Large Format Landscapes

[diversey]

The view from Cowrock Mountain on the Appalachian Trail, near Tesnatee Gap. This was quite a slog up from the base of the gap as it gains quite a lot of elevation through many switchbacks. My wife and I went out and she was not really prepared for this in terms of footwear so she sat and rested as I sprinted up the last quarter mile to grab a few shots of this overlook with a wonderful cloud sweeping past, illuminated by the setting sun. The large mountain in the distance is the somewhat famous Yonah Mountain near Helen, GA, which I plan to summit soon.

Chamonix 45n1, 150mm APO Symmar + R25 + 2-stop soft GND, T-Max 100, FX-39, cropped square:

http://www.garrisaudiovisual.com/photosharing/cowrockmtn-7203ss.jpg

Great shot! Nicely done!

[Pali K]

Brilliant photos Arkasha and Bryan.

Pali

[Corran]

Thanks all! I was glad that in the end it paid off to get to the summit.

[ALVANDI Camera]

Iran, Zanjan, Panoral 45 camera, Nikkor-W 150/5.6, Hoya red filter, Ilford FP4 4x5in film
https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4239/34913825201_62a240c3ee_b.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/VcdtRt)

[AlexGard]

11x14 ambrotype

12 minute exposure

https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4240/34263174544_f9428622a2_b.jpg

[Mad Kiwi]

11x14 ambrotype

12 minute exposure

https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4240/34263174544_f9428622a2_b.jpg

Beautiful image, worthy of a wall.

[vnukov_pk]

my 2 cents from still rather new Intrepid 4x5 camera. Moscow, 2017 Apple tree garden
https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4266/35008916842_68ed97365d_b.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/VkBRhw)Moscow, 2017 (https://flic.kr/p/VkBRhw) by Pavel Vnukov (https://www.flickr.com/photos/vnukov_pavel/), on Flickr
Shot with nikkor 135\5.6 @f22 on shanghai film, dev'd stand in Hueble paste 1:100 for 1 hour, scanned on epson 4490.

[JaZ99]

Graflex 4x5, Velvia 50, Caltar II-N 150mm

https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4242/35133856986_d5f339a057_c.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/VwEcCW)
Hengifoss and the hint of rainbow (https://flic.kr/p/VwEcCW) by JaZ (https://www.flickr.com/photos/jaz99/), on Flickr

[Jim Jones]

JaZ99 -- Good choice of subject, and good technique to present it well.

[JaZ99]

Thanks!

[chassis]

Jaz, well done!

vnukov, great combination of line and texture.

[jon.oman]

Graflex 4x5, Velvia 50, Caltar II-N 150mm

https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4242/35133856986_d5f339a057_c.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/VwEcCW)
Hengifoss and the hint of rainbow (https://flic.kr/p/VwEcCW) by JaZ (https://www.flickr.com/photos/jaz99/), on Flickr

Wonderful image!

[ndwgolf]

The Pond
Trix320 8x10
f64
1.5 seconds

[ndwgolf]

Baby Waterfall
Trix320 8x10
f64
1.5 seconds

[ImSoNegative]

The view from Cowrock Mountain on the Appalachian Trail, near Tesnatee Gap. This was quite a slog up from the base of the gap as it gains quite a lot of elevation through many switchbacks. My wife and I went out and she was not really prepared for this in terms of footwear so she sat and rested as I sprinted up the last quarter mile to grab a few shots of this overlook with a wonderful cloud sweeping past, illuminated by the setting sun. The large mountain in the distance is the somewhat famous Yonah Mountain near Helen, GA, which I plan to summit soon.

Chamonix 45n1, 150mm APO Symmar + R25 + 2-stop soft GND, T-Max 100, FX-39, cropped square:

http://www.garrisaudiovisual.com/photosharing/cowrockmtn-7203ss.jpg

nice shot, I have been to yonah mountain many times, the view is fantastic

[ImSoNegative]

4x5, 210mm fujinon, ilford delta 100. Bonaventure Cemetery in Savannah Georgia

https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4249/34404602454_090bbd557a_b.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/UqdzEW)Bonaventure Cemetary (https://flic.kr/p/UqdzEW) by john golden (https://www.flickr.com/photos/126756312@N03/), on Flickr

[Punker]

4x5, 210mm fujinon, ilford delta 100. Bonaventure Cemetery in Savannah Georgia


Excellent image, John!

Here's one I took on Mt. Baldy Rd. over the weekend. Forgot to compensate for the filter factor on this one, however, I ended up liking the exposure much more than the one I exposed "correctly".

Osaka VW45FC, Osaka 120mm f/6.3 + CPL + orange filter, Ilford Delta 100
Legacy Eco Pro (Xtol) 1:1, 10:30, agitation every 30 seconds.

https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4249/35222789826_8b7f9c7000_c.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/VEw1gL)
Mt. Baldy Rd. (https://flic.kr/p/VEw1gL) by
Blurmageddon (https://www.flickr.com/photos/analoguefilm/), on Flickr

[chassis]

Excellent Punker!

[jp]

The view from Cowrock Mountain on the Appalachian Trail, near Tesnatee Gap. This was quite a slog up from the base of the gap as it gains quite a lot of elevation through many switchbacks. My wife and I went out and she was not really prepared for this in terms of footwear so she sat and rested as I sprinted up the last quarter mile to grab a few shots of this overlook with a wonderful cloud sweeping past, illuminated by the setting sun. The large mountain in the distance is the somewhat famous Yonah Mountain near Helen, GA, which I plan to summit soon.

Chamonix 45n1, 150mm APO Symmar + R25 + 2-stop soft GND, T-Max 100, FX-39, cropped square:


Very nice! You might want to check out Ralph Steiner "In Pursuit of Clouds" book which has many cloud+hill photos. It was basically his retirement project.

Here's is one my photos from my last LF outing of winter subjects. Again at Birch Point Beach state park with the speed graphic and 9" Hyperion. FP4+ in pyrocat hdc.



https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4220/35274554875_6681847a5e_c.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/VK6jdB)
img737 (https://flic.kr/p/VK6jdB) by Jason Philbrook (https://www.flickr.com/photos/13759696@N02/), on Flickr

[Corran]

Thanks jp, and thanks for the suggestion, I will check it out. That was the first time I've seen such an isolated cloud.

[AlexGard]

11x14 clear glass ambrotype
4min 25sec exposure

https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4200/35280935505_e989667c6a_b.jpg

[AlexGard]

11x14 clear glass ambrotype
30 sec exposure

https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4249/35114781672_b98c595b8e_b.jpg

[Punker]

Excellent Punker!

Thanks, chassis!


Alex, I'm so jealous of you wet plate guys! I hope I have the privilege of trying it someday. I've become quite obsessed by it lately.

[AlexGard]

Thanks, chassis!


Alex, I'm so jealous of you wet plate guys! I hope I have the privilege of trying it someday. I've become quite obsessed by it lately.
I remember when I started shooting LF film and spending all that time setting up the camera, focusing, inserting film holder, firing the shutter and then after the *click* thinking... "is that it?"
I felt like there was a part missing
Well now i've got that bit filled in and nothing makes me want to punch holes in walls and people and keeps me more perpetually literally dirt poor than this process.
Also i hope you like cleaning because that seems to be about 95% of it. ☺

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[ImSoNegative]

8x10 19inch RD Artar ilford delta


https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4214/35128886532_bc7feeb24a_k.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/VwdJ6s)looking across the Toccoa (https://flic.kr/p/VwdJ6s) by john golden (https://www.flickr.com/photos/126756312@N03/), on Flickr

[chassis]

8x10 19inch RD Artar ilford delta


https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4214/35128886532_bc7feeb24a_k.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/VwdJ6s)looking across the Toccoa (https://flic.kr/p/VwdJ6s) by john golden (https://www.flickr.com/photos/126756312@N03/), on Flickr

Really good!

[ndwgolf]

Heres one of the Tea Plantation in Cameron Highlands with the Chamonix 8x10..........I'm hoping this will make a nice contact print
Trix320 8x10
f64
2 minutes and 15 seconds exposure
Devoured in D-76
Right on sunrise
http://i1196.photobucket.com/albums/aa414/ndwgolf1/Neils-Photography044_zps261rclq6.jpg

[AlexGard]

Heres one of the Tea Plantation in Cameron Highlands with the Chamonix 8x10..........I'm hoping this will make a nice contact print
Trix320 8x10
f64
2 minutes and 15 seconds exposure
Devoured in D-76
Right on sunrise
http://i1196.photobucket.com/albums/aa414/ndwgolf1/Neils-Photography044_zps261rclq6.jpg
That is a stellar composition. Just sucks your eyes right in. Well done. Good luck with the print.

