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Very very beautiful, picture and model both!

Such a beautiful image. Perfect lighting. focus and composition. Everything (including the creases on the back of the chair) pull you towards that mysterious gaze. Well done, that man!

Could you describe what you did for focus control? I just can't get my mind wrapped around the plane of focus on that one.

And I really like the effect!!!

well, I used full back tilt and a lot of front tilt as well - both standards were looking into the ground, and the bellows had a slight upward curve. I actually used the tilts as far as they would go while the image stayed free of any vignetting. I wouldn't be able to do this on a 4x5 negative with this lens - it has a very tight image circle and it quickly introduces vignetting.

Need to think on that a bit. I would have thought the standards would have been tilted the other way. Or am I really mistaken about where the plane of focus is? I was thinking it's like a ceiling tilted a bit to the right, passing thru her eyes?

Actually makes the loss of poloroid film kind of a pain. I guess I could hack up a duct tape and cardboard mount for my digital ;-) for the learning phase of this show.

I guess the 4x5 needs to start living on a tripod in the house so I can just mess with it when questions like this come up.

(I've only played with 4x5 a tiny bit in the mid 70's, now getting back into it. Have a Linholf on loan to play with, with a roll back as well as 4x5).

OK, now I'm confused... I can't remember exactly what I did, whether the standards were looking upwards or downwards... but it's a fact that both standards were looking in the same direction.

Hate trouble discontent, and now confusion,,, my job here is done. Amazing that I can still add a skill at this age. ;-)

Don't ya just hate it when that happens?

Now that you did all that, you're making me think about putting a really old WA 150 I picked up on a lens board to try really extreme shifts. It will cover 8x10 with some room, should work great for doing things like that with focus. It's not what you'd call clean,,, I'd give it about a 4 or 5 out of 10. Mostly because everything is still there, and the shutter works. I've really got to get my mancave finished and get things out where I can at least develope film.

Grif said:

I was thinking it's like a ceiling tilted a bit to the right, passing thru her eyes?

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That was also my thought. Near horizontal plane with a wide open aperture used. Depth of field from barely forehead to barely nose, also visible across sofa back. Front and rear camera standards set near horizontal, raising their line of intersection to almost camera level. Extreme edge of image circle recorded.

And perhaps a few new pinholes in that tortured bellows as the reward?

Damned effective, though, however you did it...

Ken