What did you compose at Waters Edge?

[jp]

I think I used about 1/680 sec or something like that. Pretty far from the common long exposures in straight LF. 400 speed film and F4 aperture has a need for speed.

[jp]

Rocks at the beach. Owls Head Maine. Aero Ektar (stopped down), speed graphic, 4x5 tmy2 in pmk.


img094 by philbrookjason, on Flickr

[Boinzo]

I haven't posted anything in an age. Here's one I made on a recent trip to NZ. Sunset at Truman's Beach near Punakaiki.



That is some RED! A nicely balanced image. My favorite image I made during my 5 month bicycle tour of NZ (27 years ago!) was taken between those two rocks on the right side of your image (in shadow in your image).

Nice one Vaughn! I did scout out a composition down there but the tide was running in so fast it was crazy. Not sure I would have made it off the beach...
It's a great spot. That whole section of coastline is extraordinary.

[alexn]

"Hydrated Earth"



4x5 Fomapan 100 @ 100.
6sec F/32
Rodinal 1:50. 8min @ 20°C

[Aleksandra Patova]

Black Sea, Bulgaria, rocks in Sinemorets
Busch Pressman 4x5, Kodak Ektar 127 / 4.7
Arista EDU 100, rodinal 1+100, 1 hour

From the water I come by alex-malex, on Flickr

[Vaughn]

Nice one Vaughn! I did scout out a composition down there but the tide was running in so fast it was crazy. Not sure I would have made it off the beach... It's a great spot. That whole section of coastline is extraordinary.

Thanks. I hit Truman Cove at low tide so had time to explore. I camped two or three nights there at the campground. Took a hike inland, but did not expose a negative back there, and worked a little around the pancake rocks of course. I'll have to go thru those negatives one of these days -- perhaps on their 30th birthday...only 2 or 3 years from now. I printed only one of the rocks (below) but I must have taken others of the rocks. But then I only exposed 75 sheets of film on the trip so I may not have..

I posted this image several years ago in "Rocks and Stones", but what the heck -- it is at the water's edge -- there is a bit of a blowhole in the image (though not actively blowing) and a bit of a wave can be seen way in the back.

Pancake Rocks, 1987
Punakaiki, West Coast
New Zealand

16x20 Silver Gelatin Print from 4x5 (TMax100, 150mm lens)

[JeRuFo]

Thanks. I camped two or three nights there at the campground. Took a hike inland, but did not expose a negative back there, and worked a little around the pancake rocks of course. I hit Truman Cove at low tide sohad time to explore.

I posted this image several years ago in "Rocks and Stones", but what the heck -- it is at the water's (Ocean) edge -- there is a bit of a blowhole in the image (though not actively blowing).

Pancake Rocks, 1987
Punakaiki, West Coast
New Zealand

16x20 Silver Gelatin Print from 4x5 (TMax100, 150mm lens)

Fantastic. Everything about it works.

[Vaughn]

Thank you. I remember the print required a lot of work, burning and a touch of dodging to get it to all come together...quite an enjoyable process, actually. The print does manage to retain detail in those deep shadows in the foreground. It is funny -- creating this image, it was interesting/educational for me in that I finally allowed myself to have the far background not be focus. One can get trapped with those ideals.

[JeRuFo]

I can imagine that a shot like this needs a lot of work. It is the type of shot that demands technical perfection.

I've had the same thing with a similar shot, with a lot of repetition of shapes. I couldn't avoid having the far background go out of focus. It bothered me a lot. I showed it to a few people and the all really liked it. I ended up printing it (ps+inkjet) and now it is starting to grow on me too. For all the technical details we have to take into account, sometimes the content is more important. It is very easy to see only the technical aspects of your own shots.

[Robert Langham]

Foggy morning at 13-Club lake.