Cadillac Velvia 50

[Daniel Buck]

part of my first endeavor into large color film, I had some velvia left over from my trip to the poppy reserves, so I shot this old caddy with it!

My self critique is this:

Bumper of car gets to close to the bottom of the frame, can't believe I did that, I'm usually so good at watching things like that!

I wish I could have used more fall on the lens, so that the beams and bricks in the background would have been perfectly straight up and down. I was out of bellows though, I only have so much movement on the 90mm. I think it's time for a bag bellow :D

http://404photography.net/wip/caddy_ap_01.jpg

[Aaron Kupferman]

Gotta love that car. I park next to it every day. :)

Background for those who have not been keeping up, but Daniel shot this on his 4x5.

http://www.electricreality.com/antelopevalley/content/bin/images/large/_MG_5495.jpg

[Daniel Buck]

that's one of my 4x5's, I've got 4 others :D

[Mike Ditz]

An old timer trick for more movement is to get another lensboard and have the hole drilled off center, maybe an inch or so lower(I'll see if I can dig mine up and see what I did). This way you don't need a bag bellows and can just switch lensboards.

[Daniel Buck]

Yea, that would probably work. I originally had the 90 in an offset lensboard, but I switched it out for a centered lens board so I could get a bit more rise out of it (I usually need more rise than I do fall). Still think I would like a bag bellow, other movements start to suffer from the standard bellows as well.

[Mike Ditz]

Bag bellows are handy, I found the offset lensboards quicker sometimes and with my view cameras I could rotate it for either rise or fall...

[Daniel Buck]

I tried rotating my lensboards, I they don't seem to fit when I do, at least on my field 4x5s :-( That would be rather handy if they did!