Large Format Photography Australia

Nice surprise Mick . No, it's not the composition; that's perfect as usual. The spoonbills are nicely side-on so they look like birds rather than blobs. And the 250mm f6.3 lens delivers an impeccable image. It's the two little white birds lower left that counterpoint the arrangement of the spoonbill...

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52440898174_3fc261840b_c.jpg Millstream Falls, North Queensland Gelatin-silver photograph on Ultrafine Silver Eagle VC FB photographic paper, image size 19.3cm X 24.7cm, from a 8x10 Kodak T-max 400 negative exposed in a Tachihara 810HD field view camera fitted wi...

Good one Mick . That's a masterclass in capturing gradation in specular highlights . Left to themselves they tend to burn out to blank white. There's plenty to look at. Monstera is a visually engaging plant worth putting up with as it tries to take over a garden.. How many photographers would have r...

What a sculptural composition! And the light tones of the silos are repeated in the whispy clouds of a very nice sky. Mick , I think I see a famous distortion achievable only with an ultra-wide lens like your 65mm. A circle imaged in the centre of the frame is rendered round but placed toward the ed...

You have got to love a good swamp especially if the water level is down enough to show some serious mud. Mick , those bleached bones, alias dead white trees, are very evocative and their ghostly reflections in the fine ripple water enhance the scene nicely. That 250mm f6.3 lens has come out to play ...

Thanks Mick. This was made during my "Bill Brandt" phase under the influence of his Perspective of Nudes book. A wide angle lens on a view camera pointing up steeply from floor level is hard to focus as well as being a contortionist's nightmare.

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50028326532_c51afabd14_c.jpg Nude on Exercise Bike Gelatin-silver photograph on Agfa Classic VC FB photographic paper, image size 16.3cm X 21.5cm, from a 4x5 Kodak Tri-X negative exposed in a Tachihara 45GF field view camera fitted with a Schneider Super Angulon ...

https://live.staticflickr.com/8440/8007821105_7a55d90309_c.jpg Paper Bark Trees, Lake Weyba Gelatin-silver photograph on Kodak Polymax Fine Art VC FB photographic paper, image size 24.7cm X 19.6cm, from a Kodak TriX 8x10 negative exposed in a Tachihara 810HD triple extension field view camera fitte...

Thanks Barry Kirsten for your nice comment about composition. Some subjects suggest obvious and elegant compositions but not this scatter of random rocks in a stagnant rock pool. I spent a good half hour nudging the camera around in small and large increments trying to balance forms and edges. Oh we...

https://live.staticflickr.com/8317/7990333303_1916c841da_c.jpg Rock Pool, Tea Tree Bay, Afternoon Gelatin-silver photograph on Agfa Classic MCC 111 VC FB photographic paper, image size 16.5cm X 21.3cm, from a Tmax 100 4x5 negative exposed in a Tachihara 45GF double extension field view camera fitte...