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Which Board? => Photo Essays => : Ezzie May 20, 2015, 09:09:43 PM

: One subject, one roll - Bridges over water (in my neighbourhood)
: Ezzie May 20, 2015, 09:09:43 PM

Sorry for not posting 6 images, as there are only room for three frames to a roll when doing 6x24 ;)

The "Tommasi" 6x24 DIY pinhole camera. FP4+ film in R09 1+50 for 13mins. A first for me, FP4+, and I really like it.

The two first are bridges over the Drammen river, rather short but with quite a substantial flow. Passes through Drammen, my local town. The first image has some swans swimming about, but since the exposure is in excess of 50 seconds, they take on a ghostly appearance

The last a footbridge over a wier, damming up a tributary to the river that eventually passes by my home.

(https://c2.staticflickr.com/8/7688/17247265514_70558315ef_h.jpg)
 (https://flic.kr/p/sh5K9N)Ghostly swans (https://flic.kr/p/sh5K9N) by Eirik Russell Roberts (https://www.flickr.com/photos/ezzie0304/), on Flickr

(https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5345/17879409996_1294e5d672_h.jpg)
 (https://flic.kr/p/teWDFA)Ypsilon (https://flic.kr/p/teWDFA) by Eirik Russell Roberts (https://www.flickr.com/photos/ezzie0304/), on Flickr

(https://c2.staticflickr.com/8/7794/17681972478_f4800d6859_h.jpg)
 (https://flic.kr/p/sWuJos)Hammersborgfossen (https://flic.kr/p/sWuJos) by Eirik Russell Roberts (https://www.flickr.com/photos/ezzie0304/), on Flickr

: Re: One subject, one roll - Bridges over water (in my neighbourhood)
: ManuelL May 21, 2015, 07:09:13 AM

Beautiful photos Eirik! I am always impressed how you manage to compose pictures in the extra wide format!
Is that a swan in the first picture?

: Re: One subject, one roll - Bridges over water (in my neighbourhood)
: Ezzie May 21, 2015, 08:58:19 AM

Thank you Manuel

Yes, indeed, not only one, but 5 or 6. Those streaks that seem to flow through the water are in fact swans not wanting to be immortalised on film. The whiter part where you can discern what looks like a swan feeding off the bank, there is another in front of it on the grass, very protective and wary. Looked like it might want to attack me at some point.

: Re: One subject, one roll - Bridges over water (in my neighbourhood)
: Bryan May 21, 2015, 04:12:37 PM

Those are great Eirik!  They're too wide for my computer screen, I had to go to your flicker page to take it all in.  If I do another pinhole it's going to be a super wide like this. 

: Re: One subject, one roll - Bridges over water (in my neighbourhood)
: Adam Doe May 21, 2015, 05:18:08 PM

Eirik, these are great. Love the wier image.

: Re: One subject, one roll - Bridges over water (in my neighbourhood)
: jharr May 21, 2015, 07:11:09 PM

Very nicely done Eirik. The exposure is very even out to the edges for the most part. That's impressive. Can you link to a picture of the camera or something about its construction?

: Re: One subject, one roll - Bridges over water (in my neighbourhood)
: Ezzie May 22, 2015, 06:59:49 AM

Thank you all.

Yes James, the vignetting is not too bad. However I did design the camera to exhibit some of the attributes normally credited to pinholes, as a completely clean image edge to edge doesn't quite seem right. My 4x5 pinhole has practically no fall-off, and even if the results are technically very good, I feel something is a bit off-kilter.

Info on the 6x24 can be found here: http://www.filmwasters.com/forum/index.php?topic=6870.0 (http://www.filmwasters.com/forum/index.php?topic=6870.0)