Large Format Landscapes

[Steve M Hostetter]

Dartmouth N.S. 4x5 480mm

[Nana Sousa Dias]

Dear Nana,

I believe that wherever you travel, your images will reflect your natural talent...

jim k

Thank you for your kind words, Jim.

[Nana Sousa Dias]

Great shots Nana and Igore.
Nana- the rocks on the first one look like brains, very surreal. Excellent scene.

Thank you, Nicolas.

[Nana Sousa Dias]

If I cam to Portugal because of these photos, it wouldn't be to admire the unique scenery. It would be to follow you around and to try to learn to see as you do.

Rick "admiring the clarity of these images" Denney

Thank you, Rick

If you come, let me know, I will show you soime good spots around Lisbon.

[jim kitchen]

Great images everyone...

A recent image.

jim k

Riley Road Junction, Cowboy Trail, Alberta, Canada, 2010

[dlin]

Great images everyone...

A recent image.

jim k

Fantastic!

[Joel Truckenbrod]

You've got a way with those skies Jim. Very nice. What time of day do you tend to shoot at?

[jim kitchen]

Gentlemen,

Merci...

Joel, I tend to capture any image at or near dusk, since the brisk winds in Alberta tend to calm down a few knots in the back half of a late afternoon and, or into the late evening, allowing me to keep my view camera stable then. The sun likes to stay afloat until 10:00 pm during the peak summer hours, and this image; for example, was captured a few minutes before 9:00 pm as the sun was setting behind the Eastern Slopes.

Unfortunately, there are times when my exposures are longer than I desire them to be because of the hour, causing the cloud formations to be softer than I would like, but then again the softness adds a wee bit of flavour to the image, against a sharp fence line, or stable foreground. Its too bad you cannot see the barb wire knots...

jim k

[Joel Truckenbrod]

Thanks for the info Jim. I've been trying to dial in a good compromise between contrast and directionality of light for large landscapes containing skies. Having come from a color transparency background, it's a quite shift in working methodology (where extremely low contrast light was generally desirable). Much appreciated.

[k_redder]

I'll share one, if I may...



Mount Rainier and Cloud. Chamonix 4x5, Nikkor W 210mm, TMY-2

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