Large Format Photography Australia

Amazing result! Fuji HRT Green is a high contrast film and the fire damaged tree is a high contrast subject against a hard blue sky. But all the tones stay remarkably coherent. Surely you must have been running Foma Speed 311 at its lowest contrast. I'd love to know how you did it; details, details.

If it's confusion you want try this: My last Ilford catalogue lists 4"x5" film. My last Kodak catalogue lists 10.2cm x 12.7cm film and is resolutely metric throughout with no mention of inch sizes. But the actual film is neither of those sizes from both makers. I measure it to be 10.0cm X ...

Yes, I was looking for a nearby rock to repeat the shape of the distant mountain but eventually settled for the loop in the trunk of the fallen tree; a compromise. Then I waited for a boat to anchor (?) the eyeline between foreground and horizon. The boat arrived but it was rather far away; another ...

https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8723/16270097793_0c2309772c_c.jpg Model and Photograph Gelatin-silver photograph on Agfa Classic MCC 111 VC FB photographic paper, image size 21.3cm X 16.4cm, from a 4x5 Kodak Tmax 100 negative exposed in a Tachihara 45GF double extension field view camera fitted with...

Thanks RoganJosh for your insight. It's an old trick but an effective one: to lend an impression of luminosity to a photograph let the top highlights blow out to paper-base white. This conflicts with the conventional wisdom of having highlights on Zone VIII (tone and texture) or Zone IX ( tone but n...

What a striking dichotomy and pictorial tension in one picture! Crop off the bottom half and one has a scene of tranquil luminosity. Crop off the top half and one has darkened grunge.

https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8613/16807754485_9ae1375e72_c.jpg Marigolds in Tricopherous Bottle Gelatin-silver photograph on Ultrafine Silver Eagle VC FB photographic paper, image size 21.3cm X 16.4cm, from a 4x5 Kodak TriX Pan Professional negative exposed in a Tachihara 45GF double extension fi...

https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7621/16771733016_62711c9639_c.jpg View of Mount Cooroy, Across the Noosa River Gelatin-silver photograph on Ultrafine Silver Eagle VC FB photographic paper, image size 16.4cm X 21.3cm, from a 4x5 TriX Pan Professional negative exposed in a Tachihara 45GF double extens...

A lot of complicated stuff happens when developer concentration changes. A more dilute developer has a lower ph (depends of buffer capacity of the formulation) and is therefore less active. The rate of diffusion of developer molecules into emulsion is faster at higher dilutions. But fewer developer ...

https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8679/16152207849_b150d2c2be_c.jpg Sedge Field, Afternoon Gelatin-silver photograph on Freestyle Private Reserve VC FB photographic paper, image size 16.3cm X 21.3cm, from a 4x5 Kodak Tmax 100 negative exposed in a Tachihara 45GF double extension field view camera fitt...