What did you compose at Waters Edge?

[Shailendra]

Sunset from Berkeley Pier last night, not exactly ideal to what I was hoping for, but a pleasant experience nonetheless.

Chamonix 4x5
Nikkor 500 T ED
TMax 100 Rodinal 1:50


Golden Gate Bridge by Shailendra Dhanoa, on Flickr

[jp]

Chamonix 45n1, Voigtlander 21cm f/4.5 APO Lanthar, Portra 160VC:

You are picking up the intimate landscape skills well. Might be partly due to the extra seeing related to the amount of practice film expended (as mentioned in your portrait thread contribution). In any case, this looks good.

[Corran]

Thanks jp .

This isn't the usual shot for me, as you note.

[baro-nite]

More swampiness:


Millpond by Jeff, on Flickr

4x5 HP5+, 90mm

Has me pondering the logistics of operating a view camera from a canoe.

[jp]

Has me pondering the logistics of operating a view camera from a canoe.

I have shot beside a canoe before. I used the canoe to hold the camera gear and I swam along side it. Tripod in the mud/rocks, put on the camera on, take photo, put gear back into canoe. A canoe holds a lot of gear, so it's more useful than a kayak.

I could not position the canoe to be still enough to take photos from the canoe. Of course I was shooting with a 210ish mm lens which has not much DOF. The canoe would drift a little and things would lose focus or composition. With a wide lens for enough DOF and a sport finder, you might be able to use a canoe to actually shoot from.

[baro-nite]

I'm wondering about a hybrid approach -- tripod in the water but I stay in the canoe. I'd certainly have to try it with a camera I don't mind dunking, first.

[Corran]

Nice one Jeff. I don't know how things are up there, but the rivers I canoe in can suddenly go from ankle-deep to over your head in a matter of steps. It's the limestone, I think. The Travelwide with 400-speed film would be ideal, and shoot handheld! That's what I'm taking on my next canoe trip, anyway.

[baro-nite]

Thanks Corran. Not a limestone base up here, at least not at Merchants Millpond. Still, fussing with a view camera from or next to a canoe could produce a lot of unintentional comedy (or would it be tragedy). Might try it in one of the Carolina bays first; these tend to be very flat & sandy bottoms, albeit usually with a covering of muck. Also, most don't have alligators.

[mat4226]

Thinking Cold Thoughts
Cedar Falls Trail, Hocking Hills



Tachihara 8x10 + Schneider 480 f/8.4
Ilford HP5+ in Pyrocat HD 1:1.5:100

[jp]

at Birch Point Beach state park, Owls Head Maine. December 2015. 4x5 speed graphic, 7.25" verito soft focus lens, Ilford FP4+ in pyrocat hdc

img716 by Jason Philbrook, on Flickr