Mike and I took a trip to San Francisco this past weekend. I’m developing and scanning like a mad woman but I won’t have anything to post for a while as I leave for Michigan/Kentucky tomorrow.
I thought I would post this pic of Maeby I shot with my 4x5. I’m having issues with my developing tank so I’m having to crop my negatives quite a bit. At any rate, I thought this was cute.
Several week ago I was talking to my Dad on the phone and he was telling me about a photograph that my uncle Jeff had of their biological dad when he was 7-8 years old. He couldn’t believe how similar they looked and said it even made him do a double take when he first saw the photo. I of course, being skeptical by nature, didn’t believe him. I wrote my uncle Jeff a nice message on facebook and a short time later I had a copy of said photograph.
The photo to the right is the portrait of Xander I took, over the christmas holiday 2011, on my 4x5. He was 7.5 at the time. Such a handsome kid, if I do say so myself.
The photo on the left is my paternal grandfather, whom I never met. I’m assuming it was taken on a camera similar to the 4x5 I’ve been using, but who knows. He was also around 7- 8 in this photo. Probably late 40’s. Notice the trendy bottle cap buttons?
At any rate, when I saw the photo I just about fell out of my chair. I know they don’t look exactly alike, but wow!! So many striking similarities! What do you think?
This is an overexposed image of Xander shot on tri-x 320 using my 4x5. I sent this out to be processed and scanned the negative with my Epson V700.
One of the draw backs to my 4x5 is that the lens has no shutter, so all exposures are manual. Actually, I think I should rephrase that and say the draw back is that I’m not experienced enough with the lens/camera combo to know what I’m doing…yet :)
This was taken in the middle of the afternoon under the shade of many trees. At the moment I have a box of tri-x 320 and so I set the aperture to f/11 and metered for those setting. Of course the suggestion was about 1/36 which is not possible without a shutter. At the time I had completely forgotten about pushing/pulling film so I just used my hand and covered/uncovered the lens as quickly as I could and sent it out to be processed fully expecting total failure. Results? You guessed it, way over exposed.
I still think it’s lovely. It has that antique glow to it doesn’t it? Most importantly I knew what I was doing wrong and I know how to fix it. I think a slower speed film is in order as well as testing out some filters. While I’m waiting for my order of t-max 100 to come in I’m going to try pulling the 320. *fingers crossed*
