Abstracts

[Phil O.]

I debated whether to place this image in the landscape topic, but realized it would possibly clash with the prevailing images there. And since doing a search and not finding a topic where abstracts were covered, I thought starting a new topic would be the best way to go.

And I am also prompted by receiving a mailing yesterday from Howard Bond announcing his latest portfolio, Enigma, which consists of ten of his abstract photographs. Surely, there are others here who at least dabble occassionally in doing abstracts, either with 'straight' shots, or in heavy manipulation of an original?

I'll start it off with this landscape where I heavily 'abused' the saturation, contrast and brightness features in my scanning software to give it an abstract look.

The original is from a 4X5 Ektachrome 100 plus transparecy, moderatly cropped. And I am open to critique on this.

http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n253/Phillip_CHX/img436.jpg

[mrladewig]

There is an older thread
link (http://www.largeformatphotography.info/forum/showthread.php?t=43843)

But I don't see any problem with another abstract thread.

[mrladewig]

And here is my contribution to this new thread fresh out of the developer.

Medano Creek - Great Sand Dunes National Park
http://www.ladewigs.com/Gallery/d/2475-1/45_E1G_20100209_001_a.jpg

[Vaughn]

I used this in the diptych thread, but as it is the most abstract I have done, I'd thought I would show it off here, too. Link below:

http://www.largeformatphotography.info/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=36395&d=1265228523

It is about 80 feet from the top to the bottom, to give you some scale.

[Phil O.]

There is an older thread
link (http://www.largeformatphotography.info/forum/showthread.php?t=43843)

But I don't see any problem with another abstract thread.

Thanks for bringing that up, mrladewig. How in the heck did I miss that great thread in my search?

Moderators,

Please feel free to bring the abstract thread that is shown in mrladewig's link to this part of the forum, so that it may become the main thread here. And if it can be worked out, combining the one I started into that one would be fine by me.

[Jon Wilson]

Here is a couple of pictures taken with a 4.5" Wolly f3 petzval which I recently sold to a fellow forum member. I used TXP320 in my Pacemaker and its focal plane shutter.

[Mark Stahlke]

Hitching Post
These latter day hitching posts (aka bike racks) seem to be popping up everywhere.
I was thinking "architectural detail" when I shot this. After looking at the negative I started thinking "abstract".
Shen Hao PTB 4x5, Fuji C 300, Delta 100, slight crop.

http://www.stahlke.us/images/Hitching_Post_001.jpg

[bbarna]

Here is mine...
Chamonix, Rodenstock 210/5,6 Fp4

[jnantz]

...

[Robert A. Zeichner]

Made in a restaurant in Pyrgos, May 2009. Howard Bond happened to be with us on this trip.

[Heroique]

A “landscape” in the wood of a fallen tree in the landscape.

What a painful shot. My Ries tripod has never been lower. I was on my elbows.

But it hurt so good. ;)

Tachi 4x5
Schneider 150/9 g claron
Ilford FP4+
1/8th @ f/16 (effective approx. f/22+)
(About 1:2 or higher magnification)
Epson 4990/Epson Scan

[Jim Galli]

http://tonopahpictures.0catch.com/Youngblood07102010/BulletHolesS.jpg
bullet holes

4X5 Cham. 150mm Hermagis Eidoscop

[h2oman]

Foam, North Platte River, Wyoming. I've been looking at a lot of Brett Weston images lately..

Embarrassingly, I didn't notice the dead dragonfly in the upper right when I was exposing the image! There are a lot of nice little star-shaped spectral highlight reflections that won't show up at this size.

[jnantz]

2 chemical-free prints from a prototype 5x7 + handmade lens:cool:

[jim kitchen]

Great images everyone... :)

An image from last year.

jim k


Carbone Sans Les Roses Blanches, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, 2009

http://largeformatgroupimages.jimkitchen.ca/images/09112901.jpg

[sly]

Taken during the summer on a camping trip. with the Crown Graphic. I'm sure all the women will recognize it immediately, but some men (I'm suspecting the more undomesticated) seem perplexed.
Film Rollei R3@25, Maco multibrom paper in Moersch lith.

[Donald Miller]

Recent image. 5X7 305 G Claron.

[Jim Cole]

Donald,

You capture the most fantastic shapes.

[sly]

Another stunner Donald!

[Donald Miller]

Thanks for your kind comments.

[gari beet]

On a visit to Islay, on the west coast of Scotland. I tend to look for shelter from direct sunlight on clear blue sky days as it's not my thing, rooting around in an old garage this old Morris Minor was left tucked away in the back. The lovely soft blue is in complete contrast to paint jobs on most modern cars, considerably more "forward" by comparison.

[Donald Miller]

Another recent image. 5X7 - 305 G Claron

[Peter De Smidt]

Gari, I love photographing old cars. Nice find.

Donald, that's a very good one.

[Donald Miller]

Thanks Peter

[Donald Miller]

ASU 5X7 -305 G Claron, Efke PL 100 (old stock) - Pyrocat HD, Nuance (old stock) - MAS Amidol

[MIke Sherck]

ASU 5X7 -305 G Claron, Efke PL 100 (old stock) - Pyrocat HD, Nuance (old stock) - MAS Amidol

This one really grabs me, Donald. Composition, lighting, tonality -- very satisfying, very lovely. Thanks!

Mike

[Donald Miller]

Thank you Mike

[gari beet]

Amzing images Donald, What is it? looks like a sculpture of some kind?

One more, this is a reed bed, again from Islay, same trip as the car image.

[kev curry]

Nice Gari...like its painterly feel.

As always your abstracts are marvelous Donald.

[Donald Miller]

Thanks Gari and Kev

[Donald Miller]

5X7 - 305 G Claron

[Preston]

Donald, your images are amazing. Very well done!

--P

[Donald Miller]

Thank you Preston

[Hugo Zhang]

Chinese ink painting with Pinkham & Smith lens.

