Very cool shot, Paul, and excellent timing to catch the car mid-wheelie.
I've always wanted to do large format, but doubt that I ever will.
On 3/4/2012 3:31 PM, Paul Stenquist wrote:
A curiosity for a slow Sunday. Click to make smaller.
Shot this with my Speed Graphic and Wollensak 127/4.5 Raptor about 35 years
ago. It was one of the few times I was successful shooting drag cars in action
with that camera. I also got my jerry-rigged Honeywell potato masher strobe to
fire here, as evidenced by the illuminated wheelwell. Film was Ektachrome 64
4x5. Stop was probably f8. DOF is just barely adequate, as the nose and tail of
the car are a bit soft. Of course, that could also be a result of the panning.
Out of focus background elements have halos. That may be a result of the
wackiness of the lens. The transparency is very dirty. Found it in the basement
while trying to deal with my flood problem. I should try washing it now that
I've at least scanned it. The 16-bit scan that I generated on my old Epson
flatbed was over a gigabyte. I cropped it to about 770 meg. The pic shown here
is the largest that photo.net allows. I was an ambitious young man, who lacked
common sense:-).
http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=15291993&size=lg
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