Show us yer film shots then!

A couple from one of our local parks, both on FP4+ taken with an Intrepid Mk4 and a Schneider Symmar-S 210mm at EI200 and developed in Stearman Press Ultra for Large Format.

First - the Christmas Tree (of course!)



20201205-Leaves_Proj52_Intrepid_210_Fp4_SPULF (3 of 3) by Alex Morrison, on Flickr

And then some of the last autumnal leaves left - I'm enjoying close up work with my LF more and more (and even remembered the bellows factor this time!) This is about as close as I can get with the 210 on the Intrepid (max bellows of 320mm). I can see something with an extensible bellows in my future at some point (@stevelmx5 - can one be had for the Carbon Adventurer..?)



20201205-Leaves_Proj52_Intrepid_210_Fp4_SPULF (1 of 3) by Alex Morrison, on Flickr
 
Shugpug said:
A couple from one of our local parks, both on FP4+ taken with an Intrepid Mk4 and a Schneider Symmar-S 210mm at EI200 and developed in Stearman Press Ultra for Large Format.

First - the Christmas Tree (of course!)



20201205-Leaves_Proj52_Intrepid_210_Fp4_SPULF (3 of 3) by Alex Morrison, on Flickr

And then some of the last autumnal leaves left - I'm enjoying close up work with my LF more and more (and even remembered the bellows factor this time!) This is about as close as I can get with the 210 on the Intrepid (max bellows of 320mm). I can see something with an extensible bellows in my future at some point (@stevelmx5 - can one be had for the Carbon Adventurer..?)



20201205-Leaves_Proj52_Intrepid_210_Fp4_SPULF (1 of 3) by Alex Morrison, on Flickr
Click to expand...

Wow you have huge snowflakes out there! Lol

Have you considered a shorter length lens for close work.
Many 90mm lenses will focus down to within a few inches of the subject.
Bear in mind that 1:1 reproduction requires bellows draw to be twice that of focal length so for a 90mm lens you’ll only need 180mm bellows to get that 1:1 ;)
 
Asha said:
Have you considered a shorter length lens for close work.
Click to expand...

I use my 90 for "studio" close ups, but couldn't quite get close enough for the leaf close ups outside [emoji20]

And yes - they're not cold, but satisfyingly huge!!

Being fair - we had a frost that morning, which lasted at least 5 minutes after sunrise... This is my third year in Vegas now, and in my time here we've had the hottest summer, coldest winter, longest dry spell (240 days), and wettest winter.

Good job global warming is a myth [emoji15]
 
Shugpug said:
A couple from one of our local parks, both on FP4+ taken with an Intrepid Mk4 and a Schneider Symmar-S 210mm at EI200 and developed in Stearman Press Ultra for Large Format.

First - the Christmas Tree (of course!)


20201205-Leaves_Proj52_Intrepid_210_Fp4_SPULF (3 of 3) by Alex Morrison, on Flickr

And then some of the last autumnal leaves left - I'm enjoying close up work with my LF more and more (and even remembered the bellows factor this time!) This is about as close as I can get with the 210 on the Intrepid (max bellows of 320mm). I can see something with an extensible bellows in my future at some point (@stevelmx5 - can one be had for the Carbon Adventurer..?)



20201205-Leaves_Proj52_Intrepid_210_Fp4_SPULF (1 of 3) by Alex Morrison, on Flickr
Click to expand...

Hi Alex. I haven't launched it yet, but I have designed a 100mm extension bed for the Carbon Adventurer (for use with the 5x7 accessory kit) which, along with the standard bellows, allows for 380mm of maximum flange depth.
 
stevelmx5 said:
Hi Alex. I haven't launched it yet, but I have designed a 100mm extension bed for the Carbon Adventurer (for use with the 5x7 accessory kit) which, along with the standard bellows, allows for 380mm of maximum flange depth.
Click to expand...
Sounds like next Christmas is sorted [emoji846] Thanks Steve!
 
Tier 4 in Brentwood , Grotty Light , lots of Great Unwashed Public Breathing COVID fumes so 'Indoors Photography' session !
I used my 2002 Hasselblad 501CM + Extension Ring + 80mm f2.8 CFE Planar T* loaded with 05/1998 dated Fuji Reala rated 50 ASA anmd a Bowens Monolite 200E. I gave half stop more exposure to allow for the extension and processed myself in C41, Scanner CANON 9000F Mk II + Vuescan Pro + FastStone Image Viewer.
Reala 02 by Peter Elgar, on Flickr
Reala 03 by Peter Elgar, on Flickr
Reala 05 by Peter Elgar, on Flickr
I have a few more on next upload
 
The small hamlet of West Handley have decorated their phonebox and streetlamp for Christmas as usual. Santa seems to be re-purposed for various tasks as required, having had the face of Theresa May in protest of Brexit on one occasion, and as an anti-fracking protestor on another.

I need to get more practice with the GW690s rangefinder, at close distances at least, as I've back focussed on Santa slightly in the second image. So far I'm finding the rangefinder to be a little more difficult to use in comparison with the patches on other cameras.


Christmastime by fishyfish_arcade, on Flickr


West Handley Santa by fishyfish_arcade, on Flickr
 
Last edited:
Aberavon Beach, Christmas Eve

GW690
HP5@400 Hc110 (dil b)

50755410426_4c623aa767_h.jpg
 
FishyFish said:
The small hamlet of West Handley have decorated their phonebox and streetlamp for Christmas as usual.
Click to expand...

