Large Format Landscapes

[thrice]

one is shot the other day, 4x5, 90mm caltar, provia 100. processed this at home with some old chemistry, got some weird color cast.

I think your water is too alkaline, make sure you're using distilled water to mix with your chemistry and do the first and second rinse if your tap water is too basic.

[bbuszard]

Walking to Swirlyville

An experiment in tilt with the lens wide open. It feels fairly normal as long as your eye is centered on the family walking across the bridge. The plane of focus is roughly along the handrail, but it isn't a flat bridge and the boards swoop in and out of focus.

I don't know how I feel about such obvious tilting and shifting. It might be too pictorial for my taste, and it prevents the eye from wandering around the image comfortably.

[StoneNYC]

Walking to Swirlyville

An experiment in tilt with the lens wide open. It feels fairly normal as long as your eye is centered on the family walking across the bridge. The plane of focus is roughly along the handrail, but it isn't a flat bridge and the boards swoop in and out of focus.

I don't know how I feel about such obvious tilting and shifting. It might be too pictorial for my taste, and it prevents the eye from wandering around the image comfortably.

It's very neat anyway, I think that it has good and bad points, you're right it does prevent the eye from wandering around the scene, and has that dizzying effect went to much is out of focus, however in the same right it also brings your eye directly to the subject matter at hand, just like this kind of thing is supposed to, and leads your eye that way rather than forcing it there directly from the beginning, so it has a nice affect overall.

[bbuszard]

Alright, no more shiftiness and tiltiness. A nice, normal shot of a wooden bridge in the Japanese garden, Newport News Park. The light through the trees was really pretty, which made it hard to keep the bridge as the central focus. I wound up shooting it from the backside. The standing stone behind the bridge is actually the back of a dedication plaque (coastal VA isn't known for its glacial erratics).

[bbuszard]

...it has a nice affect overall.

Thank-you, Stone. I'm still undecided. I think it either needs less or more swirliness. I might go back and try adding in some swing to isolate things horizontally.

[Harley Goldman]

This is another from my fall Yosemite sojourn a couple of weeks ago. This is dew on the grasses along the Merced river in the valley.

Chamonix 4x5
Fujinon A 240mm
Velvia 50

[jcoldslabs]

This is dew on the grasses along the Merced river in the valley.

Excellent, Harley!

Jonathan

[rcmartins]

Very, very nice. Liked it a lot. A great extract for both the color, the hue combination and the line arrangement of vertical plane vs. 45º plane. Good eye to spot these things, Harley.
raul

[h2oman]

Yes, very nice Harley.

[Fredrick]

Hemsedal 3 by Fredrick Fjeldsbø Photography, on Flickr