just playing around with the movements

[Frederick Avery]

just playing around with the movements on my shen hao.

i have a lightbulb as a subject, lit up. so i can see really well in my front room while im playing around.

one word.

insane.

the level of detail, control and creative expression afforded by my movents and 180mm lense on 4x5 is incredible. im half tempted to take a shot of the bulb just because its there, but i have it at about 2 feet away from the camera, so that it represents roughly a head filling the frame. inspired by this http://www.flickr.com/photos/9979568@N0 ... 306895398/

can anyone give their rough guess what kind of f stop this was? at this distance? im guessing that as he has the same camera format and same focal length, he must be around 2 feet away too.

this is all very inspiring. i am officially lost to this forma of photography and i have only actually taken one real shot on 4x5 film (rest have been polaroids) and it was a night shot which as i am using astia, and its not a very wide exposure lattitude (is that right, am i learning????) i guess it wont really hold much in the way of wow factor.

anyways. this is all amazing to me.

frederick

update - so i just used the swing movement, to change the plane of focus to an extreme angle along a metre rule, as if the plane the metre rule was at was the eyes on a face, at a 45 degree ange from the camera. keeping both in focus. amazing. really amazing.

[timparkin]

That photo looks like it was taken at about an f/2 on a 35mm camera and you can multiple by four to get the equivalent 5x4 aperture - so f/8 would do the job.

Tim