Level 4 photography
Landscapes

How to take images from 5x4 film camera

once the camera is set up correctly and securely, you will the viewing, composition and focusing upside down and reversed from right to left.

Stages of taking an image is that you focus the landscape by twisting the front wheels if the focus is still blurry then try adjusting the aperture. when landscape in focus you can shut shut the lens and cock the camera ready to shoot. then place dark slides inside slot and get light meter and face the object and results show on meter fix it on the lens and make sure light meter on iso 400. when ready to shoot you take out the dark slide cover and click trigger.

Tilting the lens will extend the focus far beyond the effect of using small lens aperture and allow you to get near and far objects in focus the same time. Even if you used the smallest aperture on the lens, you might still a greater depth of field.




Tilting the back away from the lens, you will notice that the size and shape of objects in the foreground become exaggerated and distorted.




If wanting to photograph a building or a stand of trees, yet wanting to keep all lines parallel but must angle the camera upwards to include the scene. rise first to support the camera back parallel to the subject. then by using the rise the lens point of view is moved above eye level to keep vertical lines parellel.