Large Format Photography Australia

These people are a long married couple with a ample stock of cheer and humour. Possibly too much humour for the photographer who insists they try to stay perfectly still for a one second exposure instead of just laughing like drains.

Thanks Walter . Sometimes the variables cooperate: pale bark trees, lots of bounce light off water, overcast day, Tri-X with that famous long toe to the characteristic curve, all add up to the "mother of pearl" tonality. The hard part was coming up with a quirky asymmetric composition to s...

https://live.staticflickr.com/8727/16611857639_9735c06157_c.jpg Dandelions in Vase Gelatin-silver photograph on Ultrafine Silver Eagle VC FB photographic paper, image size 21.3cm X 16.4cm, from a 4x5 Kodak TriX Pan Professional negative exposed in a Tachihara 45GF double extension field view camera...

https://live.staticflickr.com/8516/8360562870_dd6d13ef0b_c.jpg Paperbark Forms, Lake Weyba Gelatin-silver photograph on Freestyle Private Reserve VC FB photographic paper, image size 24.6cm X 19.6cm, from a 8x10 Kodak TriX Pan Professional negative exposed in a Tachihara 810HD triple extension fiel...

https://live.staticflickr.com/1650/25776262866_f597c89fce_c.jpg Couple, Studio Nude Gelatin-silver photograph on Agfa Classic VC FB photographic paper, image size 19.6cm X 24.7cm, from a 8x10 Kodak Tri-X Pan Professional negative exposed in a Tachihara 810HD triple extension field view camera fitte...

Yep, that's how things go well together: low plants in the front leading up to a slope with trees, light streaming through their branches, backed by a bright sky and that hot little cloud at the top. Who would go to the Mt Lofty Botanical Gardens on a day like this and not carry a camera?

Thanks RoganJosh . The luminosity in this picture is enhanced by making the exposure at noon. The usual landscape advice of shooting early or late in the day does not work in a forest where one tree shades another unless the light is coming straight down. The pale bark of Snow Gum trees also helps t...

https://live.staticflickr.com/5250/5284679858_0b147f5569_b.jpg Snow Gum, number 031 Gelatin-silver photograph on Fomabrom Variant 111 VC FB, image area 27.4cm X 19.6cm, from a 8x10 Fomapan 200 negative exposed in a Tachihara 810HD field view camera fitted with a Schneider Super Angulon 121mm f8 len...

https://live.staticflickr.com/7065/6837572444_28d548ceb4_c.jpg Fence Line, Wilpena Pound, Sunset. Gelatin-silver photograph on Agfa Classic MCC III VC FB, image size 19.4cm X 19.4cm, cropped from a 4x5 Tmax 100 negative exposed in a Tachihara 45GF field view camera fitted with a Voigtlander Heliar ...

https://live.staticflickr.com/1314/5164965427_2fd066c7cf_b.jpg Sunny Couch, Siesta Gelatin-silver photograph on Fomabrom Variant 111 FB VC, image area 19.6cm X 24.7cm, from a Fomapan 200 negative exposed in a Tachihara 8x10 camera with a 400mm single meniscus lens set at f11. The afternoon sun in w...