Large Format Photography Australia

Hi Welly,

Many thanks. And thanks especially for migrating to the new server. Everything is much more as one would expect.

Is there a name for a person who has little or no interest in shooting colour? I think it might be Ag NO3 (silver nitrate). When I did shoot colour film (commercially) I did use specific emulsions for specific subjects — all THREE back then: Kodak, Fuji and Agfa. My LF exploits are dedicated to B&am...

It is my current goal to improve on this and start using tilts to my advantage and not have to keep shooting at f45+! Welly, At f/45 I dare say a great deal of the benefit of large format starts to blur thanks to diffraction. Swing and tilt are not all that hard to master - although you do need to ...

Nice to see some Scottish Island shots Welly. I only got to do Mull & Iona, I had wanted to get to the Orkneys but the weather closed in and the ferry service was stopped. lewis has always interested me.

I use a mixture of Direct and Indirect shifts (mainly rise and fall but sometimes lateral) depending on focal length, camera and surroundings. With ultra-wides and indoors I generally just raise or lower the lens using direct shift. It is seldom a huge shift with a lens shorter than 90 and rigidity ...

I am not sure how much of my DA gallery you can see without registering but I include the link, anyway.

By the way the entire collection could be considered NSFW.

http://waltereg.deviantart.com/

The greatest motivation for me about 8x10 is the contact print. Devoid of Callier effect and shown exactly as seen and perceived, there is a purity and beauty to the contact print that can never be replicated by the enlargement or the ink-jet. My preferred paper for contact printing in recent years ...

Our experiences of the Samford Valley are not dissimilar Maris.

Strangely enough Welly, When I have been in England and see the Union Flag flying all over the place it has always struck me as a battle standard — which I guess it was. Our Australian flag, by comparison, does not have that impact (maybe because I am so used to it and it has become benign) but look...

I have always liked the Ned Kelly view of the world with pano formats. Clearly you have developed a fine eye for the aspect ratio.