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[David Hedley]

Heres one of the Tea Plantation in Cameron Highlands with the Chamonix 8x10..........I'm hoping this will make a nice contact print
Trix320 8x10
f64
2 minutes and 15 seconds exposure
Devoured in D-76
Right on sunrise


That's excellent!

I particularly like the way that the clouds & sky at the top of the image look like brushstrokes, perhaps making an allusion to Chinese ink-painting.

[Jim Jones]

ditto both of the above.

[jon.oman]

Heres one of the Tea Plantation in Cameron Highlands with the Chamonix 8x10..........I'm hoping this will make a nice contact print
Trix320 8x10
f64
2 minutes and 15 seconds exposure
Devoured in D-76
Right on sunrise


Great image!

[chassis]

ndw, amazing image!

[mmerig]

Heres one of the Tea Plantation in Cameron Highlands with the Chamonix 8x10..........I'm hoping this will make a nice contact print
Trix320 8x10
f64
2 minutes and 15 seconds exposure
Devoured in D-76
Right on sunrise
http://i1196.photobucket.com/albums/aa414/ndwgolf1/Neils-Photography044_zps261rclq6.jpg

Thanks for taking and showing such a beautiful picture.

[Punker]

I remember when I started shooting LF film and spending all that time setting up the camera, focusing, inserting film holder, firing the shutter and then after the *click* thinking... "is that it?"
I felt like there was a part missing
Well now i've got that bit filled in and nothing makes me want to punch holes in walls and people and keeps me more perpetually literally dirt poor than this process.
Also i hope you like cleaning because that seems to be about 95% of it. ☺

Sent from my SM-G930F using Tapatalk

Somehow I wanna try it even more now, hahaha.

[AlexGard]

11x14 inch clear glass ambrotype of a 130 year old mulberry tree

https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4250/35321567755_376e82cab9_b.jpg

[Weihan]

Absolutely STUNNING image! Perfect composition and tonality.
Heres one of the Tea Plantation in Cameron Highlands with the Chamonix 8x10..........I'm hoping this will make a nice contact print
Trix320 8x10
f64
2 minutes and 15 seconds exposure
Devoured in D-76
Right on sunrise
http://i1196.photobucket.com/albums/aa414/ndwgolf1/Neils-Photography044_zps261rclq6.jpg

[ndwgolf]

Cameron Highlands at night
Chamonix 8x10
Trix320
D76
f45
1 1/2 mins
166174

[stawastawa]

ndwgolf, the night shot gives a wild effect. amazing how still the clouds stayed, and how patchy the light becomes on the hills. almost surreal.
I prefer the day shot. love those twisted hills. but the night shot is a neat effect!

[ndwgolf]

ndwgolf, the night shot gives a wild effect. amazing how still the clouds stayed, and how patchy the light becomes on the hills. almost surreal.
I prefer the day shot. love those twisted hills. but the night shot is a neat effect!
I just wanted to try this effect. The neg has all the details but my idea was a arty thing. also it's very close to the other picture I posted so wanted to try something different

[AlexGard]

11x14 inch clear glass ambrotypes

https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4265/35177765952_53d570b9c4_b.jpg

https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4252/35305006956_210b58d31c_b.jpg

https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4250/35177735822_73a1b83f6b_b.jpg

[stawastawa]

Alex, I like the tilted shed and cattle ramp.
Great tones on the ramp too.
And the tree is dramatic in that same image too!

[mjork]

Letchworth state park in New York

https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4264/35377757586_cdbdf0cc95_z.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/VUdfMG)

I took this photo during a recent Eastman Museum dry plate workshop.
This is a scan of a 4x5 glass plate negative, hand coated with silver bromide emulsion.
The camera used was my Graflex Super Graphic with Optar 203mm lens.

[DennisD]

Mjork,
Wonderful composition and tonal range.
Good feeling of depth to the image.
Especially interesting regarding the glass plate neg.

[Jim Jones]

Mjork, I certainly agree.

[mjork]

Mjork,
Wonderful composition and tonal range.
Good feeling of depth to the image.
Especially interesting regarding the glass plate neg.

Thanks! I think the overcast, rainy day provided just the right conditions for this color-blind (blue sensitive only) emulsion.

[alanbutler57]

Mjork,
Gorgeous image!

[jon.oman]

Wonderful image, Mjork!

[chassis]

Letchworth state park in New York

https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4264/35377757586_cdbdf0cc95_z.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/VUdfMG)

I took this photo during a recent Eastman Museum dry plate workshop.
This is a scan of a 4x5 glass plate negative, hand coated with silver bromide emulsion.
The camera used was my Graflex Super Graphic with Optar 203mm lens.

Stunning tonality!

[AlexGard]

RealitySoSubtle 6x17 pinhole camera
Portra 160

https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4208/34732530793_f49e4a4189_h.jpg

[paulbarden]

A recent visit to Smith Rock State Park near Bend, Oregon.
Shot on FP4 with a #25 red filter, using my 8X10 Deardorff w/240 mm Symmar-S lens. IIRC it was about 1 second exposure at F45.5
https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4253/34683436173_78c69d33a0_k.jpg

[jon.oman]

A recent visit to Smith Rock State Park near Bend, Oregon.
Shot on FP4 with a #25 red filter, using my 8X10 Deardorff w/240 mm Symmar-S lens. IIRC it was about 1 second exposure at F45.5
https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4253/34683436173_78c69d33a0_k.jpg

Very nice image!

[Randy]

Yep, that is very nice - wish I had the funds for an 8X10 Deardorff...and a 240mm...and a sheet of FP4...and a red filter...

[Tim Meisburger]

Sunset in Lembang, Indonesia. http://i1120.photobucket.com/albums/l496/Tim_Meisburger/2017-06-21-0016_zpsaqrzfeqe.jpg (http://s1120.photobucket.com/user/Tim_Meisburger/media/2017-06-21-0016_zpsaqrzfeqe.jpg.html)

[Tim Meisburger]

A bamboo bridge in Luang Prabang, Laos. http://i1120.photobucket.com/albums/l496/Tim_Meisburger/Scan%207_zpscdgxw2xm.jpg (http://s1120.photobucket.com/user/Tim_Meisburger/media/Scan%207_zpscdgxw2xm.jpg.html)

[Chuck Pere]

This is an older 4x5 from Michigan.

[paulbarden]

https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4259/35527389932_27dace3319_k.jpg

Silver Falls, Oregon, June 28, 2017. Photographed on 8X10 Ilford HP5+, one second at f45, processed in Rodinal 1:100 for one hour, minimal agitation. I don't typically like or use "stand" development for the fact that (especially with roll film) it introduces more problems than it solves. But in this case, it was useful: this sheet could have used another stop of exposure - the shadow areas were weak (I had another sheet, which got N processing in D76 and proved thin). I didn't want to do a standard N+1 development, since that would tend to send the water highlights sailing off into unprintability, so I decided to take a chance on stand processing. In this case it worked nicely.

[chassis]

https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4259/35527389932_27dace3319_k.jpg

Silver Falls, Oregon, June 28, 2017. Photographed on 8X10 Ilford HP5+, one second at f45, processed in Rodinal 1:100 for one hour, minimal agitation. I don't typically like or use "stand" development for the fact that (especially with roll film) it introduces more problems than it solves. But in this case, it was useful: this sheet could have used another stop of exposure - the shadow areas were weak (I had another sheet, which got N processing in D76 and proved thin). I didn't want to do a standard N+1 development, since that would tend to send the water highlights sailing off into unprintability, so I decided to take a chance on stand processing. In this case it worked nicely.


Paul great image, your workflow choices worked!

[paulbarden]

Paul great image, your workflow choices worked!

Thank you very much :-)

[EH21]

Paul,
These are very nice. Thank you for sharing the image and also your parameters.

[John Olsen]

This is an older 4x5 from Michigan.

This is a good lesson for me. I would have walked right past this, but it works very nicely.

[chassis]

This is an older 4x5 from Michigan.

Chuck, real nice. I'm originally from Michigan, and can relate to the scene. Tromped through similar woods on the way to a trout stream or two...

[paulbarden]

Paul great image, your workflow choices worked!

Thank you very much :-)

[Ken Lee]

https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4259/35527389932_27dace3319_k.jpg

Bravo !

