Another couple of firsts

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This image represents two more firsts for me in my on-going learning of shooting film - actually shooting with a large format camera and then printing the developed negative. Oh by the way, this is a small version - as the original is 10,000+ X 8000+ pixels. The jpeg for the scan of the original print is over 43 megs.

1) This was shot with my 4X5 Cambo Monorail View camera using Ilford HP5 Plus,400 iso sheet film. I then developed the negatives ( I took six shots, only three turned out - two were stuck together in the developing tank and the other was over exposed because I forgot to close the preview shutter).

2) I selected the best neg and loaded into a negative carrier to make my first print on my Omega D2 enlarger. I first exposed a test print with multiple times and then selected the time I felt would be the best. Then I exposed the paper and then developed it ( really amazing watching the image come to life in the developing tray).

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