Large Format Photography Australia

Thanks RoganJosh. It's an honour being compared to the great Robert Adams. I think Adam's cow pictures are from his book Prairie featuring elegantly composed American scenes of country emptiness. The cows are 17 or 18 pictures in from the beginning of that book; I think.

Yes Mick , it was high summer. Two things cows like on a hot day are shade and water. The shade is at the top of the ridge and there are some cows up there. The water is a long walk downhill. The farmer is smart by keeping both pleasures far apart so the cows don't congregate and make a trampled pat...

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52445202705_8a9fcd9ff9_b.jpg Bucolic Scene, From the Kin Kin Road Gelatin-silver photograph on Agfa Classic VC FB photographic paper, image size 16.3cm X 21.5cm, from a 4x5 Kodak Tmax 400 negative exposed in a Tachihara 45GF field view camera fitted with a 90mm f...

Mick , large format photography tends to long exposure times at small lens apertures so I've wasted more time than strictly necessary in studying film reciprocity failure . Taking the Kodak data table for reciprocity failure of TXP320 and reducing it via some logarithms and exponents like the Ilfor...

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50077712122_24465e5e02_c.jpg Dracaena, Rainy Day Gelatin-silver photograph on Ultrafine Silver Eagle VC FB photographic paper, image size 21.5cm X 16.3cm, from a 4x5 Kodak Tri-X negative exposed in a Tachihara 45GF field view camera fitted with a Nikkor-W 210mm f...

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52496405623_6a9e1f9d90_c.jpg Clifftop Path, Alexandria Bay Gelatin-silver photograph on Agfa Classic VC FB photographic paper, image size 21.5cm X 16.3cm, from a 4x5 Kodak Tmax 400 negative exposed in a Tachihara 45GF field view camera fitted with a Schneider Sup...

Well seen Mick . Christ Church Anglican Church looks so simple and serene amid its sheltering trees. It may have been built in 1869 as part of the 19th century drive to have a church in every parish and no further away than a convenient horse powered journey. The flock of sheep in the churchyard kee...

An emerging icon of our times, the EV charge point. Well seen Mick and well framed with the out-of-focus bush isolating the sign from background clutter. I wonder if these things will become so ubiquitous that they pass beneath notice. Or will they eventually become collectibles like those old glass...

Yes Mick , it was one of those slightly ominous afternoons that build to a late thunderstorm. Careful printing held the clouds near the horizon but the extreme lens rise and image fall-off darkened the top third of the picture. I don't have one of those fancy centre-dark filters like you keep for yo...

Thanks for your comments Mick . Kodak High Speed Infrared sheet film was nice to use because it delivered an infrared effect with a #25 red filter. This enabled ground glass viewing, framing, and focussing. The other films I've used, Efke IR820 and Rollei 400 Infrared, both require an opaque IR720 f...