Over the last year I have often been asked about how and when I make my large format images. Often as not I’ll say that sometimes I’m lucky to get 4 minutes of light at the right wavelength on the right day.

Of late, and very late that is for me in my shooting season, I have been spending time rooted to more or less the same spot waiting for the light on days that offered suitable conditions. These are my first large format images of the 2015/16 season such has been the weather and my availability.

A couple of weeks ago just as I had exposed the last sheet of a batch of 10 Portra 400 5×4’s I was calling Redwood on speed dial wondering why they were not answering their phone. It was only later that day that I found out they had folded. So it was a few weeks wait whilst I researched another lab. I chose Peak-Imaging on account of the good feedback I had heard and I am not disappointed. I got 10 sheets of film and 4 rolls of 120 back today and there is only one duff 120 negative – an exposure issue down to me. I have to say that by and large this is the cleanest batch of film I have ever had processed.

These examples have not been spot cleaned yet. They were dry scanned on an Epson V750 Pro. I’m eager to see what the Chromagraph S3400 does with them.

One of these images ticks the 4 second rule in that the light I was waiting for was there for just 4 seconds, never mind 4 minutes!

Any idea which is the one chance in 4 seconds image?