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- Thread starter Alan9940
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Like these Alan, very nice
Thank you all for your kind comments.
All three have a somewhat interesting story behind them. Briefly, for image 1 (quarry) I had to wait about 45 minutes for the sun to peak through because it was a very overcast day. When I first saw the scene, it was awash with sunlight, but by the time I hiked back in there and got the camera setup (5x4) the sun was gone. I wanted the sun! So I waited...after nearly 45 minutes I saw a small hole in the clouds and wondered if I'd be fortunate enough that the sun would make its way through. I was and the image was burned onto the film. While I waited, I remembered something my photo mentor said, he quipped, "If you're setup and ready for something to happen, you might not get the shot, but if the camera is in the bag, you definitely won't get the shot!
For image 2 (brook), I was using my 10x8 and was standing literally in the middle of the rushing water which was rushing by about 7 cm under my tripod head. The current was of such force that I had trouble standing there! Not the best of spots to setup a 10x8 camera.
For image 3, it was really straightforward other than the fact that I had to stand in the middle of a road to get the viewpoint that I wanted. Again, using the 10x8 for this shot was, perhaps, not the best choice considering camera position! My wife watched for cars whilst I made the image. I just love the ghostly remains of the portico or whatever that was attached to the front of this house at some point in the past.
All three have a somewhat interesting story behind them. Briefly, for image 1 (quarry) I had to wait about 45 minutes for the sun to peak through because it was a very overcast day. When I first saw the scene, it was awash with sunlight, but by the time I hiked back in there and got the camera setup (5x4) the sun was gone. I wanted the sun! So I waited...after nearly 45 minutes I saw a small hole in the clouds and wondered if I'd be fortunate enough that the sun would make its way through. I was and the image was burned onto the film. While I waited, I remembered something my photo mentor said, he quipped, "If you're setup and ready for something to happen, you might not get the shot, but if the camera is in the bag, you definitely won't get the shot!
For image 2 (brook), I was using my 10x8 and was standing literally in the middle of the rushing water which was rushing by about 7 cm under my tripod head. The current was of such force that I had trouble standing there! Not the best of spots to setup a 10x8 camera.
For image 3, it was really straightforward other than the fact that I had to stand in the middle of a road to get the viewpoint that I wanted. Again, using the 10x8 for this shot was, perhaps, not the best choice considering camera position!
My wife watched for cars whilst I made the image. I just love the ghostly remains of the portico or whatever that was attached to the front of this house at some point in the past.Allan,
somewhat proves the old adage.. if you 'seek and look' there's 'usually' something 'to be seen' that is well well worth 'making' the time to get the camera out after finding the best possible view-point,setting up the the tripod, mounting the camera there-on, making the final 'required' adjustments for focus, minor adjustments utilising the rise or fall/shift, reading the information you see on the light meter, choose the best f-stop for required DOF, inserting the 'loaded' film holder, 'cocking the shutter and then making the exposure..
You 'done good' this time
Ken
somewhat proves the old adage.. if you 'seek and look' there's 'usually' something 'to be seen' that is well well worth 'making' the time to get the camera out after finding the best possible view-point,setting up the the tripod, mounting the camera there-on, making the final 'required' adjustments for focus, minor adjustments utilising the rise or fall/shift, reading the information you see on the light meter, choose the best f-stop for required DOF, inserting the 'loaded' film holder, 'cocking the shutter and then making the exposure..
You 'done good' this time
Ken
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Hi,
Great images again Alan.
Re "always something to shoot", Jay Maisel said to his photography students in (I think) New York that there was ALWAYS something, look for it.
I think for the finest work needs an alignment of chance, vision and techniques but you'll always get " summat".
Robert
Great images again Alan.
Re "always something to shoot", Jay Maisel said to his photography students in (I think) New York that there was ALWAYS something, look for it.
I think for the finest work needs an alignment of chance, vision and techniques but you'll always get " summat".
Robert
I believe I have mentioned my 'system' elsewhere on this site, that I use a Kodak 'grey card with a cut-out rectangle and knotted string (for the one-eyed view for each of my lenses) that I hold to my chin when 'framing' for a potential 'image' worth recording to film with one of the lenses I have available (in my camera bag).. or already mounted on the camera. I drop my hat and move the tripod mounted camera and 'place' the lens as close as possible to 'over' that spot. In inch or so "off' can be modified to meet my original 'framing decision' since my Linhof is on a 'rail' allowing minor changes by inches [or centimetres ]
Ken
]Ken
I did the same for many years when I first started shooting LF. Then, I moved to a viewing filter consisting of a Wratten #90 (I think) gel filter that...sort of...simulated the look of B&W film. Nowadays, I use the Mark II Artist's Viewfinder app on my iPhone. I like this method the best so far because 1) entering a "custom camera", which includes measurements of the actual recorded image area, provides very precise framing per whatever lenses you have programmed, and 2) I can take a picture of the scene, which includes the frame lines, for documentation purposes.
I still rely on my Zone VI viewing filter/viewing frame.
I was tempted to get a Linhof zoom viewfinder, but I know the field of view well enough for all my lenses so as to not need it anymore (helped by only carrying lenses with a decent focal length gap).
Mike
I was tempted to get a Linhof zoom viewfinder, but I know the field of view well enough for all my lenses so as to not need it anymore (helped by only carrying lenses with a decent focal length gap).
Mike
After all these years, I'm pretty good with knowing the field of view of all my lenses, but I still find it much easier and less tiring to find the exact camera position with my 10x8 outfit when using the app on the phone. Now that I have the Intrepid 10x8, it's much easier to simply setup the camera and move it around; not so much with my Deardorff 10x8, 360mm Schneider Symmar-S lens, all sitting on top of a heavy Ries tripod.