Blühender Apfelbaum

📷 Selbstbau WillTravel 4x5"
Schneider Xenar 135mm f4.7
Fomapan 100 Planfilm
Cyanotypie, Kontrast digital verstärkt 😇

#Großformat #largeformat #fotografie #photography

From now on, I will be referring to camera bellows as a “telescopic skin cavity”.

#camera #filmphotography #believeinfilm #funny #fbmarketplace #largeformat

I shot a few rolls and sheets of #IlfordFP4 over the last few weeks, so I'm finally ready for a few entries for #FP4Party.

I'll start with a shot from my #Graflex in/near #Asheville. This particular shot was from an overlook on the #BlueRidgeParkway heading toward Craggy Gardens. Shot with a red filter. The 3000 px resolution doesn't do it justice…zooming in on the treeline on the full 4x5 scan is awesome. I've included a snippet of a screenshot as an example.

📷 #CrownGraphic
🎞️ #IlfordFP4
🧪 #HC110B 10:40 @ 17.9 C

#FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #BelieveInFilm #DevelopYourOwn #Darktable #LargeFormat

I found a vintage (1950s?) Brumberger (up to) 5x7in contact printing box for sale locally. Needs a bit of a cleaning, but it's otherwise in great shape. These kinds of contact printers were meant to be used with now-hard-to-find, contact-printing-specific, silver-chloride papers like Kodak AZO. (As far as I know, Lodima is the only place to get similar paper... and it's not cheap.) That said, I've read that you can use modern enlarging photo paper as long as you don't mind a certain loss of control. Modern papers are several stops (at least) faster than silver chloride... so the exposure times will be much shorter.

I'm excited to experiment with it.

#filmphotography #largeformat #photography #darkroom #printmaking #photoprinting

One of these things is not like the other…😅

I also reduced my dev time by 15%. With #XTOL I didn’t really have to worry about that switching to rotation, but #HC110 seems a lot more sensitive to it based on the other negs I’ve scanned so far being super dense. It looks to me like I could have reduced it further - but it’s hard to tell given these were shots of dark mountains and bright skies. The two shots where it appears I clearly metered on the mountains look the best so far, but I am still looking forward to seeing how these scan.

I need to go take some pictures of some familiar spots with this film and developer combo to be a better benchmark. #LargeFormat #DevelopYourOwn