[Donald Miller]

5X7 - 210 Symmar S - Efke Pl 100 (old stock), pyrocat hd - Nuance (old stock) MAS amidol.

[Jim Galli]

5X7 - 210 Symmar S - Efke Pl 100 (old stock), pyrocat hd - Nuance (old stock) MAS amidol.

These are undeniably beautiful Donald. The 5:7 proportion seems to lend something to these also.

[Donald Miller]

These are undeniably beautiful Donald. The 5:7 proportion seems to lend something to these also.

Thanks Jim

[archer]

Dear Donald;
I almost never comment on other photographers work especially if it is in a different genre from my own but after looking at your work for some months now, I believe that you are one of the most gifted artists on this or any other forum or venue. Your work seems to me to display a depth of expressive composition and visualization, matched only by your complete mastery of technique. Bravo!
Denise libby

[Steve Hamley]

Donald,

Very cool stuff! What are those "things" in the first few images? I'm just curious.

Cheers, Steve

[Donald Miller]

Dear Donald;
I almost never comment on other photographers work especially if it is in a different genre from my own but after looking at your work for some months now, I believe that you are one of the most gifted artists on this or any other forum or venue. Your work seems to me to display a depth of expressive composition and visualization, matched only by your complete mastery of technique. Bravo!
Denise libby

Thank you for your generous comment.

[Donald Miller]

Donald,

Very cool stuff! What are those "things" in the first few images? I'm just curious.

Cheers, Steve

Thank you Steve. The first few images were aspects of forms found on the ASU campus.

[Steve Hamley]

Thanks Donald, that satisfies my curiosity. I wondered if they were small studio forms or larger "environmental" forms.

Cheers, Steve

[Chuck Pere]

Donald, What a great series of images. And the outstanding printing just completes the package. Thanks for showing me something I know I'd never have seen.

[Donald Miller]

Donald, What a great series of images. And the outstanding printing just completes the package. Thanks for showing me something I know I'd never have seen.

Thank you Chuck

[ustas]

Great images Donald!

[ustas]

http://s2.ipicture.ru/uploads/20101218/Hlk7UVgW.jpg (http://s2.ipicture.ru/)

"An abstract landscape"
13x18 Svema 64
Pulligny landscape lens f22

[jnantz]

shot with a graflex23 taped on a 4x5 series d ..
processed in robusta coffee ( sumatra ) i roasted myself
and then used to process the film ...

[Donald Miller]

[URL=http://s2.ipicture.ru/][IMG]http://s2.ipicture.ru/uploads/20101218/Hlk7UVgW.jpg
"An abstract landscape"
13x18 Svema 64
Pulligny landscape lens f22


Very interesting

[Donald Miller]

shot with a graflex23 taped on a 4x5 series d ..
processed in robusta coffee ( sumatra ) i roasted myself
and then used to process the film ...

Hi John, I like the depiction of form. Cool.

[Donald Miller]

Great images Donald!

Thank you

[Donald Miller]

5X7 - 305 G Claron

[kev curry]

...

[kev curry]

5X7 - 305 G Claron

Don...was the subject two dimensional? I'm getting sketched or painted cardboard shapes roughly cut and outlined with felt tip pen, laid or stuck onto a piece of white paper and then photographed/photoshopped?

Aha.....the perspective is all illusionary me thinks!

Do I detect a chink in your secret artistic armour;-)

[Donald Miller]

Don...was the subject two dimensional? I'm getting sketched or painted cardboard shapes roughly cut and outlined with felt tip pen, laid or stuck onto a piece of white paper and then photographed/photoshopped?

Aha.....the perspective is all illusionary me thinks!

Do I detect a chink in your secret artistic armour;-)

Hi Kev, The subject is and was three dimensional. It is a found (environmental) form as different from a self constructed form. No cardboard or white paper were involved.
The image was post processed in PS after scanning.

[kev curry]

Oh... I shot from the hip and ended up miles away...no change there then!
Your abstracts are an education Don, keep seeing!

[Jim Galli]

shot with a graflex23 taped on a 4x5 series d ..
processed in robusta coffee ( sumatra ) i roasted myself
and then used to process the film ...

Love it!

[Donald Miller]

5X7 - 305 G Claron - Portra

[jon.oman]

Donald,

Your last two 5x7 shots are wonderful!

[Donald Miller]

Donald,

Your last two 5x7 shots are wonderful!

Thank you Jon

[Jay Decker]

http://webpages.charter.net/monkeytumble/lensboards/Scan-101219-0003.jpg

http://webpages.charter.net/monkeytumble/lensboards/Scan-101219-0004.jpg

[Shailendra]

Bodie, CA from 2005

Toyo 4x5 AX
Kodak E100VS
210mm (can't remember the lens)

[jnantz]

donald + jim

thanks !

john

[Donald Miller]

5X7 - 450 Nikkor M

[Joe Forks]

Recent image. 5X7 305 G Claron.

Awesome Donald! Looks like you left the tripod in the same holes
http://www.largeformatphotography.info/forum/showpost.php?p=514856&postcount=431

[Donald Miller]

Awesome Donald! Looks like you left the tripod in the same holes
http://www.largeformatphotography.info/forum/showpost.php?p=514856&postcount=431


Thanks, Actually the more recent were photographed with my view camera subsequent to the earlier images.

[Donald Miller]

4X5 - 305 Repro Claron

[Joe Forks]

The last one, may be my favorite of everything you've posted to date.....awesome.
In regards to the other, I understood that, an was impressed with consistent framing.
I'm a fan. keep posting!

[Jim Galli]

http://tonopahpictures.0catch.com/Abstract.jpg
60 hertz

[Donald Miller]

Very nice Jim

[Jim Galli]

Very nice Jim
Thanks Donald. Just playin'

[Jim Fitzgerald]

Jim, keep playin' that is awesome!!


Jim

[ustas]

Jim, keep playin' that is awesome!!


