Information about the Maumee and relevant water reclamation stuff

Wikipedia article on the Maumee

Where does our water come from?

NViro This company makes fertilizer from reclaimed bio mass. I think they are the people who work with the sewer treatment place on the North side of town.

Toledo Water Treatment Center
article on increase in rates
article about solar array at the center
Collins Park Treatment Center

Somewhat nutty, but interesting article on vertical farming

Ohio EPA

Greenhouse Row in Toledo - a green initiative

Hocus Pocus! Focus!

As a view camera allows you control the plane of focus in ways that a rigid camera cannot, it is more imperative that you have a solid understanding of depth of field and matters pertaining to it such as circle of confusion, subject to camera distance, and effect of focal length.

DOF Master great resource for all things related to DOF

article on Wide Angle Lenses and DOF

Good explanation of Circle of Confusion

How to Focus the View Camera

Super Technical Explanation of Depth of Field

Downloadable books on focusing....

Howard Bond write up on setting up the view camera with instructions on focusing.

Howard Bond's website to show you he knows what is doing. He used to teach at University of Michigan.

Site I used to make a custom DoF chart for your lens.

Making a DoF dial for your camera

Super technical information on lens design.

Filters that we have for your use

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Filter - Hey Man, Nice Shot

NOT A RELEVANT VIDEO- feel free to skip it.



Excellent write up on the use of filters with B&W film.

Tiffen Filter company list of their filters with accompanying examples.

Ilford guide to using filters with black and white

Schneider Optics short write up with a nice example of tonal separation by means of color filtration

Bellows Extension Factor

Collection of various methods to determine bellows extension

A very nice write up with nice bellows extension factor chart.

Online bellows extension calculator

Nice PDF write up explaining view camera movements and bellows extension

Quick Disc

Why you have to adjust for bellows extension.

Jan Stoller series you should really look at....

On Planet Earth

Where we are at and where we are going

Thursday, you printed your Camera Buddy portrait. If you get one good print out of a 2 1/2-3 hour printing session, then you had a good printing session. Large format photography is all about quality over quantity.

For Tuesday, you are to have a contact print and enlargement of your Camera Buddy portrait (or a portrait of someone else). In addition, you are to have one contract print and enlargement from the first shooting assignment. Ideally, this is on the theme of Landscape and Reclamation.

For shooting homework, you are to shoot:
1 photo demonstrating the use of front swing
1 'freebie' photo on the theme of Landscape and Reclamation

We will spend Tuesday in the classroom. We will have a 'light' critique of the prints due. This will be followed by a discussion of what Landscape and Reclamation means to you. Here is an interesting UT article about a local reclamation group. Lastly, I feel it is important that we review metering and exposure determination. Be sure to have read the London book section on Exposure and the Zone System prior to next class.

Thursday will be spent working in the lab.

What's due on Thursday

Things took a little longer than I anticipated today. No one had time to make an enlargement of their portrait, so you can begin Thursday working on that. Then, you can begin to make contact prints and enlargements of your 3 assigned shots. Ideally, you will have that film processed prior to class, but if you still don't feel comfortable without my assistance, then you can process it Thursday morning; just know that film processing is the bottleneck in our set up.
Some of your prints look very nice this morning. I am excited to see what you have for Thursday.

Please take detailed notes for all your shots

Here is a link to an Exposure Log in PDF form. In addition to filling out the fields provided, I suggest you make notes on any camera movements that you applied including where you tried to place the plane of focus.
Given that I have not used all the film holders that you are utilizing, it might be worthwhile to put a piece of masking tape on each side of film holder and assign each side a number. Then, when shooting, record the side that you used for each shot. That way, if it turns out there is a light leak in that holder, we can try to fix it or swap out the film holder.

Homework & Schedule for the week

On Tuesday, we will begin by making a contact print of the portrait of your camera buddy. Then, you will make an enlargement from the same negative. If you are not happy with the negative that you shot during class, then please have another negative ready to print by Tuesday morning. It can be of your camera buddy, or if that isn't practical, it can be of anyone. You will receive a grade based on the quality of the negative and the resulting prints.

Please read Chapter Four: Optical Principles & Chapter Five: Camera Movements before you begin the shooting assignment.

Shooting Assignment - processed negatives due by the beginning of class Thursday.
You are to take the following:
1. Photo demonstrating appropriate use of front tilt.
2. Photo demonstrating appropriate use of real tilt.
3. Photo demonstrating appropriate use of front rise, fall, or shift.

These are creative photo assignments with small technical requirements; not the other way around. Since we need photos of the theme of Landscape and Reclamation in order to submit an exhibition proposal, if you address that theme with this assignment it would be ideal.

We will begin class on Thursday by contacting printing your negatives. The rest of the class will be spent looking at large format landscape photography.

Here is a little write up that takes a problem solving approach to camera movements.

Here is a link to a PDF article with some nice illustrations and notes on camera movements. The illustrations begin on page 8.

Here is a yet one more write up on camera movements. It uses a real nice variety of example photos and illustrations.

Below is a video that demonstrates rise/fall/shift on a 4x5 field camera. It works the same on your monorail cameras.


Below is a video demonstrating the Scheimpflug rule. Basically, it describes how to use tilt/swing to predictably place the plane of focus. I suggest you avoid shooting anything close up like this until we cover compensating for bellows extension.


Happy shooting!