yay, doing large format photography is fun!

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I finally bought myself my own view camera (Sinar F) and I've been having a lot of fun lately taking nature pictures. I took a picture of my two friends just for the heck of it a couple of months ago, and just now got around to developing all the photos I had taken with the camera until a few days ago. Used a Yankee agitank (cool once you get the da***ed bugs out of it!), TMAX400, TMAX RS developer, blah, blah.

Two things:

a. If you take fashion portraits with a 4x5 view camera, you are to be applauded. This stuff is not as 'easy' as lugging around the 35mm.

b. This stuff is rewarding! I just love playing around with grain-free fat negatives on the computer. It's just really fun.

Hopefully soon I'll be returning to my SLR and return to my fashion wannabe photography :) Right now I'm just having too much fun! I just wanted to share with you guys a pic, just because I'm so excited!



-- Edward Kang (ekang@cse.nd.edu), September 19, 2001

Answers

This is neat! Excellent portrait of a very nice looking and photogenic couple. It's sure a pleasure to see photography of people smiling.

-- Tony Rowlett (rowlett@alaska.net), September 19, 2001.

Its great isnt it? The very first day I used mine I ubderstood as never before why god gave us the 35mm SLR... but grainless is where its at! You went straight for the manly film back- I've been wimping out with Polaroid all along...

-- Chris (cyeager@ix.netcom.com), September 19, 2001.

Well..I guess I'm going to be "Mr. Negative" here! Your photo is delightful. No problems there.

I think you could do the same quality with medium format, or, even with 35mm, using something like XP-2 or T-Max 100.

The "lugging around" part is my biggest problem with large format...I've been there, many many times! I tend to be more spontaneous, "quick on the trigger," and very impatient for large format nowdays! That's just where I'm at!

Nice work...keep at it.

-- Todd Frederick (fredrick@hotcity.com), September 21, 2001.


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