Large Format Photography Australia

Mick , that's some railway station. As the change-over point between Victorian and South Australian railway systems I guess it needed that magnificent long platform. Following the same temptation as with the Scorers Shed picture I checked out the station on Google Earth only to discover the picture...

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54508997240_3e6352ae40_c.jpg This is a factory numbered set of film holders with sides designated 1 to 60. I believe this was a special order by Fred Picker for his Zone VI Studios catalogue. Opinions differ but some say this version of Fidelity Elite holders was...

Curiosity compelled me to go to the Serviceton camping ground and recreation reserve and have a look around. This journey via the Google Earth website is the laziest possible but revealing none the less. Mick , you are right, there's not a lot there and I mused about where I would put a camera to ca...

I don't know it for a fact but it seems that slower photography delivers better pictorial compositions. With the present price of large format sheet film I imagine very few exposures end up on the cutting room floor. Now ambrotypes are even slower than film and demand even more of the photographer. ...

https://live.staticflickr.com/1522/23510812383_61fd8da089_c.jpg Heath Tips in Snow Gelatin-silver photograph on Ilford Classic VC FB photographic paper, image size 16.3cm X 21.5cm, from a 4x5 Kodak Tmax 400 negative exposed in a Tachihara 45GF field view camera fitted with a Nikkor-W 210mm f5.6 len...

Those rocks in the second picture are some of the heaviest rocks I've ever seen. I mean visually heavy. Maybe it's the uncompromising ambrotype tonality, maybe it's the dark mass looming on the right that lends weight, whatever ... but it works. The first picture is much lighter and gleams with lumi...

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50103136892_22c48a5352_c.jpg Photo Booth, Customer Line-up Gelatin-silver photograph on Ilford MG IV photographic paper, image size 16.3cm X 21.5cm, from a 4x5 Kodak Tri-X negative exposed in a Tachihara 45GF field view camera fitted with a Voigtlander 21cm f4.5 ...

I'm looking at the 12.9 Mb version of this picture on my nice big desk monitor. Alex , I see a a treasure trove spilling a cascade of glittering leaf-shaped jewels. Wow! I wonder if the magic lies in the short dynamic range of the emulsion you used. Or is it the blue /violet sensitivity of the ambro...

https://live.staticflickr.com/5084/5284074765_a69775ac5c_c.jpg Contorted Snow Gum, Mt Wheatley Gelatin-silver photograph on Fomabrom Variant 111 VC FB, image area 24.7cm X 19.6cm, from a 8x10 Fomapan 200 negative exposed in a Tachihara 810HD field view camera fitted with a Schneider Super Angulon 1...

Thank you alexgard for your kind comments. I'll put up another snow gum, but this time an ugly one from Mt Wheatly.