Large format Kodachrome - WWII Images

breal101 wrote in post #14141777
My first thought was hot lights, but seeing how there is no motion blur at all even in shots with multiple models I thought of the possibility of flashbulbs as the source.

Shot #24, the nurse holding up the transfusion bottles, would be very difficult to do with a slow shutter.

Curtis N wrote in post #14142539
Shot #24, the nurse holding up the transfusion bottles, would be very difficult to do with a slow shutter.

I agree and it also has a distinctive direct flash look. The shadow of her arm is exactly where you would expect it to be with a Speed/Crown Graphic with it's flashgun mounted on the right side of the camera from the photographer's perspective. This is one of the few that has the OCF look so it's quite possible that other lighting was used for the other pictures. All we can do is speculate since anyone who was there is probably no longer with us.

Amazing shots. I'm sure it's not just me that regrets selling their 4x5 cameras. I the opportunity to shoot with an 8x10 camera as well but only in B&W and Ektachrome. That was a ton of fun and impressive that you could make prints just by contact printing.

airfrogusmc wrote in post #14140130
So you haven't seen some of Weston's silver gelatin prints from Point Lobos in person or Stieglitz's platinum print of O"Keeffe's hands? The one with the thimble?

Adams "Yosemite and the Range of Light" is just amazing.

No, I am not much on the history of photography unfortunately.

mtimber wrote in post #14149049
No, I am not much on the history of photography unfortunately.

There are usually some examples of Adams, Weston, Stieglitz images in most major art museums permanent collections. Also if you get to Carmel spend some time at the Weston Gallery
http://www.andrewsmith​gallery.com …_of_new_mexico/​index.html

or in Santa Fe check out the Andrew Smith Gallery
http://www.andrewsmith​gallery.com/home.html
Scroll down to Adams Gems of New Mexico and the web does nothing to show the tonal range and sharpness of this work.


All of Adams major portfolios and thus his better work are all zone system images and shot on large format. Some of his close up botanicals where shot with Hasselblad but those are rare. THe reason as I mentioned in a previous post is that to full exploit the zone system you need to adjust each negatives development time individually.

^^Thanks for the links, long flight to the US.

mtimber wrote in post #14149440
^^Thanks for the links, long flight to the US.

Sorry didn't see your location but I'm sure the major museums in Europe also have extensive collections of Adams, Waston and Stieglitz along with many other greats especially the likes of Bresson, Atget, and those are just two that quickly come to mind.

That was a sweet time viewing all those fantastic images. Thanks for posting the link golfecho.

Very interesting.

Good images, but obviously staged (no snapshots). I especially like the lady in a dress, with metal shavings around her neck and in her hair, holding up shavings in her bare hands! I wonder how many stitches she needed after the shot.

Taken on Kodachrome slides, ASA 6! I wonder how many of the current gotta-have-ISO-128,000 could capture images like these with an ISO 6 sensor?

20droger wrote in post #14150211
Very interesting.

Good images, but obviously staged (no snapshots). I especially like the lady in a dress, with metal shavings around her neck and in her hair, holding up shavings in her bare hands! I wonder how many stitches she needed after the shot.

Taken on Kodachrome slides, ASA 6! I wonder how many of the current gotta-have-ISO-128,000 could capture images like these with an ISO 6 sensor?

Not that it matters much but daylight was ASA 8 and Type B Tungsten was ASA 10. On the bright side look at all the money one could save on neutral density filters when shooting flowing water shots with an ISO 6 or 8 sensor.

Lowest I ever shot was ASA 25 Kodachrome and I thought that was slow.

That Shorpy link need a warning!

"WARNING! Clicking on this link may lead you to experience several days of non-productive browsing, atrophying of muscles, irregular sleeping, eyes straining, and unhealthy eating due to the attempt to view all of the images available at this link. May also cause strong urges to buy large format equipment."

RAWuser wrote in post #14153971
That Shorpy link need a warning!

"WARNING! Clicking on this link may lead you to experience several days of non-productive browsing, atrophying of muscles, irregular sleeping, eyes straining, and unhealthy eating due to the attempt to view all of the images available at this link. May also cause strong urges to buy large format equipment."

I did buy large format last year and i didn't use it, when i will be done with digital then will use film.