City - Herm State - GUERNSEY Country - United Kingdom
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This is the first 5x4" photograph I've taken on my field camera which I'm reasonably happy with, so thought I'd upload it. It's not perfect and I plan to take it again as the background is soft in focus. I'm guessing it's due to the breeze blowing that evening as another sheet, taken at the same time but underexposed shows sharpness throughout. However, it's the best I've produced so far on this large format camera and I'm looking forward to improving! Your thoughts would be greatly appreciated.
Hi Chris, thanks for the comment. You're right, I could have uploaded a larger image, I was lazy and just used the same size as I use on my own website.
I know what you mean about the dark corner but it was actually due to the cloud formation at the time (and perhaps slightly due to the angle of the ND grad I used on the sky. The sun was setting behind me, about 45deg to the right and wasn't looking promising as the cloud was very thick. I spotted a strip of clean air just above the horizon so waited for the sun to pass through it giving about 5-10 minutes of beautiful raking light. The dark area is the edge of that cloud. I guess I could brighten it a little in Photoshop. The lens is a Super-Angulon and although I used a little amount of drop, it should be able to cover the frame easily without much fall-off.
I've not made any prints so far, I'm weighing up my options for scanning. I use an Epson 4990 but so far haven't found it deals with shadows particularly well. I'm wondering if sending the tranny off for drum scanning might be a better option. Any ideas? The flatbed produces a file ridiculously large (too large for my computer to handle at high resolution) and so given the processing power, a print at any size is possible, probably double that which you state. However, with the focus being slightly off in this particular image, I doubt it would be worthwhile this time.
Hi Dan, looks god from what I can see. Hitting closer to the 850x850 size might allow a closer examination.
It looks like you might have had some light falloff towards the right hand side? Could be natural to the scene though.
overall looks good, what is the largest print size you've made from this camera yet? I'm very curious as to the reproduction quality up to 20x30" or larger.
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{K:19671} 6/28/2006
