post your trees!

[jim kitchen]

Dear Daniel,

Thank you...

These pines were difficult to capture, because the wind would come along, and jostle them just enough to give me grief, as I would click the shutter. So I patiently waited, and waited, like a fool, as it got darker and darker. I believe this image was the first image I decided to surrender to the wind, since my exposure was about thirty seconds, where I started the exposure after the trees stopped moving, and stopped the exposure when the wind came back.

jim k

[Allen in Montreal]

Kerik Kouklis
Re: post your trees!

Trees in Fog, Oakland, CA
7x17 pt/pd print

Kerlik,
What are you using for glass on the 7x17?
The idea of going ULF is very intriguing!

[Kerik Kouklis]

I've used an embarassing number of lenses for 7x17, a format I no longer shoot. It was my primary format for nearly 10 years, then I felt like I was done with it and now 14x17 is my main format for film. My favorite lenses for the 7x17 were 12" and 14" Dagors. I also made good use of a 210mm Computar and a 450mm Nikkor-M.

[nelsonfotodotcom]

I don't know why spiders creep me out, but they do. Probably stems from waking in the middle of the night as a boy to find a spider crawling over my face. The cockroaches--in Florida, big as finches in some cases--were another thing!

To this day, I hate walking into spider webs, immediately spinning around to rid myself of it and to make certain nothing is crawling on me. If it's a big one, I might even resort to squealing like a stuck pig while slapping at it.

Funny enough to read that. Funnier still to see it in play.

C.

I was noticing more how you kept the Zone III in check without blowing the highlights, but GIGANTIC MAN EATING spiders are an issue too. Especially in the North Woods. Funny story... sorry to hear about your aracnidphobia. I was once photographing a very nice spider web with water drops in the sunlight at 1:1 when this hairy beast dropped into my sight causing me to fall back to the deck.


(A lot of people think they are seeing Sasquatch but it's really those giant spiders. lol lol )

[jnantz]

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[Eugene van der Merwe]

Trees, hope you like!

[ljsegil]

Still just learning, suggestions welcomed.
LJS

[Greg Lockrey]

I don't know why spiders creep me out, but they do.

C.

It must be a biblical thing like the fear of snakes....

[Allen in Montreal]

Trees, hope you like!

I really like that second image very much (they are all nice).

[Allen in Montreal]

I've used an embarassing number of lenses for 7x17, a format I no longer shoot. It was my primary format for nearly 10 years, then I felt like I was done with it and now 14x17 is my main format for film. My favorite lenses for the 7x17 were 12" and 14" Dagors. I also made good use of a 210mm Computar and a 450mm Nikkor-M.

Thank you.