Large Format Photography Australia

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...

Wow! Burnishing! A sublimely luminous technique fully supporting your original vision for this beautifully composed subject. I tried to find these trees using Google Earth but got lost in central Tasmania. Thank goodness you are out there and achieving a remarkable run of successes.

Thanks Mick and Walter. I'm not sure if this is art but I tried to arrange it as if it was; that's the "as if" principle at work. Sometimes it works, sometimes it slides off into pretention or twee-ness and I can't always tell the difference.

Alex, how absolutely splendid; a triumph. Your "hit rate" is amazing. It's not like you shoot a hundred versions of this Spaghetti Tree, just pick the best one, and tap the delete button for the rest.

Thanks RoganJosh and Walter Glover . Finding these compositions is hard but not as hard as getting to them and setting up a camera. Off piste snow is treacherous, sometimes unexpectedly waist deep and sometimes dead slippery with ice. I have nightmare visions of falling on my back like an overturned...

https://live.staticflickr.com/769/21638010625_a423fa1354_b.jpg Billy Buttons in Snow Gelatin-silver photograph on Ultrafine Silver Eagle VC FB photographic paper, image size 16.3cm X 21.4cm, from a 4x5 Kodak Tmax 100 negative exposed in a Tachihara 45GF double extension field view camera fitted wit...

https://live.staticflickr.com/7509/16275021581_f23ea6f599_c.jpg Past Imperfect Gelatin-silver photograph on Ultrafine Silver Eagle VC FB photographic paper, image size 21.3cm X 16.4cm, from a 4x5 Tri-X Pan Professional negative exposed in a Tachihara 45GF double extension field view camera fitted w...