Buckshot’s Blog

some 8×10 shots from “Hole in the wall” in the Mojave Desert.  Arista 100 8×10

These shots are from Christmas of 2008.   I really don’t like developing roll-film of any size, it’s just not as enjoyable as sheet film for some reason.  So anyway, I put off developing this roll until I found it sitting there with a few other more recent rolls that I just shot, so I just dropped them off at the lab to be developed instead of doing it myself.  Shot with my old Zeiss 6x9cm folder camera

Took some Infra Red shots in Death Valley (and other places around the area), these are batch converted, I’ll go back and adjust the colors later to be consistant with each other.

pulled out the old infrared 10d yesterday, forgot how much I enjoy using it! 

A few shots around the office building I work at, as well as a 4×10 landscape from a while ago that I just got around to developing.

I shot this about 1/2 a year ago along a side road on I-10 in Arizona, I really like this photo because it has the clouds that were gathering before a storm, such a nice feeling in the desert!

8×10 Tmax 100 with a 240mm lens I believe.

Trying out a hand full of old lenses (ranging from early to mid 1900s) on 8×10, at a local park that has a few interesting looking trees.

Taking photos of a moving child is difficult with a big camera!  Gundlach Radar 12″ lens mounted on the Chamonix 8×10 camera.  Shot at f8 for the shots of Lilly, and f22 for the shot of the beach.  I would liked to have gone down to f4.5 for the shots of lilly, but I was unsure of my focusing on her (she was moving around!)  so I left it at f8 for a tad bit of wiggle room on the focusing.

Here are 6 negatives from a camping trip in Joshua Tree with some coworkers

last batch of negatives from Riley’s farm, as well as a dead crow (I think?) I found in my driveway yesterday, hah!  I really like the framing on the crow, I think it turned out nice… for what it is I suppose

Had a nice day at Riley’s farm, took some photos of the area, heard some good music, age good BBQ, and had some wonderful apple cider!  I took a jug home with me, but it didn’t last long! 

I’ll add more photos to these as they dry and scan.

some photos from my 4th of July weekend. I enjoyed using the Bausch & Lomb lens and speed graphic, it makes an interesting combo! For the tree shot, I had to hold a few ND sheets infront of the lens to get my shutter speed down to something the speed graphic can handle. f2.0 aperture plus 320 ISO film sucks up alot of light! The sheet of ND filter got the shutter speed down to 1/500th

The last image (of the door) was taken with an achromatic doublet lens element held inplace by a piece of cardboard onto my speedgraphic.  About a 6″ focal length, and 2.75 inches across (roughtly f2.0 aperture) Interesting effect, but I don’t like it as much as the Bausch & Lomb lens, the B&L doesn’t stretch the edges of the picture, it curls them around.  The single achromat element smears the edges right off the edge of the frame.   I may play around with sticking another doublet lens behind the first lens (mirrored), see if I can get something a bit more interesting to happen!

The Ritter 8×10 went on it’s maiden flight this past weekend, and it was great! The weight savings was very noticable, I didn’t have to take my pack off until I reached my destination! Same with the return trip, wonderful! It does seem to pick up a little vibration in the wind, though I guess this is to be expected with a large camera that doesn’t have much mass. I’ll be rigging up (or purchasing) a stabilizing rod to connect the front and rear standards together, see if that helps out in windy condition. I’ll develop the negatives tonight!

A lens for my speedgraphic arrived today, I don’t know much about it, but according to the person I purchased it from, it’s a “Bausch & Lomb Theater lens”, about 145mm f2. I’ll be using this lens to see how I like the odd effects that this type of old lens can produce. First negatives from this lens are going to be developed tonight!

Here’s the first two shots from the Bausch & Lomb:

And the first 3 shots from the Ritter 8×10!

While visiting friends in Phoenix, I ran out of my usual tri-x 320 (only brought a few sheets that fit in my holders) and had to pick up some film along the way. Tmax 100 was the only thing I could find in 8×10, so that it was!  I got lucky with some interesting weather and clouds!  In the last shot, it started raining (413th Avenue) right as I finished packing up my camera in the car, just in time!

So I’ve got a new toy, an old Zeiss Ikon 6×9 camera! It’s nice and folds up slim, fun to use!

Here’s some shots taken with it from the first two rolls:

I’ve been enjoying the wider aspect ratio of 4×10! Using 8×10 film, with a dark slide cut in 1/2, I can get two 4×10 shots onto each 8×10 sheet of film!

90mm on 4×5, photos at El Matador beach in Malibu, getting my feet wet!

beautiful clouds this afternoon! Hiking with the digital this time.

Poppies from the california poppy reserve, also an abandoned Cadillac! First time trying velvia 50, the film looks beautiful! But as I I’ve read and been told, it’s not as easy to scan as less saturated color film.

Quite an interesting thing, shooting the very slow speed paper with limited highlight/shadow range in broad daylight! It seemed to have worked though, better in some images than in others. Here are some scans that closely resemble the prints.

I’ve never seen anything like this, so much color! No smell from the flowers at all, and no bees, butterflies, or other critters usually associated with flowers (accept for a few lady bugs). With the lack of smell and the super blue (and cloudless) sky, it was like a dream! I also shot some 4×5 Velvia 50, but in retrospect I think velvia will be way to saturated for these bright flowers! Heres some digital shots:

8x10s from Charmlee Park meadow area.

Here are some 8x10s from this past weekends hike in Red Rock Canyon

digital photos from a hike through the Mojave’s Red Rock Canyon area.

El Matador Beach in 8×10 (cropped to 5×10), as well as two more scans from my outing in the snow a month back or so, just developed them this weekend.

scans of the 4×5′s I shot in the Mojave Desert last weekend.

I was given the chance to borrow an 8×10 camera, which I enjoyed very much! 4×5 scans coming later.

Here are some digital shots of the Mojave Desert, film scans to come later.

Went out shooting on Mt. Baldy this weekend, lots of snow! Here are some quick digital snaps, film scans will come later when I have time.

burned trees from the fires of late 2007. There were new plants starting to pop up in a few places, I’m not sure if the trees will survive or not. They looked dead to me, but I don’ t know.

some recent 4×5″ film images from around the Malibu area. All are Tri-x 320 developed in HC-110.

Some recent hiking & camping images