I remember using the rear tilt to correct for the keystone effect somewhat, and I focused on the bridge and also on the side (the areas I focused on are indeed sharp), but how the hell I ended up with all other parts of the image being blurry?
What movements would you have used?
A little front swing and perhaps a tiny bit of front tilt, but not much.
you should level the tripod head first to get the back of the camera level and eliminate vertical convergence
it looks like an exposure problem. You'll have to make some exposure compromises if you don't want that bright sky and bridge blown out.
That would be a swing to the right to help balance the focus on the right-side wall?
it was f/16
Do you mind explaining this a bit deeper? Leveling would not have allowed me to get as much of the foggy bridge in the frame as I wanted, so I was trying quite hard (with rear tilt) to do it and I was surprised how ineffective it was, and - according to the comments here - that's mostly explains my focusing struggles.
Of course you may not always want to completely eliminate convergence, but that is down to artistic intent and personal taste.
TLDR is that I used too wide of an aperture, it was f/16 and my tilt was too aggressive - I should have tried using a front raise with a less aggressive camera angle?
I think when people first start with LF cameras, they want to use and think that they have to use movements (and lots of them) all the time. For this particular image, I would have used almost no movements... maybe a bit of back forward tilt (I'm assuming you have the camera tilted up), the front standard parallel to back... and probably lens raised a bit. No swings.
Those old guys called themselves 'f/64' for a reasonf/16 is pretty far open in large format terms.
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