Jim
+1

[Sascha Welter]

Arca 6x9

http://betabug.ch/ouzo/water/arca/four_one.jpg

[Donald Miller]

Intriguing Sascha...very nice

[jon.oman]

I like it as well!

[Michael Graves]

Bridge in Georgia, Vermont.

[Sascha Welter]

Thank you very much Donald and Jon!

Another one from that session, this one with the 65mm, again on the Arca 6x9.

http://betabug.ch/ouzo/water/arca/four_round.jpg

[mikebarger]

Michael, nice!

[Donald Miller]

Subic Bay, Luzon, Philippine Islands

4X5 - 305 Repro Claron

[jon.oman]

Donald,

You have a way with abstract images!

[Donald Miller]

Thank you Jon

[Donald Miller]

5X7 - 305 G Claron

Efke Pl 100 (old stock) - Pyrocat HD
J and C Nuance (old stock) - MAS Amidol

[mandoman7]

Donald, your abstractions are exceptional, as often noted here. Great compositions, but also, you play with the edge of recognizability in an arresting way.

[Donald Miller]

Thank you John

[Michael Graves]

5X7 - 305 G Claron

Efke Pl 100 (old stock) - Pyrocat HD
J and C Nuance (old stock) - MAS Amidol

Do you arrange artifical lighting in your photos or work with what you find? The lighting on all of your photos has been exceptional.

[Donald Miller]

Do you arrange artifical lighting in your photos or work with what you find? The lighting on all of your photos has been exceptional.

I work with what is present at the time. All of my images are based on "found objects".

[Donald Miller]

Something a little different. 5X7 -305 G Claron.

Efke Pl 100 - Pryocat HD
JandC Nuance - MAS Amidol

Scan post processed in Photoshop and output to printer.

Best wishes for a prosperous New Year!

[Donald Miller]

A recent image.

5X7 - 305 G Claron

Efke Pl 100 - Pyrocat HD

JandC Nuance - MAS Amidol

[Kirk Gittings]

A recent image.

5X7 - 305 G Claron

Efke Pl 100 - Pyrocat HD

JandC Nuance - MAS Amidol

Beautiful......

[Donald Miller]

Thanks Kirk

[David Aimone]

Lovely work, Donald!

[Donald Miller]

Thank you David

[gene LaFord]

Donald... you have a great eye for these. I enjoy viewing them, even if it is only on a monitor.

gene

[Donald Miller]

Thank you Gene

[allison lee]

Hi ! this is a very intersting theme: Abstact photograhy. I like to share with our folks my abstract photograph and feel free to send me a critic on this abstract creativity photograph..

[Donald Miller]

An attempt at split toning. Not sure how I feel about this. Your opinions are appreciated.

5X7 - 305 G Claron

Efke PL 100 - Pyrocat HD
JandC Nuance - MAS Amidol

[David Aimone]

It does give it more depth in a way. I kind of like it.


An attempt at split toning. Not sure how I feel about this. Your opinions are appreciated.

5X7 - 305 G Claron

Efke PL 100 - Pyrocat HD
JandC Nuance - MAS Amidol

[Donald Miller]

Thanks for sharing your opinion on this David

[Chuck P.]

Your opinions are appreciated.

Nope. It does not add anything IMO. Your abstracts are so clean and crisp and to my view, the split tone is a distraction.

Chuck

[Kirk Gittings]

Very strong image. The split toning seems a bit heavy handed. If it were subtler it would add to the 3 dimensionality without drawing so much attention to the toning.

[Donald Miller]

Thank you Chuck and Kirk. I appreciate your comments.

[csant]

Almost monochrome…

Kodak Ektachrome E100G, 4x5.


http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2754/5761664824_d4aa40585f_z.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/csant/5761664824/)

From a 15th century fresco… More details and larger image over at Flickr (http://www.flickr.com/photos/csant/5761664824/).

[Sart_S]

Abstraction,MPP camera(back 6x7cm) on Kodak E-100VS. Symmar 150mm f5.6 lens at f32.

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-gMucEnoeisw/Td6foW0JvZI/AAAAAAAAAKY/i4rPEUVRm7g/s640/L_4.jpg

[Donald Miller]

5X7 - 305 G Claron

Efke Pl 100 - Pyrocat HD
JandC Nuance - MAS Amidol

[Sart_S]

5X7 - 305 G Claron

Efke Pl 100 - Pyrocat HD
JandC Nuance - MAS Amidol

nice shot!

[Donald Miller]

nice shot!

Thank you

[David Hedley]

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5184/5662376270_d52853b529_b.jpg
White noise (leaf shadows on sunlit stream)
Sinar F, Nikkor 300mm, TMax 100 / Rodinal 1:50

[Wm. Mitchell]

Lichen, Deer Park, Olympic NP

4x5-Velvia-Rodenstock Sironar 180mm f32+1 stop for extension

[austin granger]

Four Buildings and a Parking Garage, Portland

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6018/5877860500_fe5112dc3d_b.jpg

www.austingranger.com

[Richard M. Coda]

Four Buildings and a Parking Garage, Portland

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6018/5877860500_fe5112dc3d_b.jpg

www.austingranger.com

Like!

[Richard M. Coda]

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5184/5662376270_d52853b529_b.jpg
White noise (leaf shadows on sunlit stream)
Sinar F, Nikkor 300mm, TMax 100 / Rodinal 1:50

Like!

[austin granger]

Train Car, Astoria
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6004/6020400595_36fb90a067_b.jpg

www.austingranger.com

[Joe Smigiel]

That's a wonderful image Austin. It intrigues on several levels.

Joe

[austin granger]

That's a wonderful image Austin. It intrigues on several levels.

Joe

Thanks Joe. I enjoyed browsing through your pictures on flickr. I especially liked the one of Larry with his action figure. If I'm ever in Kalamazoo (my brother-in-law grew up there actually), I'll have to commission you to make an ambrotype of me!

