Today’s Sunday Morning Adventure took me to up to Mount Airy, Georgia (not where they filmed Andy Griffith’s Mayberry) to NancyTown Creek Falls. I left the house around 6:00 AM and stopped for gas and coffee. Then headed north on mostly 4 lane highways to get to Mount Airy. The sky was striped with orange […]

After last weekend’s outing I had several sheets of film  to develop. The first couple came out a little thin but acceptable. Then tragedy struck. The developer, Pyrocat HD in Glycol, was suddenly failing to fully develop the negatives. And oddly there was a color shift from the usual tan to a pinkish color that […]

Today’s Sunday Morning Adventure was a meet-up with fellow LF-ers from the North Georgia Large Format Photographers Group, Bryan Garris and Brandon Ward. I set out at the crack of dawn and drove downtown then west on I-20,  to attempt to arrive at Westview Cemetery as soon as the gates open. I arrived a bit […]

This weeks Sunday Morning Adventure (SMA) was a trip to Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park with fellow NGLFP member Gary Beasley. Kennesaw mountain and its surrounding fields and hills is the site of a major civil war battle that held off the advancing Union army in the summer of 1864. Today it is a small national […]

A few of us LF shooters north of Atlanta are seeking fellow LF shooters for monthly field trips and quarterly meetups to share work and experiences. Meetings will likely be held near/in Dahlonega. There are no dues or requirements other than that you live in the North GA area and have an interest in formats […]

I was thinking the other day about how I like the 5×7 ratio but do not really want to upgrade my kit to support 5×7. I rarely enlarge more than 11×14 anyway so I know I can crop and enlarge 4×5 to resemble 5×7. In the field it may come in handy to have a […]

Over the last couple of years I have been taking field notes on a custom 3×5 card rather than using a notebook. 1 card per 4×5 shot allows me to capture all the information about the exposure I need to remember or use for printing later. I have refined this card over time and today […]

In my recent experiments Testing LDP vs PF106 developer I decided to try a different brand of papers than my usual Ilford products. Bergger Prestige Variable Contrast CB Warm Glossy is a heavy weight (280 gsm) Chlorobromide fiber based paper with a white base. The manufacturer touts it has six grades of contrast with a high […]

  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 […]