[Leica] Macro - now LF Macro

[imagist3 at mac.com (George Lottermoser)]

I printed these four 30x40 inch prints for a barber shop
to represent the barber's main tools:
comb, razor, shears, clipper.
<http://imagist.com/art/jellich/interior_02.html>

from 8x10 negatives
using the Durst Lab 184;
and 30x40 trays.

Camera: Deardorf
Lens: 35mm Rodenstock Eurygon

The hair on the 8x10 negative
is probably between 5 - 10 times life size.

Each set up took 3 to 4 hours
and 6 - 10 sheets of film.

I spent most of that set up time before the model arrived;
working out lighting on a basket ball,
locking the barber tools in clamps
and figuring out how to make the model semi comfortable.
The actual photography, with model and barber consultant present,
took on average
a grueling (for model, photographer and barber) hour.

Regards,
George Lottermoser 
george at imagist.com
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On Jul 15, 2010, at 8:40 AM, Mark Pope wrote:

> This is large format macro(ish): roughly between 1/3 and 1/2 life size....
> 
> http://www.monomagic.co.uk/gallery.php?gallery=paw/2008&image=2008-week51-1.jpg
> 
> Taken with a Shen-Hao 5x4 camera on Ilford HP5 plus rated at ISO 200. IIRC 
> I used a 150mm lens.
> 
> I remember that setting the shot up was um character-building...:-)
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Mark Pope,
> Swindon, Wilts
> UK
> 
> Homepage               http://www.monomagic.co.uk
> Blog                   http://www.monomagic.co.uk/blog
> Picture a week (2010)  
> http://www.monomagic.co.uk/index.php?gallery=paw/2010
> Picture a week (2009)  
> http://www.monomagic.co.uk/index.php?gallery=paw/2009
>               (2008) http://www.monomagic.co.uk/index.php?gallery=paw/2008
> 
> 
> Mark Rabiner wrote:
>>> I would endorse this. I love my 90mm f4 macro. I bought it used, with 
>>> adapter
>>> but not the little angle finder. It is a superb lens for general use 
>>> too, as
>>> long as the light is good, and weighs very little. Mine is always in my 
>>> bag.
>>> OTOH smaller sensors have so much more depth of field that you can get 
>>> macro
>>> pictures which would be all but impossible with the bigger format. With 
>>> flash
>>> at low iso can be results are excellent too.
>>> Frank D.
>>> 
>>> On 15 Jul, 2010, at 00:28, Geoff Hopkinson wrote:
>> Macro can be so unexpectedly difficult that a bit smaller sensor can help.
>> Anyone who's tried to do medium format macro knows it takes some real 
>> effort
>> and in the old days lots of testing.
>> High speed flash helps. Many find it virtually a necessity. People who'd 
>> not
>> dream of using flash otherwise.
>> Large format macro, 4x5 if you can do it you win a prize.
>> To me the most ideal format for macro might really be half frame. In the 
>> old
>> days 18x24. But now its called cropped 1.5 or 1.6 format.
>> In other words an M8.
>> I bet with even a 50 Summicron you can do real well doing macro with an 
>> M8.
>> The best part is the instant gratification.
>> You don't stop shooting till you know you've really gotten the shot.
>> [Rabs]
>> Mark William Rabiner
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