Post Your Waterfalls

[John Layton]

Three from Franconia Notch, NH. Basin/Basin Cascades photos, 5x7 L-57, 120 SA Cloudland Falls: 4x5 L-45A, 135 Sironar-N (Whites may look a bit blown out...but translate well in prints).

[David Schaller]

Nice ones John. I especially like the ones from the Basin. I've never been satisfied with my efforts there.
Dave

[John Layton]

Thanks David. But for some reason these didn't quite come through here...highlight/sharpness wise - but they do display a bit better on my website (link under my name...then go to Galleries - New England).

[Nodda Duma]

Nice, John. Very photogenic area up there.

[John Layton]

Thanks! I sometimes wonder how such subjects...waterfalls and, more broadly, long water exposures (ocean, etc.) would work with dry plate? Maybe will contact you soon about this!

[Robert Brazile]

One I took last fall on the way home from picking up a three-color camera from a friend whose studio is in North Adams, Mass.:

Wanderlust Travelwide 4x5
Schneider-Kreuznach Angulon 90/6.8 @ f/22
homemade gelatin dry plate, rated EI 1


TP-026, Doane's Falls, September 2017 by Robert Brazile, on Flickr

Robert

[marcookie]

I have been photographing waterfalls in the White Mountains National Forest in New Hampshire. This is the Basin in Franconia Ridge State Park, within the White Mountains.

Shot on 4x5 Kodak Ektar 100, with my Nikkor 135 mm lens and a polarizer.

If you are interested, I have been documenting the process to take this shot here.

[marcookie]

Three from Franconia Notch, NH. Basin/Basin Cascades photos, 5x7 L-57, 120 SA Cloudland Falls: 4x5 L-45A, 135 Sironar-N (Whites may look a bit blown out...but translate well in prints).

Nice I got a different composition of the same place, in color (see the post just above this one).

[marcookie]

Three from Franconia Notch, NH. Basin/Basin Cascades photos, 5x7 L-57, 120 SA Cloudland Falls: 4x5 L-45A, 135 Sironar-N (Whites may look a bit blown out...but translate well in prints).

Also, intresting your comment about the whites being blown out. I notices the same in several long-shutter-time waterfall exposures, even if the meter reading was well within the possibilities of the film. They look quite uniform and very close to pure white in my pictures as well. I think that part of it is because in a long exposure the white foamy parts of water evens out a lot, again something that we cannot notice with the 20-ish frames-per-second of our eyes. I still have to print those but I am curious to see if they turn out well in print also in a hybrid analog-digital workflow.

[marcookie]

I put together a small story about some waterfall shooting in the White Mountains (NH). It's my very first experience with large format and color film, after some years of inactivity.
Comments welcome, I hope at least somebody can enjoy and even better get some inspiration.