[Arkasha_from_Russia]

http://s019.radikal.ru/i613/1706/4f/76f5cd988674.jpg (http://radikal.ru)
Sochi, Russia, Anba Ikeda 4x5 , Nikkor 90@22, Polar , V50

[chassis]

http://s019.radikal.ru/i613/1706/4f/76f5cd988674.jpg (http://radikal.ru)
Sochi, Russia, Anba Ikeda 4x5 , Nikkor 90@22, Polar , V50

Well seen!

[Martin Aislabie]

http://s019.radikal.ru/i613/1706/4f/76f5cd988674.jpg (http://radikal.ru)
Sochi, Russia, Anba Ikeda 4x5 , Nikkor 90@22, Polar , V50

Fabulous

Martin

[evanbaines]

http://s019.radikal.ru/i613/1706/4f/76f5cd988674.jpg (http://radikal.ru)
Sochi, Russia, Anba Ikeda 4x5 , Nikkor 90@22, Polar , V50

Fantastic!

[evanbaines]

166983

Minnehaha Falls in GA
Wista 45VX, Rodenstock 150mm @f/16, orange filter, front tilt, ilford FP4+ in DD-X about N-1 or so. 8 Second exposure.

[Vaughn]

Nice Minnehaha! I like the way the image recedes towards the upper right but the eye does not leave the image.

[evanbaines]

Nice Minnehaha! I like the way the image recedes towards the upper right but the eye does not leave the image.

Thank you! :)

[h2oman]

Yes, Evan, very nice!

[ALVANDI Camera]

Iran, Tehran, Varamin, Panoral 45 camera, Schneider Super Angulon 47/5.6 XL, Schneider center filter IIIC, Kodak E100VS 4x5in slide film

https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4210/35690885532_aceba0a20b_b.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/WnT7Po)

[tigger_six]

http://100acrewood.org/gallery/landscapes/img4191s.jpg
Valley of Skaftá, Iceland, 2016, IR 200, Rollei Infrared in Kodak XTOL.

[chassis]

Iran, Tehran, Varamin, Panoral 45 camera, Schneider Super Angulon 47/5.6 XL, Schneider center filter IIIC, Kodak E100VS 4x5in slide film

https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4210/35690885532_aceba0a20b_b.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/WnT7Po)

Beautiful!

[chassis]

http://100acrewood.org/gallery/landscapes/img4191s.jpg
Valley of Skaftá, Iceland, 2016, IR 200, Rollei Infrared in Kodak XTOL.


Stunning! Fabelhaft!

[ALVANDI Camera]

Beautiful!

Thank you, chassis.

[paulbarden]

Valley of Skaftá, Iceland, 2016, IR 200, Rollei Infrared in Kodak XTOL.


Very beautiful, Tigger!

[JMO]

166983

Minnehaha Falls in GA
Wista 45VX, Rodenstock 150mm @f/16, orange filter, front tilt, ilford FP4+ in DD-X about N-1 or so. 8 Second exposure.

NICE IMAGE! Just curious, Evan -- why did you use an orange filter on this scene? What part of the composition were you trying to make some correction or change to? ...

[Pali K]

Was testing a severely underexposed image on the Tango for shadow performance and ended up getting a really nice scan.


https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4290/35502787650_a568d31741_h.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/W6g4Ss)
Underexposed Slide Test (https://flic.kr/p/W6g4Ss) by Pali K (https://www.flickr.com/photos/palikalsi/), on Flickr

Sinar Norma 4x5 | Fuji Velvia 100
Heidelberg Tango PMT Drumscanner

Pali

[Michael E]

Underexposed Slide Test (https://flic.kr/p/W6g4Ss) by Pali K (https://www.flickr.com/photos/palikalsi/), on Flickr



You should give the image a more meaningful title :-)

[chassis]

Was testing a severely underexposed image on the Tango for shadow performance and ended up getting a really nice scan.


https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4290/35502787650_a568d31741_h.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/W6g4Ss)
Underexposed Slide Test (https://flic.kr/p/W6g4Ss) by Pali K (https://www.flickr.com/photos/palikalsi/), on Flickr

Sinar Norma 4x5 | Fuji Velvia 100
Heidelberg Tango PMT Drumscanner

Pali

Looks great Pali. Seems to me that thinner negatives scan well.

[Pali K]

Looks great Pali. Seems to me that thinner negatives scan well.

Thank you Chassis and you are correct that thinner negatives generally scan well. In this case, this is a very dense image from Velvia 100.

Pali

[Pali K]

You should give the image a more meaningful title :-)

Haha - I know Michael! Was working too late at night and creative juice was running very low :)

Pali

[paulbarden]

https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4232/35788315891_12ef05d9bc_h.jpg

Smith Rock State Park, Terrabonne, Oregon
Photographed on Ilford HP5+ 8X10 film, with the Deardorff/Symmar-S 240mm lens, plus #25 red filter. Film processed in Rodinal 1:100 with minimal agitation, for 60 minutes.

[chassis]

https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4232/35788315891_12ef05d9bc_h.jpg

Smith Rock State Park, Terrabonne, Oregon
Photographed on Ilford HP5+ 8X10 film, with the Deardorff/Symmar-S 240mm lens, plus #25 red filter. Film processed in Rodinal 1:100 with minimal agitation, for 60 minutes.

A beautiful landscape with which to celebrate Friday! Well done.

[paulbarden]

A beautiful landscape with which to celebrate Friday! Well done.

Thank you very much :-)

[Ken Lee]

https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4232/35788315891_12ef05d9bc_h.jpg

Bravo !

[Pali K]

Bravo !

+1

WOW, just WOW!

[paulbarden]

Bravo !

+1

WOW, just WOW!

Thank you very much. Hard to take a bad photo of such a rich landscape!

[krishmandal]

Paul Barden, holy cow, that's real nice. Don't always get time to comment, but this one I had to stop and take my hat off to you.

[Vaughn]

Paul, you have a unique way of seeing the landscape. It might take me a while to appreciate it. It is a situation where I would have to live with the prints on the wall for a few months to decide if I like them or not.

[paulbarden]

Paul, you have a unique way of seeing the landscape. It might take me a while to appreciate it. It is a situation where I would have to live with the prints on the wall for a few months to decide if I like them or not.

I can appreciate that, and thanks for the honest appraisal. Sometimes I don't think my take on landscapes is unique at all, and I struggle to "find my voice" after more than a decade of not making "art" photographs. Perhaps you sense my unsettled nature?

[Vaughn]

Mostly I am fighting my own bias. With the last images you have shared, and going through some of your images on flicker, you have a consistent way of presenting your landscapes that is quite different than mine. I feel something is lacking, but I suspect that living with the prints, I would come to appreciate them. What I feel is lacking is 3-dimensionality. While compositionally I want to be led into your images, the light is too flat -- perhaps a better word would be too uniform since you have plenty of contrast.

At Smith Rocks, the river leads me forward but without any atmospheric distance, my eye falters at the foot of the mountains (I prefer the horizontal image of this scene with a little foreground to give me a visual launching point). The same happened with your image of the waterfall...beautiful image and my eye is of course, drawn to the waterfall, but I do not get the feel of the shape of the land around it. What I suspect is that my reaction would be different seeing the prints themselves...that your vision would shine through in its unique way.

[sdzsdz]

Hi Paul and Vaughan!

I read your criticism on Pauls two pictures and I have to say I have similar feelings about them; like Vaughan said. To make it very clear, I like the pictures both and they show clearly that you are a very good photographer with excellent technical skills and a good eye for the subject. But in my eye both pictures lack for one thing that is important for excellent bw pictures and that is global contrast. Both pictures have excellent and very fine tuned local/micro contrast but they don't have (enough) global contrast. Both don't have a real white or black in it wherease (In my opinion) it is this aspect that matteres most in bw. The bottom line ofBW is the interaction between local and global contrast. I don't think that this is a problem that lies in the negatives but of the Scan and its inversion in postprocessing. I hope this doesn't offend you in any way and I hope you will show us more of your work in the future.

Best regards, Sebastian

[paulbarden]

I don't disagree with the criticisms voiced here, but to some degree its also personal style. Also, I drove 3 hours to make this photograph - the vertical view into the riverbed at Smith Rock - and lighting conditions were far from what I'd hoped, but I decided it was better to go home with ANY image rather than pack up the camera having made NO image. Sure, its not what I had hoped to get, but its better than nothing. There's a reason why most landscape photographers return to the same place again and again, after all! I would also like to mention that I acquired my 8X10 Deardorff only four months ago, and I am still learning how to use it properly, and how to SEE landscapes with this camera. Its a new experience for me, and although I am not having too much trouble technically, I find I am learning how to see almost as if for the first time. Part of my problem is that I want to capture the magnificence of local (and local-ish) landscapes, and I tend to make the assumption that the view is magnificent no matter what the conditions when in fact, luck and timing play a huge role in the outcome. I need to be more like Clyde Butcher, and return to these places again and again, to seek out the best lighting and conditions, to get better results. This new experience makes me feel like a bit of a novice, I will admit.


