Large Format Photography Australia

Shane, Efke IR820 is an exhilarating, frustrating, inconsistent, treacherous film that has disappointed me hundreds of times. But I'd stop belly-aching if I could get photographs half as good as your spectacular Mc Namara Hut . This is a master-class in how good IR can be when it's done right!

https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7534/16276895805_752799dc27_c.jpg Water Lillies, Sunlight Gelatin-silver photograph on Ultrafine Silver Eagle VC FB photographic paper, image size 21.3cm X 16.4cm, from a 4x5 Tri-X Pan Professional negative exposed in a Tachihara 45GF double extension field view camer...

https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2915/14470288760_a45013b792_c.jpg Mount Stillwell Gelatin-silver photograph on Ultrafine Silver Eagle VC FB photographic paper, image size 24.4cm X 19.6cm, from a 8x10 Fomapan 100 negative exposed in a Tachihara 810HD triple extension field view camera fitted with an ...

The batch of 8x10 Efke IR820 I used had lost a lot of IR sensitivity and my Exposure Index through an IR680 filter was 0.07! That's ridiculously slow but I had the stuff on hand and it wasn't going to improve with more age. By way of comparison I shot a 120 roll of Efke IR820 through an IR720 filter...

There must be a million sunsets done every day and nearly all of them look the same. The top of the picture has intense visual dramatics and the bottom is a vast featureless black lump. All perpetrators of this style of sunset should be propped up in front of RoganJosh's Sunset & Reflections and...

Subject movement, even over twelve minutes, can be a good thing or a bad thing. I was accepting that some flowers would move and others might remain quite still. The ones nearest the camera would show movement more. There might be a nice dynamic tension between movement and stillness. The hazard was...

Walter, I wish this series was part of "The Photograph Explained" on the LFPA blog. As it stands I'm not sure I get it. I'm principally a landscapist but the occasional nude comes before my camera when I'm seeking to find visual expression for some aspect of the human condition. The nude s...

https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5510/14676768173_e76776aed2_c.jpg Daisy Meadow. Canberra, Infrared Gelatin-silver photograph on Ultrafine Silver Eagle VC FB photographic paper, image size 19.5cm X 24.6cm, from a 8x10 Efke IR820 negative exposed in a Tachihara 810HD triple extension field view camera...

A line of deep tanks evoke a nostalgic sigh. That was the way to get a lot of sheet film processed in short order. And the solutions would last forever under the floating lids. All that was needed was to replenish regularly to compensate for evaporation and carry over. I got at my deep tanks with an...

Crikey, some people have all the luck. Walter, you use a trick developer in a trick developing tank. To compound things you faff about with a fancy changing bag. Then you get by without a proper darkroom. All this to culminate an important project that you might not be able to re-shoot. And then you...