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this picture has quite some meaning to me.

First a description of the equipment:
it was done with an old-style studio-camera that can be folded together like a field camera. Made of pure metal and 9x12cm plates (the old-style european format, a bit slimmer than 4x5"). It was the camera of my grandfather and thus I have a special attachment to it too. I cleaned it and restorated it to my best. Only a few plate-hodlers are left and they are in bad shape, so I use this camera very rarely.

This was done with a particular lens, a Superangulon made for a smaller image format, thus it has troubles to illuminate the whole image field, but tha effect is an extreme wide view angle. (the stones in the foreground are almost at my feet)

The scene is inside an old city gate, in Bergamo Alta, I was waiting in the dark (see, one can do street photorgraphy with such a beast, but hidden well behind the dark cloth).
The extreme depth of field is achieved using the Scheinpflug correction, that is by tilting the back of the camera in respect to the lens plane. Exposure was of course determined using a hand-held meter and carefully weighting the scene due to the extreme contrast

The film was the trusty AgfaPan 100, developed in 1+25 Rodinal.

I don't have an enlarger for such a negative, thus I had it professinally printed on fiber-based paper, with a white border and glossy treatment. Really an old-style phtograph that has stunning detail and contrast. I made it as a gift to my grandfather and he appreciated it.

Description
(Shadows)

this picture has quite some meaning to me.

First a description of the equipment:
it was done with an old-style studio-camera that can be folded together like a field camera. Made of pure metal and 9x12cm plates (the old-style european format, a bit slimmer than 4x5"). It was the camera of my grandfather and thus I have a special attachment to it too. I cleaned it and restorated it to my best. Only a few plate-hodlers are left and they are in bad shape, so I use this camera very rarely.

This was done with a particular lens, a Superangulon made for a smaller image format, thus it has troubles to illuminate the whole image field, but tha effect is an extreme wide view angle. (the stones in the foreground are almost at my feet)

The scene is inside an old city gate, in Bergamo Alta, I was waiting in the dark (see, one can do street photorgraphy with such a beast, but hidden well behind the dark cloth).
The extreme depth of field is achieved using the Scheinpflug correction, that is by tilting the back of the camera in respect to the lens plane. Exposure was of course determined using a hand-held meter and carefully weighting the scene due to the extreme contrast

The film was the trusty AgfaPan 100, developed in 1+25 Rodinal.

I don't have an enlarger for such a negative, thus I had it professinally printed on fiber-based paper, with a white border and glossy treatment. Really an old-style phtograph that has stunning detail and contrast. I made it as a gift to my grandfather and he appreciated it.