Perhaps this has a bit more global contrast for your tastes?
https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4316/35920612076_76ceb0fd29_k.jpg

PS: this was the second of two sheets of 8X10 I exposed that afternoon, and the first I processed normally and I got a very marginal negative from it. So, I opted to employ a technique I am not often inclined to use: stand development in dilute Rodinal. In this case I let the negative sit in 1:100 Rodinal for 90 minutes with a minute of agitation at the outset, plus a couple lift-and-dunks at the 45 minute mark. Shadow and mid-tone densities were improved, but you can still tell this is at least 1/2 stop underexposed.

[chassis]

I don't disagree with the criticisms voiced here, but to some degree its also personal style. Also, I drove 3 hours to make this photograph, and lighting conditions were far from what I'd hoped, but I decided it was better to go home with ANY image rather than pack up the camera having made NO image. Sure, its not what I had hoped to get, but its better than nothing.

Perhaps this has a bit more global contrast for your tastes?
https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4316/35920612076_76ceb0fd29_k.jpg

Paul, great image, peaceful and dynamic at the same time. I subscribe to the idea of personal style and that it can be seen in one's work. Good fodder for a thread in the Lounge or On Photography fora.

[Vaughn]

I don't disagree with the criticisms voiced here, but to some degree its also personal style...


Great! That is why I hesitate to judge your work by my 'values'. You have a good eye and vision. Your have your own style and people respond well to your images. They work.

I was hoping to spend some time at Silver Falls this past spring...perhaps next winter!

One from there that did not quite work due to technical difficulties (underexposused, not good light) resulting in poor image quality -- I would like to re-take it (I have an 11x14 now!)

8x10 carbon print;

[Ken Lee]

http://www.kennethleegallery.com/images/forum/bite.jpg



...and lighting conditions were far from what I'd hoped...

It's easy to make variations. Here's one with a little more texture.

It lacks the refinement and subtle glow of the original, but perhaps it has more of the "West Coast" look which some expect from monumental scenery.

[swmcl]

@ post 12615

Paul it is interesting in your photograph to see a part of a tree on the left swaying quite generously with a very localised zephyr. It is sooo difficult to be somewhere and have the movement of air across the whole photograph be still just for that small window of time!

Well done. I'm sure the other trees were about to follow and sway wildly.

[Arkasha_from_Russia]

http://i013.radikal.ru/1707/44/fc5a3120b3a4.jpg (http://radikal.ru)
Sochi 2017
Nagaoka 4x5/nikkor90/polar/V50
@shlein_filmphotography

[Pere Casals]

Perhaps this has a bit more global contrast for your tastes?

I like your last version, it is a very nice image.

I'd add even more contrast...

[David Lobato]

I really like where the the shadows and highlights are originally. But taking it into the Adobe Camera Raw filter and using the clarity slider nicely (for my eyes) increases mid tone contrast.

[Punker]

Osaka VW45FC, Osaka 120mm f/6.3 + IR720 + CPL, Macophot IR820c
Metered at ISO 0.8. Rodinal 1+50, 12 mins.

https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4308/35985280425_7e571863a7_c.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/WPTYap)
Infrared at Sundown (https://flic.kr/p/WPTYap)
by Blurmageddon (https://www.flickr.com/photos/analoguefilm/), on Flickr

[chassis]

Osaka VW45FC, Osaka 120mm f/6.3 + IR720 + CPL, Macophot IR820c
Metered at ISO 0.8. Rodinal 1+50, 12 mins.

https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4308/35985280425_7e571863a7_c.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/WPTYap)
Infrared at Sundown (https://flic.kr/p/WPTYap)
by Blurmageddon (https://www.flickr.com/photos/analoguefilm/), on Flickr


Like it.

[evanbaines]

NICE IMAGE! Just curious, Evan -- why did you use an orange filter on this scene? What part of the composition were you trying to make some correction or change to? ...

Honestly, no real correction, I just wanted to drop the exposure a smidge longer (without stopping down too much further and compromising resolution to diffraction) and didn't have an appropriate ND handy, and the orange was fairly neutral for the scene.

[evanbaines]

https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4232/35788315891_12ef05d9bc_h.jpg

Smith Rock State Park, Terrabonne, Oregon
Photographed on Ilford HP5+ 8X10 film, with the Deardorff/Symmar-S 240mm lens, plus #25 red filter. Film processed in Rodinal 1:100 with minimal agitation, for 60 minutes.

Lovely work!

[Punker]

Like it.

Thanks, chassis!

[prestonedavis]

Barn on Stage Road in Pescadero, California
Sinar Norma 4x5 with Super Angulon 90mm plus Lee 23A red filter and soft ND grad. Ilford FP4+ in Pyrocat HD 1:1:100 for 20 minutes.

https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4297/36018555676_d65622be5b_c.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/WSQvJC)
Barn on Stage Road (https://flic.kr/p/WSQvJC) by preston davis (https://www.flickr.com/photos/level76/), on Flickr

[JMO]

Honestly, no real correction, I just wanted to drop the exposure a smidge longer (without stopping down too much further and compromising resolution to diffraction) and didn't have an appropriate ND handy, and the orange was fairly neutral for the scene.

Thank you, that helps me understand; and keep that in mind if ever I have the same need in the field. Regards...

[chassis]

Barn on Stage Road in Pescadero, California
Sinar Norma 4x5 with Super Angulon 90mm plus Lee 23A red filter and soft ND grad. Ilford FP4+ in Pyrocat HD 1:1:100 for 20 minutes.

https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4297/36018555676_d65622be5b_c.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/WSQvJC)
Barn on Stage Road (https://flic.kr/p/WSQvJC) by preston davis (https://www.flickr.com/photos/level76/), on Flickr

Preston, this is great. The depth of focus is really good. Also the management of tones in a micro- and global way are great.

[prestonedavis]

Preston, this is great. The depth of focus is really good. Also the management of tones in a micro- and global way are great.

Thanks. I really appreciate it. I'm only about a month into LF so I'm still trying to find my way into a comfortable routine. Enjoying the journey so far.

[kmallick]

Long time lurker, but hesitant to post.

This is a local park near my home,
Toyo VX125 + Rodenstock 180mm + Arista EDU Ultra 400 +HC-110

http://kaushix.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/golden_ponds.jpg

[chassis]

Long time lurker, but hesitant to post.

This is a local park near my home,
Toyo VX125 + Rodenstock 180mm + Arista EDU Ultra 400 +HC-110

http://kaushix.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/golden_ponds.jpg


kmallick, excellent! Hesitate no further!

[jon.oman]

I agree! Very nice image.

[kmallick]

^ Thank you all ^. This thread is a big inspiration. Hopefully I can get to the level of some of you guys with practice.

I managed to "download" this one in less than 24 hours from the hike upto Lake Isabelle glacier, Colorado yesterday morning. This time with Fuji NPS 160.

http://kaushix.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/lake_isabelle.jpg

[chassis]

^ Thank you all ^. This thread is a big inspiration. Hopefully I can get to the level of some of you guys with practice.

I managed to "download" this one in less than 24 hours from the hike upto Lake Isabelle glacier, Colorado yesterday morning. This time with Fuji NPS 160.

http://kaushix.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/lake_isabelle.jpg

Another good one!

[kmallick]

Red Rocks, Colorado.
Toyo VX125 + Rodenstock 180mm + Fuji Pro 160S

http://kaushix.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/red_rocks-3.jpg

[chassis]

Red Rocks, Colorado.
Toyo VX125 + Rodenstock 180mm + Fuji Pro 160S

http://kaushix.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/red_rocks-3.jpg



Great color palette and angle of the cliff.

[Pali K]

Great color palette and angle of the cliff.+1. Beautiful photo.

[Jerry Bodine]

It's certainly a different "slant" on landscape photography. :)

[kmallick]

It's certainly a different "slant" on landscape photography. :)

Thanks! You may have meant a different "tilt"? :cool:

[Graham Patterson]

Probably 'dip' since the subject is geological!

