Large Format Photography Australia

Thanks Alex for your dissertation and insights. I've read it twice and I think I you have come up with something unusual in the aesthetics of the daguerreotype ... unpopulated daguerreotypes ! A simple on-line search of thousands of daguerreotype images shows that virtually all of them are portraits...

Fabulous daguerreotype! Wonderful stuff. Bravo! Encore! How do you assemble your gear, the plates, the fuming box, the camera? Is development by mercury vapour or the Becquerel method? Traditional hot gilding or something new? I'll never make a daguerreotype but it would be a privilege to have an ac...

https://live.staticflickr.com/2938/14569999605_a6cfe77c79_b.jpg Desert Grass Gully, from the Mount Morgan Road. Gelatin-silver photograph on Agfa MCC IIIVC FB photographic paper, from an 8x10 Kodak Tmax 400 negative exposed in a Tachihara 810HD triple extension field view camera fitted with a Fujin...

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54141156949_350577f53d_c.jpg His and Hers Tattoos Gelatin-silver photograph on Agfa Classic VC FB photographic paper, image size 24.7cm X 19.3cm, from a 8x10 Kodak Tmax 400 negative exposed in a Tachihara 810HD field view camera fitted with a Fujinon-W 300mm f5.6...

https://live.staticflickr.com/3717/20055411599_ba9d201ebc_c.jpg Zodiac Stone Gelatin-silver photograph on Ultrafine Silver Eagle VC FB photographic paper, image size 21.3cm X 16.5cm, from a 4x5 Kodak Tmax 100 negative exposed in a Tachihara 45GF double extension field view camera fitted with a Nikk...

Thanks Mick for your sympathetic analysis on this one. Yes, the film was very slow, E.I. = 0.17 in the infrared range, and I suppose that's an excuse for the exposure compromise. Less forgivable is a bit of laziness on the part of the photographer. That little cloud in the upper right corner of the ...

https://live.staticflickr.com/5033/14633949146_2c76ec1cff_c.jpg Lake Jindabyne, Late Afternoon Gelatin-silver photograph on Freestyle Private Reserve VC FB photographic paper, image size 19.3cm X 24.7cm, from a 8X10 Efke IR820 negative exposed in a Tachihara 810HD field view camera fitted with a Fu...

Thanks Mick for your sympathetic insights on this one. I've heard it said that view camera photography is principally an exercise in intense looking with some camera work and printing thrown in at the end. With enough looking one can eventually see things that are not quite there. The Snow Gum shoul...

Wow Mick , what a wonderful static composition with dynamic incidents happening everywhere. Look at those people left of centre starting their walk, the beach sitter adjacent to the pylon on the left, plus the distant group in the middle who may have noticed the speed-boat passing by. And there's th...

Yes Mick the background in this picture is the Barcoo Hotel. It's a good cave for a cold beer on a sunny day but the accommodation is, er, basic. I stayed at the Blackall Cultural Association round the corner and up the road. The BCA offers cheap rooms for artists and me, with a large format camera ...