I bought a 300mm lens for 4x5 about a year ago after working with only a 90 and 180 forever, and even though I'd pull it out a lot, I just couldn't see anything with it, until last weekend. Here's my first image with it. Some trees and lake and grass in a quiet place in North Alabama. To help with the shot, my faithful dog is lying as usual, just off camera overseeing everything and waiting patiently for the next swim.
Lake Chinnabee
Wet Plate Collodion - Max Starcke Park - Seguin, TX
7x17 black glass ambrotype
Congrats, Ted! One curious thing, though. Your most successful image (by your standards) with a very long lens actually feels more like an image taken with a shorter lens -- a feeling of depth instead of the fore-shortening of space that often happens.
The next step will be to take a photo that pushes the image the other way -- one that you are also pleased with, yet becomes very two-dimensional.
This image is very well seen and nicely balanced!
Vaughn
300mm 8x10 Ortho plus
Thanks Vaughn, I'll try that. I also thought it might be interesting to try a miniature using some exaggerated tilt and shift.Originally Posted by Vaughn
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This is an hour exposure in the Bull Creek Flats area of the Redwoods. I used my Haykeye Portrait lens stopped down to F-45 for this portrait of this ancient stag. Shot on my 11x14 and this is a crop of the final image as I can't scan the whole print. Printed in carbon.
Jim
Just lovely Jim. The result certainly justifies all the effort you must have put into the image. Let anyone try that with their P&S.
Larry
One just has to love those long under-the-redwoods exposures...they start to put one onto the pace of things there. And on a totally subjective note, somehow all that time seems to create a different feel to an image. Nice work!
Vaughn
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