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Mannequin posted:What's awesome about Schoeller is he uses a custom-built large format camera that has been converted into something he can sling over his shoulder and carry with him. Hence the incredible detail, shallow depth of his portraits. Those 4x5 point-and-shoots are semi-popular (for a custom-made large format camera), mostly paired with something like a 90mm Super-Angulon. I don't know that I've seen an 8x10 before though. I was thinking of building my own 4x5 or 8x10 TLR eventually but apparently I've been beaten. edit: my other idea is an ultra large format camera disguised to look like a hot dog cart, perfect for street photography. A bit like that camera-van guy that a Dorkroom goon interviewed not too long ago. Pompous Rhombus fucked around with this message at 07:41 on Dec 9, 2009 |
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spog posted:Is that first one a composite? If it's Leibovitz, it almost definitely is. This one grabbed me the first time I saw it, then again when it was on that 3-parter "best photos of 2009" linked previously. It's from a serious of photos shot along the North Korean/Chinese border with a telephoto (and extension tubes, I think).  Click here for the full 990x630 image.
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Among many things wrong in the world, I was born too late to ever get the chance to shoot with 4x5 Kodachrome  
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Moist von Lipwig posted:Why did you have to point this out?! It actually makes me feel like tears are welling up in my eyes knowing that Kodachrome is dead. Especially since I just got into photography half a year ago and really want to start shooting film. Last week I came across a couple rolls of K64 in 120 on eBay and got kinda excited (expired in the mid nineties, but I shot some non-refrigerated K25 a few years ago that came out alright). After some Googling I realized it would be impossible to get it processed anywhere; Dwayne's can only accommodate 35mm Kodachrome  You can still shoot 35mm for the rest of the year, at least. I just got two rolls back, have two more in the fridge.
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May 15, 2010 06:14
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Arinel posted:That's absolutely beautiful. I hope I wont sound noobish when I ask this, but who made it? Like Helmacron said, the pic is also a link back to the photographer's Flickr. It's just "some guy" though (I found it through his post on Large Format Photography forum), nobody famous or anything. One thing I noticed posting it that I didn't before is that the front rail/bed of his camera is visible at the bottom of the frame (the blurry thing), which is a bit of a noobish mistake itself. I wonder if he thought cropping it out would mess up his composition too much.
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May 15, 2010 21:42
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brad industry posted:Seeing poo poo like that on the ground glass is hard in the dark. It is, but the guy who wrote the LF landscape book I was reading recently says his method is to lock the front standard to the front of the rail and do all adjustments/movements with the rear. He only touches the front if he has to. FlickrRiver helps make Flickr browsing more palatable (and you can sort by "most interesting"), although I get what you mean.  Came across this on someone's 8x10 "take a portrait of a different stranger every day" project blog.
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May 16, 2010 03:34
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spog posted:I really like this one, but then I am a sucker for clean lines. They have their own elegant beauty and the subdued colours add to it Worst of all, I can't see her rear end.
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Spedman posted:The more I've gotten into photography the more I dislike this kind of work. I think its maybe the self indulgence, I don't know, or I'm getting older and young people are starting to poo poo me. I'm generally the same way (even with older people who do it, I've gone through a few such books [picked up by accident when pulling books at random from library shelves]), but I thought the photos from the series linked were actually pretty good. I don't have the theoretical background to defend my stance on disliking most self-portrait series, it's just a gut reaction not really rooted in aesthetics.
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Found randomly on Flickr, felt need to share:
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Moist von Lipwig posted:Oh wow, this is loving great. Yeah, I like his stuff as well. I had an 8x10 Toyo monorail I kind of bought on accident for a while, but lenses + film holders + film just didn't seem economical for me at the time, nor did lugging that thing around seem practical. I sold it to fund an NEX (which I've been using a ton), but I've got my eyes permanently peeled for a Gowland 8x10.
