Entries in monochrome (74)
WHEN EMPTY RETURN 2 RICHFIELD OIL CO
Made with unmodified but damaged Turner Reich 12 1/4" f7 lens wide open. On one of the groups there is a bizarre pattern in the cement very much like the intricate swirls of a finger print and about that fine. It covers the entire optic and has a marvelous softening effect. When you stop down it gets blurrier....but with increased depth of field. A very weird lens that I need to PLAY with much more.


Wollensak Series A - I think?
When i acquired my Verito from Jim he offered me the front and rear barrels to another lens that also used the same studio shutter as the Verito. Naturally for the small additional cost I gladly accepted his kind offer. This image is done with the [I'll call it a Wollensak Series A] Wolly in an attempt to step away from the clinical landscape style I have done in the past. It is a very hard task to use a Petzval like this one in a landscape and not have too much of the radial blur happening in the background. While this lens is a Petzval it is a 9" and on 5x4 the swirlies may not be so prominent as say a 5x7 or 10x8. With the discussion on pictorialism happening on Largeformatphotography I felt inspired to see what would happen with this lens in a ladscape instead of a portrait situation.


Magic forest
Hi Jonathan, hi folks,
this is a very new one from my last holiday in Scottland. There are many wonderful magic forests. This was made with my Verito.
All the best frome Berlin
stefan d


Efke Postitive paper!
So, I'm sure like alot of other people interested in photography, we've all at one point or another shot pinhole cameras (or regular large format cameras) with paper instead of negatives. I enjoyed doing this in college (pinhole cameras) but I never liked the negative image on the paper.
My interest in shooting paper has been revived when I saw Efke is selling positive paper now! I got mine from freestyle, here: https://www.freestylephoto.biz/sc_search.php?q=positive+paper&catsel=all&
My only trouble so far, has been in dealing with the very high contrast of the paper! much more than one stop over and one stop under, goes to white and black. This works quite well for subjects of very low contrast, but is tricky for subjects of even moderate contrast range. I've been developing with Dektol, various dilutions don't seem to make much difference, though I've noticed as the dektol gets exhausted, I think the contrast seems to be reduced. I'm going to be trying Selectol developer soon, to see if a softer developer will yield less contrast.
In any case, here are some of my better results, scanned to match the prints as close as possible. all on 8x10. I was careful to meter for the highlights, to keep as much of the water detail as possible. I really hope I can find a developing solution that will yield a bit less contrast, working with this positive paper is so much fun!


Have you taken your dramamine today?
Jonathtan is of course Mr. subtle good taste so I feel it's my duty every now and again to post something truly awful.
I call that one Jim in the Peach tree....
and this one Pam in the Vortex.
The purpose was to illustrate purposefully making an image that swirls. I used my 9" Verito on my 8X10.

