Anyone Care to volunteer to scan the 10x8's for Garry... I know a few on here have a V700 (at the very least) that'd cope with 'em...
Sadly my Canoscan only goes to 120, or i'd help out myself.
Not that the images actually NEED a full-on scan necessarily, but it'd be nice to see 'em in all their glory.
Oh, and
@Garry Edwards - many thanks for adding this for us - not only as a fascinating resource for the community, but on a personal level that it stirred so many memories of working with these great big bits of kit in a studio, spending ridiculous amounts of time (when the client's art director wasn't around being a bloody nuisance) getting the image on that ground glass "just so" because we were shooting on E6 tranny and it was basically going out of the soup and into the drum scanner... Yep, get it right in camera was definitely inground to me at that point in my life - and has stuck
Yes, scanning them would be good. Don't remind me about art directors and creative directors, some of whom were fantastic but many seemed to be failed photographers who just liked to interfere
I've found one more, it's of a beefburger, taken on site at the client's, and it's worthwhile because it's an extreme example of camera movements, to get the whole thing in sharp focus and to get the shape accurate. I had to use every last bit of tilt there was, on each standard, and was perhaps the technically most challenging shot I ever took.
I used this in a tutorial of many years ago, and the photo is a screenshot of the pdf that's still on my computer, the quality is terrible but still, it may be of interest. It's a "Chinese Burger" - whatever that is - so I stuck it on a background that I felt suited it. Back then, we were able to get away with things that aren't allowed now, for example getting "gloss" on meat by painting it with baby oil
. The original was pin sharp, unfortunately this copy isn't.
What the movements of a large format camera allow us to do is to SHIFT the plane of sharp focus, which in this case extended the apparent depth of field on the horizontal plane from approximately 2mm (without movements) to approximately 130mm – quite an achievement – but at the expense of the very front of the burger, which because it is on a vertical plane was out of focus.
This challenge was overcome by taking a separate shot of the out of focus bit, which the client advertising agency will have scanned in and merged with the shot that you see below. Back in 1999, when this shot was taken, I didn’t have a computer powerful enough to do that.
Most of the burger shots that I’ve taken over the years – and there have been many – were for point of sale retail use and included the top part of the bun. This one was produced by the manufacturer as promotion material for their retail customers, so wanted to show as much of the meat as possible.
I remember that I took a second shot of this because I wanted to keep a copy for myself, very unusual.