[kmallick]

Eldorado State park, Colorado
Nikon 90mm f/8 + Arista EDU Ultra 100

http://kaushix.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/eldorado-1.jpg

[orgraph]

https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4404/35519270173_62725ddb69_o.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/W7HxxT)Кападокия 2017 sm (https://flic.kr/p/W7HxxT) by Yuriy Sanin (https://www.flickr.com/photos/52922077@N08/), on Flickr
Turkey, Cappadocia. Nagaoka 4x5, Fujinon 150/6,3. Foma 100 in DDX

[chassis]

Eldorado State park, Colorado
Nikon 90mm f/8 + Arista EDU Ultra 100

http://kaushix.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/eldorado-1.jpg



Looks great!

[Arkasha_from_Russia]

^ Thank you all ^. This thread is a big inspiration. Hopefully I can get to the level of some of you guys with practice.

I managed to "download" this one in less than 24 hours from the hike upto Lake Isabelle glacier, Colorado yesterday morning. This time with Fuji NPS 160.

http://kaushix.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/lake_isabelle.jpg

sorry, but this one looks like a Iphone snap=) daylight, composition...

[paulbarden]

Dark Trees #3, on the Marys River. Camera: Deardorff with my Kodak Ektar 12" f6.3 lens, at f32, one second exposure. Photographed on 8X10 inch Bergger Pancro400 film, processed in Rodinal 1:25 for the suggested time. I'm enjoying this film a lot.

https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4408/35546981613_97cab45c00_h.jpg

[paulbarden]

*duplicate post - deleted*

[chassis]

Dark Trees #3, on the Marys River. Camera: Deardorff with my Kodak Ektar 12" f6.3 lens, at f32, one second exposure. Photographed on 8X10 inch Bergger Pancro400 film, processed in Rodinal 1:25 for the suggested time. I'm enjoying this film a lot.

https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4408/35546981613_97cab45c00_h.jpg

Interesting subject and great lighting.

[paulbarden]

Interesting subject and great lighting.

Thank you very much!

[Toyo]

Dark Trees #3, on the Marys River. Camera: Deardorff with my Kodak Ektar 12" f6.3 lens, at f32, one second exposure. Photographed on 8X10 inch Bergger Pancro400 film, processed in Rodinal 1:25 for the suggested time. I'm enjoying this film a lot.

https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4408/35546981613_97cab45c00_h.jpg

Splendid image and you have handled the light superbly.
Thank you
T

[Corran]

Sinar Handy + 65mm f/8 SA
f/32, 12 second exposure
Ilford HP5+ shot at 200 dev'd in SPUR HRX

http://www.garrisaudiovisual.com/photosharing/amicalola-8079ss.jpg

[gimenosaiz]

Interesting subject and great lighting.

Agree!!! Very nice processing! I've got one box of this film. I NEED to open it :-)

paulbarden: do you have a flickr account (or similar)? I'd love to see a bigger version !!

Thanks!!!
Cheers
Antonio

[gimenosaiz]

Agree!!! Very nice processing! I've got one box of this film. I NEED to open it :-)

paulbarden: do you have a flickr account (or similar)? I'd love to see a bigger version !!

Thanks!!!
Cheers
Antonio
Hi!

I've foud it ;-)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/paulbarden/35546981613/sizes/k/

Cheers

[OMU]

Beautiful :-)

[OMU]

It's great!

[Corran]

Speed Graphic, Schneider 12.5cm f/2 Xenon stopped to f/2.4, 1s exposure, Portra 400:

http://www.garrisaudiovisual.com/photosharing/amicalola-8100ss.jpg

[Ken Lee]

Speed Graphic, Schneider 12.5cm f/2 Xenon stopped to f/2.4, 1s exposure, Portra 400:

http://www.garrisaudiovisual.com/photosharing/amicalola-8100ss.jpg

This has a great sense of presence.

[Corran]

Thanks Ken. That is an interesting description, I will have to think more about "presence."

[Randy]

This has a great sense of presence.Yes - it immediately gave me the feeling that I was under a dark-cloth looking at an upright image on the ground-glass...weird in a good way.

[chassis]

Speed Graphic, Schneider 12.5cm f/2 Xenon stopped to f/2.4, 1s exposure, Portra 400:

http://www.garrisaudiovisual.com/photosharing/amicalola-8100ss.jpg

Yes, Bryan this is good. The wide range of values is very good with a nice Portra rendering.

[Pali K]

Lovely mystical smoothness Bryan!

Pali

[Corran]

Thanks guys! Randy, I think it's the intense vignetting that is similar to looking at the GG.

I'm contact printing some of the photos I took yesterday so I might try that image but in black and white (http://www.garrisaudiovisual.com/photosharing/amicalola-8093ss.jpg) (linked to not clog the thread with almost identical photos :)).

[kmallick]

Eldorado Canyon State Park, Boulder, Colorado

Toyo VX125 + Nikkor 90mm f/4.5 + Provia 100

http://kaushix.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/eldorado-3.jpg

[paulbarden]

https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4438/36352210481_78e8035e7b_h.jpg

From early yesterday morning, on the Marys River: shot on 8X10 Bergger Pancro 400, Deardorff equipped with Kodak Ektar 12" lens. 1:45 @ f45, processed in Rodinal 1:50 for 18 minutes (slight N- processing)

[chassis]

https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4438/36352210481_78e8035e7b_h.jpg

From early yesterday morning, on the Marys River: shot on 8X10 Bergger Pancro 400, Deardorff equipped with Kodak Ektar 12" lens. 1:45 @ f45, processed in Rodinal 1:50 for 18 minutes (slight N- processing)

Another nice one paulbarden!

[paulbarden]

Another nice one paulbarden!

Thank you!

[DaveF]

One from recent holidays in Scotland.


https://dwfnaturephoto.files.wordpress.com/2017/08/arranfromdunagoilwithlichens900.jpg

Arran with Lichens

Dunagoil Bay, Isle of Bute, Scotland
3rd August 2017, about 5:45pm

Linhof Technikardan S45
Schneider Apo-Symmar MC 150mm f/5.6
Fujichrome Velvia 50
1/2" f/32
8º front tilt, 12mm front fall, 1mm front shift right
Lee 0.9 Hard GND

[chassis]

One from recent holidays in Scotland.


https://dwfnaturephoto.files.wordpress.com/2017/08/arranfromdunagoilwithlichens900.jpg

Arran with Lichens

Dunagoil Bay, Isle of Bute, Scotland
3rd August 2017, about 5:45pm

Linhof Technikardan S45
Schneider Apo-Symmar MC 150mm f/5.6
Fujichrome Velvia 50
1/2" f/32
8º front tilt, 12mm front fall, 1mm front shift right
Lee 0.9 Hard GND

Dave, very nice. The foreground rock and lichens are interesting and well exposed. Did you use foreground fill, or did the GND filter accomplish the effect?

[martinf5]

one of the first ones

Chamonix 45N2, 75mm Schneider

Fomapan 100 in Rodinal 1+50, 7.45min dev.

168239

mobile phone snap from Baryt print

[DaveF]

Thanks! Done with the grad, but I may also have used a polarizer for the water (so the exposure time may not be correct here).

[Meekyman]

Sunset at Inverkirkaig. A bit further up the west coast of Scotland from "Dave F"'s image!

168334

Driving along the "wee mad road of Ross" we came to the beach at Inverkirkaig just as the sun was setting. Couldn't pass up an opportunity like this!

Chamonix 045N-2, 210mm caltar f6.8 lens at f16 and 2/3, 1/2s, Fuji Provia 100F, 1.5 hard ND grad filter, Epson V700 scan and lightroom processing.

[chassis]

Sunset at Inverkirkaig. A bit further up the west coast of Scotland from "Dave F"'s image!

168334

Driving along the "wee mad road of Ross" we came to the beach at Inverkirkaig just as the sun was setting. Couldn't pass up an opportunity like this!

Chamonix 045N-2, 210mm caltar f6.8 lens at f16 and 2/3, 1/2s, Fuji Provia 100F, 1.5 hard ND grad filter, Epson V700 scan and lightroom processing.

Great!

[David Lobato]

Horseshoe Lake from high up Hermit Pass Road, Sangre de Cristo Mountains, Colorado on 25 July, 2017.
Agfapan 100, Toyo 45A, 135mm Nikkor.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/55432652/Sangre%20de%20Cristo%20Mtns%20002%20881LFF.jpg

[David Lobato]

Upper Huerfano Valley below the North Face of Blanca Peak. Sangre de Cristo Mountains, Colorado, on 1 August, 2017.
Agfapan 100, Yellow Filter, Toyo 45A, 135mm Nikkor.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/55432652/Sangre%20de%20Cristo%20Mtns%20001%20881LFF.jpg

[chassis]

Both great, David, particularly the Upper Huerfano Valley image.

[Weihan]

Stunning image, Meekyman!

