Large Format Landscapes

[Mark Darragh]

View south east to Olympic Mountains from Hurricane Ridge, Olympic National Park, Washington, USA
Arca Swiss Universalis 4x5, Schneider Super Symmar 110 mm XL, Fujichrome Provia RDP III 100 4x5, No filter

[Martin Aislabie]

Hello again, one last Wanderlust Travelwide 90 shot from the same location as above, this time on Fuji Pro 160NS.

Mangart Saddle, Slovenia. by Wojtek Mszyca, on Flickr

This is a fabulous shot

Love the blue in the shadows on the right hand side and the cloud cover on top of the peaks

Martin

[locutus]

Very first 5x4 film shot:



Ilford FP4 in Rodinal 1+25, Fujinon W 180mm at f/45, 4 second exposure.

Sorry for the terrible 'scan'. Otherwise I am pretty happy how it turned out for a first try.

[Dan O'Farrell]

This is a great picture! Not as sharp as we'd like, but it has beautiful tones, is well composed, and the timing of waterflow suits the scene perfectly.
Where was it taken?

[locutus]

The actual negative is sharp under a 8x loupe, it was 'scanned' by taking a picture of it on top of my laptop screen (cheap light table) i did a blur filter on it to cancel out the screen door effect a bit from the screen pixels showing through.

It was taken on Suomenlinna an old sea fortress of the coast of Helsinki. I did not have a ND filter with me so i shot at f/45 to get a longer exposure time and the resulting waterflow came out well.

[Mrportr8]

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Korona 4x5, Schneider 135mm
TXP EI 160
Printed on Ilford Multigrade FB
Matthiessen State Park, IL

These canyons are always changing, every time I go there's something new.

Comments always welcomed.

[RSalles]

Mr Portr8,

As you have asked for comments, here are some.
Pay attention to the composition of your frame. In this forum, the main direction of photographic subjects are to the "long gray scale of gray shades", light rendering and etc. but very often paying little attention for "what I can make to avoid ruining my shots with basic composition attention".
Sometimes there is great light, subject, motivation, and the result has few interest because of bypassing basic frame checking.
At the edge of the frame - bottom and left - there are important information that's almost "escaping" from the frame. And if it's not THAT important information, why is it there? Avoid parallel components of the shot running along the frame edges - in this case tree and ground - avoid also geometric forms as triangles, semi-circles, etc., even not being the case in this shot, but as pure reminder for the future.
Exposure and devel. seems quite good, subject very appealing, but the elements in the frame have to have space to "breath". When we shorten the distance between scene and the camera trying to reinforce the main interest of the shot it's a good idea to not discard important parts of the subject itself, as our main idea from the start was to discard only distracting compositional elements that are not essential to the scene. And, if it's not essential, doesn't deserves the chance to make part of it - if something can or can not be in the frame with equal results it has to be discarded, no mercy.

Hope this helps,

Cheers,

Renato

[Nana Sousa Dias]

NSD 45 PS, Schneider SA 47 XL, Fomapan 100

[koraks]

I'm glad you're back!

[Nana Sousa Dias]

I'm glad you're back!

Hi, Thanks

Long time away from here!