Forum: Photography


Subject: Swept Clean

nplus opened this issue on Jan 10, 2002 ยท 15 posts


nplus posted Thu, 10 January 2002 at 5:34 PM

All this talk about Black and White Photography has got me going. Started digging through the archives a bit, looking for images shot on film that I rarely use. This is one of my all time favorite shots, yet I was using film and even a setup that I rarely use. Finder wants more in depth info, so here you go.

This was shot at about 10 minutes to complete sunset (at my back). Wind gusts up to about 30-50 mph( sorry, I'm american and suck at the metric system).

I used Kodak tri-x 400 pushed to 800 for more speed. (for this shot I was willing to accept the grain.) I even used a tripod, although the wind still nearly took out my setup.
Don't have the exposure records on hand, but I know the f/stop was maxed on my 300mm vivitar lens...f/22. Shutter speed was probably somewhere in between 1/30 and 1/125?
Camera body was an OLD nikon FM. I also used the TTL meter.

Developed in HC-110 dil. B
Originally printed on Ilford FiberBase Multigrade IV

For shots like this I will generally use a 4x5 view camera with T-Max 100 or 400 and meter using a handheld spot meter....Although If you really want to get pissed at photography, just try and use a view camera in high winds.

Whew! I hope that will tide you over Finder.