**This week with your medium format camera Jun 17-23, 2023**

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This weekly topic serves as a place for forum members to share recent work with our medium format cameras. It's OK for medium format owners to dazzle us with images made with other cameras, but the idea is to allow owners with similar cameras to compare notes, chops, and sensibilities.

Using Threaded View helps to keep each person's contribution and responses linked in a tree-like structure so replies/discussions are easier to follow.

To begin:
  1. Add your contribution for the week by responding to this, the first message in this topic.
  2. Change the Subject of your message, then embed your image into the reply with whatever you’d like to say about it. (Embedding makes it easier to participate, easier than a link to an image located outside the forum - but links aren’t a great offense).
  3. In order to make things easier for our cellphone users, please limit the number of images in one post to fewer than 10, and don't quote images in your replies that are extraneous to the points you're making.
If you especially want C&C (criticism/critique) or technique feedback, say so. It’s assumed one does want such feedback, but direct requests may garner a more studied analysis/response. If you don't want such feedback, say so, and others will respect your wishes.

If you feel you've been ignored, select your post, reply to it with a brief note to the effect of "Can I get some feedback?". Not getting feedback on a post isn't uncommon, so don't feel offended - no one is charged to ensure all posts get attention (we're not organized enough for that). If you want particular feedback (composition, exposure choice, etc.), saying so can be helpful for the potential respondents as to what your needs may be.

It is courteous and advisable that, should you post images for feedback, you also make comment on at least one other contribution. Respectful acknowledgment of everyone is the goal, and it’s requested that all participants assume some responsibility to that end.
 
Again, not MF, but I'm having fun this week playing around with graffiti captures from a decade ago.

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While not taken with a medium format camera, it was taken with the first DSLR to knock on the door of MF resolution (5DS), so hopefully it counts :) Plus it's been enlarged.

Looking for C&C. Taking this shot for the local science center for an exhibit (not paid, volunteer work). It's the historic Wainwright building in downtown St. Louis. Credited as being the first modern skyscraper, designed by famous architect Louis Sullivan.

I like the dramatic perspective, but unsure if it's a bit too dramatic here? Maybe this is bordering on abstract? This is the only spot I can stand where I don't get street lights and other stuff projecting into the building. It's obviously a very wide angle and quite close to the building. I'd love to back up some, but not an option without major PS surgery to clone out street lights and other $h!t that will encroach in the scene.

If I backup, it will ease the angles a bit for a more natural perspective, but I'll have several hours of photoshop time cleaning it up. I'd rather not if you feel this works?

I am going to take the shot again tomorrow and hope there isn't a Buick parked in front of the main entrance...

5DS, 12mm (corrected), f11, ISO 100

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I hope you at least put a Hasselblad sticker on your Canon. :)

But yes, too dramatic in my opinion and a terrible sky.
 
While not taken with a medium format camera, it was taken with the first DSLR to knock on the door of MF resolution (5DS), so hopefully it counts :) Plus it's been enlarged.

Looking for C&C. Taking this shot for the local science center for an exhibit (not paid, volunteer work). It's the historic Wainwright building in downtown St. Louis. Credited as being the first modern skyscraper, designed by famous architect Louis Sullivan.

I like the dramatic perspective, but unsure if it's a bit too dramatic here? Maybe this is bordering on abstract? This is the only spot I can stand where I don't get street lights and other stuff projecting into the building. It's obviously a very wide angle and quite close to the building. I'd love to back up some, but not an option without major PS surgery to clone out street lights and other $h!t that will encroach in the scene.

If I backup, it will ease the angles a bit for a more natural perspective, but I'll have several hours of photoshop time cleaning it up. I'd rather not if you feel this works?

I am going to take the shot again tomorrow and hope there isn't a Buick parked in front of the main entrance...

5DS, 12mm (corrected), f11, ISO 100

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Don't change anything. This is a pic that should not be ordinary. That very sharp point keeps your eyes wanting to keep looking at it.
 
I hope you at least put a Hasselblad sticker on your Canon. :)
Holga sticker...theft deterrent :)
But yes, too dramatic in my opinion and a terrible sky.
Thanks for the feedback; I was afraid it would be too much. I'll explore some other compositions today. And yes, I'll definitely darken the sky on the final image. Was too lazy to do it here thanks to the car making this outing a bust.
 
While not taken with a medium format camera, it was taken with the first DSLR to knock on the door of MF resolution (5DS), so hopefully it counts :) Plus it's been enlarged.

