Fences & Stone Walls - Post yours !

[DennisD]

Picket fences, stone walls and similar "boundaries" provide wonderful photographic subjects, especially in context with their surroundings.

Here's a favorite of mine - comments welcome:

Camera 4x5 Linhof MT - Symmar 150mm - Polaroid 55/PN - Bucks County, Pennsylvania

Photo taken quite a few years ago and recently scanned.

http://www.jackandbeans.com/pbd/PA_BucksCty_House-Fence_GS_Sharp_1163x900.jpg

[David Schaller]

Great start to the thread!
Dave

[DennisD]

Great start to the thread!
Dave

Thank you, Dave !

Found another fence with some trees -

Don't recall the camera & lens - most likely 4x5 Linhof Technika IV with 150mm Symmar
Tri - X w/ Normal-1 development
Digital Scan


http://www.jackandbeans.com/pbd/CA_HiddenValley_trees_4x5scan_121_sharp_1142x900_rv1.jpg

[Rick A]

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8178/7988276738_be66bd122b_z_d.jpg



shot last summer
Calumet cc-400 210 Wistar on expired Tri-x 320

[DennisD]

Barn & Fence - Bucks County Pennsylvania

Camera 4x5 Linhof MT - Symmar 150mm - Polaroid 55/PN

Scanned the entire negative without cropping. The processing residue contributes to an old look.

http://www.jackandbeans.com/pbd/PA_BucksCty_Barn-Fence_GS_55pn_Sharp_1271x1000px.jpg

[Heroique]

"Boundaries" provide wonderful photographic subjects, especially in context with their surroundings.

Yes, I recalled this image – a fence by Mother Nature, many miles long.

Not the easiest barricade to climb over, but when you drop down on the other side, you have the beach to yourself. :cool:

Fellow members from the Pacific NW might recognize those lonely sea-stacks on the horizon.

Tachi 4x5
Fuji A 240mm/9 (w/ Lee yellow filter)
Polaroid Type 55
Epson 4990/Epson Scan

[Nathan Potter]

Heroique, I like this image a lot. The chaos in the forground framing the placid sea in the background tells a nice story of natures incongruities. Looks like a fine set of details could be extracted in the right print.

Nate Potter, Austin TX.

[Heroique]

Thanks Jeff and Nathan, a day out of Robinson Crusoe, typical for this lonely area.

Nathan, the incredibly tight grain of Type 55 is nice indeed for print enlargements & digital crops.

Just for fun, here's a quick example. I scanned the full-frame image at 1500 dpi on my 4990, from which I've taken this crop. The film texture is beginning to appear, but check out those trees on the rocks. An 8x10 or 11x14 print from my Omega D2v + Schneider Componon-S 150mm would look super.

[captainscot]

A few years ago in farm country...Deardorff 8x10 12'' Commercial Ektar, negative scanned on Epson 4990.108978

[DennisD]

Yes, I recalled this image – a fence by Mother Nature, many miles long.

Not the easiest barricade to climb over, but when you drop down on the other side, you have the beach to yourself. :cool:

Fellow members from the Pacific NW might recognize those lonely sea-stacks on the horizon.

Tachi 4x5
Fuji A 240mm/9 (w/ Lee yellow filter)
Polaroid Type 55
Epson 4990/Epson Scan


Heroique,

Very interesting image, enhanced even further by Nate Potter's interpretation !

You are right about the fine grain structure of 55 and it does print / enlarge beautifully when properly exposed. I miss it tremendously.

Dennis

[Nathan Potter]

I think this may have been posted previously in a thread here but... An old New England stone wall from about 1730 in Sherborn MA. With winterberries before the birds got to them.

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8531/8631020035_048829a9a8_c.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/argiolus/8631020035/)
45NE1-07-14[f2 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/argiolus/8631020035/) by hypolimnas (http://www.flickr.com/people/argiolus/), on Flickr

TK45S with an old Leitz Summar macro and Fuji Velvia 50 Quickload. Praus processed, V750 scanned with PS tweaks.

Nate Potter, Austin TX.

[DennisD]

I think this may have been posted previously in a thread here but... An old New England stone wall from about 1730 in Sherborn MA. With winterberries before the birds got to them.

