post your trees!

[SamReeves]

I have to put the "first week with LF" disclaimer on this as well. If I were to do it again I would have focused differently (and, well, better).
But the thread title wasn't "post your potentially best ever trees", so here goes:


Oh, this particular tree has been part of a house for over 200 years. The last 40 that house has been my dad's cabin, now it's mine. I like this tree.

Damn, I love this! Great idea and framing the log there!

[jnantz]

in camera sun print
no developer .. paper negative inverted

[evan clarke]

Bristlecone Pine Tree
Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest, White Mountains, CA
Arca-Swiss 4x5, Provia 100F QL.

I only wish I had paid a little more attention to the composition, so that limb on the left side of the image would't be so close to the edge of the frame.. I'll chalk it up to a learning experience, and it will give me a good excuse to head out there again this year.

I think the composition flows very well, much more interesting than if you had centered the tree..Evan Clarke

[bbuszard]

Steve: ugh. I'll put that on the list of things I never wanted to know in life. But I'd be obliged if you could explain the peacock in the background. I don't recall that from the movie, and expect it might be a bit of crafty montage work.

[ljsegil]

Spring deferred, which makes one long for it all the more as autumn approaches. Some sort of trees, both in life and after, in a local ravine this past April. Canham 5x7 Traditional, Wollensak Velostigmat Series II 7 1/4"/4.5, shot at f11 on TMY2 at ISO 400. As always, comments welcomed (sought, in fact).
Larry

[ljsegil]

Tried this one in Galli land, curious if it can arouse some commentary in a more traditional subforum. There is a tree in this mess. Shot on Kodak E100VS 4x5 with a Graflex RB Super D 3x4 with a 4x5 Graflock back, using an unknown glass antiquity purported to be an f6 Petzval (shot open of course, any iris or Waterhouse stops went the way of the dinosaurs) of unknown (or nearly unknowable, given its imaging characteristics) focal length, but clearly the lens behaves as a beast other than a classic Petzval, I have been unable to unscrew the elements to investigate its unnatural behavior further. Pretty sure it's not apochromatic, however. Comments eagerly sought, need not be polite.
Larry

[Denis Pleic]

Larry,
About your color "Galli-esque tree shot"...

The lens is definitely not a Petzval - but you already know that.

To me it seems like it's missing a lens element - I used to get such results when fooling around with various lens hacks, see here:

http://denis.pleic.com/photo/funky/index.html

- particularly the last 3 shots, with either reversed or missing rear element.

A Petzval in color could look like the attached photo.

It's an old Magic Lantern lens.... with a somewhat incorrectly exposed Velvia...

Unlike your photo, it does show the characteristic "Petzval swirl"....

I might try shooting some trees with it

[Tony Flora]

are dead trees ok?

[Darryl Baird]

are dead trees ok?

no, they are dead so they're not ok, but it's more than ok to post pictures...

[searover]

Tony, great beach shot, where on the coast is that taken, IYDM.
Others, not all trees are dead in Florida. so while this is posted on "first shots" thread, here it is again.

Banyan Tree in Selby Gardens.


Super Angulon 65mm f8 FP4+ and Caffenol developed. Some fogging in LL from not seating the bellows correctly?

I love slowing down to really work the shot, a thing digital users really can not comprehend.

Kudos to all the Tree Artists in this thread.

John Allaman