Large Format Photography Australia

Heavy! It may be just a quarter plate photograph but the composition and framing captures the grandeur, weight, and presence of this ancient tree. And then to have this aesthetic expression in the form of an authentic gilded daguerreotype makes it uniquely precious. Alex, thank you for making and sh...

https://live.staticflickr.com/1550/25130315741_b9675cff7b_c.jpg The Zig Tree, Snow Gum Grove, Charlotte Pass Gelatin-silver photograph on Ilford Warmtone VC FB photographic paper, image size 21.3cm X 16.5cm, from a 4x5 Kodak Tmax 100 negative exposed in a Tachihara 45GF double extension field view ...

https://live.staticflickr.com/5499/14633959666_380425b5d3_c.jpg Spencers Creek, Cataracts Gelatin-silver photograph on Ultrafine Silver Eagle VC FB photographic paper, image size23.5cm X 19.3cm, from a 8x10 Kodak Tmax 400 negative exposed in a Tachihara 810HD field view camera fitted with a Wollens...

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54131751835_9203026d7f_b.jpg Engine Number 52 and Crew Gelatin-silver photograph on Ultrafine Silver Eagle VC FB photographic paper, image size 16.5cm X 21.5cm, from a found vintage glass plate negative circa 1920. The negative is an "ordinary" blue sen...

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54972871775_9fd2c0f6a1_c.jpg Sea Drift Assortment Gelatin-silver photograph on Agfa Classic VC FB photographic paper, image size 24.7cm X 19.3cm, from a 8x10 Kodak Tmax 400 negative exposed in a Plaubel Profia monorail view camera fitted with a Schneider Symmar 3...

Thanks Alex for your dissertation and insights. I've read it twice and I think I you have come up with something unusual in the aesthetics of the daguerreotype ... unpopulated daguerreotypes ! A simple on-line search of thousands of daguerreotype images shows that virtually all of them are portraits...

Fabulous daguerreotype! Wonderful stuff. Bravo! Encore! How do you assemble your gear, the plates, the fuming box, the camera? Is development by mercury vapour or the Becquerel method? Traditional hot gilding or something new? I'll never make a daguerreotype but it would be a privilege to have an ac...

https://live.staticflickr.com/2938/14569999605_a6cfe77c79_b.jpg Desert Grass Gully, from the Mount Morgan Road. Gelatin-silver photograph on Agfa MCC IIIVC FB photographic paper, from an 8x10 Kodak Tmax 400 negative exposed in a Tachihara 810HD triple extension field view camera fitted with a Fujin...

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54141156949_350577f53d_c.jpg His and Hers Tattoos Gelatin-silver photograph on Agfa Classic VC FB photographic paper, image size 24.7cm X 19.3cm, from a 8x10 Kodak Tmax 400 negative exposed in a Tachihara 810HD field view camera fitted with a Fujinon-W 300mm f5.6...

https://live.staticflickr.com/3717/20055411599_ba9d201ebc_c.jpg Zodiac Stone Gelatin-silver photograph on Ultrafine Silver Eagle VC FB photographic paper, image size 21.3cm X 16.5cm, from a 4x5 Kodak Tmax 100 negative exposed in a Tachihara 45GF double extension field view camera fitted with a Nikk...