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8531/8631020035_048829a9a8_c.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/argiolus/8631020035/)
45NE1-07-14[f2 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/argiolus/8631020035/) by hypolimnas (http://www.flickr.com/people/argiolus/), on Flickr

TK45S with an old Leitz Summar macro and Fuji Velvia 50 Quickload. Praus processed, V750 scanned with PS tweaks.

Nate Potter, Austin TX.

Beautiful combination of colors and texture, Nate.

Dennis

[DennisD]

Posted this in Old Things,Farms,Barns,Buildings, but it also belongs here

Old Barn - Bucks County, Pennsylvania
Polaroid 55 P/N, 4x5 Linhof Master Technika, 150mm Symmar

http://www.jackandbeans.com/pbd/PA_BucksCty_Barn-Fence_GS_55pn.jpg

[Randy]

A couple from years ago...

Along Hwy 58 in Patrick County VA - Probably 4X5 Crown Graphic and 150mm Caltar II-S
https://www.dropbox.com/s/ortf5dqv49p4jal/hwy58.jpg?dl=1


Appomattox Court House, Appomattox VA - cropped from 8X10, 300mm Schneider Componon
https://www.dropbox.com/s/ns7rvwh0h8phn5d/apomatix2.jpg?dl=1

[DennisD]

A couple from years ago...

Along Hwy 58 in Patrick County VA - Probably 4X5 Crown Graphic and 150mm Caltar II-S

Appomattox Court House, Appomattox VA - cropped from 8X10, 300mm Schneider Componon


Hi Randy,

Beautiful compositions and framing on both !
The slope of the land really works so well with the composition (in both cases). Wonderful seeing/visualization.
Also like the receding focus of the second.

Thanks for posting.

Dennis

[Randy]

Thanks Dennis, fences are just one of those subjects that I can't resist.

[Ken Lee]

http://www.kenleegallery.com/images/forum/2012-03.jpg
Massachusetts, 2012
200mm Nikkor M, Tachihara Field Camera
4x5 HP5+, D-23

[David Lobato]

Branding corral, Southwest Colorado with the Mesa Verde rampart in the background
Toyo 45A, 210mm Nikkor, Tri-X

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/55432652/Mesa%20Verde%20Corral%20001%20850LFF.jpg

[StoneNYC]

112277

4x5 Acros100

[Harley Goldman]

A couple from years ago...

Along Hwy 58 in Patrick County VA - Probably 4X5 Crown Graphic and 150mm Caltar II-S
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/52893762/hwy58.jpg

Excellent, Randy! I like this a lot. Great depth and perspective.

[djdister]

4x5 Acros100

So is the snow painted on, or is everyone in the cemetery named "Snow"? ;)

[StoneNYC]

So is the snow painted on, or is everyone in the cemetery named "Snow"? ;)

It's in it's own state of perpetual winter, frigid like the hand of the reaper and beautiful like the sound of the siren's song... ;)

[Ken Lee]

http://www.kenleegallery.com/images/forum/2014-04-01.jpg
Massachusetts, 2014
200mm Nikkor M, Tachihara Field Camera
4x5 TMY, D-23

[Heroique]

Massachusetts, 2014.

Sure, good fences make good neighbors – but good stone walls make good lichen!

[DennisD]

I posted this elsewhere, then realized it belongs here. Helps to keep the thread alive !

http://www.jackandbeans.com/pbd/NY_Rye_MarshLnd_Gate.jpg

Taken a few days ago at a local nature conservancy.
Arca-Swiss, Schneider 120mm, 1sec@f11, ISO 100, DB

[DennisD]

The house is Buffalo Bill's childhood home from LeClaire, Iowa. It was purchased and moved to Cody Wyoming in 1933 by The Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad. The railroad intended the house to be a tourist attraction for Cody, Wyoming, Buffalo Bill's adopted hometown.

I first posted the image in the "Historic Buildings" thread, but later decided it belonged here, too, for the picket fence.

Years ago I was in Cody, Wyoming and took this photograph from the back side of the house.
I especially liked the surrounding picket fence and the symmetry of the composition.
After I took the photo, the undeveloped film (4x5 Tri-x 4164) sat, by accident, in a box of negs that was not developed ...for about 25 years.

I developed the negatives a few years ago with fairly good results - surprising, considering the long wait !
Scanned the negative and post processed in PS with a fair amount of adjustment to get things looking reasonably OK.
The negative is somewhat grainy, a bit low in contrast with limited shadow detail.. However, entirely workable into a decent print - thanks to PS.

