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Force of elegance

flower compositions
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White elegance

flower compositions
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Lilies

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Grand assembly

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Changing 8×10 inch sheetfilm when traveling was a bit of an ordeal. After a hot today in Death Valley, Canyonlands, or one of the other unsurpassed landscape-rich parts of the American West, I would for more than an hour be stuck in a darkened motel bathroom. It takes roughly half an hour to check whether, with towels blocking light from under the door, they are truly pitchdark. The reward of perhaps one or two great 8×10 negatives, where worth the energy and time. But there came a point when this had become too much for me. Fortunately, the digital revolution in photography happened just about at that time, and soon I discovered that as the software for working with images produced by image sensors improved at relatively great speed, it became possible to achieve even much bigger prints than from a 8×10 negative through stitching together a lot of images covering parts of the subject.

I began doing this with landscapes, temples, and anything else which did not contain much movement, for angles of view no one had seen before.

This multiple exposure system could be combined with focus stacking to achieve sharpness all the way from a few feet in front of you to infinity. That compensated neatly for the tilted lens holder of the large-format technical camera.

I went back to sturdy tripod, various bellows arrangements, plus a mini studio arrangement for the macro flower compositions, and a new world of photographic possibilities opened up. These images required sharper large-format lenses than I had used with my 4 x 5 rigs. Another discovery was that the best enlarger lenses gave the best results. For these compositions that need to be sharp in every detail focus stacking is obviously essential.

Bouquet fever

flower compositions
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Chrysant Burst

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Actus composition

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December flowers

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