Post Your Waterfalls

[Rory_5244]

I'm guessing 2 sheets as well. LF HDR! Great pic, btw!

[Old-N-Feeble]

^^^ Right and then blended (or perhaps stacked) the two images. Several ways to do it in PS.

[EOTS]

If you made two exposures you're still going to end up overexposing one area it's just like making a longer exposure in general, unless you did something different like using some kind graduated density filter to one portion of the image?

Used two sheets of film?

I'm guessing 2 sheets as well. LF HDR! Great pic, btw!

^^^ Right and then blended (or perhaps stacked) the two images. Several ways to do it in PS.

Thanks, Rory!

@Stone,
ckagy, Rory and Old-N-Feeble are right!

I exposed two sheets of film, one exposed for the fast water, one for everything else.

Then drum scanning, loading both scans as layers, aligning them and blending them together.

That is, water layer above main layer, aligning them as much as possible,
adjusting brightness to match roughly, but making sure not to blow out most of the detail of the water layer,
then starting out with an all-blocked mask (= black mask) over the water layer.
Then painting white areas into the water layer mask (only in parts of the photograph where the water is fast/white).
Etc ...

Best regards,
Martin

[Old-N-Feeble]

Thanks, Rory!

@Stone,
ckagy, Rory and Old-N-Feeble are right!

I exposed two sheets of film, one exposed for the fast water, one for everything else.

Then drum scanning, loading both scans as layers, aligning them and blending them together.

That is, water layer above main layer, aligning them as much as possible,
adjusting brightness to match roughly, but making sure not to blow out most of the detail of the water layer,
then starting out with an all-blocked mask (= black mask) over the water layer.
Then painting white areas into the water layer mask (only in parts of the photograph where the water is fast/white).
Etc ...

Best regards,
Martin

And careful use of varied feathering of the paintbrush.

[StoneNYC]

Thanks, Rory!

@Stone,
ckagy, Rory and Old-N-Feeble are right!

I exposed two sheets of film, one exposed for the fast water, one for everything else.

Then drum scanning, loading both scans as layers, aligning them and blending them together.

That is, water layer above main layer, aligning them as much as possible,
adjusting brightness to match roughly, but making sure not to blow out most of the detail of the water layer,
then starting out with an all-blocked mask (= black mask) over the water layer.
Then painting white areas into the water layer mask (only in parts of the photograph where the water is fast/white).
Etc ...

Best regards,
Martin

Oh gotcha! Interesting. Do you find you have problems with ultimate sharpness at larger print sizes with this method?

[Old-N-Feeble]

^^^ Not if done with reasonable skill.

[EOTS]

Yeah, and especially not in this case.
The water has no detailled texture, so when blending you favour the stones/moss/etc

[Bob Mann]

Taughannock Falls, (not the big one - but a smaller one downstream), located just north of Ithaca, NY

8x10 HP5 developed in Diafine

[MrBrowning]

Taughannock Falls, (not the big one - but a smaller one downstream), located just north of Ithaca, NY

8x10 HP5 developed in Diafine

Very nice.

I've been going to head to Ithaca and take some photos of the waterfalls but I never seem to get there. I'll have to make sure I do this spring though.

[Gary Sommer]

Lost-Cr-19 by gary2881, on Flickr

4x5 Efke PL100