Camera: Linhof MT 4x5, Lens 90mm Super Angulon


http://jackandbeans.com/pbd/WY_Cody_BBhouse-fence_1000x748px.jpg

[RSalles]

Farm gate and fence - Rio Grande do Sul - Brazil

https://c6.staticflickr.com/4/3887/14749237661_c2dc6ff90d_b.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/otkGv4)4x5_2014-4913-16 (https://flic.kr/p/otkGv4) by Renato Salles (https://www.flickr.com/photos/sallesrenato/), no Flickr

Sinar F2, Foma 100 4x5 ISO 80, Sinaron /5.6/210, Microphen 1-3 14mn 20ºC

Cheers,

Renato

[Doug Howk]

Resurrection Fern, Old City Cemetery, Jacksonville, FL
152094
8X10 KMV with 5X7 reducing back.
Palladium print on Weston Parchment

[alanbutler57]

Graflex Super D, Gundlach Petzval, Ilford Ortho, Pyrocat HD

https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/494/19223437504_e5c2f29fa2_b.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/vhH9eE)fencepost (https://flic.kr/p/vhH9eE) by Alan Butler (https://www.flickr.com/photos/43210263@N04/), on Flickr

[tonyowen]

dark side of stone wall, paper negative, iso12, f64(??) 4s, 135mm f4.7 xenar
regards
Tony
152509

[Maris Rusis]

https://c1.staticflickr.com/7/6061/6040265085_1c80e646b7_b.jpg
Arno's Wall, Winton

Gelatin-silver photograph on Agfa MCC 111 VC FB, image size 19.5cm X 24.6cm, from a 8x10 Tmax 400 negative exposed in a Tachihara 810HD triple extension field view camera fitted with a Fujinon-W 300mm f5.6 lens. Winton is in the semi-desert outback of Australia and it contains everything that was ever transported there save what has been consumed or rusted away. Arno is a private man and he built his wall out of accumulated junk.

[sdzsdz]

Lake district, England

Chamonix 045N2, 150mm, Provia 100F

Scan on Heidelberg Tango

https://c1.staticflickr.com/6/5664/20797286872_a486bcd273_b.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/xFMwPA)Beautiful Lake District (https://flic.kr/p/xFMwPA) by Sebastian Dziuba (https://www.flickr.com/photos/88626385@N03/), auf Flickr

[DennisD]

Gelatin-silver photograph on Agfa MCC 111 VC FB, image size 19.5cm X 24.6cm, from a 8x10 Tmax 400 negative exposed in a Tachihara 810HD triple extension field view camera fitted with a Fujinon-W 300mm f5.6 lens. Winton is in the semi-desert outback of Australia and it contains everything that was ever transported there save what has been consumed or rusted away. Arno is a private man and he built his wall out of accumulated junk.

That's quite a wall ! Thank you Maris Rusis !


Lake district, England
Chamonix 045N2, 150mm, Provia 100F
Scan on Heidelberg Tango


Beautiful, Sebastian.

[ericpmoss]

Lake district, England

Chamonix 045N2, 150mm, Provia 100F

Scan on Heidelberg Tango

https://c1.staticflickr.com/6/5664/20797286872_a486bcd273_b.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/xFMwPA)Beautiful Lake District (https://flic.kr/p/xFMwPA) by Sebastian Dziuba (https://www.flickr.com/photos/88626385@N03/), auf Flickr

That's a really beautiful capture -- it makes me wish I were there.

[FredrickSummers]

Lake district, England

Chamonix 045N2, 150mm, Provia 100F

Scan on Heidelberg Tango

https://c1.staticflickr.com/6/5664/20797286872_a486bcd273_b.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/xFMwPA)Beautiful Lake District (https://flic.kr/p/xFMwPA) by Sebastian Dziuba (https://www.flickr.com/photos/88626385@N03/), auf Flickr

I really like this. Provia is quickly becoming my favorite film. Very nice capture!


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[jon.oman]

Lake district, England

Chamonix 045N2, 150mm, Provia 100F

Scan on Heidelberg Tango

https://c1.staticflickr.com/6/5664/20797286872_a486bcd273_b.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/xFMwPA)Beautiful Lake District (https://flic.kr/p/xFMwPA) by Sebastian Dziuba (https://www.flickr.com/photos/88626385@N03/), auf Flickr

Wonderful image!