Looking for C&C. Taking this shot for the local science center for an exhibit (not paid, volunteer work). It's the historic Wainwright building in downtown St. Louis. Credited as being the first modern skyscraper, designed by famous architect Louis Sullivan.

I like the dramatic perspective, but unsure if it's a bit too dramatic here? Maybe this is bordering on abstract? This is the only spot I can stand where I don't get street lights and other stuff projecting into the building. It's obviously a very wide angle and quite close to the building. I'd love to back up some, but not an option without major PS surgery to clone out street lights and other $h!t that will encroach in the scene.

If I backup, it will ease the angles a bit for a more natural perspective, but I'll have several hours of photoshop time cleaning it up. I'd rather not if you feel this works?

I am going to take the shot again tomorrow and hope there isn't a Buick parked in front of the main entrance...
Don't change anything. This is a pic that should not be ordinary. That very sharp point keeps your eyes wanting to keep looking at it.
Thanks. I agree, I do like this perspective and think it's very cool. I'm going to take this angle again today no matter what, for my personal work I will keep it. Just hoping the end user doesn't see and be be like "uh...what is this?!" :)
 
While not taken with a medium format camera, it was taken with the first DSLR to knock on the door of MF resolution (5DS), so hopefully it counts :) Plus it's been enlarged.

Looking for C&C. Taking this shot for the local science center for an exhibit (not paid, volunteer work). It's the historic Wainwright building in downtown St. Louis. Credited as being the first modern skyscraper, designed by famous architect Louis Sullivan.

I like the dramatic perspective, but unsure if it's a bit too dramatic here? Maybe this is bordering on abstract? This is the only spot I can stand where I don't get street lights and other stuff projecting into the building. It's obviously a very wide angle and quite close to the building. I'd love to back up some, but not an option without major PS surgery to clone out street lights and other $h!t that will encroach in the scene.

If I backup, it will ease the angles a bit for a more natural perspective, but I'll have several hours of photoshop time cleaning it up. I'd rather not if you feel this works?

I am going to take the shot again tomorrow and hope there isn't a Buick parked in front of the main entrance...

5DS, 12mm (corrected), f11, ISO 100

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I agree with the other positive replies.

Don't change a thing. This is good work.

I like the way you've been careful to line things up and to keep vertical lines as "vertical" as possible. Don't make any apologies for this shot.

Good stuff.

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"That's like, just your opinion, man." ;-)
 
While not taken with a medium format camera, it was taken with the first DSLR to knock on the door of MF resolution (5DS), so hopefully it counts :) Plus it's been enlarged.

Looking for C&C. Taking this shot for the local science center for an exhibit (not paid, volunteer work). It's the historic Wainwright building in downtown St. Louis. Credited as being the first modern skyscraper, designed by famous architect Louis Sullivan.

I like the dramatic perspective, but unsure if it's a bit too dramatic here? Maybe this is bordering on abstract? This is the only spot I can stand where I don't get street lights and other stuff projecting into the building. It's obviously a very wide angle and quite close to the building. I'd love to back up some, but not an option without major PS surgery to clone out street lights and other $h!t that will encroach in the scene.

If I backup, it will ease the angles a bit for a more natural perspective, but I'll have several hours of photoshop time cleaning it up. I'd rather not if you feel this works?

I am going to take the shot again tomorrow and hope there isn't a Buick parked in front of the main entrance...

5DS, 12mm (corrected), f11, ISO 100
I agree with the other positive replies.

Don't change a thing. This is good work.

I like the way you've been careful to line things up and to keep vertical lines as "vertical" as possible. Don't make any apologies for this shot.

Good stuff.
Thank you for the kind words.

On the verticals, for extremely tall perspective shots like this the trick is to not have perfect verticals, but leave a slight amount of convergence. When you make the verticals perfectly straight, the image has a sense of "bowing out" at the top and it looks strange. The slight convergence fools your brain into seeing it straight.

On lower height perspectives, perfect verticals are preferred.
 
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GF 45-100 with MCEX-18G WR Not a true macro but it works
 
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A couple more of the Wainright Building. Didn't get out to retake the original pic as there was a concert downtown last night in the area. Got out this morning to shoot the other side and a few details.

Color and a B&W version, and one of the detail shots.

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A couple more of the Wainright Building. Didn't get out to retake the original pic as there was a concert downtown last night in the area. Got out this morning to shoot the other side and a few details.

Color and a B&W version, and one of the detail shots.

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I really like this one, nice job.
 

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