[emh]

Calumet Wood Field. Ilford MGIV, oils and pencils

168485

[h2oman]

Nice, EMH. I like the composition and framing of this image.

[David Lobato]

Calumet Wood Field. Ilford MGIV, oils and pencils

168485

Nice. Plus I like the effect with the oils and pencils.

[David Lobato]

Another from the Upper Huerfano Valley below the North Face of Blanca Peak. Sangre de Cristo Mountains, Colorado, on 1 August, 2017. In-date film, better negative processing and scanning compared to the other recent posts. Ilford HP5+, Yellow Filter, Toyo 45A, 135mm Nikkor.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/55432652/Upper%20Huerfano%20HP5%20004%20575LFF.jpg

[emh]

Calumet Wood Field, oils/pencils on MGIV matte:

168527

[Arkasha_from_Russia]

Another from the Upper Huerfano Valley below the North Face of Blanca Peak. Sangre de Cristo Mountains, Colorado, on 1 August, 2017. In-date film, better negative processing and scanning compared to the other recent posts. Ilford HP5+, Yellow Filter, Toyo 45A, 135mm Nikkor.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/55432652/Upper%20Huerfano%20HP5%20004%20575LFF.jpg
i like it! nice!

[Arkasha_from_Russia]

http://s008.radikal.ru/i304/1708/28/746630db3f73.jpg (http://radikal.ru)

A small story from Google translator =)
Sunset on Lake Ritsa, Abkhazia, May 2017.
Usually tourists take pictures of the lake from the viewing platform, it is on the left behind the turn (here it is not visible), the most experienced pass to Stalin's dacha on the right, it is not visible either. But there is a cool lookout point from the mountain, on foot to it somewhere an hour and a half. True, I had to hang with one hand on the roots over a 500 m cliff, and another cut a tree that interferes with the sight, with a knife. Yes, I'm sorry Greenpeace =)
This point is most likely dawn, the sunset passes exactly ahead of the mountains.
Well, for those who understand exif
Nagaoka 4x5/Nikkor150@11/Acros100@80/finol1+1+100/GND 0,9

[callmebrick]

the Upper Huerfano Valley below the North Face of Blanca Peak.

Good use of leading lines. The valley pulls your gaze right to the peak.

[Leigh]

Sunset on Lake Ritsa, Abkhazia, May 2017.
Excellent shot, Arkasha.

- Leigh

[chassis]

http://s008.radikal.ru/i304/1708/28/746630db3f73.jpg (http://radikal.ru)

A small story from Google translator =)
Sunset on Lake Ritsa, Abkhazia, May 2017.
Usually tourists take pictures of the lake from the viewing platform, it is on the left behind the turn (here it is not visible), the most experienced pass to Stalin's dacha on the right, it is not visible either. But there is a cool lookout point from the mountain, on foot to it somewhere an hour and a half. True, I had to hang with one hand on the roots over a 500 m cliff, and another cut a tree that interferes with the sight, with a knife. Yes, I'm sorry Greenpeace =)
This point is most likely dawn, the sunset passes exactly ahead of the mountains.
Well, for those who understand exif
Nagaoka 4x5/Nikkor150@11/Acros100@80/finol1+1+100/GND 0,9

Great!

[David Lobato]

Arkasha, Excellent. I like the repeating S-curves.

[DennisD]

Another from the Upper Huerfano Valley below the North Face of Blanca Peak. Sangre de Cristo Mountains, Colorado, on 1 August, 2017. In-date film, better negative processing and scanning compared to the other recent posts. Ilford HP5+, Yellow Filter, Toyo 45A, 135mm Nikkor.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/55432652/Upper%20Huerfano%20HP5%20004%20575LFF.jpg

Wonderful composition.

[Peter Collins]

Arkasha, translation is clear enough!!

[Arkasha_from_Russia]

Big thanks guys!!!

[paulbarden]

https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4384/35816762254_abbb76813b_b.jpg

Yesterday I had an opportunity to shoot in one of my favorite spots on the river under cloudy conditions, and I used 8X10 inch Bergger Pancro400, with the Deardorff (and Schneider Symmar-S 240mm lens). This negative was processed in Rodinal 1:25 for 7 minutes (slight pull). I felt like I was having "a Clyde Butcher moment", standing chest deep (wearing waders) in the river with my Deardoff!

You can view a larger version here (https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4384/35816762254_5f089a7549_k.jpg)if you wish.

[George E. Sheils]

Superb work (as usual), Paul!

[algarzai]

https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4404/35925014653_cb3e7f0a64_o.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/WJz6fn)Yosemite (https://flic.kr/p/WJz6fn) by Abdullah AlGarzai (https://www.flickr.com/photos/algarzai/), on Flickr

shot on tmax100 on a chamonix 4x5. forgot the lens but i think it was my fujinon 210

[Jim Jones]

Beautiful1

[chassis]

https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4404/35925014653_cb3e7f0a64_o.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/WJz6fn)Yosemite (https://flic.kr/p/WJz6fn) by Abdullah AlGarzai (https://www.flickr.com/photos/algarzai/), on Flickr

shot on tmax100 on a chamonix 4x5. forgot the lens but i think it was my fujinon 210

Great!

[Roberto Rico]

I have absolutely enjoyed following this thread over the last year. I'm happy to report, I'm the proud new owner of an emaculate Graphic View II. It will be a couple more months before I can put it through its paces. Still working on the B&W darkroom... its almost done. The last time I shot 4x5 was 32 years ago so it's been a while.

[Peter Collins]

Welcome! Unfortunately I cannot offer any knowledge/experience addressing your question, but again, welcome!!

[algarzai]

I have absolutely enjoyed following this thread over the last year. I'm happy to report, I'm the proud new owner of an emaculate Graphic View II. It will be a couple more months before I can put it through its paces. Still working on the B&W darkroom... its almost done. The last time I shot 4x5 was 32 years ago so it's been a while.

welcome back to the LF crowd! :)
all the best.

[algarzai]

Beautiful1


Great!


thanks guys

[mdm]

https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-rMt5gwt0jUU/WZ5K1mqHxiI/AAAAAAAACrk/0RLtvwGbOF4PJ15ulWv8wY7DueTg-a8YwCLcBGAs/s1600/2017-08-23-0001%2Bcopy.jpg
4x5 Shanghai in replenished D23.

[Barry Kirsten]

great to see your work again, David.

[mdm]

Been quiet on the LF front, but it is my love and only the beginning.

[Arkasha_from_Russia]

yeeesss!!!

[chassis]

https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-rMt5gwt0jUU/WZ5K1mqHxiI/AAAAAAAACrk/0RLtvwGbOF4PJ15ulWv8wY7DueTg-a8YwCLcBGAs/s1600/2017-08-23-0001%2Bcopy.jpg
4x5 Shanghai in replenished D23.

Very nice.

[Ulophot]

mdm, what a fine, quietly striking image! It is rare, in my view, to see so successful a composition with a blank sky; you have created a harmony of visual elements that works perfectly both in form and content. The tonality is very sensitive and truly lovely. What a pleasure!

[paulbarden]

4x5 Shanghai in replenished D23.

Outstanding image!

[ericantonio]

https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-rMt5gwt0jUU/WZ5K1mqHxiI/AAAAAAAACrk/0RLtvwGbOF4PJ15ulWv8wY7DueTg-a8YwCLcBGAs/s1600/2017-08-23-0001%2Bcopy.jpg
4x5 Shanghai in replenished D23.

Is this Carol cove or something like that? My daughter is in NZ and said she's gonna visit a place called that.

Such a nice pic!!

[stawastawa]

ah the beauty of milford sound and mitre peak.
I love the tones and the elements. I'm not such a fan of the format / framing in the format. I imagine the same photo as more of a panorama left and right though would please me ! especially more to the left, to bring in more of the fiord and then rest against the far slope.

[mdm]

Actually a squarer format works best for me in this place because it allows you to actually compose a picture, vs reproduce a million postcard views. I want a picture to locate me, I want to see spatial relationship, not the same stuff the chooks snap away at.

[stawastawa]

If it works it works!
For me something in the image makes me feel confined, and I would like to feel spacious and free to fly up those slopes to the peaks and out over the water.
Maybe the rocks at bottom left are holding me down, yet I like those rocks so I don't know.

[ericantonio]

Oh that's it Milford sound! I don't know why I'm thinking it was called CArol Cove. Too much LF browsing during work hours :)

[Holdenrichards]

4x5 Shanghai in replenished D23.

