Selective Focus with Flexbody

[Deon]

Here are a few selective focus shots I've done over the years. The Fexbody is my favorite Hasselblad and the most used in my case. The camera can get everything in focus or select the area you wish to be in focus. No photoshop trickery or AI done here, just in camera fun.

• Epson/ PerfectionV700/

Cemetery Monument - Scappoose, Oregon - Haseelbald Flexbody w/100m CFi lens and Fuji Velvia film

• EPSON Perfection V700/V750

Grass Widows - Catherine Creek, Washington - Hasselblad Flexbody w/180mm CFi lens Fuji Velvia film

• Epson PerfectionV700

Ponderosa Pine - Modoc National Forest, California - Hasselblad Flexbody w 60mm CF lens Fuji Velvia film

 

[bladdered]

I really enjoy viewing your work from the Flexbody.

Please show more and with a little insight into camera setup. Compared to a view camera it seems quite restrictive, but quite capable. Cheers.

 

[Deon]

You are right that the Flexbody has limitations compared to a view camera. Since only the film plane moves, one must keep in mind the geometry that will change when tilting the film plane. If the lens tilted instead of the film plane the geometry would not change. Sometimes I set up the camera with the lens tilted then straiten up the film plane to keep the image from key-stoning.

Cemetery - San Antonio, New Mexico - Flexbody w/100mm CF lens and Ilford FP-4 self processed in D-76 1:1 8.5 minutes with 3 minute pre-soak. I put the camera on its side (a big pain in the...) so I could tilt the film plane the other way. Note: the face of the headstones are in focus from front to rear, but the background is soft. I don't remember what f stop, but it would have been shallow, maybe 5.6 or 8 ???

• EPSON Perfection V700/V750

 

[Deon]

Bird Nest - Bosquecito, New Mexico - Hasselblad Flexbody w/120mm CF Makro Planar - Ilford Pan-F self processed in D-76 1:1 10.5 minutes with 3 minute pre-soak.
This was a test shot for a new (used) 120mm macro lens. I had read so many accounts of the 120mm lens being amazing on the Flexbody, but why? I will tell you. In this shot the camera has been tweaked as far as every tilt or swing will go, totally maxed out. There are zero chromatic aberrations and there is zero fall-off from running out of lens. The only down-side to the 120mm lens is that is becomes soft past about 9 meters, not a good landscape lens. Otherwise this lens is spectacularly sharp.

• EPSON Perfection V700/V750