Indian Wood Ornament

[Greenspeed]

Ornament rested on a light box and touch painted for 7 minutes.
Medium - 8 x 10 Chinese Seagull BW film.
Camera:- John Nesbitt 8 x 10
Lens - 250mm Fujinon SW set to F 22 for max dof.
Scanner - Epson V700. Negative sandwiched between 2 antinewton glass.

[seaslug]

Magic!

[Phoenix]

Certainly a well isolated subject with nice detail.
Interesting to read how you achieved this, although I have never heard of a John Nesbitt and have no idea about the scanner, film is a strange old world to me.

[Greenspeed]

You can just about see the camera on my avatar. It was made by Mr Nesbitt from Llandudno, Wales. Mine is an earlier version, 'cos later versions have better movements and more precise.
It is made of mahogany wood.

Epson V700 (now Epson V800) is fantastic for scanning large format negatives. Drum scanner is beyond my mean.

[Phoenix]

What?! Is that an antique hand made camera you are using?
Impressive Mr Greenspeed.

[Greenspeed]

That's the camera. The ball head tripod to keep the camera stable. If I remembered rightly, camera was on full bellow extension to get this picture. The size of the ornament is about twice life size on the negative.

[Phoenix]

I don't know what to write..other than I'm in awe. What got you into using antiques for photography?

[Greenspeed]

Hi Jo,
JN was made in the mid 80's, so not really an antique yet. Field cameras are still being made these days with a big price tag.
Got into 4 x 5 (a quarter of the size of 8 x 10) first, and really love how you can manipulate movements to obtain maximal depth of field.
Loves the size of trannies/negs. The detail on them can be mind blowing. Some of my favourite photographers e.g. Joe Cornish, still use large format camera.
His books got me looking into LF in early 2000 and started using one in 2004.

[Phoenix]

It all starts to make sense to me now.
I originally saw your wooden ornament image and judged it against standard photo type criteria.

As a product image, I can't imagine you could do any better.

Reckon the pray and pray method wouldn't be in your arsenal of photographic tricks (it's often a personal favourite of mine).

Checked out Joe Cornish...inspirational stuff.