Grass

[Joe O'Hara]

There doesn't seem to be a thread here with the word Grass in the title. This image was made earlier this year at Corson's Inlet SP in New Jersey. Let's see what others have done with grass as the main subject.

[mdm]

Theese are a bit rough but consider them proof of concept, rather than final product. 210mm Fujinar, 5x7 FP4+.

[jss]

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2400/2262231721_9307db73fc_z.jpg
(link (http://www.flickr.com/photos/schlachet/2262231721/))

this was maybe one of my first/few images of grass as a subject. taken with a jamin-darlot lens, hp5+ pulled to 160 and developed in rodinal.

[IanG]

http://www.lostlabours.co.uk/wyre/images/clee02sm.jpg

Old colliery tramway, Clee Hills. Walked along here with 2 other members of this forum in November :D

Ian

[Maris Rusis]

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5003/5284686318_eb7c96b0a0_b.jpg
Woodland Grove, Soft Focus

Gelatin-silver photograph on Fomapan Variant 111 VC FB, image area 19.6cm X 24.7cm, from a Fomapan 200 negative exposed in a Tachihara 810HD 8x10 field view camera with a 400mm f11 single meniscus lens.

How often do I hate grass! Odd grass stems infest the front of many landscape pictures where they are invisible at full aperture but turn up in annoying half-focus on the negative. In "Woodland Grove, Soft Focus" I wanted those gorgeous foreground clumps of grass to gleam against the solid tree trunk in the backgound. To get rid of the small stuff sticking up right in front of the lens I flattened it under my focussing cloth, black side up.

[Harold_4074]

Okay, botanically oats are grasses....

FP4+ in PMK; 5x7 Kodak 2D with a 9-3/4 Heliar, natural light. Gold-toned POP print.

[Liam:]

One from this afternoon

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5041/5300575639_94f38ab81a_z.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/53243597@N02/5300575639/)

Crown Graphic / 200mm / fomapan 100

[vinny]

June Lake, California. Fall 2009 4x10 efke 25

[Richard M. Coda]

Rio Salado Habitat, downtown Phoenix, AZ 2008
8x10 TMax

[Donald Miller]

I hesitated whether to post this in LF landscapes or grass. I guess it could go either way.

Pinal County, Arizona

5X7 - 180 Nikkor

Portra

[Frank Petronio]

http://www.rangefinderforum.com/photopost/data/500/eugene_mowed.jpg

and small format, sorry...

http://www.rangefinderforum.com/photopost/data/500/sarah_rachel_061010_08.jpg

[Brian Vuillemenot]

on the shores of Mono Lake

[ghostcount]

and small format, sorry...

http://www.rangefinderforum.com/photopost/data/500/sarah_rachel_061010_08.jpg

I just gained 5 pounds looking at this! (hehehe....)

[sly]

Brian, that's stunning! Great colour!

[sly]

Here's one I took last winter - kneeling on the cold sidewalk with my Crown Graphic.

[gevalia]

Simply reeds. Heliar, 4x5, ADOX 25 in Pyrocat HD.

http://ronmiller.smugmug.com/Landscapes/Black-and-White-Landscapes/img115fixed/766987179_KF6r7-X2.jpg

[bbarna]

Alti Plano, Bolivia
Chamonix 45, Schneider 135/5.6, Foma 100

[Struan Gray]

I've been trying for years to capture the luminescent effect of machair after rain. The salt-tolerant grasses are often tinged blue-green, and the shell-sand they grow in acts like bright white underpainting. A long sopping day of light rain makes the true machair and the backlands shimmer, even in a very dull overcast light.

Capturing it on film is an exercise in frustration, and wetness.


http://struangray.com/miscpics/machair.jpg

Backland machair, Achnahaird

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[Heroique]

I find all kinds of pretty grasses deep in my film.

Often, they surprise me when I’m dust spotting. Like this one.

Be careful – it’s a jungle down there.

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

[mdm]

5x7 Shanghai 100, Pyrocat M, 210mm Sironar S

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QmQjKxnDU-c/TSv8RblWYrI/AAAAAAAAAok/lOPoZk9WuFc/s1600/Scan-110111-0007-1.jpg

[Jiri Vasina]

David, that's a great one...

Jiri

[mdm]

Thanks for that, I liked the lines.

[Vaughn]

Grasses and Rocks. 2010
Dry Falls State Park, Washington

After sunset, after a very hot day this past summer.

From a scan of an 8x10 negative, but should look about like this someday. Platinum/palladium probably.

[mdm]

Grasses and Rocks. 2010
Dry Falls State Park, Washington

After sunset, after a very hot day this past summer.

From a scan of an 8x10 negative, but should look about like this someday. Platinum/palladium probably.

In carbon it would be more about rocks.

It is impossibe for me to take a picture of the landscape without lots of grey boring grass, but on a high relief print from a contrasty negative, made in directional evening light say, with backlit sheep or something along those lines, it sings. When you get it right.

Like this mushy looking negative scan, pretty carbon transfer.

[Joe O'Hara]

Nice one! It will look great in Pt/Pd.



Grasses and Rocks. 2010
Dry Falls State Park, Washington

After sunset, after a very hot day this past summer.

From a scan of an 8x10 negative, but should look about like this someday. Platinum/palladium probably.

[sly]

Winter Grass

Crown Graphic

Looking forward to spring and the arrival of new greenery.

[austin granger]

These are not strictly about grass, but there is a lot of grass in them-does that count?

The Path to Chimney Rock, Point Reyes
http://austingranger.com/web/elegy/75-the_path_to_chimney_rock.jpg

Field, Starlings, Gathering Storm, Point Reyes
http://austingranger.com/web/elegy/65-field_starlings_gathering_storm.jpg

Unfortunately, neither of these translate to the computer screen very well... Ah well, sharpen them in your mind. And on the first shot, there's a little arrow on the post.

www.austingranger.com

[austin granger]

And some color.

Train Car, Astoria Bridge
http://austingranger.com/web/astoria/01-05_train_car_bridge.jpg

St. Mary's, Astoria
http://austingranger.com/web/astoria/02-05_st_marys.jpg

From the Column, Astoria
http://austingranger.com/web/astoria/02-07_from_the_column.jpg

www.austingranger.com

[tgtaylor]

Bar and Grass

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5177/5436830557_8408f789ac.jpg

Scan of a print that didn't work out - note the crud that was on the negative in the top left.


Thomas

[Jim Cole]

Zion National Park. Autumn grasses.

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4114/5437905756_ac5e74efa1_b.jpg

[Preston]

Wonderful work, everyone!

I'm inspired to look where I'm walking!

--P

[Keith Pitman]

Disk and Grass.

[Scott Schroeder]

Probably more reeds than grass but all the same.....
http://www.schroederworks.com/Wetplate/McNeilPark001.jpg

http://www.schroederworks.com/Wetplate/McNeilPark002.jpg

[Scratched Glass]

These are sedges, in a different family than grasses, but most people would assume there grasses, and that's ok.
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1397/5505752161_1ee5028a38.jpg

Technical Data: Cropped
Graphlex Pacemaker Speed Graphic 4x5
Graphlex/Wollensak Optar 135mm f4.7
Kodak Ektachrome 100 Plus 10 years past its expiration

[Joe O'Hara]

Reviving this thread with a new one from last week. Near Emigrant Lake, Oregon.