u/Icy_Confusion_6614

I took a shot here about a month or so ago but wasn't happy with the motion blur from the camera. This time I set it on my dark cloth to steady it on the railing (no tripod) and got the pic I wanted. The people are blurred from their own movement. I shot it this morning and turned it around quickly.

First color shot in 4x5 and first use of flash in 4x5. I like the Aerocolor look.

This is a close crop of the original, which had too much going on.

This was my first color shot on a 4x5 ever, the first time I used a flash with it, my first shot at close range where focus mattered and the first time I've taken anything other than a landscape or architectural shot at essentially infinity focus. It seemed to hit all the points I was testing.

I can't say the subject is anything special, I was just looking for something colorful to shoot last night in my house. The orchid by itself would be nice but with the wide angle lens I couldn't get close enough. That's a limitation of the fixed lens, although I have an idea on how to extend that.

Willtravel 4x5, SA90 f8, Reflx Lab Pro 100/Aerocolor 2460, Metz 54 MZ-4i, Cinestill C41 processing, v600 scan in two passes. Shot at f16, 1/60th

There were a few flares in this version, but the "flare" in the upper right is not the sun, it is a crease in the negative from when I loaded the film holder! You can see the pentagon from the diaphragm, that's from the sun.

1/2s at f22.

On my last two prints, one on Epson Exhibition Canvas Satin, the other Velvet Fine Art, I got smudges at the very end of the print. Both were fed through the rear feeder and are 13" wide. The Brooklyn Bridge is on the Canvas and is 24" long so it was kind of frustrating that at the very end it did this. It is very thick paper and not directly supported. It also looks better in the flesh than in this photo. The other was 13x19 and is B&W on a standard Epson paper.

What would cause this? There must be something that needs to be cleaned.

Shot at box speed. One pic was way overexposed and only that one was edited. Another is very soft focus.