Sunday 22 April 2012
Infrared and BW 5x4 film received by the lab!
I got a message late last week from the lab stating my film had been received so now I am really looking forward to getting the pictures back! I am hoping I have got closer to exposing infrared film more accurately. It is getting somewhat crucial at the minute as I am going on a Royal Photographic Society weekend next month and want to take advantage of spring on the landscape so am hoping to take effective infrared images. I might also book out the Wista again! I might even go to colour film 5x4 too. Undecided as yet. I need to think more about the trip and what I want to do. I am really looking forward to it though.
Thursday 12 April 2012
Wista 5x4 black and white
10th April, 2012
On Tuesday I spent a pleasant evening taking 6 Ilford black and white images at Wollaton Hall and Deer Park of scenery.
I absolutely loved it!
It's a big camera and not light so walking throughout the park was not an option on this occasion.
We parked near the Hall and walked to the lake where I took 6 shots. It slowed me down, made me think more about composition and the steps needed to be taken to expose the negative.
A few mistakes were made, notably forgetting to take the dark slide out, also it took a bit of getting used to viewing the image upside down and back to front.
It looked brilliant on the viewing screen! So big! Like a telly!
I had to remember it was in BW though and I exposed at 125 asa instead of the 100asa that it was (I couldnt recall the film speed).
The light meter was an absolute necessity of course although on that particular day the sunny f16 rule would probably have worked.
All images were taken in the portrait format except the 6th which was landscape and a red filter attached, metered with the filter in front of it.
Loading the film wasn't particularly difficult. I had practised it with a single negative prior to actually doing it but it was more fiddly than I had imagined. I think that was because with all the stuff in the changing back (and I put this under thick blankets to try to ensure there was no light entry-it probably didnt need it though), I didnt account for the weight of the blankets on the changing bag. It was hot in there and I hope that loading the negative holders and removing after exposure, they will not be affected by the sweat on my hands!
It wont be developed for a while, when it is I'll blogit!
On Tuesday I spent a pleasant evening taking 6 Ilford black and white images at Wollaton Hall and Deer Park of scenery.
I absolutely loved it!
It's a big camera and not light so walking throughout the park was not an option on this occasion.
We parked near the Hall and walked to the lake where I took 6 shots. It slowed me down, made me think more about composition and the steps needed to be taken to expose the negative.
A few mistakes were made, notably forgetting to take the dark slide out, also it took a bit of getting used to viewing the image upside down and back to front.
It looked brilliant on the viewing screen! So big! Like a telly!
I had to remember it was in BW though and I exposed at 125 asa instead of the 100asa that it was (I couldnt recall the film speed).
The light meter was an absolute necessity of course although on that particular day the sunny f16 rule would probably have worked.
All images were taken in the portrait format except the 6th which was landscape and a red filter attached, metered with the filter in front of it.
Loading the film wasn't particularly difficult. I had practised it with a single negative prior to actually doing it but it was more fiddly than I had imagined. I think that was because with all the stuff in the changing back (and I put this under thick blankets to try to ensure there was no light entry-it probably didnt need it though), I didnt account for the weight of the blankets on the changing bag. It was hot in there and I hope that loading the negative holders and removing after exposure, they will not be affected by the sweat on my hands!
It wont be developed for a while, when it is I'll blogit!
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