Large Format Photography Australia

It's beginning to click. I just went out with my camera this lunchtime as I've got a wonderful old train workshop on the site where my office is (Australian Technology Park) and it's full of old tools and machinery, parts of trains etc. I thought I'd experiment with movements a little bit and this t...

Fantastic work!

There's a particular kind of tree, I've no idea of the name, that I keep seeing - it's a very light, almost white colour and it has these scribbly lined patterns all over it. Anyone know what I'm talking about? If it's around Sydney, I'll go with Angophora costata , or, more likely, Eucalyptus haem...

The bit I scared of is picking up the negative and missing the stop bath tray. How do you use trays in the dark.. I use a unicolour tank in day light A lot of fumbling about, mainly. Last night was a bit more chaotic than normal but if I lay out my trays, timer and everything else exactly where I u...

Very smart. What are those lights in the background? Fluorescent tubes or something else?

Turns out the great bit scratches were actually dark cables in the image that I didn't remember seeing when I took the shot, so no scratched negatives! I didn't think I'd scratched them, I thought I had been quite conscientious in my developing. The slosher is a great idea. I've got a couple of spar...

Tree details can be amazing. Here is an example in glittering black. Fire Scar, Flinders Ranges Gelatin-silver photograph on Agfa Classic MCC III VC FB photographic paper, image size 24.4cm X 19.4cm, from a 4x5 Tmax 100 negative exposed in a Tachihara 45GF field view camera fitted with a Voigtlande...

Lachlan717 wrote:

Ag NO3 wrote:Quite painterly Welly. I really like the white dot with the dark surround; it is almost like a sun. I wonder how it would affect things to rotate the image 90º clockwise and turn it into a sunrise over a landscape?

Something like this?

That's brilliant!

What I believed to be a scratch turns out to be a cable! I didn't scratch my neg!

150mm Nikkor-W on HP5+