For Brother Lawrence:
The first of my Lubitel scans from Italy. Orvieto’s duomo at night. The first time I’ve used a ‘toy’ camera - or indeed a twin lens reflex - on a tripod too. I guestimated the exposure as it was set on ‘B’ and I held the shutter release cable in for 30 secs.
Only 300 years, 33 architects, 152 sculptors, 68 painters and 90 mosaicists in the making.
June 7th, 2006 at 11:30 pm
Magic picture.
June 8th, 2006 at 1:57 am
Incantevole. I don’t think I ever saw it at night, but I did see it once when the sun, low in the sky, hit it full on. It was magnificent. Thanks for thinking of me.
June 8th, 2006 at 7:37 am
Lovely, and am impressed you managed to get such a good exposure just by guessing! If I’d tried it would probably have come out black.
June 8th, 2006 at 8:42 am
That’s stunning …
June 8th, 2006 at 8:52 am
the detail captured if exquisite.
June 8th, 2006 at 9:38 am
Thanks everyone! I was amazed how well this came out as it’s one of my first goes with my lubitel medium format camera. It’s classed as a toy camera (think it has a plastic lens like my Holga) and it weights nothing (totally plastic body) but you do get the odd cracking shot from it. A mere £17 off evilBay.
If you go to the Flickr entry for the shot (click on the picture above) and click on all sizes you can see a bigger version with more detail.
June 8th, 2006 at 9:55 am
Ooh. Is that sky manipulated or was it really that dark? Fab photo.
June 8th, 2006 at 10:10 am
Pog took the words out of my mouth - stunning.
June 8th, 2006 at 4:13 pm
Thank you kindly ladies!
Katja - it’s all real, it was about midnight when I took it. Orvieto is a hill town with hardly any light pollution. The only thing that is lit up at night is the Duomo.