Uploaded July 2021 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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I continued with my Large Format Photography Diary series. In this video, I share how I replaced my broken ground glass of my 8x10 large format camera with an acrylic one. To test out this new ground glass, I did a portrait shoot with strobe to see how effective is this ground glass.

Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
1:12 Replacing the ground glass
4:26 Portrait Shoot
5:14 Processing
6:55 Contact Printing
8:30 Review the results
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I have been doing film photography, darkroom printing since 2003. Since then, I have also been doing alternative processes such as albumen printing, kallitype printing, wet plate and dry plate photography. My favorite cameras are the Nikon FM2 and Nikon F2 and my favorite films are Fomapan 100, Kodak Ektar, Fujifilm Velvia, Rollei Superpan. with The various genres of photography I enjoy doing are landscape photography, portrait photography,