My First Large Format Photograph

[rupal]

Here is my first photo taken on 4x5. It is the Barron Falls in flood.
Horseman 45FA, Rodenstock Sironar-N 150mm f5.6 @ f22 1/30s, Provia 100F. :)

[monkeymon]

I like the colours... there is a nice balance, often when people do large colour nature/landscapes the colours are completely of the walls.

[rupal]

Thanks... It looks a lot better on the actual print than it does on here, resized & compressed.

[jb7]

Well done-
looks like you'll be sticking with it...

[Vaughn]

Very well seen! Congrats!

Queensland has certainly got its share of rain this season. I just checked out a few sites with images of the falls, and your interpretation is by far the most powerful of what I have found in my limited search.

Vaughn

[rupal]

Thanks all for the comments.... I live just 1km from the Barron Falls just up the road from me.

[bspeed]

looks very nice :)

[Steven Barall]

That's intense and really beautiful. I wish I was there. Thanks. Any others from that day?

[darr]

Wow -- Super first shot!!

[MIke Sherck]

I think it outstanding; very dramatic. Go forth, and conquer! ;)

Mike

[belle]

Magnificent! Well done!

[Jim Galli]

Thank goodness for that anchor of green in the center. It lets me know the rest really is that dramatic. Very nice.

[JohnGC]

You really captured the power....sweet!

[Joel Truckenbrod]

I like the composition a great deal, but it seriously needs some color correction - there's a strong green cast in the water. The highlights could also use additional tonal separation. Very nice first image!

[h2oman]

Might be cool converted to B&W as well...

Like the others, I like the feeling of power, and your composition. I'd be pretty happy with it if this were mine. (At any point, not just as a first shot!)

[Steve M Hostetter]

Bravo,, well seen ..

someone should start a thread,, share your first LF photograph.. Now if i could just dig that 4x5 up somehow..

[Michael_4514]

Bravo,, well seen ..

someone should start a thread,, share your first LF photograph.. Now if i could just dig that 4x5 up somehow..

If you think I'm going to post THAT photo, you're out of your mind.

[Vaughn]

Bravo,, well seen ..

someone should start a thread,, share your first LF photograph.. Now if i could just dig that 4x5 up somehow..

Trying to remember which was the first one would be a challenge...that would have been back in 1979, give or take a year.:p

Vaughn

On my screen there is no green cast -- perhaps a slight blue that may combine with the muddy water in places to read as slightly green. But the water values are wonderful...all the seperation and detail that I want.

[rupal]

How's this now:

[Jan Pedersen]

Please send me a 20" print, it will be easier for my old eyes to get a real good look at this first take.

My first LF print is not nearly as old as Vaughn's and was taken with the film emulsion facing the wrong way. Still produced a print but nothing like your first.
Well done and well seen.

[rupal]

Forgot to mention, at the time i took the photo i made two exposures, the second pic i posted was scanned from the other tranny.

[Vaughn]

Forgot to mention, at the time i took the photo i made two exposures, the second pic i posted was scanned from the other tranny.

I prefer the first image you posted first, as it is a little mistier and makes me think a little bit more about what I am seeing -- as well as making the rock in the center stand out more.

Vaughn

[rupal]

Heres another one of the "Barron Falls" in Far North Queensland, Australia. I had to climb right down to the bottom with the backpack & tripod at 5:30 am. Interested in some feedback.

Horseman 45FA, Rodenstock Sironar-N 150mm, 1/15 sec @ f32, Velvia 100f.

http://i674.photobucket.com/albums/vv102/keller212/BarronFalls1.jpg

[Allen in Montreal]

Nice entry!
I think my first 4x5 frame was a salt shaker or something equally aggressive to shoot.
It looks like you are hooked now too! :)

[Frank Petronio]

That's a heck of a nice start

[Jerry Bodine]

Gorgeous work! And a first shot ... amazing!


Regarding a thread for first shots:
My first - late 60's - was a color close-up on 8x10 of a beautiful Queen Anne's Lace growing in the ditch beside a dirt mountain road. The result was a disaster, complete with some image cutoff from the bellows shade and over-exposed. Same day, same box of film, Lady Luck produced a really nice image of Mt. Baker in WA state that ended up as a HUGE mural (commercially done) on the wall of an auditorium. Then there was my first B&W, also 8x10, that I've kept as an example that I had so much to learn yet.

[sgelb]

wow, nice image. i like the colors.. very desaturated and nice. ahhh provia!

[sgelb]

u need an 8x10 though.