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500w lamps are no longer legal in the European Union as part of wider measures to improve the efficient use of resources and protect the environment.

Similar rules have led photographers having to take drastic measures to source certain beloved chemicals for making their own developers.

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This is why then. I thought it was because I was in a small town.

Can you believe there are a lot os shops selling frames Over here but there is not a single place where you can find a 8x10 or 5x7 frames? Even in shops where they develop and print photographs, they have no idea about 8x10, 5x7, 4x5 and 10x14 proportion/sizes. They don't consider it a normal or padronized size.

I have to buy them online from UK because they are cheeper than order hand made frames here.
 
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Some thoughts, if you need to actually light stuff at those tiny apertures:

Here in the US, there's a lot of older generation speedotron black line stuff available, 70's era - but they're workhorses, I have several packs from the 70's and use 'em all the time. The 2401A (2400 watt second) pack was pretty ubiquitous and shows up on eBay/etc often. Expect to pay a couple hundred bucks, but that and two heads = a lot of light. The 1201 A is also a great basic pack with some oomph.

There's lots of pack & head gear on the used market, but not much at the power levels Speedotron offered, that will still be running like new after decades.

For hot lights, you can still buy professional tungsten lights with a lot of power. The Source Four 575 watt par (copied by Altman, and MTB makes one for the disco market called the flexipar, basically the same fixture for about 100 bucks) is a 575 watt light with 4 different lenses (wide, spot, etc). That's one insanely efficient light fixture; you'd probably want to bounce it off a ceiling or white sheet for soft light. It's got pretty amazing output.

Used theatrical open-faced lights (the rectangular style, sometimes called "nook lights" or "cyc lights") use the same style bulbs as work lights from the hardware store, but can be lamped with 100, 200, 350, 500 and 650 or 750 bulbs. They're basically "work lights" but have real barn doors and yokes. They usually have a ceiling clamp, which you replace with a stand adapter (called a TVMP). A 650 or 750 puts out some lumens. Again, you'd use these for bounce or through diffuse fabric.

Used theatrical and movie fresnels (there's all kinds of new fresnels out there, I'm talking on-the-cheap) are pretty great when you actually need to point light directly at things or people. Range (in smaller use sizes) from 2" or so to 8" lenses, from 100 watts to 1000. There are dozens of current and discontinued brands out there.

You can get a lot of control over tungsten lights with dimmers - (in the US) regular household dimmers max out at about 600 watts and they'll burn out with big lights. Router speed control boxes ($25 at Harbor Freight) make great dimmers for up to 1K or so.

There's all kinds of pro stuff out there, but I'm guessing when you're ready to spend $2000 and up on a light you'll find it... I still have quite a pile of used theatrical lights I use for paying work - started out with 'em, too good to replace!

I am not ready to spend that amount of money to take portraits once a couple os months. High iso speed film seems to be the best option.
 

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don't give up ...
try with you paper + flash and see what happens.

what size camera are you using ? i home made box camera for pinholes ?

you can put paper in any camera and make paper negatives with it,
i made some in my 35mm camera a few weeks ago ...
a lens and aperture will allow you to take shorter exposures if that is what you wanted to do ...

also, paper instead of film can be tricky. the ISO changes depending on the amount of blue in the light.
if you are doing your project inside with a flash you won't really have to worry about this, but outside in sunlight ..
like anything, shade, deep shade, bright sun, reflected off the snow &c sometimes it makes the paper faster than iso 3 0r 6 ..
i have heard you can put a blue filter in front of your light meter and it will give you a blue light reading ... i have never done it, i just guess.

years ago i did a paper iso test with every paper i had on my shelf. if you have a 35mm camera you can do it a lot easier than i did
cut off a scrap of paper the size of a piece of 35mm film and use a card and make an in camera test strip blocking light going in from your lens.
camera on a tripod helps. and that way you will know exactly what iso your paper is in whatever light you want to test.

good luck !

john
 
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don't give up ...
try with you paper + flash and see what happens.

what size camera are you using ? i home made box camera for pinholes ?

you can put paper in any camera and make paper negatives with it,
i made some in my 35mm camera a few weeks ago ...
a lens and aperture will allow you to take shorter exposures if that is what you wanted to do ...

also, paper instead of film can be tricky. the ISO changes depending on the amount of blue in the light.
if you are doing your project inside with a flash you won't really have to worry about this, but outside in sunlight ..
like anything, shade, deep shade, bright sun, reflected off the snow &c sometimes it makes the paper faster than iso 3 0r 6 ..
i have heard you can put a blue filter in front of your light meter and it will give you a blue light reading ... i have never done it, i just guess.

years ago i did a paper iso test with every paper i had on my shelf. if you have a 35mm camera you can do it a lot easier than i did
cut off a scrap of paper the size of a piece of 35mm film and use a card and make an in camera test strip blocking light going in from your lens.
camera on a tripod helps. and that way you will know exactly what iso your paper is in whatever light you want to test.

good luck !

john

I am using Ilford Obscura (4x5in). But ai like the sugestion about testing with 35mm camera.
I don't mind on spending a little more on films negatives since I am not shooting that often anyway. Fomapan 400 is a very afordable brand and I can push up to ISO 1600 or maybe even more easely.

I am jot sure if my project on pinhole portraits will go much further because I have had a hard time on finding sitters for my photographs in the little town where I live. But in case it works I can also shooting smaller format like 6x9 using 120 roll to save money.

I was looking towards paper becausenof its lower cost.
 

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If you are using a pinhole camera you need daylight. A flash will make no difference. You need bright sunshine.


Ummmm, I don't think so.

Flash or multiple flash is adequate as long as it's within your comfort zone to work with it.
Mine would be way short of 4,000 pops but the good thing is at that point a pop more or less won't make a hill
of beans difference.
 
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