Large Format Photography Australia

Another superb composition. I envy your talent in seeing photographs in places I walk past, step over, or step into on the way to somewhere else. And you are not afraid of big skies. Personally I fear the capacity of large format film to eat dust before and after exposure!

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8492/8290592886_5a76043713_c.jpg Vine Forest Gelatin-silver photograph on Freestyle Private Reserve VC FB photographic paper from a 8x10 Efke IR820 infrared negative exposed in a Tachihara 810HD triple extension field view camera fitted with a Schneider Super Angulon 1...

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8096/8573645378_bcb9c189a5_c.jpg Freshwater Spring, Granite Bay. Gelatin-silver photograph on Ilford MGD.44M photographic paper, image size 24.6cm X 19.5cm, from a 8x10 Kodak Tmax 400 negative exposed in a Plaubel Profia 8x10 monorail view camera fitted with a 10 inch ...

I got a piece of white mount board and tried cropping this picture on my monitor maybe a dozen different ways. Nope, I couldn't make it any better. It's not often so many forms are choreographed so elegantly in one picture. Even a sky full of fluffy white clouds wouldn't improve things.

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8149/7532024712_094ce25938_c.jpg Stranded Jellyfish, Granite Bay Gelatin-silver photograph on Agfa Classic MCC 111 VC FB photographic paper, image size 24.5cm X 19.3cm, from a Kodak TriX 4x5 negative exposed in a Tachihara 45GF double extension field view camera fitted...

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8052/8410152578_76407cba64_c.jpg Winter Moonrise, Alexandria Bay Gelatin-silver photograph on Agfa Classic MCC 111 VC FB photographic paper, image size 19.5cm X 24.5cm, from a 8x10 Kodak Tmax 400 negative exposed in a Tachihara 810HD triple extension field view camera ...

I've just received 400 sheets of 8x10 Ultrafine Silver Eagle VC FB paper at a landed cost, everything included, of 81 cents a sheet. That's a good price for a neutral emulsion on a white fibre base that works fine in ordinary chemistry, responds to contrast filters -1 to 5+, and is characterless eno...

Yes that is a blemish It's a failure in the interlens cement causing a lens element separation at that point. The separation may stay small or it might grow (over years or decades) causing the lens elements to separate completely. Only time will tell. While the separation is small it's virtually imp...

... I had difficulty with tonal separation. The sky and the painted masonry merged .... even to the naked eye. A Polariser ended up being the solution. Years ago when I sat in a gallery director's chair (unearned privilege) and had people bring me black and white portfolios for assessment I used to...

What perfect cool cerebral compositions! Geez, you must have a lot of luck or a lot of persistence and discipline. The latter I think. Picture one illustrates a quirk of perception; for me at least. That breaking wave at the extreme left is obscured by the round top building, then it reappears again...