Your favourite photo(s) you took with a TLR

I shot this photo with my Yashica MAT 124G using expired Verichrome Pan 120 film.

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Kodak Duaflex III

Kodak Duaflex III

Kodak Duaflex III, pulled from my static collection, cleaned up, minor refurb and put back into active duty. Rerolled Plus-X 120 onto 620 spindles, film developed in Adonal (Rodinal). Love to hear what you think.

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Well done for what I recall as a difficult place to photograph. (I was there eight years ago.) I found it difficult to get the colored windows and any interior features well exposed at the same time under available light. And the place is too large to fill-flash with any equipment you could be carrying. (I think I might recall flash was banned anyway.) Plus it's hard to compose as the space is maddeningly tall but narrow. I wished I had the CV 12 mm lens or similar.
--Dave

TheFlyingCamera said:
Rolleiflex 2.8E, Planar, Kodak Portra 800, handheld.

Stained glass windows and altar of Sainte Chapelle, Paris.
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One of the real challenges at Ste. Chapelle is the crowds in the room - it is hard to compose a shot that doesn't have converging verticals because of the ravening horde of tourists. Some of the good exposure I can attribute to the near-miracle qualities of Kodak Portra 800 - it has impressive latitude and flexibility - and would you have ever guessed from looking at the grain that it was an 800 speed film? I took a guess at how to expose it - I figured the windows would average out to a little above middle gray and so I took a spot-meter reading with my Sekonic 408 (which has a 5-degree spot meter) off a stained-glass segment and used that. I might have also done an incident reading near the altar to confirm my numbers, but I forget.
 
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