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We went to Ribblehead on Saturday, to take a shot from a limestone pavement overlooking the viaduct. Well, we found these rocks to be much more interesting for a foreground, and proceeded to set up the trusty Ebony.

I had just got the grad filter aligned and checked the exposure, when we heard the sound of a steam train whistle in the distance. Now, this stretch of railway line runs from Settle to Carlisle and is famous for steam trains being run from time to time, but we are not train buffs, so were not expecting this.

Helen quickly set the aperture and shutter speed, I loaded a sheet into the Quickload and, suddenly realised that we had not yet attached the shutter release cable !!

Fortunately, the shutter doesn't take a lot of effort to trip, so I used the digital release mechanism (a finger ), and here is the result. What do you think ?

Beeeeautiful!!!!!!!!!!!!! One of those magic moments caught on film!

Agree with Paul. The inclusion of the train transformed a great shot into stunning panaromic (or was it cropped to panaromic from 5x4?).

I used the JC Patented 6x17 Emulator Attachment

IOW, I have a piece of plastic the same size as the ground glass protector with a 42x119mm aperture cut in it. This serves two purposes: it can be used with a notched bar as a viewer, or it can be used as a mask on the focusing screen, allowing you to take 6x17 pictures on 4x5 film.

The advantage of keeping to 4x5 is that I can vary the proportions if, as in this case, I needed to allow more sky; thus the odd proportions of this picture - 6x13.5 ?

P.S. - Sorry, I didn't mean to hijack your thread!

It's a cracking shot by the way, the train makes a great shot even better, and it was luck that it showed up? Can you pick my lottery numbers this week?

Joanna,

Cracking shot; the whole thing has an air of days gone by. I wonder how it would look on an off white art paper in mono?


Steve

Steve, that's a very interesting idea; I will pursue that when I get back from Ireland this weekend. Thanks for the prompting.

In fact, here is a quick conversion to B&W

<update> here is a "proper" conversion

I think I like the mono better...


Steve

Talk about good timing!

I'm with Steve on this, I prefer the mono version. It has a more gritty feel which suits the subject matter.

Dave

Joanna,
This is one cracking shot, and, despite my being a B&W enthusiast, for once, I personally much prefer the colour shot.
I was up that way a few weeks ago, knowing that a steam train was coming over, and waiting for it. I was shooting DSLR so not admissible here, but how I wish I had found those rocks!!
This is definitely one for the wall. Well done!!
John Fontana

John Fontana wrote:I was shooting DSLR so not admissible here...

Well, I for one would still be interested in seeing it. Go on, post it

John Fontana wrote:...but how I wish I had found those rocks!!

Yes, it took us until this, the fourth visit, to almost stumble across them

Hi Joanna,
cracking shot!

Regards