I feel this would make the case for an image that breaks all "rules": tilted background/not neatly straight or divided in thirds etc. But it's beautiful. There are no rules.
Printable View
Broken Snow Gums, Charlotte Pass
Gelatin-silver photograph on Freestyle Private Reserve VC FB photographic paper, image size 24.7cm X 19.5cm, from a 8x10 Fomapan 200 negative
exposed in a Tachihara 810HD triple extension field view camera fitted with a Schneider Super Angulon 121mm f8 lens.
A 16x20 print from 4x5 negative (Portriga Rapid III, selenium toned)
Beech Forest, North Island, NZ, 1986
This area (Te Urewera) was a National Park, but it was disestablished four years ago (this is the first I have heard of it, when I went to check the spelling). The area is now managed by the Maoris of the area. Beautiful temperate rain forests surround a incredible lake (Lake Waikaremoana). Tracks still open to visitors.
My first good effort with my Intrepid 8x10. Been a long break in LF-stuff and I have been feeling guilty about it. Now I'm all excited again!
I found this mushroom when I was here with my daughter and wife and I thought it was just perfect and decided to come back to it later.
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Autumn harvest
Maris, what a pleasure to see your beautiful work again!
Thank you. The actual print color is not quite so brown -- hard to replicate the color on the screen (16x20 Portriga Rapid III, Grade 3, selenium toned). Forest images are tough -- trying to bring some visual order out of the chaos. A lot of good examples here.
I had to burn down that fern some -- a lively little thing! It is an older print. I have learned a few tricks since then (for example, I would now use some local flashing in the upper right instead of just burning), but I have moved away from silver gelatin enlargements and do mostly contacting in alt processes.
Wildlife photography with LF? Sure, as long as that wildlife is a slug!
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03-19-17-006 by Drew Saunders, on Flickr
Thanks Ulophot. Here's one more:
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Forest Floor Carpet, Noosa National Park
Gelatin-silver photograph on Agfa Classic VC FB photographic paper, image size 19.6cm X24.4cm, from a 8x10 Kodak Tmax 400 negative
exposed in a Tachihara 810HD triple extension field view camera fitted with a Fujinon-W 300mm f5.6 lens.