Posts Tagged ‘645’

Another “new” 16×20 hand colored print

In Uncategorized on 11 April 2010 tagged 645, hand-coloring, landscape, Oregon with no comments

I popped this 2008 photo of a ranch gate in Harney County — that’s Oregon’s high-desert cowboy country, east of the Cascades — out of a frame to rotate in another photo this morning. Then I realized I had never put it on the website. The picture was taken on a very cold day at [...]

Flash-blur in medium format

In Uncategorized on 30 March 2010 tagged 645, BW, hand-coloring, landscape, Pentax, trees with no comments

Here’s a quick flash-blur shot in the woods taken on the Pentax 645. It’s not stunning, but I really like the way the vines creeping up the front of the tree to the right were outlined in shadow. That’s an effect I keep working to replicate, not always successfully. Again, one to be colored and [...]

New work from the black and white photo factory

In Uncategorized on 28 March 2010 tagged 645, BW, hand-coloring, landscape with no comments

Here’s the trail that leads up to the well behind our house; I shot it yesterday on the Pentax 645 and printed this morning while listening to Dick Dale & the Deltones’ Greatest Hits on the stereo in the darkroom. The light in the Oregon woods is splendid at times, with the cloudy sunlight filtering [...]

Got out the Pentax 645

In Uncategorized on 20 March 2010 tagged 645, landscape, nature, Pentax with no comments

And, no, that’s not the new 645D that’s coming out soon in Japan. Oddly enough a new medium format digital body just isn’t in the budget this year, even at less than $10k. But the old, original, manual focus Pentax 645 is still a wonderful camera. I spent a while this afternoon out in the woods with [...]

Towhee

In Uncategorized on 26 January 2009 tagged 645, bird, nature with no comments

More fun this afternoon with the P645 300/4, together with the 1.4x. photo: Towhee, 2009