Recent Entries
EV Exposure Chart
**Often when I am metering a scene I record the EV values low and high and determine where to place them on the zone system scale. I usually use the average EV function of my meter and place it on f22 or higher as a starting point. Many of my scenes are shot in wooded […]
Ansel Adams at Booth Western Art Museum
**The Booth Western Art Museum in Cartersville GA is hosting its third exhibition of Ansel Adams photographs “The Masterworks. I saw the last exhibition featuring similar photographic works from photographers Before and After Adams , which showed his influences as well as those he influenced. Definitely worth a day trip from Atlanta and worth the […]
Blood Mountain Staircase
**Details of the Appalachian Trail – Staircase on Blood Mountain. I should call this the Devil’s staircase because it took the wind out of me and several other hikers to get up it. It is only about a 50 foot rise in elevation but is merely the first in a series of steep inclines and […]
Sepia Toning with Thiourea
**I have been interested in the sepia toned images I have often seen online. My attempts at toning with selenium yielded a nice chocolate brown on Ilford MGFB WarmTone paper but was not so pleasant on MGFB Classic. I ordered the Thiourea Toning kit from Photographers Formulary. It ships with chemistry to make 1Liter of […]
Bromoil First Try – miserable failure
**I stumbled upon and interesting series of videos on you-tube illustrating the Bromoil process. It looks kind of fun and is something one could do indoors on cold/rainy/hot day. Basically you bleach your image removing all traces of silver, Fix, dry, rewet, then add a layer of ink where your silver used to be. The […]
Ilford Multigrade Art 300 first impressions
**Wanting to try the full range of Ilford paper products I ordered a box of Multigrade Art 300 paper. These are my first impressions: The feel: Pulling the paper out of the box it felt like thick card stock but softer like construction paper. There is not much difference between the coated side and the […]
Darkroom Underground Magazine
**Tim Layton Fine Arts has launched a new Film centered magazine Darkroom Underground. The first issue was release July 1 and was chocked full of useful information for the darkroom and film enthusiast. The magazine will be published quarterly online with print editions possible in 2018. The Darkroom Underground publishes technical and creative articles […]
AT Byron Reese Trail Revisited
**I re-visited the Byron Reese trail again today with the intent to re-shoot the tunnel and creek near the parking lot. We have had several days of rain so I knew the creek would be flowing well. It was flowing so well that I had to work my way around the far side over the […]
First shot on the Chamonix 4×5
**Details of the Appalachian Trail – Mushrooms in fallen tree. In a previous post I mentioned shooting with a fellow LF’er at the Byron Reese trail on the AT. This was also my first outing with the Chamonix 4×5 04N2 camera. We had barely begun to walk the trail from the parking lot when I […]
Ikeda Anba vs Chamonix 04N2 4×5
**When I began my adventure into large format photography I started with a big heavy Calumet metal C400 4×5 and learned quickly I did not want to travel very far with it. For a brief time I was able to use a Shen Hao 4×5 wood field camera which I really liked. My first wooden field […]