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[Glenn]

This was taken by my wife, Collette when we were out taking photos of poppies earlier in the year.

Head under the dark cloth focusing the wooden box

[Deanneart]

Hi there Glen, nice to see you in action with your 'wooden box'. Looks like a lot of fun.... Thanks for Collette for taking this shot. Do you have any of the poppy pics to share?

[John Stuart-Clarke]

You should have asked Collette to process this in black and white as it would have been more in keeping with the vintage theme

[Glenn]

John Stuart-Clarke, on 27 November 2011 - 09:09 AM, said:

You should have asked Collette to process this in black and white as it would have been more in keeping with the vintage theme

Now there's an idea, maybe with a sepia tone as well

[Glenn]

Deanneart, on 25 November 2011 - 06:55 PM, said:

Do you have any of the poppy pics to share?

Unfortunately not. I was getting the hang of calculating exposure so the 4 shots I did take, 2 were over exposed and the other 2 were under exposed.

[Mark Wilson]

Nice to see the box in action

Out of interest, do you keep a digital P&S handy to validate exposure settings? I have read about people using a P&S that has manual setting to replace the traditional polaroid exposures.

[Glenn]

Some times I take a P&S with me but for taking shots when I don't feel it's worth a sheet of 5x4. What I do use is a pentax spot meter to determine the shadow EV and from that I determine the mid EV by adding 2 stops. Velvia 100F, 100 and 50 have a DR of approx 4 stops. Now I'm looking at trying Kodak Portra 160 because from what I have read that film has a DR of approx 10-11 stops with it being a negative rather than a transparency.