4×5
Day 12
So today was one last day of the pears, now we can eat.
I really shouldn’t be winging this so much, and maybe look at a colour wheel before playing with the filters would help.
I tried a yellow filter, maybe a blue would have been better? I wanted the right (brown) pear darker, and a red patch on the left (green) pear darker yet. To my eyes when looking through the filters the yellow seemed to do a good job, but alas in today’s photo most of the differences are there due to dodging and burning.
One note on the efke PL100 film I was using, I found when loading the holders that every sheet of film was interleaved with a thin sheet of paper. I tried my best to remove each sheet of paper while loading the holders, but I found today after developing the two sheets, that one of them still had a sheet of paper stuck to it. I’ll have to be more cautious in future while loading efke into the holders.
Day 8
By the time I got out to take this picture the snow had not been falling for some time, and the wind had cleared the upper branches of their load. But in the morning I had a great time tobogganing with the kids, and saw what this photo could have looked like.
This is shot on some Efke PL100, developed in HC-110 for 6 minutes. I’ve read that some people shoot this film at half the rated speed, but it worked fine for me metered at iso 100. This is the first sheet of Efke I have ever shot. I have a box of 50 in my fridge that I’ll have to work through before I decide whether I like it or not, so far I certainly don’t dislike it.
Day 7
So today I practised with hot lights. A complex composition would have taken forever with flash, as well I wanted a very small aperture for maximum depth of field. I ended up shooting two sheets, one at f22 and this one at f45. I forgot bellows extension again, but did remember reciprocity, which lengthened 2 seconds to 5.
On Flickr
This photo hosted on Flickr is gathering some attention. ?It is a variation on the photo from my last blog post. ?I shot this one on large format (4″x5″ polaroid Type 51 negative film) and spent a lot of time on the composition and droplet quality.
Water Droplets: Cube, Pyramid, Tetrahedron 02 by Greg Roberts
Macro Test Image
I shot a test image using my Bender 4×5 racked out all the way with my 150mm lens mounted.? The image is a shutter from a Agfa Isolette that is currently partially disassembled.? The exposure ended up being 72 seconds at f32 on a Polaroid Type 51 negative.
The shutter is floating on the end of a Manfrotto Flex Arm.? It is stuck there with some silly putty.? The background is about a foot back and is simply some black fleece from a fabric store draped over the back of a chair.? Lighting is from two continuous 46 watt (150 watt equivalent) daylight balanced fluorescent lights in reflectors.? One to the left of the camera, and one directly above the shutter.
The setup shot is on flickr:?
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