[LargeFormat] inserting the film holder

[Les Newcomer]

For a single flower I'd use armature wire outside of the frame or below the
depth of field. Granted you can't do this with a field of daisies. Martha
uses it and she says it's a good thing, and from the rumors I've heard I'm
not gonna say any different!

BTW foamcore comes in 4x8 sheets, we used it all the time shooting cars and
the truck idea didn't always work, as a good breeze would roll over the top
and stirr/dump dust and other stuff on us.

I remember we were around Dessert Sands California and the Art Director
(very young) had this great idea of shooting the car with the wind farm of
modern wind mills nearby. We tried to talk himout of it but he was playing
the prima donna.

He was SO pissed off when we got there that it was windy. I"ll swear I
vacuumed sand out of the inside of the bellows. I know there was sand in my
shorts.
Les

> From: "philip.lambert" <philip.lambert@ntlworld.com>
> Reply-To: largeformat@f32.net
> Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 07:31:41 +0100
> To: <largeformat@f32.net>
> Subject: Re: [LargeFormat] inserting the film holder
> 
> When I assisted a car shooter we routinely put up
> wind breaks (thetruck) to keep the breeze from disturbing the 8x10 camera.
> 
> Les, as a separate enquiry about blurred images, how do you stop wind
> movement of flowers when photographing them in the open  ?
> The only ideas I have had centre on making flat white A3 reflectors mounted
> on wood strips that might be stuck in the ground either side of the subject,
> or a similar idea using transparent vinyl, since glass sheet doesn't travel
> well and is heavy.  Don't see how a light-tent is practical given some of
> the flowers are on shrubs/trees.  Maybe what I need is an assistant with a
> large sheet of white card. The problem of subject movement is important as I
> have to select a higher film speed and shutter speed to overcome it than I
> like.  Synchro-sunlight?  The art shop sells thin sheets of foam board
> covered in white paper. I wonder how big they come.
> Philip
> 
> 
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