-Austin

[h2oman]

4x5, fp4+, 150mm lens

[Shailendra]

Train Car, Astoria
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6004/6020400595_36fb90a067_b.jpg

www.austingranger.com

Fantastic..

[Kirk Gittings]

Ditto.

[Jim Cole]

Train Car, Astoria

Austin,
That's a great image. A landscape in abstract. Most excellent!


Here's "A Picture From A Picture", an abstract I found and cropped from another image while working with the original 4x5. Shot on Arista Edu Ultra 400.

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6187/6060168404_81011f7076_b.jpg[

[Harley Goldman]

Train Car, Astoria
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6004/6020400595_36fb90a067_b.jpg

www.austingranger.com


Great patterns and tones. Excellent work.

[Harley Goldman]

Four Buildings and a Parking Garage, Portland

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6018/5877860500_fe5112dc3d_b.jpg

www.austingranger.com

Love the patterns and tones! Excellent image!

[austin granger]

Shot Room, Fort Stevens, Oregon
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6069/6068353562_6c0c4e60ba_z.jpg

[Shailendra]

Shot Room, Fort Stevens, Oregon
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6069/6068353562_6c0c4e60ba_z.jpg

Awesome...

[austin granger]

Thanks Shailendra. I was just admiring your pictures on flickr the other day-there were so many good ones, it was hard to pick favorites!

[austin granger]

Gun Mount, Fort Stevens, Oregon
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6080/6071277962_919e82370d_z.jpg

[Shailendra]

Thanks Shailendra. I was just admiring your pictures on flickr the other day-there were so many good ones, it was hard to pick favorites!

You're too kind Austin, keep 'em comin'.....

[austin granger]

Grass and Wind, Sauvie Island
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6087/6087172498_89bf39c768_b.jpg

[Harley Goldman]

Grass and Wind, Sauvie Island
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6087/6087172498_89bf39c768_b.jpg

This is a cool image, Austin. The wind works well to add to the sense of the abstract.

[Preston]

Austin, I agree with Harley, that 'Grass and Wind' is very cool. The wind action created a very nice effect. Well done.

Here's a detail from the inside of a hollowed-out Lodgepole pine snag that was probably hit by a lightning strike in ages passed.

http://www.gildedmoon.com/images/canp/684-1-Web.jpg

Sonora Pass Country, Sierra
Tachi 4x5
210 Symmar-S
Velvia 100
8/2011

--P

[Harley Goldman]

Here's a detail from the inside of a hollowed-out Lodgepole pine snag that was probably hit by a lightning strike in ages passed.

http://www.gildedmoon.com/images/canp/684-1-Web.jpg

Sonora Pass Country, Sierra
Tachi 4x5
210 Symmar-S
Velvia 100
8/2011


Real nice wood detail, Preston. Nice color, shapes and textures. It make an excellent wood abstract.

[Preston]

Thank you, Mr. Harley.

--P

[Preston]

Here's another fom the same tree, taken a few minutes later.

http://www.gildedmoon.com/images/canp/686-1-Web.jpg

Same camera, lens and film.

--P

[atlcruiser]

I like the trees...good stuff there!

[Randy]

Dried mud anyone?

http://rsphoto.fileave.com/mud.jpg

Crown Graphic, Plus-X

[Harley Goldman]

Dried mud anyone?

Crown Graphic, Plus-X

Great pattern! This one works quite well.

[atlcruiser]

deardorff 810
240/5.6 rodenstock
arista 400@200
ABC+ Pyro in jobo


http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6166/6164384801_026c5ceee5_z.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/53092319@N04/6164384801/)
0911 BW 810012.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/53092319@N04/6164384801/) by urbanlandcruiser (http://www.flickr.com/people/53092319@N04/), on Flickr

[Jim Fitzgerald]

From a trip to Bodie a few years back.

[johnielvis]

HEY---that mud is kool--I like that....is that mississippie mud to slap your feets on?

the CRACKS are nice too--the small image you see loses the "magic" of it---the large size original image works really well..the detail in the BIG one makes it work.....it gets soft in that lower left corner though....

[atlcruiser]

thanks Johnelvis.....drinking looks good on you :)

Not sure how it got soft down lower right but it is

[johnielvis]

HA...no boozing for me...too bizzy with zee beeg camera

yeah--it's amazing though how when it's small in the regular post, it gets ruined but the crunchy detail is what MAKES it...maybe that's what a lot of people miss---the LF people are the ones that put their noses up and look at the fine detail...the rest that don't see the difference (most of the world????) just glance at the whole thing but then have to twitter to find out what's happening....what are you doing...who's doing what....they GOTTA know

[Marko Trebusak]

I'm not sure, if this qalifies as abstract, but here it goes...

Hermagis #3 wide open on Delta 100

http://1vtis.si/forum/led.jpg

http://1vtis.si/forum/led_3.jpg

Cheers,
Marko

[Marko Trebusak]

Austin, I agree with Harley, that 'Grass and Wind' is very cool. The wind action created a very nice effect. Well done.

Here's a detail from the inside of a hollowed-out Lodgepole pine snag that was probably hit by a lightning strike in ages passed.


Preston, I really like this pattern. Very graphic photo.

Cheers,
Marko

[northcarolinajack]

Hope this qualifies. Most older folks will know what this is. The younger group perhaps will have no idea. It is the bottom of a rusty number 2 tin tub hanging upside down on the outside of an old corn crib.

Camera - Old Speed Graflex with Cooke 8.2” Series 11 lens
Film – Ilford Delta 100 in HC110 - B

Jack




www.facebook.com/pages/Jack-Harris-Photography/109348465760954

www.jackharrisphotography.com

[Jim Cole]

Here's a recent one from downtown Indianapolis. 4x5 Arista Edu Ultra 100 with a 210mm lens. Souped in Rodinal 1:100.

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6179/6190352284_d7d607b6da_b.jpg

[Jim Galli]

Hope this qualifies. Most older folks will know what this is. The younger group perhaps will have no idea. It is the bottom of a rusty number 2 tin tub hanging upside down on the outside of an old corn crib.

