journal of photography
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I went to the VARA races yesterday (Vintage Auto Racing Association) with a photographer friend, I brought my 4×5 speedgraphic and 8×10 to shoot some of the vintage cars! Here are a few of the 4×5 shots, I’ll post more of them later, as well as the 8×10 shots.
And here’s me doing my thing, thank you Aaron K. for the photo!
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!
