Large Format Photography Australia

Oh yes, Technical Pan used the right way. Remember the old Kodak advert for Technical Pan : "4x5 quality from a 35mm negative"? If 35mm Tech Pan really equalled 4x5 I always wondered what 4x5 Tech Pan equalled. Now I've seen it. And the composition is brilliant. In the bottom half the form...

https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8330/8388049995_9f52ec99c0_c.jpg Nude and Tree, Alexandria Bay Gelatin-silver photograph on Ilford IB4 1P photographic paper, image size 24.6cm X 19.5cm, from an 8x10 Kodak Tmax 400 negative exposed in a Tachihara 810HD large format field view camera fitted with a Fuji...

Really like this, so many printers would print it with higher contrast and lose all hose subtle details. I would have done this until I was taught different by my friend Graeme "Sparky" Parkes. Grame was a newspaper photographer who had worked for Murdoch, Packer, and Fairfax. This was in...

If you are going to do an isolated tree in the open air it doesn't get better than this. Look at the framing: big rock on the left, bushes on the right, and the dramatic tree itself against a perfect streaky sky. The determination to lug a 8x10 view camera in the high country sometimes pays off. It'...

Valid point Walter! The original full frame contact shows deep shadow detail when lying on my bench at a light level of 320 lux. But when I put it across my $49 Aldi flat bed scanner and process the file with my free student version of Photoshop 7 the "screen looker" isn't as nice. I could...

https://c2.staticflickr.com/8/7099/7188709911_e74fb54285_b.jpg Weyba Bridge, number 5 Gelatin-silver photograph on Freestyle Private Reserve VC FB photographic paper, image size 19.5cm X 24.5cm, exposed in contact with an 8x10 Efke IR820 negative. Camera was a Tachihara 810HD 8x10 format triple ext...

Walter, you are not wrong. The area is the bottom of an ephemeral lake, under water for a year and then dry for the next five. During the "wet" the flying blood-suckers are merciless. In the "dry" the fine detail and luminosity make it a sweet place to carry a large format camera.

https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8073/8350904069_d5bf0484a3_b.jpg Melaleucas and Sedges, Afternoon Gelatin-silver photograph on Freestyle Private Reserve VC FB photographic paper, image size 16.3cm X 21.4cm, from a Kodak Tmax 400 4x5 negative exposed in a Tachihara 45GF double extension field view cam...

Thanks Shane. I wanted that sky badly. When I ran out of front rise on the Tachihara (bellows crunch) the camera got tilted up and the trees showed convergence. Another compromise but worth it...maybe.

https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8355/8290630014_098f5d0684_c.jpg Wappa Dam, Late Evening Gelatin-silver photograph on Agfa Classic MCC 111 VC FB photographic paper, image size 24.4cm X 19.3cm, from a 4x5 Kodak Tmax 400 negative exposed in a Tachihara 45GF double extension field view camera fitted wit...