Camera - Old Speed Graflex with Cooke 8.2” Series 11 lens
Film – Ilford Delta 100 in HC110 - B

Jack




www.facebook.com/pages/Jack-Harris-Photography/109348465760954

www.jackharrisphotography.com

Jack, I'm older than dirt and I can't figure out what the heck it is. Kilo of weed? Maybe you have to be an old hippee? Oakum for pipe joints? You've got me sir.

[Leigh]

I'm older than Jim Galli (I signed the patent application for dirt), and I don't know what it is. :p

- Leigh

[Richard M. Coda]

Here's a recent one from downtown Indianapolis. 4x5 Arista Edu Ultra 100 with a 210mm lens. Souped in Rodinal 1:100.

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6179/6190352284_d7d607b6da_b.jpg

Looks like it could have been the Phoenix Art Museum! Same furniture. One of these days I will photograph there... just have ti be there at the right time with my cameras.

[northcarolinajack]

I'm older than Jim Galli (I signed the patent application for dirt), and I don't know what it is. :p

- Leigh



I listed was ths is: a # 2 tin tub hanging upside down on an old corn crib.

Jack

I my day a child's bath tub!

[northcarolinajack]

Jack, I'm older than dirt and I can't figure out what the heck it is. Kilo of weed? Maybe you have to be an old hippee? Oakum for pipe joints? You've got me sir.



I am glad I stumped you. As I posted it is a # 2 tin tub hanging upside down on an old corn crib. I my young days a child's bath tub. The # 3 was for adults.

Jack

[Harley Goldman]

Here's a recent one from downtown Indianapolis. 4x5 Arista Edu Ultra 100 with a 210mm lens. Souped in Rodinal 1:100.


Good one Jim! Well-composed abstract.

[Jim Cole]

Thanks, Harley.

[atlcruiser]

deardorff 810
360 commercial
HP5+ @ 200
rollo pyro 1:2:50 8.5 min

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6234/6221512270_4040b3aa0b_z.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/53092319@N04/6221512270/)
small-3.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/53092319@N04/6221512270/) by urbanlandcruiser (http://www.flickr.com/people/53092319@N04/), on Flickr

[atlcruiser]

deardorff 810
360 commercial
HP5+ @ 200
rollo pyro 1:2:50 8.5 min


http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6054/6220990365_0801c8818b_z.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/53092319@N04/6220990365/)
small-6.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/53092319@N04/6220990365/) by urbanlandcruiser (http://www.flickr.com/people/53092319@N04/), on Flickr

[Preston]

Juniper detail, Sonora Pass

http://www.gildedmoon.com/images/canp/676-2cr-LgWeb.jpg

This is the interior of an old juniper that was likely the victim of a lightning strike.

Tachihara 4x5
Schneider 210 Symmar-S
Astia 100-F
August 2011

I'm curious what you think of this one.

Thanks,

--P

[Tom J McDonald]

Very nice. I love how it's still glowing.

[Michael Wynd]

It sort of grabs you by the throat and says, look at what happened to me. Great shot.
Mike

[atlcruiser]

Preston I love the tree.............

More of walls and cracks :)

Chamonix 045N-2
Rodenstock 210/5.6
Fuji Instant FP 100C 45

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6047/6238802919_60aacd60ea_z.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/53092319@N04/6238802919/)
1011 clr 45 4 Scan-111012-0002.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/53092319@N04/6238802919/) by urbanlandcruiser (http://www.flickr.com/people/53092319@N04/), on Flickr

[h2oman]

The cousin to Preston's tree:

[atlcruiser]

deardorff 810
360 commercial
HP5+ @ 200
rollo pyro 1:2:50 9 min

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6165/6244770815_24a913d8c0_z.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/53092319@N04/6244770815/)
1011 BW 810 small-14.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/53092319@N04/6244770815/) by urbanlandcruiser (http://www.flickr.com/people/53092319@N04/), on Flickr

[Michael Wynd]

h20man, it looks like alligator skin.\
Mike

[h2oman]

I've never been close enough to know - I live in a much safer place than you, at least in terms of critters!

My cousin's daughter is now in school in Brisbane and doing field work near Perth, so I may get over there in the next few years...

[Michael Wynd]

You need to get over here, the phot ops are endless. We have the North and South alligator rivers, but we don't have alligators, just really really big crocodiles.
Mike

[jnantz]

paper negatives ( 2 )
graflex 3A ( 1 )

[Steve Hamley]

Here's a couple from the Candoro Marble Works in Knoxville. Both done with an Ebony SV45U and a 180mm Apo Sironar-S on Velvia.

Cheers, Steve

[Jim Galli]

Here's a couple from the Candoro Marble Works in Knoxville. Both done with an Ebony SV45U and a 180mm Apo Sironar-S on Velvia.

Cheers, Steve

Very nice Steve. Marbled rust at the marble works.

[Steve Hamley]

Thanks Jim,

That "bullet hole" rust attracted my eye.

Cheers, Steve

[Harley Goldman]

Here's a couple from the Candoro Marble Works in Knoxville. Both done with an Ebony SV45U and a 180mm Apo Sironar-S on Velvia.

Cheers, Steve

Nicely done, Steve. Great colors and patterns.

[Harley Goldman]

This is a section of front bumper of an old vehicle not too far off Highway 395 in the eastern Sierra.

Fujinon A 240mm, Velvia 50.

http://www.harleygoldman.com/images/large/RustingAwayWebLg.jpg

[gevalia]

This is a section of front bumper of an old vehicle not too far off Highway 395 in the eastern Sierra.

Fujinon A 240mm, Velvia 50.



Wow! Didi I say Wow?

[gene LaFord]

Harley - that is gorgeous!

[Steve Hamley]

Nice Harley!