'Tis a beauty

[Mrportr8]

168970
Overlapping Rocks
Hocking Hills, OH
Korona 4x5
Schneider 135mm
HP5+

[AlexGard]

11x14 clear glass ambrotype
36 seconds @ f45, 240mm G-Claron

https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4346/36934508605_58d9a02095_b.jpg

[chassis]

11x14 clear glass ambrotype
36 seconds @ f45, 240mm G-Claron

https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4346/36934508605_58d9a02095_b.jpg

This is great.

[Holdenrichards]

11x14 clear glass ambrotype
36 seconds @ f45, 240mm G-Claron


Nice comp and overall effect of the colloidion

[Peter Collins]

I like those "Overlapping Rocks."

[ericantonio]

11x14 clear glass ambrotype
36 seconds @ f45, 240mm G-Claron

https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4346/36934508605_58d9a02095_b.jpg

this is very cool!

[austin granger]

https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-rMt5gwt0jUU/WZ5K1mqHxiI/AAAAAAAACrk/0RLtvwGbOF4PJ15ulWv8wY7DueTg-a8YwCLcBGAs/s1600/2017-08-23-0001%2Bcopy.jpg
4x5 Shanghai in replenished D23.
That's a beautiful, well balanced picture.

[mdm]

Thanks. It's a strange thing, but I think the photographs choose you.

[Shailendra]

Yosemite Valley from 2 years ago
Wehman 8x10
Rodenstock 240mm
Kodak Ektar 100
https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4411/36799676206_4614b309e4_h.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/Y4RXDY)
Yosemite Valley (https://flic.kr/p/Y4RXDY) by Shailendra Dhanoa (https://www.flickr.com/photos/jattitude/), on Flickr

[Graham Patterson]

Ooooo! Right place, right time, and got it right.

[Rich14]

Great!

Rich

[chassis]

Yosemite Valley from 2 years ago
Wehman 8x10
Rodenstock 240mm
Kodak Ektar 100
https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4411/36799676206_4614b309e4_h.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/Y4RXDY)
Yosemite Valley (https://flic.kr/p/Y4RXDY) by Shailendra Dhanoa (https://www.flickr.com/photos/jattitude/), on Flickr

Yes, this is it.

[Hugo Zhang]

Shailendra,

I am usually color blind and can't enjoy the beauty of color photogaphy. But this image of yours has changed my mind a bit. Congratulations and thanks for the terrific image!

Hugo

[Dan O'Farrell]

Shailendra (Yosemite Valley),

Rarely, all the forces come together, and we get it right; this was perfect in every respect.

[axs810]

Shailendra - What's causing the haloing or back lighting on the left mountain?

[Jim Jones]

Shailendra -- halo or not, this is one of the most dramatic and beautiful photographs of this subject I've ever seen. Congratulations!

[Martin Aislabie]

Shailendra - what time of year was this ?

Returning to Yosemite is on my list of things to do when I retire and being able to see such sights as weather like this would be simply amazing.

Many thanks

Martin

[Holdenrichards]

Yosemite Valley from 2 years ago
Wehman 8x10
Rodenstock 240mm
Kodak Ektar 100
Yosemite Valley (https://flic.kr/p/Y4RXDY) by Shailendra Dhanoa (https://www.flickr.com/photos/jattitude/), on Flickr

Really stunning.

[paulbarden]

Shailendra - What's causing the haloing or back lighting on the left mountain?

I wondered this too.

[jon.oman]

Yosemite Valley from 2 years ago
Wehman 8x10
Rodenstock 240mm
Kodak Ektar 100
https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4411/36799676206_4614b309e4_h.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/Y4RXDY)
Yosemite Valley (https://flic.kr/p/Y4RXDY) by Shailendra Dhanoa (https://www.flickr.com/photos/jattitude/), on Flickr

Wow! This is just wonderful!

[12pmc]

Jon first time I have seen this vista in color , bravo it is surperb !

[Weihan]

Yosemite Valley from 2 years ago
Wehman 8x10
Rodenstock 240mm
Kodak Ektar 100
https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4411/36799676206_4614b309e4_h.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/Y4RXDY)
Yosemite Valley (https://flic.kr/p/Y4RXDY) by Shailendra Dhanoa (https://www.flickr.com/photos/jattitude/), on Flickr

WOW! Just incredible.

[AlexGard]

The light and trees looks nice, but the halo around the top of the mountain on the left hand side and the colours in the clouds look really unnatural and way overprocessed to me. Looks like it would be a great negative to work from though and the light is fantastic.

https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4407/37079977785_f8d2ccc905_c.jpg

[jp]

Good batch of photos happening here!

Rocks and trees at Birch Point Beach state park, September 2017. Preanniversary speed graphic with 7.25" Verito soft focus lens, 4x5 tmy2 tmax 400 film, pyrocat hdc.

Be forwarned, if it's not immediately apparent, this photo lacks perfect black and perfect full white. It might be fuzzy too.

https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4427/36922979232_a9092c7e78_c.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/YfKVmd)
img937 (https://flic.kr/p/YfKVmd) by Jason Philbrook (https://www.flickr.com/photos/13759696@N02/), on Flickr

Highly textured rock/trees and detailed lichen can be hard to photograph successfully with a soft focus lens. The eye's desire to understand texture fights with the softness which poorly presents fine texture. The softness depends here on the soft light yet strong shapes (masses of light and dark, the pictorialists would say) and the mid-size repetitive lichen shapes to a lesser extent. I've photographed this particular rock with a bunch of cameras, film, lenses, lighting, weather.. It's a challenge and interesting too.

[esearing]

169487

Appalachian Trail - Creek and Bridge tunnel at Byron Reece Memorial Trail (aka Mountain Crossings). I first found this location when shooting with fellow LF'er Corran. I went back there last week after a rain storm hoping to catch the steam filled with water. I used a new-to-me 90mm Optar WA which looks a little soft in the corners and vignettes a bit if not centered perfectly (Small image circle), but it works for this image (IMO). Metering was iffy due to changing light from cloudy to overcast which led to me to under expose a bit and my fstop was between f22 and f32 rather than squarely on f22, but I managed to extend development enough to keep the important details. FP4@100 f22 6sec, Pyrocat HD 32mins minimal agitation. Scan of negative with slight toning effect added in lightroom.

[esearing]

Good batch of photos happening here!

Rocks and trees at Birch Point Beach state park, September 2017. Preanniversary speed graphic with 7.25" Verito soft focus lens, 4x5 tmy2 tmax 400 film, pyrocat hdc.

Highly textured rock/trees and detailed lichen can be hard to photograph successfully with a soft focus lens. The eye's desire to understand texture fights with the softness which poorly presents fine texture. The softness depends here on the soft light yet strong shapes (masses of light and dark, the pictorialists would say) and the mid-size repetitive lichen shapes to a lesser extent. I've photographed this particular rock with a bunch of cameras, film, lenses, lighting, weather.. It's a challenge and interesting too.

I like the composition with the tree on right as an anchor, but having issues with the softness overall. Perhaps a bit more contrast would allow the eye settle. You have some interesting edge effects going on with the top of the tree and rock shapes.
Since you indicate you shoot here repeatedly, I wonder if changing focus from Left blurred to Right sharply focused would give an interesting soft gradient effect and allow the lichen to pop more on the right 2/3s of the image.

[Corran]

Very good Eric - actually just last night I matted a contact print of my image from that place. I think I was just a couple steps left and forward! :) (https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-SCWXj7A5vwU/WTi4Rm3GdRI/AAAAAAAAMGQ/HQf12I0zoioFqOI1tuyz64KlMdxS8cztQCLcB/s640/byronreece-7223s.jpg)

Well, the streams should be flowing real good next week, with Irma coming through...

I need to make it back out that way again. Still haven't gotten around to camping up on Blood Mountain like I've been wanting. Need to wait till a new moon and shoot startrails.

[esearing]

I think I was just a couple steps left and forward! :) (https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-SCWXj7A5vwU/WTi4Rm3GdRI/AAAAAAAAMGQ/HQf12I0zoioFqOI1tuyz64KlMdxS8cztQCLcB/s640/byronreece-7223s.jpg)


Where you stood was about a foot deeper than usual and rushing water. I had to perch on the rock that was behind you and the water was rushing on both sides of it. A bit left does give a better view of the tunnel.

[paulbarden]

Yosemite Valley from 2 years ago
Wehman 8x10
Rodenstock 240mm
Kodak Ektar 100
https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4411/36799676206_4614b309e4_h.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/Y4RXDY)

Hi Shailendra,
Can you please explain what has caused the bright halo outline between the sky and mountain peak at the top left? Thank you.

