Teatime

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Hallo,

here is a picture I have made with a Verito 8 ¾ on a Technika in 4x5”. I found this can on a trip to India in an old restaurant. The can had a marvellous shine of silver and I wanted to catch this mood. The print is made on Ilford MGW and developed in Moersch Separol HE. Afterwards I bleached, redeveloped and toned with Sepia Toner.

Best wishes from Berlin

stefan d

Posted on Sunday, August 19, 2007 at 01:37PM by Registered CommenterStefan D in , , | Comments3 Comments

1/15 of a Second

It's Brasil............It's Bahia.................It's Carnaval..............It's WideOpen............It's 1/15 of a second.


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Posted on Sunday, August 19, 2007 at 01:32PM by Registered CommenterJonathan Brewer in , , | CommentsPost a Comment

ZuluHat-Wollensak Velostigmat-Polaroid 'Chocolate' process

Steve..........This is the Velostigmat w/the Polaroid 'Chocolate' process(809 color neg onto 804 positive w/b&w chemical pod).  Purchased from Equinox, this was my first classic lens in LF, a magical lens for not a lot of money.  Incidently, it's hard to take my eyes away from your Raptor shot.


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Posted on Saturday, August 18, 2007 at 12:44PM by Registered CommenterJonathan Brewer in , , | Comments2 Comments

Wolllensak a very pleasant surprise


Throughout a large part of my photographic life I have used and loved a Hasselblad system. Wonderful lenses, so easy to use and basically the only camera I wanted to use. The Hasselblad is wonderfully sharp, but sharpness is not everything for me. I parralleled my medium format work with a 5x4 for the past 30 years but most of the time I chose the Hasselblad due to the desire for the type of image it produced. Although a Hasselblad outfit was expensive, good large format cameras and lenses required a very serious bank roll. Then came digital and many people abandoned many of the larger cameras for very little money. For some reason I ended up with 3 5x4 cameras in a short space of time and a developing collection of lenses.
 
For some reason I held the view that because it was an old lens it wasn't going to be any good. It is wonderful to be proven so wrong.
The following images are all done with a variety of Wollensak glass from about the 1920-1950 time period. My only problem now, and it is a problem, is which lens do I leave at home :)
 
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Posted on Saturday, August 18, 2007 at 03:16AM by Registered CommenterSteve Nicholls in , , , | Comments1 Comment

Uploading images with journal entries by a member

I created 'WideOpen' to share images and ideas, so I'm devoting a journal entry to explain how to upload an image w/a journal entry as simply as possible.  When you arrive at the 'Create Journal Entry' dialog box, there's a horizontal row of little icons(little tools) just above where you type in your entry.

Run your cursor slowly over these tools, going from left to right, and just past the middle of the row, will be a square box, running your cursor over this box will give you the popup, 'insert image', letting you know you've got the right button.  Click on this button.

A page will appear, refer to my uploaded image of this page, and click where I've indicated by RED TYPE, which is the small 'page icon' at the top, clicking on this 'page icon' will give you a 'browse' button, clicking the 'browse' button lets you navigate to your computer or wherever your files are.

Also, you must have 'cookies enabled', so that whenever you go to the site, Squarspace can recognize your member privileges and account, and please understand, this is them, not me. 

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Posted on Wednesday, August 8, 2007 at 04:50PM by Registered CommenterJonathan Brewer | Comments1 Comment