Cheers, Steve

[northcarolinajack]

This is an American chestnut in its spiny hull, made in the Great Smoky Mountains. Once the American chestnut was plentiful in the North Carolina mountains. In the early 1900’s blight killed most of the trees. Today you perhaps will find smaller trees, the tree that produced this chestnut is the largest tree I have seen in years.

Camera – Super Graflex with 203mm Ektar

Jack

www.facebook.com/pages/Jack-Harris-Photography/109348465760954

[Robert Hughes]

I remember, as a Boy Scout in the 1960's, camping in what had previously been a chestnut forest. All around were these rotted stumps of trees that had been felled decades before; easy firewood! All you had to do was kick a stump and it would fall into a half dozen sections, ready for the campfire.

[Steve Hamley]

Wall, Abbotstown, PA. Slight crop.

Not much else to say!

Cheers, Steve

[Miguel Coquis]

detail from 8x10"
musical movement

http://macoquis.caraldi.com/scaled/Selection%20jpgs/Hand-II.jpg
Music&Hand

[Shailendra]

detail from 8x10"
musical movement

http://macoquis.caraldi.com/scaled/Selection%20jpgs/Hand-II.jpg
Music&Hand

This is brilliant...

[David Hedley]

A Calabi-Yau manifold masquerading as a lampshade;
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6226/6315922912_3feb7aed0c_b.jpg
Sinar F, Schneider 180mm, TMax 100 / Rodinal, +1 stop compensation for bellows factor

[jon.oman]

Now, that is much better David!

[Leigh]

A Calabi-Yau manifold masquerading as a lampshade
I have no clue what that might be, but it sure looks neat. Great shot! Thanks.

- Leigh

[Keith Fleming]

Jack,

You might consider a Google search on the American Chestnut Foundation, the organization that is trying to develop a blight-resistant American Chestnut for reintroduction into our forests. That foundation might be interested in the exact location of that tree--and its nuts. Who knows, it might have a natural resistance to the blight.

Keith Fleming

Keith Fleming

[Tony Karnezis]

Beautiful.


A Calabi-Yau manifold masquerading as a lampshade;
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6226/6315922912_3feb7aed0c_b.jpg
Sinar F, Schneider 180mm, TMax 100 / Rodinal, +1 stop compensation for bellows factor

[David Hedley]

Thanks, Jon, Leigh and Tony. I took some more negatives yesterday with different views of the structure, but am now travelling so will have to wait a week or so to print and scan them.

[David Hedley]

Well today's travel didn't quite work out as planned (tomorrow, perhaps), so here's another from the same series;
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6105/6318871245_691b9e6fd0_b.jpg
Sinar F, Schneider 180mm, Kodak TMax 100 / Rodinal

[Atul Mohidekar]

A Calabi-Yau manifold masquerading as a lampshade;
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6226/6315922912_3feb7aed0c_b.jpg
Sinar F, Schneider 180mm, TMax 100 / Rodinal, +1 stop compensation for bellows factor

Terrific!

// Atul

[David Hedley]

Thanks, Atul.

[Harley Goldman]

Well today's travel didn't quite work out as planned (tomorrow, perhaps), so here's another from the same series;

Sinar F, Schneider 180mm, Kodak TMax 100 / Rodinal

This is excellent!!!!!! Wonderful lines, shapes and tones.

[David Hedley]

Thanks, Harley!

[jnantz]

5x5 hand coated dry plate
lumen exposed ( UV )
processed in instant coffee+fixed in hypo

[Tony Karnezis]

Bravo again. Here's to you not traveling more.

Where did you get the calabi-yau manifold? Do you have to travel through space and time to get one, or can you pick one up at your local theoretical physics dime store?


Well today's travel didn't quite work out as planned (tomorrow, perhaps), so here's another from the same series;
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6105/6318871245_691b9e6fd0_b.jpg
Sinar F, Schneider 180mm, Kodak TMax 100 / Rodinal

[Brian C. Miller]

Bravo again. Here's to you not traveling more.

Where did you get the calabi-yau manifold? Do you have to travel through space and time to get one, or can you pick one up at your local theoretical physics dime store?

Try this: Universal lamp shade polygon building kit (http://www.instructables.com/id/Universal-lamp-shade-polygon-building-kit/)

To find it, I simply searched for "folded lamp-shade"

[Tony Karnezis]

Try this: Universal lamp shade polygon building kit (http://www.instructables.com/id/Universal-lamp-shade-polygon-building-kit/)

To find it, I simply searched for "folded lamp-shade"

Thanks Brian. Much easier than time travel.

[David Hedley]

Where did you get the calabi-yau manifold? Do you have to travel through space and time to get one, or can you pick one up at your local theoretical physics dime store?

There's no limit to the number of extensions that can be added to a Sinar monorail. Beyond a certain point, the ordinary 'Sinar P' transforms into the 'Sinar Planck', and it's no longer recommended to use front tilt or swing, as it takes an infinite amount of time to move between the front and rear standards.
;-)

[Harley Goldman]

This one, which I call "Fractured", was made just outside Capitol Reef National Park in Utah. It is dried mud in a creek bed.

Chamonix 4x5
Fujinon 240mm
Acros processed with Rollo Pyro

Critiques, comments or suggestions are more than welcome.


http://www.harleygoldman.com/images/large/FracturedWebLg.jpg

[Preston]

Nice, nice, nice, Harley. This has great pattern and a full tonal scale. It definitely works for me!

--P

[Tony Karnezis]

I'm with Preston. You have some really nice work on your web site too.

[Harley Goldman]

Thanks Preston and Tony. Most appreciated!

[David Hedley]

Excellent work, Harley.

[Curt]

It's very intriguing.

[Jim Galli]

Have to join the chorus and say beautifully done Harley.

[matthew blais]

I've no idea if I posted this before...probably not. In any case taken at Bill Schwab's Photostock Gathering in '08 printed again last week
Title "Tuned Out" 16x20 Silver Gelatin

[austin granger]

Sconce, Brentwood Street, Portland
http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6044/6361574437_c27f30858d_z.jpg

http://www.flickr.com/photos/austingranger/

[Tony Karnezis]

I've been staring at it for the last 5 minutes. Really nice.


