Ilford Delta 100 in Kodak HC110 W 1+50

[Ian Grant]

Unfortunately, these are only files digitised with a DSLR, and some of them are already rather old.

Even with high end scans restrictions of Forum software & size make it difficult to show LF images at their best,

I find Ian's images interesting. They remind me a bit of those very sharp 19th-century photographs on glass plates. What negative format is that? 5x4?

Well I have my Grandparents wedding photos, shot on 12"x10", and 10"x8", plus two prints my Grandmother bought when she went abroad to the English Lake District on her honeymoon, from Scotland.

I mostly shoot 5x4, also 10x8, some 7x5, as well as 120 mostly 6x6 in a TLR, and a 6x17 camera,

My approach though is definitely not unique, I guess, well know, it's informed by a British tradition discussed in the 1083 Rural Myths copy of Ten-8 magazine, and the article by Paul Lewis "Where the Wild Things Went". Essentially it was about the revival of British landscape photography, and how it took inspiration from Minor White, claiming his disciples here were Thomas Joshua Cooper, John Blakemore, Richard Sadler, John Davies, etc. I also have the much earlier 1978 Issue 3 "Landscapes" copy of Ten-8.

Ways of working, subject matter, differed, but the strive for high quality prints (or other means of output) is important, and it's also not difficult.

Fay Godwin's work is mentioned in the 1978 "Landscape" Ten-8, and an image from "Remains of Elmet" a book she published of her photographs and Ted Hughes poetry, in 1979. The only work that shines in this magazine is John Blakemore's landscapes.

Around roughly 1980 Fay Godwin went on a workshop at Paul Hill's "The Photographers Place" near Ashbourne, in Derbyshire, lead by John Blakemore, it transformed her way of working. I don't mean composition, rather craft. She told us that on a workshop I went on with her

Later in 1994 she released an updated version of "Remains of Elmet" she had reprinted all the photographs, and added some some new ones, along with new poems. If you look at the two versions side by side they are like chalk & cheese.

Ian

 

[Dave_P]

This is quite a buzzing thread with lots of technical chat but zero image examples. Would anyone care to add visual examples to illustrate what you’re talking about, please? Thanks.

Here's one for a start:

Fontainebleau, rock and trees

I was prompted to post this one from last summer as there's a massive wildfire in this region now, pretty sad to see as it's an incredible area, very accessible from the UK yet largely unknown to Brits outside the climbing community. If you're ever driving up or down the A6 just south of Paris...

www.5x4.co.uk