Here are two of the four shots from our UWA run last Tuesday (click through to see the other two).
I didn’t slip with the shutter this time, but the slight shakes might be from light wind and the tripod or something else. I might have to see about rigging up a remote shutter cable for the Speed Graphic to eliminate my manual shutter operation as the cause of the shakes.
The first shot of the Hall from the distance was taken at f/4.7 for 3 seconds. The second was taken at f/5.6 for 8 seconds based on metering Chris had with his DSLR. It didn’t look bad on the DSLR but it looks a little over-exposed on film.
The second shot closer to the Hall was taken at f/5.6 for 6 seconds using a very scientific calculation involving the original distance of the previous shot taken at f/5.6 and the distance I moved to get closer to the subject. Next time I’ll bring my light meter…
Tuesday November 03, 2009 @ 2329
These are two of the shots from our excursion to Kings Park a couple weeks ago (click through to see the other two). My install of Photoshop seems to have crapped itself so this is the first round of digitisation and inverting using Pixlr. It’s a bit eh but it’ll do until I get around to reinstalling Photoshop.
A couple of them have been double exposed because I wasn’t quite gentle enough with the shutter and it, well, shut before I could do the extended exposure. But they’re all just as blurry so at least I was consistent in some way. :P I think the freeway shot was the only one I didn’t slip on with the shutter.
If I had the foresight to develop these before our trip to UWA last week, I might have had more lessons to learn from but alas.
All the same, not bad for a first attempt at night exposures.
Monday November 02, 2009 @ 1510
After two months (o m g I don’t know if surface mail is really worth the savings…) my Beseler drum has finally arrived from Canada! *dance*
But but… I haven’t got the chemicals to do any developing, and I don’t know if I’ll have time to pick some up tomorrow after moving more stuff from my old place. And if I can’t, it’ll be another week before I get another opportunity. Tragedy.
Oh well… I suppose another week after two months isn’t going to hurt… *sniff*
Friday February 06, 2009 @ 1750
My partially deconstructed Bulldog. Which I painted a lovely matte black. The mdf split when I attached parts using the laser cut pilot holes, so I had to take the lens panel and the ground glass clips (at the rear) off to superglue the wood to reinforce it before I reattach them.
Chris said I shouldn’t unscrew the parts, but they’re meant to be loose enough to move and I didn’t want to get superglue on them by accident.
But first, buy superglue.
And I was so close to finishing too. I’d have been done days ago if the mdf hadn’t split. *cry*
Monday November 10, 2008 @ 1403
Graflex Pacemaker Speed Graphic 4x5 (via Capt Kodak)
Read the full caption under the photo. The most amazing part was about the Hindenburg crash and one of the witnesses to the accident, a photographer by the name of Murray Becker:
The airship went down in 45 secs! Of those now famous shots, Becker shot a total series of five shots of the airship on fire during those 45 secs. That’s at least 4 reloads and 3 plate packs—in 45 secs!
That’s some insanely fast camera work.
Thursday November 06, 2008 @ 2358
