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#BelieveInFilm

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Steven Louis Ray
Pier 14 and The Bay Bridge (2018)
San Francisco

Contact print from paper negative
Burke & James wooden 5x7 large format view camera
Orange filter

I remember standing on the concrete pier with my head under the focusing cloth, watching the people walk past. There was a slight breeze and the sky was blue. Shot for a photography class I was taking at City College. Turned out well.

#photography #blackandwhite #blancoynegro #largeformat #papernegative #sanfrancisco #california #fediphoto #believeinfilm
A vertically-oriented black and white photo. A concrete pier stretches into the distance with a railing to the right. The railing is made of a horizontal metal grill, and the sunlight has created strong shadows from the grill which lie on the surface of the pier. These lines converge with the lines of the railing in the distance to the left. In the background from right to left stretches the San Francisco Bay Bridge, at a similar angle to the pier's railing. In the far distance to the left, pedestrians can be seen strolling along the pier.
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Steven Louis Ray
Garden Birdbath (2018)
contact print

Taken with my Burke and James 5x7 wooden view camera. I'm not sure which film I used. I think the notch codes which would tell us are hidden by the contact print frame I was using. I guess. I don't think it's a paper negative, though I've done a lot of those.

We still have this birdbath in the same spot. All of the same plants, too. Long-term friends. 🙂

#blackandwhite #noiretblanc #film #believeinfilm #largeformat #garden #plants #fediphoto #darkroom
A black and white photo oriented vertically. A dark birdbath is in the center, with water in the bowl. It's design is ornate, suggesting a style which was popular a long time ago. It is surrounded by light-colored garden plants, which offer a good contrast to the dark metal. A wooden trellis can be seen in the background.
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Tony

The one downside of SLRs with waist level finders: trying to compose a vertical shot is hilarious.

I wish I had a photo of me trying to get this level while stood side-on to the subject and twisting the camera every which way, but I'm actually somewhat impressed that I managed to get there in the end.

(#Edixa Flex, 50mm Cassar S, FP4+ in Rodinal)

A black and white photo of a strange dome-topped building in a local park. It holds a statue inside; I'm sure there's a proper name for this sort of folly, but I'm nowhere near posh enough to know what it is.
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Tony

One benefit of SLRs with waist level finders: it's much easier to do low-level tripod work. Or just tripod work in general, really.

(And yes, I know right angle attachments exist. I used to own one for my old Pentax KX... but they're not as good as a proper WLF.)

(#Edixa Flex, Carl Zeiss Jena 135mm f/3.5 Sonnar, FP4+ in Rodinal)

A black and white close-up of a yankee candle burning with a twin flame. Only the front-most wick is in sharp focus.
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Tony

Last week I obtained an Edixa Flex (mastodon.social/@coldkennels/1), which went against my lifelong hatred of SLRs and my refusal to use them unless absolutely necessary.

A test roll revealed that a) it works fully - even both types of flash sync, b) the 50mm Cassar is far from the sharpest lens ever, but perfectly pleasant, and c) I am still terrible at focusing with an SLR.

But it's fun!

(#Edixa Flex, 50mm Cassar S, FP4+ in Rodinal)

A slightly glowy black and white photo of the sun reflecting off a lake at sunset. There's a small (i.e. low) fence at the edge of the bank on the left hand side of the frame, and a mostly-silhouetted tree overhanging the lake from the bank on the right. The relatively basic triplet design of the Steinheil München Cassar is handling the sun well - there's not a lot of flare, all things considered.
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