These two are best buds. They are many things together: silly, rowdy, creative and playful. They do sometimes fight, and one of them occasionally asks for "alone time", but for the most part they gravitate towards one another. I hope that's always the case.
Image made with my Hasselblad 500 C/M.
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Diptych of 2 - 8x10 platinum prints from camera negatives. Ilford FP-4 film
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A book, a sunset, a beautiful place.
Image made with my Hasselblad 500 C/M.
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I got a chuckle out of one of those serendipitous little moments that so often happen in the daily flow of life. I got onto Flickr here to post this image and in the process was reviewing my recent activity from the past day. I posted a Flexbody image yesterday as well and a very nice person left the compliment that that image was such a great use of that camera. What made me chuckle was because I knew I was about to post this image, also courtesy of the Flexbody but I will be hard-pressed to earn that same compliment. I posted a few images ago about the potential stumbling points in the use of these Flexbodies. One of the big ones is, like a view camera, there is nothing between the open shutter in the lens and the film back. So one must be careful when mounting the back onto the camera to close the shutter prior to pull the dark slide. I never have this issue anymore on large format but when working with a camera that is familiar in form to my 500C Hasselblad it is hard to break the habit of automatically pulling the dark slide in preparation to exposing the image. And that is what I did here. Got the composition all set up, had some nice tilt applied to throw that sky and sun out of focus, zeroed in on the ocean surface, removed the ground glass, put my A12 in place and whisked the dark slide right out and about two seconds later realized I had failed to close down that shutter, all the while with the camera pointing directly into the sun. I wrote that frame off knowing it would be massively overexposed.
Well, fast forward a week and in the process of testing out an alternative development technique with this Rollei Ortho to try and address an issue I have been noticing with Rollei films, my roll got a wee bit underprocessed. When I saw this negative on the roll, the underprocessing had held back the severe overexposure just enough that I figured, what the heck, might as well scan it and see what I get, as I could just see the image of a solarized sun lurking amidst the fogging and overexposure. And you know what, the scan pulled out a fairly interesting scene. I worked a bit of contrast back into it but didn't do too much else to this.
So while I have to chalk this up to happy accident, I'm happy with it nonetheless. Keeping my motives in photography as "having fun" makes it much easier to see instances like this for the potential opportunities they can be.
Hasselblad Flexbody
Rollei Ortho 25
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