Images from a Donald Trump rally and corresponding protest

[onnect17]

Thanks Rich, and Kirk.

Yeah, I used to abide by the "Zone VI" thing but my negatives came out dense, so I pulled that down to V and it seems to work well, for me. It could be I'm a shade darker or just a quirk of my uncalibrated meter.

The images look good in my screen but I never use a red filter on people, a warming or yellow perhaps. I guess you compensated for the 3 stops loss with the R25 but that also have to be adjusted to the light temperature at the moment and the emulsion response.

In the case of HP5+, it is red biased type, so the compensation probably should be in the order of 4 or 5 stops.
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Not a fan of the Zone system so I can't make any comment about it.

In any case, the images are very telling. Thanks for sharing.

[Jody_S]

Nice. LF photography is a powerful documentary tool, I do wish more people would document the political landscape over the rocks and trees we mostly go for. It takes us out of our comfort zone.

[Corran]

Thanks Jody. I love documentary work. I'm still trying to find the best usage for LF in this type of work, because I think it is rather unique.

Regarding the red filter again, it serves 2 purposes for me - first it knocks the light down, helpful for a shutter that only goes to 1/125 (marked 1/200, tested lower), and secondly it helps tame the sky here at roughly sea level. As an example, here's a shot I didn't show as it's not great but illustrative to this:



I think the look of an R25 filter here in the south is much different than what it looks like up in the mountains, which is why many are surprised I use it. It's my defacto standard filter for landscapes.

[Mark MacKenzie]

Just my two cents which could be wrong -- Doesn't the red filter make blue skies go dark? Which amps up the contrast making white clouds stand out. There are indeed days in the south, I'm in Nashville, where the blue sky in between the clouds is a washed out haze. I can't even tell the above photo has a red filter.

But, up north, after a cold front and the blue skies go deep blue, a red filter almost takes the sky to black. Those days are rare down here. And my experience is that the bluest part of the sky is due North.

Hard to believe you have leaves out. Redbuds haven't even started here.
Best,
Mark

[Corran]

You've got it all right, it's just that in this altitude and in mid-day, this is all you get (as opposed to a whited-out sky).

[scheinfluger_77]

Thank you Oren, and bravo to the group at large. And Corran your photos are great, I particularly prefer the b&w's.

[Andrew Plume]

great work Brian, really appreciated

andrew

[appletree]

Very neat. Wonderful work.

[Corran]

Thanks a lot to you all!

[Drew Wiley]

Just one question. Given the alleged lack of a deeper blue in the sky, do you really need a deep red? (Versus a basic orange filter that would be two whole stops
faster). You seem to have a very good sense for atmosphere, and I don't think that would be compromised by using a weaker filter, unless of course you're deliberately trying to darken greens per se.