Rocks and stones

[Pete_6109]

I shoot with very old, very cheap stuff. I cannot afford anything newer.
Miniwaska State Park, NY. 4x5 Speed Graphic, 165mm Paragon Anastigmat.

[drew.saunders]

Sentinel Dome, Yosemite. It is, after all, just one really big rock:



Big rocks, Vernal falls in the distance (also Yosemite):



And some of the rocks at Yosemite falls that in the spring are probably under water:



Yep, my Ebony has more rise than my 120mm APO-Symmar (Pre-L) can cover, but I kind of like the falloff.

Drew

[jack_hui]

HP5 / HC110
8x10
240mm



HP5 / HC110
8x10
C600



HP5 / HC110
8x10
150XL

[Allen in Montreal]

Pete, don't mess with success, the pictures are beautiful.
The camera and lens clearly work very well, and the eye even better still!

I shoot with very old, very cheap stuff. I cannot afford anything newer.
Miniwaska State Park, NY. 4x5 Speed Graphic, 165mm Paragon Anastigmat.

[Vaughn]

I shoot with very old, very cheap stuff. I cannot afford anything newer.
Miniwaska State Park, NY. 4x5 Speed Graphic, 165mm Paragon Anastigmat.

I'd rather see good images like these made with old cheap stuff than vacant images made with the latest and greatest!

Jack and Drew -- good stuff!

Vaughn

[Vaughn]

A recent carbon print...but actually a little disappointing. I remember spending a long time composing this image -- but once printed, I can't help but think that I should have pointed the camera just a little bit more down. It bugs me enough that the next time I go to Yosemite, this image will be re-taken.

Vaughn

Taken Christmas Day, 2006
Scanned 8x10 Carbon Print
Chilnualna Creek, Yosemite National Park

[Vaughn]

And another one from Chilnualna Creek that I am sitting on the fence about.


Christmas Day, 2006
Scanned Carbon Print
Yosemite National Park

[Wilbur Wong]

Vaughn,

For me I prefer envisioning the center maybe 50 percent of the scene as a vertical format as maybe a little more focused on the tree and water as major subject matter. Or maybe it is the large dark face of the chasm on the right maybe pulls my attention too much. Hurray for carbon, nice tonal range, I'd like to see your orginal print sometime. (BTW I'm getting closer but slowly to starting my own carbon printing.)

Wilbur

[Vaughn]

Wilbur -- one of the reasons I am on the fence on the second one, is that it is actually the top half of a dyptic (sp?). The second, lower, negative has problems, so I tried the upper neg as a single image. So the presented image is conceptionally incomplete. But the qualities of the negative were so beautiful that I had to print it. Sometimes our failures can be very instructional!

Vaughn

[Wilbur Wong]

Diptych