[Ken Lee]

Hi Shailendra,
Can you please explain what has caused the bright halo outline between the sky and mountain peak at the top left? Thank you.

I attributed it to imprecise dodging and burning, but then wondered if it was just the clouds.

[DennisD]

I, too, noticed the haloing, but did not want to be overly critical of an otherwise beautiful image. Since others questioned the phenomenon, here's my 2 cents...

Looks like the image may have been processed in Photoshop. This type of halo is very characteristic when, for example, the selection of the sky apart from the mountain top/trees is not accurately refined. This often shows up in highly detailed areas. Note how the halo floats right above and follows the tree line.

There are tools and techniques to easily remedy this issue.

If I'm wrong about post processing in PS, it's a mystery to me.
Perhaps Shailendra will comment when he logs in again.

[Shailendra]

Hi,

First of thanks to all for the comments and feedback on the image.

With regards to the halo effect on the top left, it is indeed shoddy Photoshop work on my part - I am by no means a Photoshop expert unfortunately. In my feeble attempt to adjust the image, the halo effect was created and I had completely overlooked it.

The image itself was taken in Oct/Nov two years ago and frankly I had totally overlooked in favor of some other images I took during that day. Having revisited it, I realized its potential, albeit at the expense of some poor editing work :)

[bob carnie]

I attributed it to imprecise dodging and burning, but then wondered if it was just the clouds.

Hi Radius Unsharp masking in Photoshop would create this,

Also never sharpen on the colour layers,, go to luminosity or better yet go into LAB and sharpen on the L channel.

[JeRuFo]

I don't know if this one is about the waterfall or the trees or the water, so I'll just post it here. Luckily my wife can still muster the patience to let me bring along the 4x5 every now and again while on vacation.


https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4438/36794175520_a3118e7519_o.jpg

Ssgwd Ddwli Uchaf (don't even try unless you happen to have your mouth full of rusk) in Waterfall Country, Brecon Beacons, Wales

[chassis]

I don't know if this one is about the waterfall or the trees or the water, so I'll just post it here. Luckily my wife can still muster the patience to let me bring along the 4x5 every now and again while on vacation.


https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4438/36794175520_a3118e7519_o.jpg

Ssgwd Ddwli Uchaf (don't even try unless you happen to have your mouth full of rusk) in Waterfall Country, Brecon Beacons, Wales

JeRuFo, beautiful! Lens and film?

[JeRuFo]

JeRuFo, beautiful! Lens and film?

Thank you. I believe it was a 150mm (Fujinon in my case) on Fomapan 100 in R09.

Jewan

[mdm]

https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ZmispZN8zCE/Wbh7h9JrMwI/AAAAAAAACsg/WANWw8720os6G7Qky_qAj9UHP-SDyjVOwCLcBGAs/s1600/2017-09-04-0001%2Bcopy2.jpg
A strange picture of a historic packhorse swingbridge near Milford Sound, made on 4x5 Shanghai GP3 in D23. I need to try again with Whole Plate FP4+ and Pyrocat, but I wonder if I might prefer this, the dodgy version.

[Chris7521]

I don't know if this one is about the waterfall or the trees or the water, so I'll just post it here. Luckily my wife can still muster the patience to let me bring along the 4x5 every now and again while on vacation.


https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4438/36794175520_a3118e7519_o.jpg

Ssgwd Ddwli Uchaf (don't even try unless you happen to have your mouth full of rusk) in Waterfall Country, Brecon Beacons, Wales
I really like it. Very appealing in many ways.

[jesse]

Ebony 4x5, 15cm f12.5 Kollinear, T-Max 100, D-76

https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4373/36107917044_ce0a02fdca_h.jpg

[chassis]

Ebony 4x5, 15cm f12.5 Kollinear, T-Max 100, D-76

https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4373/36107917044_ce0a02fdca_h.jpg

Well done!

[jon.oman]

I don't know if this one is about the waterfall or the trees or the water, so I'll just post it here. Luckily my wife can still muster the patience to let me bring along the 4x5 every now and again while on vacation.


https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4438/36794175520_a3118e7519_o.jpg

Ssgwd Ddwli Uchaf (don't even try unless you happen to have your mouth full of rusk) in Waterfall Country, Brecon Beacons, Wales

This is a lovely image!

[mdm]

https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-BoAPN57d3u8/Wbr_U_20uHI/AAAAAAAACs4/FHun3Vdy5qUcv1fvU9rnPut9pzQpQpZNgCLcBGAs/s1600/2017-09-14-0004%2Bcopy1.jpg
Lake Te Anau. 4x5 Shanghai GP3 in D23. 240mm Ronar.

[NedL]

...
Lake Te Anau. 4x5 Shanghai GP3 in D23. 240mm Ronar.

Lovely!

[JeRuFo]

This is a lovely image!


I really like it. Very appealing in many ways.

Thank you. It's starting to grow on me too. It does exactly what I wanted, it's a good representation of a nice afternoon spent wandering around the forest, looking at a series of waterfalls (only the long exposure made the people disappear ofcourse, it was quite busy.)

[Corran]

Found this tree near a trail I was hiking. I see fungus growing on trees often but this one also had a big batch of unknown mushrooms at the bottom (they stunk to high heaven too). Tried to arrange a nice composition here with it all as the light hit the tree from the back/side.

Chamonix 45n1, 150mm APO Symmar, T-Max 100, XTOL 1:2:

http://www.garrisaudiovisual.com/photosharing/highshoalsfalls-8433ss.jpg

[ndwgolf]

[QUOTE=jesse;1407312]Ebony 4x5, 15cm f12.5 Kollinear, T-Max 100, D-76


like that a lot

[ndwgolf]

https://drscdn.500px.org/photo/106521743/m%3D900/1eb560b06a485aa05590a6e16ed56b79

Spring is in the air so thought i'd share this spring time photo i took last year. If i recall correctly it was taken on Ilford Delta 100 4x5 using my 210mm lens. Not sure if i used a yellow or light red filter. Definitely used a grad of some description. It was early evening and the fields were just glowing.


very nice

[Mrportr8]

169998
Great Smoky Mountains
Korona 4x5
Schnieder 135mm
Tri-X HC110

[chassis]

169998
Great Smoky Mountains
Korona 4x5
Schnieder 135mm
Tri-X HC110

I like it. Haven't been to the Smokies in a while, this takes me back.

[chassis]

Found this tree near a trail I was hiking. I see fungus growing on trees often but this one also had a big batch of unknown mushrooms at the bottom (they stunk to high heaven too). Tried to arrange a nice composition here with it all as the light hit the tree from the back/side.

Chamonix 45n1, 150mm APO Symmar, T-Max 100, XTOL 1:2:

http://www.garrisaudiovisual.com/photosharing/highshoalsfalls-8433ss.jpg

Nice shapes and patterns Bryan.

[sheel]

http://www.kennethleegallery.com/images/forum/2015-12-07b.jpg
Massachusetts, December 2015
Sinar P, 450mm Fujinon C
5x7 HP5+, D-23


Incredible

[Ole Brodersen]

https://static1.squarespace.com/static/54afd4cce4b06fead26a8629/t/54dcc937e4b08ad5fbe13994/1423755577707/Cloth+and+string+%2303.jpg

Lyngør, Norway
Linhof Technika V, Rodenstock Apo-Sironar-N 150mm
Kodak Ektar, 4x5, Tetenal C-41 Kit.

My first post. I hope it fits in the thread.

[JeRuFo]

Is that the place where all the clouds are born?

[paulbarden]

I don't know if this one is about the waterfall or the trees or the water, so I'll just post it here. Luckily my wife can still muster the patience to let me bring along the 4x5 every now and again while on vacation.

Ssgwd Ddwli Uchaf (don't even try unless you happen to have your mouth full of rusk) in Waterfall Country, Brecon Beacons, Wales

Thoughtful composition, exquisite execution and rendering. A very satisfying image.

[KarlT]

You cant be serious?

Agree, the detail in the negatives blows my mind every time new ones come out of the tank

[JeRuFo]

Thoughtful composition, exquisite execution and rendering. A very satisfying image.

Thank you Paul, that's very kind.

[Meekyman]

View from "The Nab"

Looking down into the Edale Valley and across to Lose Hill in the Peak District National Park, UK. For just over a month or so in late summer, the heather blooms every so vividly! (please click for larger)

170181


Chamonix 045N-2, 135mm f5.6 rodenstock sironar N lens@f22, 4s, Fuji Velvia 50, 3 stop hard and 1 stop soft ND graduated filters. Epson V700 scan, lightroom and capture NX2 processing.