Large Format Landscapes

[EdWorkman]

nathan-
Shoot man, what do do expect with all that facial hair ???
i love the light, and i have a question.
Have you tried printing the clouds down just a bit?
I wonder if that would bring up some more texture and graduate the dark tones of the sky to the foreground linearly.
No critique intended, just enjoying the possibilities in
all that great light.
regards
Ed

[Vaughn]

I'll take that as a compliment. I've never felt like a composition was chewing me up but it sounds powerful...

It was meant as a compliment...

I suppose I could have said that the image does not invite me in for a closer look, but that would normally be a negative, or at the most a neutral, comment. Many of our students will darken/burn-in the background (sky and mountains) causing a loss of that atmospheric distance and "flattening" the landscape.

You took it a step farther and made it work.

[Jehu]

It was meant as a compliment...

I suppose I could have said that the image does not invite me in for a closer look, but that would normally be a negative, or at the most a neutral, comment. Many of our students will darken/burn-in the background (sky and mountains) causing a loss of that atmospheric distance and "flattening" the landscape.

You took it a step farther and made it work.

I think I see what you're saying. I admit that I tried some selective tonal adjustment but everything I tried seemed to take some depth away. I kept coming back to the unedited version. Thanks for the comments. I'll be enlarging this one this weekend if I get a chance to mix up some RA4.

[nathanm]

nathan-
Shoot man, what do do expect with all that facial hair ???
i love the light, and i have a question.
Have you tried printing the clouds down just a bit?
I wonder if that would bring up some more texture and graduate the dark tones of the sky to the foreground linearly.
No critique intended, just enjoying the possibilities in
all that great light.
regards
Ed

Thanks Ed, no problem at all - I appreciate your comments. Yeah, there's always so many ways to approach the tones in a photo and still have it look balanced. With skies the general trend seems to be to go for extreme contrast. Obviously I want to avoid the ridiculous HDR\High-radius USM etc. look you see so often in the digital world (which is why I like the LF crowd - you never see that kind of garish ugliness), but I certainly did boost the contrast of the sky here; the original sky is much more of a uniform light gray on the neg. Sometimes I have to resist the urge to have too many individualized Curve masks as it can make the image look a bit patchy.

[lbenac]

But ... it has a person in it! Horrors

Ok on these ones the only people in the photo were swallowed by the glacier before I pressed the release

Nikor-M 300/9 HP4+ Pyrocat MC


Fujinon-NW 125/5.6


Fujinon-NW 125/5.6


Cheers,

Luc

[Frank Bunnik]

Superb images Luc. Thanks for sharing.

[Roger Cole]

HP4+? I take it that's either a typo for FP4+ or HP5+?

[tuco]

Ok on these ones the only people in the photo were swallowed by the glacier before I pressed the release

Nikor-M 300/9 HP4+ Pyrocat MC

Fujinon-NW 125/5.6

Fujinon-NW 125/5.6

Cheers,

Luc

Really nice landscapes, Luc.

[MumbleyJoe]

Luc - I have nothing helpful or insightful to add, other than to mention that I am once again a fan of your photographs. I think the Abbot Pass photo in particular is outstanding (but they all are).

Thanks for sharing! It borders between inspiring me to go out and shoot more, or not at all because I have so much to learn.

[nathanm]

Luc's mountain shots are what I like to call Crispy Creams - images with a nice amount of screen-friendly sharpening and creamy grey tonality at the same time. I can't find anything not to like, they really pop off the screen!