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    Re: Road to Mt. Williamson photo location

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    https://i.postimg.cc/QdzKLhkz/SO01907-01909-2x1hy.jpg

    A few years since I posted on this board folks. I moved on from LF 4x5 film to the much lighter APS-C A6000 in 2014 when it came...
  2. Re: Solar eclipse on August 21 - photography ideas?

    Left Salem about a half hour after the eclipse at 11am driving south down US99W instead of I5 that I expected was what the majority of visitors going south would use. Anyone planning to leave...
  3. Re: Solar eclipse on August 21 - photography ideas?

    How did it go cp_photo? Where did you end up?

    Capturing the eclipse was going to be difficult enough with a digital camera due to the huge dynamic range. I left my film view camera at home. ...
  4. Re: how to pack smart for on location work????

    Subject has come up a few times on this board in the past. In the field as an old guy am way more hard core than others haha.

    http://www.davidsenesac.com/Backpacking/david_pack_r.jpg

    Somewhat...
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    Re: 2017 Wild Flower Season

    My spring Southern California wildflower work was very successful. Managed to get in 20 days in the field over 3 road trips. Read about and view images on this link Pages 2 through 7 with the...
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    Re: 2017 Wild Flower Season

    Yesterday 2/27, San Diego County got pounded by a tropical storm up from Baja with up to 8 inches of rain in mountain areas causing flooding. Inland in desert areas of most wildflower interest,...
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    Re: Safe Haven for Small Formats

    Hello Leigh,

    Indeed the page icon process to jump to whatever page in a thread has been obvious since I began using the site. My input was terse thus meaning vague. The issue I have always had...
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    Re: Safe Haven for Small Formats

    That safe hfsf thread is so long with over 1000 pages of posts that I only had interest in looking at the last few pages. Generally dislike ridiculously long threads for that reason and wish there...
  9. Re: Need recommendation for good book on (gasp) flower photography

    Same here if strategy is to get most of subject in detailed focus and not a bokeh type shot. Always digital in this era primarily because of overwhelming advantage of focus stack blending. Of...
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    Re: Post Your Hiking Photos - Any Format

    A second image. The below landscape is from Kings Canyon National Park on September 9, 2016. Dusy Basin image of Isosceles Peak with Thunderbolt Peak and North Palisade in the background. In the...
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    Re: Post Your Hiking Photos - Any Format

    Though a senior citizen now, as an old landscape photographer did a great deal of hiking this year including 4 backpacking trips and many road and day trips. The following is from Death Valley...
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    Re: how old are we?

    In a few day I'll turn 68, a rather scary sobering number. Am likely to retire from my hi tech work as the year ends. The below is an image of this person earlier this spring about a wash below...
  13. Re: How musk risk / danger have you taken for a photograph or access to shoot?

    Noticed this is a resurrected 2012 thread haha. DW are you referring to my Merced canyon poppy shot or someone else's post? Noticed my link to the larger image was stale so just fixed that. Just...
  14. Re: Death Valley wildflowers rising in major bloom

    http://www.davidsenesac.com/2016_Trip_Chronicles/PB02535w.jpg

    Above not LF but small digi info pic of my dispersed camp site location for 3 nights.

    After returning from a Death Valley road trip...
  15. Re: Examples of Large Format shots that cannot be done with small

    A few posts have mentioned issues using tilt-shift lenses (apparently meaning on DSLRs) versus the way we view camera users do so more easily by front standard movements. Obviously a few here are not...
  16. Re: Death Valley wildflowers rising in major bloom

    Agreed about color gamut film/sensor limitations in nature of course and that goes beyond rock. A important task for photographers is to find light for difficult subjects that can render within the...
  17. Re: Death Valley wildflowers rising in major bloom

    Just earlier than peak bloom also tends to be more nicely greener.

    As a color landscape photographer, Provia 100F has excellent color fidelity with natural day light conditions. Unlike many...
  18. Death Valley wildflowers rising in major bloom

    As I expected in the earlier sub-forum thread, Death Valley Flash Flood, all that rain during the flood is now producing a major vegetation bloom with most of it coming from the enormous 2005 seed...
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    Re: Death Valley flash flood

    Latest report shows still a lot of closed roads though rumors on a sleepy locals discussion forum seems to be that many roads will be open by late winter.

    Death Valley National Park Morning Report...
  20. Re: Sunny-16 metering ---- best tips about judging light intensity?