Sconce, Brentwood Street, Portland
http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6044/6361574437_c27f30858d_z.jpg

http://www.flickr.com/photos/austingranger/

[atlcruiser]

deardorff 810
360 commercial
HP5+ @ 200
rollo pyro 1:2:50 9.5 min

http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6240/6366350341_b6f2e45b65_z.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/53092319@N04/6366350341/)
1111 BW 810 19.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/53092319@N04/6366350341/) by urbanlandcruiser (http://www.flickr.com/people/53092319@N04/), on Flickr

[Harley Goldman]

"Nailed"

A piece of wood seemingly randomly nailed to a post next to abandoned shack in the Mono lake basin.

Chamonix
Nikkor 300M
Acros, rollo pyro


http://www.harleygoldman.com/images/large/NailedWebLg.jpg

[jon.oman]

Nice one Harley!

[Jim Galli]

I haven't added to this thread in a long time. This one came to mind;


http://tonopahpictures.0catch.com/CookeOptics/tucci_01CookeConvS.jpg
lambertucci's roma

[Harley Goldman]

I haven't added to this thread in a long time. This one came to mind;


http://tonopahpictures.0catch.com/CookeOptics/tucci_01CookeConvS.jpg
lambertucci's roma


I like this a lot, Jim! Great graphics, lines and tones. Really nicely balanced comp and use of dark space.

[Jim Galli]

I like this a lot, Jim! Great graphics, lines and tones. Really nicely balanced comp and use of dark space.

Thanks! jg

[Jay DeFehr]

Great thread! Beautiful work, guys.

[GabrielSeri]

Kodak 2D 5x7 Ilford FP4

Darkroom Abstract.

http://silverpiscis.com/Photography/darkroom_8.jpg

[atlcruiser]

deardorff 810
300 Fujinon W
HP5+ @ 200
rollo pyro 1:2:50 9.5 min

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7163/6444145223_942c631895_z.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/53092319@N04/6444145223/)
1112 BW 810 1.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/53092319@N04/6444145223/) by urbanlandcruiser (http://www.flickr.com/people/53092319@N04/), on Flickr

[atlcruiser]

deardorff 810
360 commercial
HP5+ @ 200
rollo pyro 1:2:50 9.5 min

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7155/6444187739_1117de2afc_z.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/53092319@N04/6444187739/)
1112 BW 810 2.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/53092319@N04/6444187739/) by urbanlandcruiser (http://www.flickr.com/people/53092319@N04/), on Flickr

[Shac]

Skull (135 Optar, Speed Graphic)
http://forum.getdpi.com/gallery/files/1/5/9/3/chamois.jpg

[bbuszard]

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7154/6457504047_f670028800_b.jpg

Tonality was tricky here. It was hard to get the whites white enough while saving something at the top of the shoulder for the reflections.

[GabrielSeri]

deardorff 810
360 commercial
HP5+ @ 200
rollo pyro 1:2:50 9.5 min

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7155/6444187739_1117de2afc_z.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/53092319@N04/6444187739/)
1112 BW 810 2.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/53092319@N04/6444187739/) by urbanlandcruiser (http://www.flickr.com/people/53092319@N04/), on Flickr

Very nice David. Your work is one of the reasons I want to experiment with Roll Pyro with my expert drum. I'm still a little afraid of using it but your work may still convince me. Your highlights are awesome!

[atlcruiser]

Very nice David. Your work is one of the reasons I want to experiment with Roll Pyro with my expert drum. I'm still a little afraid of using it but your work may still convince me. Your highlights are awesome!

Thanks


rollo pyro is stupid easy. it is the easiest developer i have ever used after d76! You can expose almost any way you want as much as you want and still get a good neg. I will scan the contact print of this image. I made one last night on g2 azo wth amidol. It makes the crappy scan look even worse!

[GabrielSeri]

Really? Wow, almost as easy as d76? It seems complicated. I think I'll give it a try and let you see the results. I would like to see that contact scan.

On a side note.. a few years ago when I was younger and stupid. My photography teacher gave me some very old AZO paper from the 70s or early 80s and I didn't end up using it because I thought it would be too old and not work. DUMB! Coming back into photography now I realize what I threw away and I want to get my hands on azo again for my 5x7 proofs.

[Harley Goldman]

I use rollo pyro in a jobo 3010. It is really easy.

Here is a link to a Michael Gordon tutorial. I learned from Michael and it is cake.

http://www.michael-gordon.com/template.php?page=articles

[Vaughn]

Death Valley Rockface Abstract

Gowland PocketView, 150mm
TMax100 in HC-110
16x20 Silver gelatin Print

Vaughn

[Vaughn]

Not quite so abstracty

Top of Golden Canyon
Death Valley

Gowland PocketView, 150mm
TMax100 in HC-110
16x20 Silver gelatin Print

[GabrielSeri]

I use rollo pyro in a jobo 3010. It is really easy.

Here is a link to a Michael Gordon tutorial. I learned from Michael and it is cake.

http://www.michael-gordon.com/template.php?page=articles

Thanks Harley! I'll check out this link.

[jp]

While making a contact print of an 8x10 portrait negative, I did some test exposures on scraps of paper to get the exposure and contrast right. This piece was stuck to the back of the test paper. It stayed stuck on through developer and stop bath, and came apart while in the fixer. Thus, it's a weirdly developed unique image but properly fixed, and completely unrelated to the negative and test sheet sitting above it.

http://www.f64.nu/photo/tmp/lff/img485.jpg

[Brian C. Miller]

Thus, it's a weirdly developed unique image but properly fixed, and completely unrelated to the negative and test sheet sitting above it.

Happy accidents are good accidents! :)
This one is truly abstract.

