Photos tagged with “aeroektar”

Tree

I shot this tree in front of our house this morning because it’s summer and it’s Friday and it’s my birthday so I took the day off and wanted to do something with it. Shot on my #speedgraphic using a @kodak #aeroektar178mm lens wide open and my new #chromagraphica #4x5 #wetplatecollodion film holder that arrived a couple of days ago. I shot three photos, and this was probably the most technically correct. I wanted to work on my collodion pouring technique since my first plates had so many problems. This was my second attempt at this shot this morning; the first had a developer island. So I bumped up the amount of developer I was pouring on the plate from 15ml to 20ml and that seems to have solved that issue. #allthroughalenspodcast #largeformat #wetplate #tintype #filmphotography

Fri Jul 30 2021

Laura

While I had everything set up, I couldn’t resist making a second tintype this weekend. This one misses the veiling from the first, but makes up for it with both developer island *and* developer burns. I have to say I love the roughly heart-shaped perfectly place island, though. #tintype #tintypephotography #wetplatecollodion #largeformat #speedgraphic #aeroektar

Tue Jul 06 2021

Baseball

This is the first #tintype I shot at home and boy, is there a lot wrong with it. Oysters, developer islands, maybe some veiling. I’m definitely out of practice on my collodion pouring technique, too.

Couldn’t be happier….

#speedgraphic #wetplatecollodion #largeformat #aeroektar #allthroughalenspodcast

Mon Jul 05 2021

Every November, I travel to Long Beach Island here in New Jersey to listen to distant radio stations on the mediumwave band (what we usually refer to as “AM” here in North America) with a bunch of friends. This is called a DXpedition. We put up big antennas and try to hear stations from Europe, Africa, Latin America, and Asia. DXing has largely moved from traditional radios to computer-connected software designed radios. One neat thing about these is that you can record the entire band as the radio is hearing it and play it back later exactly as it was when you were there. We will be digging stations out of the mud for months as a result.

This photo of my friends Chuck and Brett was taken with my Pacemaker Speed Graphic with a Kodak Aero Ektar 178mm f/2.5 lens mounted, shot on @kodak Tri-X.

#film #filmphotography #filmphotographic #4x5group #speedgraphic #aeroektar #aeroektar178 #dxpedition

Tue Nov 26 2019