After reading John Blakemore's book "Black and White Photography Workshop" in the Uni library, and seeing a diagram for taking still life compositions, I thought I would give it a go and experiment with this set up. There was a range of subjects, a composed basket of sewing items, series of organised buttons and finally three leaves from three different Acer trees. As with the two previous tests the camera was a Sinar F1 with two bellows to extend the focal length to capture enlarged detail. This camera was weighted down on a tripod due to all the weight being front loaded over looking the composition. The lens was a 210mm Schneider Symmar-S, Film Ilford HP5 Plus 400. As these shoots were part of a series of experiments, it was a case of the film being used, as what I had in, than going for a specific creative look.
As with the previous shoot a lightmeter reading was taken and and two shots of each subject were taken with slightly different apertures to vary the depth of field.
Side view as John Blakemore's diagram
View looking down from the camera at subject:
The final images:
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