[atlcruiser]

deardorff 810
300 Fujinon W
HP5+ @ 200
rollo pyro 1:2:50 9.5 min

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7146/6489277657_ffb299c60e_z.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/53092319@N04/6489277657/)
1112 BW 810 8.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/53092319@N04/6489277657/) by urbanlandcruiser (http://www.flickr.com/people/53092319@N04/), on Flickr

[atlcruiser]

keep your seats...it is another drain pipe and brick wall :)

deardorff 810
300 Fujinon W
HP5+ @ 200
rollo pyro 1:2:50 10.5 min

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7011/6496487803_7f20f94e06_z.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/53092319@N04/6496487803/)
1112 BW 810 14.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/53092319@N04/6496487803/) by urbanlandcruiser (http://www.flickr.com/people/53092319@N04/), on Flickr

[csant]

While making a contact print of an 8x10 portrait negative, I did some test exposures on scraps of paper to get the exposure and contrast right. This piece was stuck to the back of the test paper. It stayed stuck on through developer and stop bath, and came apart while in the fixer. Thus, it's a weirdly developed unique image but properly fixed, and completely unrelated to the negative and test sheet sitting above it.

Thank you! Finally a real abstract photograph! I like it very much!

[Scott Walker]

http://www.f64.nu/photo/tmp/lff/img485.jpg

That is damn cool

[rcjtapio]

keep your seats...it is another drain pipe and brick wall :)

deardorff 810
300 Fujinon W
HP5+ @ 200
rollo pyro 1:2:50 10.5 min

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7011/6496487803_7f20f94e06_z.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/53092319@N04/6496487803/)
1112 BW 810 14.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/53092319@N04/6496487803/) by urbanlandcruiser (http://www.flickr.com/people/53092319@N04/), on Flickr

Very Lewis Baltz like....one of my favorite photographers.

Rick Tapio

[atlcruiser]

thanks Rick....he is one of my favorites as well :)

[austin granger]

Mud, Sauvie Island
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7166/6557667459_330d39f981_b.jpg

http://www.flickr.com/photos/austingranger/

[atlcruiser]

deardorff 810
360 commercial
HP5+ @ 200
rollo pyro 1:2:50 10.5 min


http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7173/6649323319_e36968f9be_z.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/53092319@N04/6649323319/)
121 BW 810 2.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/53092319@N04/6649323319/) by urbanlandcruiser (http://www.flickr.com/people/53092319@N04/), on Flickr

[johnmsanderson]

So I returned to Blissville with some color negative in hand...

http://john-sanderson.com/files/Fall%204x5/BlissvillePtII.jpg

Nikon 300mm F/9 , Portra 160 -2 stops development (the reduction in contrast was nice, plus I kept my highlights unlike when I shot it with slide film).

[Jody_S]

After looking through all of the images in this thread, I realized that all of my 'abstract' images are either 35mm or digital. And I realized that this is not due to a lack of artistic vision (well, maybe not), but rather due to a lack of confidence in my artistic vision. It's cheaper to do an experiment with a digital p&s than to commit a sheet or two of 4x5. I'm going to have to think about this a little, next time I take out the big kit.

[Preston]

Chipped, Columbia, CA

http://www.gildedmoon.com/images/canp/733-1-Web1.jpg

Tachihara 4x5
180mm Fujinon
Astia 100F
November 2011

--P

[jon.oman]

Nice one Preston!

[Harley Goldman]

Chipped, Columbia, CA

http://www.gildedmoon.com/images/canp/733-1-Web1.jpg

Tachihara 4x5
180mm Fujinon
Astia 100F
November 2011

--P

Excellent, Preston. Great colors and shapes.

[Jim Galli]

http://tonopahpictures.0catch.com/Black30Roadster/snow.jpg

[Harley Goldman]

http://tonopahpictures.0catch.com/Black30Roadster/snow.jpg


Excellent Jim. I love the pattern over a pattern. Great find and well done.

[Jim Galli]

Excellent Jim. I love the pattern over a pattern. Great find and well done.
Thanks Harley. From last winter but I saw it somewhere and thought of this thread.

[austin granger]

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7033/6744571991_e32f82f452_b.jpg

http://www.flickr.com/photos/austingranger/

[austin granger]

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7035/6746791033_f77d61685e_b.jpg

http://www.flickr.com/photos/austingranger/

[Harley Goldman]

"Quartz in the Playa"

Eureka Valley

Chamonix 4x5
Fujinon 240mm
Velvia 50


http://www.harleygoldman.com/images/large/QuartzPlayaWebLg.jpg

[Richard M. Coda]

I like these Austin!

[Jim Galli]

"Quartz in the Playa"

Eureka Valley

Chamonix 4x5
Fujinon 240mm
Velvia 50


One of those pictures when you say, wish I'd seen that.

[willwilson]

http://willwilson.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/scan_2011-11-25_SteelBeamDetail-012.jpg
Steel Beam Detail - Blackburn Fork, TN
Fujinon 135MM, Ilford Delta 100

[rpalm]

I like it!

r


[QUOTE=Harley Goldman;836376]"Quartz in the Playa"

Eureka Valley

Chamonix 4x5
Fujinon 240mm
Velvia 50

[austin granger]

Sand Patterns, Oregon Coast

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7153/6763071899_0f8fc4767c_b.jpg

http://www.flickr.com/photos/austingranger/

[rpalm]

Another winner!

r


Sand Patterns, Oregon Coast


http://www.flickr.com/photos/austingranger/

[Steve French]

Great Shot Austin!! Wonderful tonality

[Jim Graves]

Will ... great shot!

[johnmsanderson]

Sand Patterns, Oregon Coast

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7153/6763071899_0f8fc4767c_b.jpg

http://www.flickr.com/photos/austingranger/


Reminds me of the art deco bas reliefs on the Chanin building here in NYC:

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_HUjYSMsnxvc/SipeK25of_I/AAAAAAAACgs/KLhIfFnJ47I/s400/ChaninGeese.jpg

Thanks for posting that one...