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Moist von Lipwig posted:Yeah tell me about it. Is there any chance that someone else will pick up production of his camera's now that he's gone or will they just kind of fade into obscurity? A monorail camera that weighs less than 10 pounds is really not something that should stop being made. I suppose it's up to his widow. I think I remember someone on LFF saying that towards the end of his life he was looking for someone interested in purchasing/taking over the business, but I don't think anything was finalized before he passed away. TomR posted:I work in a metal fabricating shop. I'll make one if someone want's to help with the design. I've never seen a large format back in person. Everything about the camera looks really simple though. How much do you think it would run? It's fairly basic in construction and the only really fiddly bit, the 8x10 back, can be purchased separately (same with a bellows). I've got the 4x5 version, which could serve as a good template/starting point. You'd also need a rack and pinion assembly for the focusing rail. edit: Looking on his site, the 8x10 Lite (rather than the older 10x10 version) uses an 8x10 bellows and 8x10 back (probably custom), rather than the larger, more easy to rotate 10x10 backs and square 10x10 bellows like on my old Toyo. Dunno if a 10x10 Gowland would be worth it for me; at 9 pounds I'd probably pick up a wooden field camera instead :-\ You could try e-mailing and ask his widow if she has any spares for sale, although IIRC the new cameras went for about $1600. Still, if someone else is interested in having you make one, I'd be happy to take as detailed pics as you want of the 4x5, and try to provide measurements.
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Sep 25, 2010 22:53
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TomR posted:The cost would depend on how many I make. There looks to be almost no material in the camera, so raw cost would be very low. I can have the standards and most of the other parts cut by laser, so if I make a pile of them it would be very cheap. There's a company in the UK that does custom bellows (used to be one local to me in the US, but I think they closed up shop), although it's not cheap IIRC. Might be like $200-250 at least for 8x10, although if you were ordering more than one it might get cheaper. Not sure about the back either, although searching flickr for "gowland 8x10" I found one or two semi-good pictures of it. Let's move it to the large/medium format thread for now.
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Found while cruisin' Wikipedia for info on wet-plate: "A Veteran and His Wife", 1860's
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Jan 31, 2011 12:43
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Mugshots of Australian criminals (heh) from the 1920's. Mugshots are a lost art IMO: Dude on the left is now a prominent figure in my nightmares. Mostly the eyes.   Click here for the full 627x325 image.     Click here for the full 723x686 image.
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Aww crap, I meant to put the link in the post but forgot! http://www.laboiteverte.fr/portraits-de-criminels-australiens-dans-les-annees-1920/ At my university library I found a whole book of mugshots from San Francisco around the same time period, if I can find it again I'll scan some of the cooler ones. scottch posted:Yes especially the mugshots of Matt Damon and Maeby Fünke?? Lol, I saw a resemblance so I put the celebrity pic under them. The Matt Damon one is a bit of a stretch, but that was the first thing that popped into my head when I saw it.
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Cannister posted:He's got a really great "stranger" series on his flickr stream. Username's Benoit.P I believe. As far as I can tell the dude just goes to random people on the street or knocks on their door, tells them he wants to take their portrait and then they let him. It's very neat. Awesome. For easier viewing: Flickrriver
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Mar 23, 2011 02:20
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Stumbled across this photographer's self-portrait series when I was perusing featured examples on 4ormat. Her other work is also very good.
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Bottom Liner posted:None of the photos will load for me. In fact, no photos on any 4ormat site will. Guess I won't be going with them for my site redesign... Really? Everything is working fine for me (Safari/OS X). Paragon8 posted:Well, I'm glad she finally took me off her website. I used to assist her last year. ...no good?
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A5H posted:Because large format. A bit late, but medium format 
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Sep 18, 2011 13:48
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Bottom Liner posted:It's being hammered right now because of Reddit, but this is a great set of 4x5 Kodachromes from WW2. I've been really enjoying WW2 era photos lately, and these are fantastic. Older post, but yeah, this is one of my all-time favorite portraits.
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8th-samurai posted:
The green hurts my eyes in a good way.
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Nov 14, 2012 12:45
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I was listening to a back episode of a comedy podcast while doing some cleaning, and one of the things they were ridiculing was the inanity of the posters on the apparently-thriving message board of JeffBridges.com, which is as you might suspect, the personal website of actor Jeff Bridges. I mosied over to see if said message board was still up (it is), and also checked out his photos section, which is pretty drat cool. Mostly shot with a Widelux, provides some interesting and intimate looks at life on set. JeffBridges.com Photography Kinda off topic, but I'll take pretty much every opportunity I can to introduce people to said comedy podcast. These aren't from the episode I was listening to, but are a good introduction: Craigslist Dad Hey Dad You Killed Mom Again Pedophile House Party
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Axel Serenity posted:He did a talk at our museum a few years ago and he basically owns. Also, please go see his stuff in person if you can. loving giant levels of detail oh god I'm walking into a photograph He's quite well-known, at least down here in Florida.
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 I saw this image in a BBC documentary (World War 1's Forgotten Photographs), taken by a 17 year old German soldier. The documentary itself is very interesting and pro-watch (full version available on Youtube at that link).
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