A few more frames of 8x10 x-ray film. I’m starting to get the hang of metering for this stuff (~ISO 200 in afternoon sunlight, but down around 80 in the evening when the light begins to warm). Good thing I keep notes. And it’s cheap.
One problem I’ve run up against is that the massive (like, 6-inch diameter) shutter for my lens only goes up to 1/50th of a second, so in sunlight I have to stop down to f/32 in order to get the correct exposure. I would have preferred a shallower depth of field on the first two shots here.
This is my favorite (non-portrait) large-format shot I’ve taken so far. I think it’ll be my candidate for practice on contact prints. The boat in the background is visually distracting, and I wish I could have narrowed the depth of field significantly, but oh well. Need to get a good filter set.
I wanted everything to the right of the bow line to be out of focus, which I would have gotten at about f/8, but was limited by the light. And yes, this is taken from the same spot as above, but I flipped it horizontally because the manufacturer markings at the bottom of the film were otherwise backwards (the film is double-sided, and I must have loaded this holder the other way around. I’ll need to take note of the orientation of the packaging when loading holders in the future.
A bit cluttered visually, but I like the waves and the texture of the tree bark.
Overexposed. Took some post-production work to get tonal differentiation between the sky and reflections in the water.
Underexposed. Shadows crushed to black, leaving no detail in the tree trunks. Would have preferred another stop or so, with more light through the blossoms. Hard to see in this version, but the girl on the bench was giving me the side-eye.
The plaza was empty when I set up this shot, and then on cue, when I was ready to pull the dark slide, that couple came out and parked themselves there. Oh well.
