linhof kardan but before I could even see it I took a weekend workshop with Michael A Smith and Paula Chamlee I drank the 810 kool aid. I have really not messed with much of anything else in the past 8 weeks :)

Following are all deardorff 810:


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I used an Arca Swiss Discovery for four years. I loved it with a 150mm apo sironar n lens. I had to buy an expensive Arca Swiss folding rail, but it was a wonderful, synergistic combination. I miss it like my first love. I hurt my back, not photo or love related,and sold the system on Ebay. Black and white can be special with 4x5. An ordinary image as a 4x5 contact print may reveal many shades of grey and the creaminess can be special. Velvia 50 can be very special as well with landscapes. Detail in the shadows , enlargement size and that 3D look with Velvia 50 can be very special with LF.

One of the most useful accessories to have, if you're setting up the camera on a tripod, is a black viewing frame. You make these yourself. I used one side of a black vinyl 3 ring binder which costs about two dollars. Some people just use a piece of black cardboard. You trace a 4x5 negative, cut out the hole in the center, put black tape so you don't see white cardboard, then cut a piece of string to match the focal length of the lens, a 150mm lens equals 150mm long string or a 6 inch string. Attach the string to the board, hold the board 6 inches from your eye and you will see the equivalent of the image your camera would record. If you like it you set up the camera if not you move on. I am sorry but I have not mastered scanning images for the internet. Luong's LF site is great.
 
This is something like my eighth or ninth sheet of 4x5 and while my technical skills still lots to be desired, I really got lucky with the light and fog on this image (actually, I jumped in the car and drove eight miles when I saw the fog in hopes that there would more of at this spot and to my delight there was!). Funny too, because the day before I attended a performance art piece that involved a fog-making machine and then the next day I had all this real fog just where I wanted it. Anyway, I hate photoshop so you'll all have to suffer through my dust and other gunk for now until I get up the energy to do some spotting.

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robklurfield said:
This is something like my eighth or ninth sheet of 4x5 and while my technical skills still lots to be desired, I really got lucky with the light and fog on this image (actually, I jumped in the car and drove eight miles when I saw the fog in hopes that there would more of at this spot and to my delight there was!). Funny too, because the day before I attended a performance art piece that involved a fog-making machine and then the next day I had all this real fog just where I wanted it. Anyway, I hate photoshop so you'll all have to suffer through my dust and other gunk for now until I get up the energy to do some spotting.

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Nice one...I too hate photoshop!
 
David, thanks.

Time Freeze: Julia Margaret Cameron redux indeed. Very lovely shot as everyone remarked in the gallery this week. Just perfect.
 
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