rdeloe
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I've done that with all the mirrors in my house because the view is much better when I'm standing in front of it.
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Behind the scenes
- Thread starter danlindberg
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In my case it's better to keep behind the mirrors and scenes.
GeorgeBo
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I posted this first image in the Large Format Gear thread and thought I would post a behind the scenes here.
I received this Pacemaker Speed Graphic from a camera club friend of mine who acquired some old gear. This thing was in bad shape and was going to be thrown away. So with some elbow grease and paint and, lube and ... here it is.
I shot this with a weird combination, because I have a soft spot for old stuff that has been set aside. The gear used was a CFV 100C (ok that is not the old stuff part), with Cambo Actus and a Nikkor H·C 75mm f/2.8 for Bronica medium format lens. Bronica made a bellows attachment with movement for their S cameras so maybe the lens had that taken into context when designed?? So I figure what the hack. I made a Bronica S mount adapter out of a spare Cambo Actus lens board and here we are.
Use what you have or can make right?
Oh yeah don't make fun of my light on the right. It works LOL
George
I received this Pacemaker Speed Graphic from a camera club friend of mine who acquired some old gear. This thing was in bad shape and was going to be thrown away. So with some elbow grease and paint and, lube and ... here it is.
I shot this with a weird combination, because I have a soft spot for old stuff that has been set aside. The gear used was a CFV 100C (ok that is not the old stuff part), with Cambo Actus and a Nikkor H·C 75mm f/2.8 for Bronica medium format lens. Bronica made a bellows attachment with movement for their S cameras so maybe the lens had that taken into context when designed?? So I figure what the hack. I made a Bronica S mount adapter out of a spare Cambo Actus lens board and here we are.
Use what you have or can make right?
Oh yeah don't make fun of my light on the right. It works LOL
George
MGrayson
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Was the second image taken with the Speed Graphic?
rdeloe
Well-known member
This is another one from my current Crawford Lake project. The lake is unusual because it is meromictic (so two lakes in one hole because the top and bottom layers of water never mix). The lake is nestled in a Conservation Halton (CH) conservation areas, and surrounded by a nice boardwalk that lets people who aren't used to hiking get closer to nature.
My project with CH involves making photographs that support the work they're doing. The lake itself is a defining feature of the site, but equally important is the geology (limestone) and the vegetation (a mixed coniferous and deciduous forest, with lots of eastern white cedar).
I really like eastern white cedar because they don't take no for an answer. When they can't grow up to the sky like normal trees, they pull crazy stunts like this: growing off a cliff and down into the lake.
You can't see this tree from the boardwalk, and users of the area are supposed to stay on the boardwalk and paths. But if you have a research permit and an orange High Viz vest, you can go anywhere!
One challenge in making this scene was finding a place to position the camera. It's a cliff, so I had to jam one leg of the tripod between two trees, place one on solid ground, and leave the third one floating. I had to lean out over the cliff edge and hold on with left hand while operating all the controls with right hand.
A second challenge was an older gentleman and his wife who stopped to chat... while I was hanging over the side of the cliff. I was treated to a lengthy history of his personal connections to Crawford Lake. Nothing says "I'm working here" like a High Viz vest, but it didn't do the trick this time.
I used my Mamiya G 50mm f/4 L on my F-Universalis with GFX. I needed swing to get the plane of focus just right. I used the f/13 image even though it gives up a bit of detail to diffraction because I wanted all the elements of the trunk in focus.
My project with CH involves making photographs that support the work they're doing. The lake itself is a defining feature of the site, but equally important is the geology (limestone) and the vegetation (a mixed coniferous and deciduous forest, with lots of eastern white cedar).
I really like eastern white cedar because they don't take no for an answer. When they can't grow up to the sky like normal trees, they pull crazy stunts like this: growing off a cliff and down into the lake.
You can't see this tree from the boardwalk, and users of the area are supposed to stay on the boardwalk and paths. But if you have a research permit and an orange High Viz vest, you can go anywhere!
One challenge in making this scene was finding a place to position the camera. It's a cliff, so I had to jam one leg of the tripod between two trees, place one on solid ground, and leave the third one floating. I had to lean out over the cliff edge and hold on with left hand while operating all the controls with right hand.
A second challenge was an older gentleman and his wife who stopped to chat... while I was hanging over the side of the cliff. I was treated to a lengthy history of his personal connections to Crawford Lake. Nothing says "I'm working here" like a High Viz vest, but it didn't do the trick this time.
I used my Mamiya G 50mm f/4 L on my F-Universalis with GFX. I needed swing to get the plane of focus just right. I used the f/13 image even though it gives up a bit of detail to diffraction because I wanted all the elements of the trunk in focus.
rdeloe
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Insurance company? I wish! If that thing went over the edge, the University has a $10,000 deductible on coverage for loss of equipment.Well, you better not tell your insurance company ...
Having said that, I am going to pack some "insurance" in the form of a tether I can attach so that if I'm in a place where things are a bit tippy, at least I'll have a safety line to hold the tripod and camera.
MGrayson
Subscriber and Workshop Member
They don’t cover anything over f/11?Well, you better not tell your insurance company ...
Knorp
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Excellent measure - at least that way you'll go down together with your equipment ...
rdeloe
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Not quite. The tether is for the equipment. I go over the cliff! The main reason I have to wear that orange vest is so it's easier for them to find the body.Excellent measure - at least that way you'll go down together with your equipment ...
lookbook
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rdeloe
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Early morning in Milton, ON. I need some photographs that answer the question, "What does the landscape look like around here?" There's a lot of agriculture, and the corn is standing tall. This calls for a really tall tripod to create the "wall of corn" and then to be able to see over the wall of corn. The catch is you need to be really, really tall to see the viewfinder when the tripod stands this tall.
Lacking a ladder....
GeorgeBo
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Has been a while since something has been posted to this thread, so here is something a little different. Was curious to see how an old Fisheye-NIKKOR 8mm f/2.8 would do for a full view of the night sky. I was in a relatively dark area in southern Va yesterday so gave it a try before heading home last night. Shot from on top of the bed of my truck to avoid a nearby shed from getting in the frame. 180° FOV
ISO1600, 40 sec, 8mm adapted to the Fuji GFX100 II
George
ISO1600, 40 sec, 8mm adapted to the Fuji GFX100 II
George
Excellent work in limiting the paces from the car! <g>
rdeloe
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In my defence, that was the best location.
If I had even less respect for my car than I do, I would have been standing on the roof!
cunim
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Been a while since I did one of these. Here's yesterday. Four mirrors, four lights, one little knife in the middle of it all and a composite of three orientations. IQ4, Rodie 120 apo macro sironar. Goal is to play off the soft greens of the mammoth ivory scales (the slabs on either side of the handle) against the carved metal of the spine.
John Leathwick
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In total contrast to the indoors post above, here's one from my excursion last week into the Canterbury high country, where I climbed a ski-field road in search of the specialised plants that grow on the screes that are extensive above the tree line. Here's one of my targets, a small annual species that is a member of the brassica family, and that is known as the pen-wiper plant. All of the plants that I found had finished flowering except for this small individual, which was all of 50mm high, with a rosette of leaves perhaps 70mm in diameter. Getting the camera low enough is a challenge in this terrain, and I ended up suspending it under the tripod, taking 12 images as a focus stack which I combined in Zerene Stacker. (Fuji GFX 100s/F-Universalis/S-K ApoComponon HR 90/4.5.
-John
-John
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MGrayson
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