    Of course since photographers have meters either inside their cameras or dedicated exposure meters, we have little incentive to try and gauge light values with our eyes. Although the little chart...
  21. Re: Your thoughts on the "Why aren't you out shooting?" post

    Never gotten that question which tends to reflect that I don't live in a photography centric day to day world like fair numbers of more hard core members here.

    I've worked in hi tech of Silicon...
  22. Re: Does your neighborhood (or region) offer too few landscape opportunities?

    Well not much of interest in my "local neighborhood" as I live in the vast nauseating urban world known as Silicon Valley. A land of jobs where as a peon I can make enough money to buy optical tech...
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    Re: It's snowing...

    Was in that snow last week during an 8-day backpack over Duck Pass into Fish Creek areas of the John Muir Wilderness, mostly over 10k feet. After returning home I analyzed archived jetstream and...
  24. Re: LF means heavy hiking. What's on your "not necessary" list?

    Very cool.

    Yeah have more trips into the Silver Divide, Mono Creek, and Bear Creek than other parts of the Sierra. You might have noticed there are 2 Silver Divide backpacking trip features top...
  25. Re: LF means heavy hiking. What's on your "not necessary" list?

    Surprised at all the posts on this thread. What isn't necessary? Well for many years I slept in a bivy instead of a tent just to save a few pounds to keep carrying weights below 75 pounds and still...
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    Re: Percentage of keepers/surprise good shots

    To the novice the visual world for outdoor nature and landscapes is boundless, endless easily filling camera film or sensors without much filtering. But what are keepers to novice photographers are...
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    Re: Trees technique

    With trees my task is not about technique but rather locating exceptional subjects and then capturing them in good light. Once located a specific woodly subject may be imaged using the similar...
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    Re: Do you blog?

    No, but a decade ago when they exploded on the web took a look at doing such. Were far too many already and expected in my case trying to get even minor attention of the public would be futile...
  29. Re: A collection of LF ideas & discoveries that don't need a whole thread to themselv

    Most of my work has always been out in the field thus need to be self-sufficient once hiking out. Have always wound a length of construction grade duct tape (now use Gorilla Tape) around the upper...
  30. Re: Ansel Adams: Do you fight or embrace his influence on your landscapes?

    No direct influence mainly because his body of work was in black and white with large format view camera equipment I knew little about. Never had formal schooling in photography because at an...
  31. Re: Mounting / Framing / Exhibition & Presentation

    The logistics of moving around reasonable numbers of large framed prints for exhibition purposes is a long time major stumbling block for we view camera enthusiasts trying to put our work in front...
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    Re: Percentage of keepers/surprise good shots

    The term isn't appropriate for my narrow purposes.

    The keeper term has been used for decades and for many of us meant slides or negatives that were not even worth storing so tossed. A fair...
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    Re: Stitched Together

    Not doing anything from my 4x5 Provia film work but rather with an A6000 on a Gigapan Epic robotic head. Using Autopano Kolor to stitch and Photoshop CS6 to focus stack blend and process the...
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    Re: polarizing filter

    Well thank you very much Kevin, so appreciated from another large format photographer! (:

    Our wonderful natural places in this fragile blue world have stories to tell that go beyond their visual...
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    Re: polarizing filter

    Since none of the images in Gallery_A that is on my homepage are up the East Fork of Bear Creek, am guessing you are talking about the marquee image at top? I use that same pic on my business cards. ...
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    Re: polarizing filter

    Similar experiences to Drew so rarely use one although have a large 90mm circular available. Note I am a color landscape and nature photographer. Long ago in my 35mm SLR days experimented with them...
  37. Re: Ethics on retouching and other "corrections"

    Gee its been quite awhile since photographic web communities had another bout with these subjects. A whole new generation of photographers is of course always rising up and asking these same...
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    Re: Deep focus

    There is only so much that is possible as one compromises between stopping down a lens aperture for increased DOF versus diffraction limits versus how much tilt/swing/shift is possible given subject...
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    Re: Peter Lik deserves our skepticism

    The link reads like a promotional ploy. Announcing what others are buying his framed prints for may influence unsophisticated in art though rich clients to swallow such spin. A decade ago while on...
  40. Re: Are Photographer's Obsessed With Sharpness, but blind to the bigger picture?

    There are many ways to consider image aesthetics and one ought not apply them in equal weight across the several general genres of photography. And within all genres would be a sub qualification for...
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