[sdzsdz]

Thank you everybody! Much apreciated

[DennisD]

Probably posted this in the "churches" thread, but thought it has a place here.


http://www.jackandbeans.com/pbd/nm_golden_church_1000x744px.jpg

San Francisco Catholic Church, Golden, NM

Linhof Technica 4x5 - Lens 150mm Symmar
TRI-X / HC-110 1:31 Normal
X5 scan

[h2oman]

Two fences. The fog was a shade too dense - I'd like the second fence to show more. Oh well...

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[Erik Larsen]

Two fences. The fog was a shade too dense - I'd like the second fence to show more. Oh well...

211409

This works for me as is!

[Peter Lewin]

Dennis, I really like your fence shot, the white crosses really “pop,” you got the lighting just right. Of course, every time I see an image like this (or make one myself) I think of Paul Strand’s white fence.

[h2oman]

Dennis doesn't seem to come around here anymore, but he does wonderful work. I sleuthed him out, not that it was all that hard!

Dennis Dilmaghani

[Jim Jones]

Thank you everybody! Much apreciated

Thank YOU for posting such a beautiful photograph!

[Heroique]

I’m up at 9,000 feet here, Pioneer Mountains in SW Montana.

214110

This old fence wouldn't impress any livestock – even clouds can jump it.

Tachi 4x5
Schneider 150mm/9 g-claron
Ilford FP4+ (in Rodinal 1:50)
Epson 4990/Epson Scan

[GRAYnomad]

The old receding fence line trick. That's Canal Rocks in Western Australia in the background.

http://www.robgray.com/photos/images/00420.jpg

Tachihara, 6x12 RFH, 90/4.5 Nikkor

[Martin Aislabie]

The old receding fence line trick. That's Canal Rocks in Western Australia in the background.

http://www.robgray.com/photos/images/00420.jpg

Tachihara, 6x12 RFH, 90/4.5 Nikkor

Lovely

Martin

[Chauncey Walden]

I suppose this could be counted in the fences and stone walls genre. Alnwick Castle, England. Travelwide 4x5 with a 90mm Angulon.214180

[John Layton]

From a few years back...at Pemaquid Point, Maine:

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4x5, TMX, HC-110, 90mm

[GRAYnomad]

From a few years back...at Pemaquid Point, Maine:

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4x5, TMX, HC-110, 90mm

Now that would have had some interesting movements. Or did you just tilt and stop down :D

[John Layton]

There are three major object plane angles in my image...the foreground fence which goes to the left, the building wall - congruent to the first mentioned plane but at a different distance, and the fence section starting at the right and ending at the building. The lawn is yet another plane, which I consider to be less important here. The roof is yet another...which does not worry me at all as it is dark, plus not so challenging as the lawn.

I took this photo a number of years ago...but looking at it now, I can imagine that I'd first want to swing the front (or rear) to establish focus of both the extreme right fence post and the extreme left of the building in this image - then swing back from this, so that now the fourth post from the right (of the fence running to the building) would be in focus, and pull back a bit so the extreme right of the building is now just a bit fuzzy. Then, I'd want to tilt the lens down...just a bit, to attempt to accommodate the roof plane, which would bring this plane forward to bisect the front-left fence at about 1/4 up from the bottom of the frame.

Then I'd stop down quite a bit. Likely to right between f/32 and f/45. A bit risky with such a short(ish) FL - I'm also almost certain that I went right to a red filter for this image...which would help restore some of the apparent sharpness which may have otherwise been lost to diffraction.

Do keep in mind that the two aspects in my favor are...One - I'm using a 90mm lens, so visible DOF will tend to fall off a bit less than it would with a longer FL. And two - the right side of the building and the right side of the fence are in pretty deep shadow...which gives me an opportunity to be more "neglectful" of those areas, focus-wise - making my task a bit easier. If you look closely at these shadow areas, they are indeed just a bit fuzzier than the brighter parts.

At any rate...lots of little compromises here and there - but I do think I pulled it off (just barely!).

[GRAYnomad]

Thanks for the description, yeah a tricky shot to get everything acceptably sharp.

[arri]

Fujifilm mammography x-ray film in 18x24xm sheets.
I cut it down to 9x12cm sheets.
Pre exposured zone II
ISO 80, developed like an Ilford FP4+ in Adox Silvermax
Suter, Basel, Switzerland "Stella" 160mm f/5 @f/22

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51227003570_346b742665_h.jpg