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Whirlpool
loccdor

Whirlpool

This homemade lens turned out to be too good for me! I was hoping for more coma from those specular highlights. Maybe a plano-convex is no real substitute for a meniscus... this was a test to see if the homemade camera still had light leaks. It doesn't - that central spot is actually a lens flare.
Location
Niagara Whirlpool, New York, February 8th, 2026
Equipment Used
Homemade 6x9 camera, wollaston landscape lens 124mm f/5.2 (77mm +10 diopter plano-convex)
Exposure
1/125, f/6.7
Film & Developer
Kodak T-Max 100, 510-pyro 11.5 minutes 1+100 20C
Lens Filter
Orange Lifa Filter
Hybrid Materials & Processing
Digitized with Pentax K-1, smc d fa 50mm f/2.8 macro lens @ f/5.6, pixel shift, essential film holder, cs-lite, pentax copystand, leveling bar, 6x9 masking
Digital Post Processing Details
RawTherapee, lens correction profile, Gimp, edge burning, dust, contrast
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