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The river project rolls on next week, I hope to refine my way of seeing it over the course of a couple weeks. Also it will help me further perfect my zone system development routines regarding amounts of agitation and dev times etc. These 4 shots were the best of 7 the other 3 not being dev mistakes but camera mistakes. With LF dust is a real issue. You have to be vigilant about cleaning the holders and darkslides after each use or you will find dust spots on your skies or a small twine of dust in the middle of some important feature. I really enjoyed this last walk and felt in control of the process enough to make compositions and not just hope for a photo. I am still mostly at the hoping to make a photo stage with the 8x10 but I am actively learning and thinking about ways to get that smoothed out also.

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1891 Rochester Optical Company Universal - Congo 135mm - f/45 - Arista EDU 100 - 4x5 Film - HC 110 1+200 - Unaltered Negative Scan

I will be experimenting more with the 8x10. It seems the longer exposures make the light in the image a little disorienting sometimes. Here the clouds were moving fast!

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1903 Eastman View No. 1 - Konica Hexanon GRII 210mm - f/45 - Arista EDU 100 - 8x10 Film - HC 100 1+200 - Unaltered Contact Print Scan

I know you've seen this before, but this morning light was too irresistable not to take this one more time. Maybe I'll make a series of this spot. This is my third time making a photograph of this after all. It may be my personal favourite.

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1891 Rochester Optical Company Universal - Congo 135mm - f/45 - Arista EDU 100 - 4x5 Film - HC 110 1+200 - Unaltered Negative Scan

Walking upstream.

Some News!
My photos were featured on CityPulse's website here.
My new portfolio is finished printing and can be viwed here.

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1891 Rochester Optical Company Universal - Caltar 210mm - f/45 - Arista EDU 100 - 4x5 Film - HC 110 1+200 - Unaltered Negative Scan

The river is a road that is bounded by roads crossing it to old Mills and trading centers. These old Fords are shallow places where the river runs wide. I am going to be revisiting the river for a while here to help me transition from roll film to sheet film. Its a different thought process to produce an optimal image. I have started to keep track of EVs and descriptions of light for photos so that in development I can adjust agitation and development times to help give an optimal image. So the photography part is in the field and even more so in the development stage to create a negative that will yield a better print one sheet at a time.

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1891 Rochester Optical Company Universal - Congo 135mm - f/45 - Arista EDU 100 - 4x5 Film - HC 110 1+200 - Unaltered Negative Scan