Large Format Photography Australia

Some guys get all the luck. Look at those electric wires nailing down the otherwise empty sky in the top right hand corner...perfect composition. On second thoughts maybe it isn't luck after all.

Re: Snow Gum Burl Post by Walter Glover » 10 Dec 2013, 14:32 The excellence of vision and craft that we have come to expect from you Maris, Thanks for your encouraging words. It makes all the futzing and fussin' seem worthwhile. Re: Snow Gum Burl Post by RoganJosh » 10 Dec 2013, 12:18 Ahh, so nice....

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8379/8572771303_511a2bd718_c.jpg Snow Gum Burl Gelatin-silver photograph on Ultrafine Silver Eagle VC FB photographic paper, image size 21.3cm X 16.4cm, from a Arista EDU Ultra 400 4x5 negative exposed in a Tachihara 45GF double extension field view camera fitted with ...

Shooting so many different films under very special conditions really requires that you have to calibrate your meter settings, metering strategy, and processing for each film. The only way to get assured results is to do a test shoot of actual (or similar) subject matter, process the film, and asses...

My prediction is that Leica will amortise its investment in S2 optics by remounting them to fit an all movements precision mini view camera preserving Carl Koch's brilliant Sinar design. As for the costs they don't matter if the pro photographer's customers will pay the lot via appropriate invoicing...

Walter, you're not wrong. The vine can't put its head up because its large leaves would be shredded by the prevailing south-easter. I caught it on a rare calm day so subject movement would not be a issue during the quarter second exposure. And I sent the Scheimpflug plane up the hillside by strong b...

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8108/8572680399_8377250f42_b.jpg Wild Passion Vine, Sunshine Beach. Gelatin-silver photograph on Ilford MGD.44M photographic paper, image size 19.6cm X 24.6cm, from a Kodak Tmax 400 8x10 negative exposed in a Tachihara 810HD triple extension field view camera fitted wi...

Thanks for the kudo. These shapes were so strong that it was impossible to go past. And rocks are very cooperative in that they don't die, deteriorate, or run away while I fuss with the camera. The hard part in using very front-on lighting like this is keeping the photographer's shadow out of the pi...

Good luck! Infrared is a bit of an aleatory process. You throw the technology at the subject matter and sign what bounces back if it looks half decent.

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8391/8468577611_281620324d_b.jpg Philodendron, Infrared Gelatin-silver photograph on Ultrafine Silver Eagle VC FB photographic paper, image size 16.3cm X 21.3cm, from a 4x5 Efke IR820 negative exposed in a Tachihara 45GF double extension field view camera fitted with a...