Go Large

[JamesT]

Couple of early images from a Graflex large format camera.

The old cress beds at Letcombe Bassett:

And the Letcombe Brook a few hundered yards downstream, in the Wildlife Trust reserve:

("Scanned" with the 70D as my current scanner won't do 4x5).

[kev7d]

If I were to choose a shot from these 2 it would be the first.  It’s years since I used film.  

[FUJI]

Both pics beautifully seen and rendered James, I agree with Kev on the second holding the edge.......love the square format and the detail.

If they were mine I would be tempted to do a little dodging and burning in the darkroom to emphasise chosen areas.....but as I’m fully digital, it would be done in Photoshop using Contrast Grading.

Love the format.

 

FUJI

[JamesT]

Thanks folks. It's interesting how the format looks squarer on the screen than the negatives themselves do -- I suppose it's because we are so used to 2x3 and 3x4 aspect ratios.

Since I don't find DSLR "scanning" a particularly satisfactory way to go, I've not done any local processing; only a global tone curve adjustment to invert the negative and to spread the histogram out a bit and rotation and perspective tweaks to fix the misalignment of the set up.

I have ordered a new scanner that will do 4x5 negatives, an Epson V800.