Casuarina Grove, Soft FocusGelatin-silver photograph on Fomapan Variant 111 VC FB, image area 19.6cm X 24.7cm, from a Fomapan 200 negative exposed in a Tachihara 810HD 8x10 field view camera fitted with a 400mm f11 single meniscus lens and #25 red filter.
Photography:first utterance. Sir John Herschel, 14 March 1839 at the Royal Society. "...Photography or the application of the Chemical rays of light to the purpose of pictorial representation,..".
Step Falls Preserve, Newry Maine. July 2016.
4x5 speed graphic, FP4+ film in pyrocat hdc. 9" Gundlach Hyperion soft focus lens.
One of my personal rules made to be broken, I shy away from finely detailed subject with soft focus, instead going for shapes and tones as SF is not made for detail.
I lucked out on this with the pine needles rendering just right.
An eight of an inch adjustment on the aperture ring would make them too sharp or too mushy.
Guys, these are wonderful images. Stunning. Thanks for the inspiration.
Thanks Jim, you're making some nice photos too; glad to help anytime with the inspire part. (Maris is on a creative streak too!)
Owls Head Light state park, July 2016. 4x5 speed graphic, 9" Gundlach Hyperion soft focus lens, FP4+ film in pyrocat hdc.
TEHRAN Morning~
Old picture taken on the hot summer, 2014
Wide open by Spencer Port-land 11.5in
Kodar aerographic plus-x film
8x9.5in
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Sometimes love just ain't enough.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/pierre506/sets/
Woodland Grove, Soft Focus
Gelatin-silver photograph on Fomapan Variant 111 VC FB, image area 19.6cm X 24.7cm, from a Fomapan 200 negative exposed in a Tachihara 810HD 8x10 field view camera with a 400mm f11 single meniscus lens.
Photography:first utterance. Sir John Herschel, 14 March 1839 at the Royal Society. "...Photography or the application of the Chemical rays of light to the purpose of pictorial representation,..".
I think this would be a fascinating cyanotype, if you're into that.Originally Posted by Maris Rusis
On the basis of no experience I image the strong visual signatures of soft-focus and cyanotype could confound each other. But, hey, I don't do cyanotype and I've been wrong before. Somebody, please, post an example!
Photography:first utterance. Sir John Herschel, 14 March 1839 at the Royal Society. "...Photography or the application of the Chemical rays of light to the purpose of pictorial representation,..".
About 2/3 of my cyanotype photos are soft focus:
https://www.flickr.com/search/?user_...ype&view_all=1
People like Arthur Wesley Dow and F H Day regularly did soft focus cyanotypes.
Thanks for that. There are some very sweet pictures there and they illustrate what seems to be "rule" for soft focus landscape: bright subjects in front dark backgrounds work much better than dark against light.
Photography:first utterance. Sir John Herschel, 14 March 1839 at the Royal Society. "...Photography or the application of the Chemical rays of light to the purpose of pictorial representation,..".
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