Having seen a few of your images of this if memory serves, I think this would make a fine project.
 
First shot from the Horizon 202 panoramic camera I received yesterday:


High Level Bridge and Swing Bridge by Kevin Allan, on Flickr

Had a few teething problems:
The strap connector on the case snapped before I left home
Part of the film advance level fell off ( I still have it and should be able to glue it back on)
After the first shot, nothing would work.

My first instinct was to send the camera back (to Russia) but when I got home I thought that perhaps the film was jammed in the notoriously difficult film path. So I loaded another roll of film and shot it in the garden and that went fine.
 
Thmaga said:
Aberavon Beach

GW690
HP5@400
HC110 (DilB)
50766704373_c29feea599_k.jpg
Click to expand...
Took the liberty to play a little with your image Sean ( happy to delete it if you wish!)

Reframed to remove the foreground and the person creeping in at the RHS

Removed the flying object in the sky ( bird presumbly)

A few more minilmal tweeks with curves may add a little more umphh to the final result but as a capture, I rather like your style.

Keeep it up ;)

50766704373_c29feea599_k retouched.jpg

Looking at it again, putting the couple less central will, for some work better too.

50766704373_c29feea599_k retouched 2.jpg

It all depends on what pleases you personally, afterall that's presulably why you take photos.

perhaps the above edits will offer some other ideas that you may have not considered.

Either way, have fun and keep posting.
 
Last edited:
The side of the Sheffield Hallam University building. The poem was added in 2007 as part of the "Off the Shelf" literary festival that took place. It was written by Andrew Motion.

Fujica GW690
Ilford HP5+
Ilfotec DD-X 1+4 mins @ 20°

"O travellers from somewhere else to here,
Rising from Sheffield Station and Sheaf Square
To wander through the labyrinth of air.

Pause now, and let the sight of this sheer cliff
Become a priming-place which lifts you off
To speculate
What if..?
What if..?
What if..?

Cloud-shadows drag their hands across the white;
Rain prints the sudden darkness of its weight;
Sun falls and leaves the bleaching evidence of light.

Your thoughts are like this too: as fixed as words
Set down to decorate a blank facade
And yet, as words are too, all soon transferred

To greet and understand what lies ahead —
The city where your dreaming is re-paid,
The lives which wait unseen as yet, unread."
Click to expand...


Sheffield Hallam University by fishyfish_arcade, on Flickr


Sheffield Hallam University by fishyfish_arcade, on Flickr
 
Last edited:
Asha said:
Took the liberty to play a little with your image Sean ( happy to delete it if you wish!)

Reframed to remove the foreground and the person creeping in at the RHS

Removed the flying object in the sky ( bird presumbly)

A few more minilmal tweeks with curves may add a little more umphh to the final result but as a capture, I rather like your style.

Keeep it up ;)

View attachment 303409

Looking at it again, putting the couple less central will, for some work better too.

View attachment 303411

It all depends on what pleases you personally, afterall that's presulably why you take photos.

perhaps the above edits will offer some other ideas that you may have not considered.

Either way, have fun and keep posting.
Click to expand...

Thanks Asha, always helps to have another eye.

I've been a bit lazy with these if I'm honest with you, I was in a bit of a rush to get them scanned! In hindsight I probably would've panned down a bit to get more of the rocks in, a horizontal symmetry of the waves and shore kind of thing.

The people edge of shot crept in while I wasn't paying attention!

I'm not sure I've quite found what I'm after with the curves/levels adjustments with black and white yet, nearly there though.
 
Thmaga said:
I'm not sure I've quite found what I'm after with the curves/levels adjustments with black and white yet, nearly there though.
Click to expand...
Imo you’re very much nearly there..... any adjustments for that shot would only be very minimal if at all depending on personal tastes.

If you’re happy with what you produce, stick with it........ don’t fix what ain’t broke!;)
 
sirch said:
I find that really engaging, I'm not normally taken by "street" but that grabs my attention. Really good tones in the rocks and steps
Click to expand...
Thank you, there was something about this one for me too.

I do wish I waited for him to walk a little further forward, but I was in a bit of a panic tracking him with the rangefinder!
 
Thmaga said:
I do wish I waited for him to walk a little further forward, but I was in a bit of a panic tracking him with the rangefinder!
Click to expand...

I don't. A big part of the appeal for me is the way his shadow lines up with the white "H" painted on the wall (or whatever it is). That would have been lost had he not been at that exact spot.

So far as rangefinder tracking goes, don't forget that depth of field can cover a lot of errors.
 
Few more 'Indoor Snaps COVID-SAFE' this time with my Pentax 6x7 Mk 1 and the ONE roll of 10/1992 dated AGFA ULTRA 50 found in the Huge Film Stash from my Deceased Grest Friend Via his Sons. I took 2, one at 50 and one at 25 ASA which was the better exposure. LIGHTING was old Bowens Monolite 400E and 200E and I home-Processed in C41.
135mm f4 SMC Pentax Macro 6x7
P 6x7 Ultra 50 03.jpgP 6x7 Ultra 50 04.jpg
SMC Pentax 6x7 45mm f4
P 6x7 Ultra 50 01.jpgP 6x7 Ultra 50 02.jpg
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top