Cemetery

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An angel grave marker from 1946, found in Sacred Heart Cemetery, also known as Holy Sepulchre Cemetery in Allentown, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania.  

Technical details:
Sakai Toyo 5x7" large format metal field camera with 4x5" film back.
Fujinon-W 210mm F5.6 lens in Copal B shutter.
Wratten yellow # 8 filter on lens.
Kodak Ektascan BR/A single-sided X-Ray film shot at ISO 100.
1/15th second at F16.
Developed in Adox Rodinal 1:150 dilution for 6 minutes, 20 seconds @ 20 degrees Celsius using Beseler 8x10 color print drum placed on Unicolor Uniroller 352 auto-reversing rotary base.    
4x5" negative scanned with Epson V600.

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"Make yourself familiar with the angels, and behold them frequently in spirit; for, without being seen, they are present with you". ~St Francis of Sales.  As seen in Sacred Heart Cemetery, also known as Holy Sepulchre Cemetery in Allentown, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania.

Technical details:
Sakai Toyo 5x7" large format metal field camera with 4x5" film back.
Fujinon-W 210mm F5.6 lens in Copal B shutter.
Wratten yellow # 8 filter on lens.
Kodak Ektascan BR/A single-sided X-Ray film shot at ISO 100.
1/8th second at F16.
Developed in Adox Rodinal 1:150 dilution for 6 minutes, 20 seconds @ 20 degrees Celsius using Beseler 8x10 color print drum placed on Unicolor Uniroller 352 auto-reversing rotary base.    
4x5" negative scanned with Epson V600.

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The chapel at Sacred Heart Cemetery, also formerly known as Holy Sepulchre Cemetery in Allentown, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania.   Any history on this building has been elusive to say the least.

Technical details:
Sakai Toyo 5x7" large format metal field camera with 4x5" film back.
90mm F5.6 Schneider Super-Angulon lens in a Copal 0 shutter.
Wratten yellow # 8 filter on lens.
Kodak Ektascan BR/A single-sided X-Ray film shot at ISO 100.
1/8th second at F22.
Developed in Adox Rodinal 1:150 dilution for 6 minutes, 20 seconds @ 20 degrees Celsius using Beseler 8x10 color print drum placed on Unicolor Uniroller 352 auto-reversing rotary base.    
4x5" negative scanned with Epson V600.

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A cross gravestone spotted at Sacred Heart Cemetery, also known as Holy Sepulchre Cemetery in Allentown, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania.   The late afternoon sun was casting some great shadows on Sunday.  I can't wait to get this negative under the enlarger in the darkroom later this week.

Technical details:
Sakai Toyo 5x7" large format metal field camera with 4x5" film back.
90mm F5.6 Schneider Super-Angulon lens in a Copal 0 shutter.
Wratten yellow # 8 filter on lens.
Kodak Ektascan BR/A single-sided X-Ray film shot at ISO 100.
1/8th second at F22.
Developed in Adox Rodinal 1:150 dilution for 6 minutes, 20 seconds @ 20 degrees Celsius using Beseler 8x10 color print drum placed on Unicolor Uniroller 352 auto-reversing rotary base.    
4x5" negative scanned with Epson V600.

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Gettysburg National Cemetery is the final resting place for more than 3,500 Union soldiers killed in the Battle of Gettysburg, a Union victory often cited as a turning point in the Civil War. Numerous monuments stand in both the cemetery and battlefield to commemorate the Union and Confederate troops who fought there. At the cemetery’s dedication on November 19, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln rose to deliver “a few appropriate remarks,” now known as the Gettysburg Address.

Technical details:
Busch Pressman Model D 4x5 large format press camera.
Graflex Optar 135mm F4.7 lens in a Graphex shutter.
Yellow # 8 series VI filter on lens.
Ilford FP4+ B&W film, shot at ISO 125.
Exposure was 1/10th second at F32.
Developed in Rodinal/Adox Adonal 1:50 dilution for 15 minutes @ 20 degrees Celsius in Mod54 daylight developing tank.   
4x5" negative scanned with Epson V600.

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Take a walk on the not so wild side.  A lensless pinhole camera shot of crypt row at Laurel Hill Cemetery in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Camera: Lensless Camera Company 75mm F225 pinhole camera.

Film: Ilford HP5+ 400 ISO shot at 200 ISO.

Exposure: 6 seconds @ F225.

Development: Self Developed in Kodak Xtol 1+2 dilution in three reel Paterson Universal Tank using Mod54 six sheet 4x5 insert. 13 minutes @ 20 degrees Celsius. Kodak indicator stop bath.  Ilford Rapid Fixer. Photo-Flo rinse.

Scanning: Negative scanned with Epson V600 in two scans and merged back together in PhotoShop since the V600 doesn't natively support 4x5 scans in one pass.

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Laurel Hill Cemetery, founded in 1836, occupies a 74 acre tract of land in the East Falls section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and overlooks the Schuylkill River.  The cemetery was placed on the National Historic Landmark list in 1998 as one of America's largest Victorian era cemeteries.  It's a great place for a casual walk or a day of photography with its many statues, marble obelisks and elaborate hillside tombs and mausoleums.

Camera: Busch Pressman Model D 4x5 large format press camera.

Lens:  150mm Caltar-S II (Calumet re-branded Schneider Symar-S) F 5.6 lens in a Copal BT shutter with B+W brand yellow-green filter.

Film: Kodak Ektascan BR/A single-sided X-Ray film.  Purchased from zzmedical.com as 8x10" sheets and cut down to 4x5".  Film rated at 80 ISO.

Exposure: 1/15 @ F32.

Development: Self Developed film in Rodinal (Adox Adonol) 1:100 in three reel Paterson Universal Tank using Mod54 six sheet 4x5 insert.  Semi-Stand for 15 minutes with initial minute of inversions then 10 seconds of inversion on minutes one and two then let it sit until minute 14 when I do a final ten seconds of inversions. Kodak indicator stop bath. Ilford Rapid Fixer. Photo-Flo. Hung to dry.

Scanning: Negative scanned with Epson V600 in two scans and merged back together in PhotoShop since the V600 doesn't natively support 4x5 scans in one pass. Cropped in post processing.

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St. Paul's UCC Church Cemetery in Amity, Pennsylvania contains some very old gravestones, some dating back to the 1700s. A nice setting for a shot with the 4x5 pinhole camera. 

Camera: Home made 4x5 wooden and brass pinhole camera. 0.4mm diameter laser cut pinhole, 90mm focal length giving F225 aperture.  

Lens: None.

Film: Fuji Super HR-T 30 medium speed green sensitive X-Ray film.  Purchased as 8x10" sheets and cut down to 4x5".  Film rated at 100 ISO.  

Exposure: 8 seconds.

Development: Self Developed film in Rodinal (Adox Adinol) 1:100 in three reel Paterson Universal Tank using Mod54 six sheet 4x5 insert.  7 1/2 minutes @ 20 degrees Celsius with minimal inversions. Kodak indicator stop bath. Ilford Rapid Fixer. Photo-Flo. Hung to dry. 

Scanning: Negative scanned with Epson V600 in two scans and merged back together in PhotoShop since the V600 doesn't natively support 4x5 scans in one pass.