Large Format Landscapes

[przemur]

Another with the same story, except FP4 now.

Wonderful!

[przemur]

Martin, this is gorgeous. Did you use some graduated ND filter(presumably hard) to darken the sky or did you do this in postprocessing?

[EOTS]

Thank you przemur!

Yes, I used a Lee Hard Grad ND Filter, I think either 0.6 or 0.9 strength ...
With slide film you can't do very much postprocessing in post ... I'm working with Velvia 50 for all the landscapes (sometimes Provia)

[richardman]

A great thing about Yosemite is that you can just point your camera ANYWHERE, heck, even with the lenscap on and pointing it backward, and press the shutter and you will get images like this:



True story: on my way home, I dropped by Yosemite (and any time you can say, "I dropped by Yosemite on my way home," it has to be a great day) and heading toward the Village, I passed this rock. I tuned around and found a spot to park. While I was setting up my tripod, a car pulled over on the other side, and a guy came out with his tripod.

He then literally plopped his tripod 3 feet next to mine.

While thinking "You gotta kiddin' me," but being a friendly Californian, I said, "Hi!"

He probably didn't hear me, as he was looking at the scene, and he picked up his tripod, and walked some distance down...

What a critic. Didn't like my spot, I guess.

My theory is that my spot is perfect for a panoramic shot, but not so much for a 35mm image. That's my story, to preserve my ego, and I am sticking with it.

[Jim Cole]

That works! Good story, too.

[KenM]

Hey, tripod-to-tripod is the norm in Yosemite, especially at the popular locations. I always get a chuckle out of the row of photographers at Tunnel View, regardless of the quality of light.

Workshops are especially bad for this, but I remember one in particular where a workshop participant (I hesitate to call him a photographer) would look at what you were shooting, and would nest his tripod inside the legs of your tripod so he could get the same shot. We ended up just setting up on garbage when he was around - it worked, he did the same and made the 'same' images that we never took lol.

[richardman]

One more. This is actually THE view that stopped my car:

[Jim Cole]

One more. This is actually THE view that stopped my car:

Even better!

[Harley Goldman]

Even better!

Agree!!!

[Vaughn]

One more. This is actually THE view that stopped my car:

Great job! What I like about this that I have not seen in some of your other panoramics is solid ends that keep the eye traveling within the image and not towards one end and off the image.