post your trees!

[Huub]

Beautiful, with a perfect tonal range. Did you use a 6x12 back on the camera or is the negative cropped?

[tuco]

Beautiful, with a perfect tonal range. Did you use a 6x12 back on the camera or is the negative cropped?

Thanks. They are a 16:9 crop of the 4x5 scan in an image editor.

[SimonMaddock]

Törnskogen 2024,
Sinar 4x5, apo-sironar-s 150mm, fp4, rodinal


Törnskogen by Simon Maddock, on Flickr

[John Layton]

Simon that is a very complex image and yet it works wonderfully...the layering of light and shadow, the lighter and slightly unfocussed (non distracting but with a complimentary presence) background - sharper in its lower reflection but still complimentary, and that very crucial bit of sunlight illuminating the part of the slanted tree in the middle foreground...with its very compelling texture of bark and what appears to be shelf fungi - this is a great image!

[djdister]

Törnskogen 2024,
Sinar 4x5, apo-sironar-s 150mm, fp4, rodinal

Very nice, has a touch of the fantastical to it..

[Rick A]

Törnskogen 2024,
Sinar 4x5, apo-sironar-s 150mm, fp4, rodinal


Törnskogen by Simon Maddock, on Flickr

Primordial, and serene. Beautifully done.

[Kino]

Man, there is a tree right down the road from where I live that I would love to take a 8x10 shot of, but I would have to enter a pasture.

The old "Southern Hospitality" myth is instantly dispelled here in Virginia the second you ask to enter someone's property to take a photograph. The reaction is usually swift and nasty.

I think I'll start a photo series on "No Trespassing" signs in this state. I could spend the rest of my life shooting them and never run out of subject matter...

[faraz]

Törnskogen 2024,
Sinar 4x5, apo-sironar-s 150mm, fp4, rodinal


Törnskogen by Simon Maddock, on Flickr

Wonderful texture, such an absorbing image.

Did you use a compensating method with Rodinal or just straight development?

[SimonMaddock]

Thank everyone, I'm glad you like it!

Did you use a compensating method with Rodinal or just straight development?

I use high dilution and normal agitation. Scene measured -2.5 to +3 from exposure, so scene contrast wasn't as high as one might think

[Corran]

Agreed, great image. I'm surprised by the contrast level you mention, it looks like scenes I've seen with extremely high contrast.