Large Format Landscapes

[CreationBear]

A couple weeks ago I was woken up by a terrible racket - a coyote, I believe, killing something and letting the whole neighborhood know, and some poor animal wailing for help.

La petite mort perhaps:o...'yotes come into estrus through mid-March in this part of the world. At any rate, glad you had the big hammer at hand--1:2.5 continues to just work for me, especially on your "shell mound" print in the other thread.

[Corran]

La petite mort perhaps:o...'yotes come into estrus through mid-March in this part of the world. At any rate, glad you had the big hammer at hand--1:2.5 continues to just work for me, especially on your "shell mound" print in the other thread.

Ah, perhaps that was it!

I continue to enjoy 8x20...other than working with this hot mess of a camera. Still hoping to upgrade to a more serviceable camera in the future.

[Pat Kearns]

Corran, great shot of the shell mounds. Was that shot down on Dauphin Island?

[Corran]

Yep that's right! That park is fairly small but has a ton of gorgeous live oaks. I've been there 3 times now and each time am blown away by all the amazing scenery in such a small area.

I need to explore Dauphin Island more. I haven't had a chance to go to the Audubon Bird Sanctuary there.

[esearing]

Seven ridges from the top of Miller Mountain, Saluda, NC.

https://www.searing.photography/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/millerMtn_web.jpg

[Merg Ross]

202845


Alabama Hills, CA

8x10, 19" Artar

[Ben Calwell]

202845


Alabama Hills, CA

8x10, 19" Artar

Beautiful!

[ericantonio]

202845


Alabama Hills, CA

8x10, 19" Artar

Lovely!
Everytime I go up to Lone Pine, there's always a bad wreck on the 365!

For the non Californias, the road to Alabama Hills is are all your favorite B&W western movies filmed! And I think a couple of Star Trek episodes.

[Ben Calwell]

Lovely!
Everytime I go up to Lone Pine, there's always a bad wreck on the 365!

For the non Californias, the road to Alabama Hills is are all your favorite B&W western movies filmed! And I think a couple of Star Trek episodes.

I would definitely like to visit there some time — post pandemic.

[Pat Kearns]

Excellent Merg.

[Vaughn]

Lovely!
Everytime I go up to Lone Pine, there's always a bad wreck on the 365!

For the non Californias, the road to Alabama Hills is are all your favorite B&W western movies filmed! And I think a couple of Star Trek episodes.

And Gunga Din, Kyber Rifles and others that I can not spell...including Drango Unchained, where these rocks magically appear in the Deep South occasionally! A beautiful place -- use to be deserted in the old days (twenty years ago), except for the occasional Jeep ad being filmed. I had the 8x10 set up on top of one rock and across the way a fellow set up an equally large (but heavier) movie camera. We waved. I don't usually watch TV, but somehow a year later I saw the ad. Cool.

Alabama Hills, 4x10 negative, 24" RD Artar, platinum print. The background is not the sky, but the eastern slope of the Sierras...might give it another go someday to see if I can't give a little more hint of that.

[mohmadkhatab]

Color version of a photo I shot last month.

Sunrise on Hunting Island at High Tide
Mercury 4x5 3D-printed camera equipped with Schneider 47mm XL, Portra 400

http://www.esearing.com/Bryan/AV/photosharing/sc-5362ss.jpg
You are a genius artist, man.
There is no argument.
I wish I could be like you.
Allow me to obtain a copy for publication in the Egyptian analog community so that beginners amateurs learn from this wonderful art.
God bless you

[Merg Ross]

Thank you all for the comments.

Nicely done, Vaughn, the format works well. Bet platinum does also.

Mine was from 1962. As you suggested, it was indeed deserted. Still a wonderful place, the air is fresh.

[Vaughn]

And cold winter nights with the full moon disappearing over the Sierras and picking a site that got the sun as early as possible!

The last night I spent there, it was flashes going off all night amongst the rocks and a drone in the morning! A photo workshop, I think...the bastards! LOL!

[Alan Curtis]

Thanks Merg and Vaughn for the excellent Alabama hills photographs. Both really capture the feel of the location.

I've been there several times and mostly came away with poorly composed and under exposed rocks.

[Corran]

You are a genius artist, man.
There is no argument.
I wish I could be like you.
Allow me to obtain a copy for publication in the Egyptian analog community so that beginners amateurs learn from this wonderful art.
God bless you

Thank you for the effusive praise.

[Vaughn]

...poorly composed and under exposed rocks. Oh, I got plenty of those, too! :cool:

This was from my camp in the evening...later that night a photo workshop must have had way too much fun at the arch.

And looking at my image, I realize this is a photographed 4x10 negative on my light table that I inverted in PhotoShop. The 'burning' around the edges is just the light sneaking around the edges from the light box. But if I ever make at Pt/pd print of it, it will look something like this.

[AndrewBurns]

A re-edit of an old large format photo now that we have so much time... Ektar 100, somewhere out behind Anawhata beach in New Zealand.

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49805024426_2864aba049_h.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/2iT6LzG)

[Ben Calwell]

A re-edit of an old large format photo now that we have so much time... Ektar 100, somewhere out behind Anawhata beach in New Zealand.

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49805024426_2864aba049_h.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/2iT6LzG)

That’s a beautiful scene.

[Mael]

Last Pack of Polaroid 55, 2008, Speed Graphic Anniversary Optar 162mm, scan of positive.

https://i.ibb.co/hYGpkHh/adieupola.jpg

[Alan9940]

Very nice! Man, I loved Type 55; used my last box about 4 months ago.

[orgraph]

Having just mentioned in a previous post that I might adjust my Lee wide-angle hood down to one slot so that my landscape polariser doesn't vignette, I've found an image that suggests to me that I should actually probably keep it as is.

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48149822636_127c93a21a_h.jpg

Brightwell Barrow, Wittenham Clumps, Oxfordshire (a location made famous by the 20th century conceptual landscape photographer Paul Nash)
15th June 2019 2:30pm

Chamonix 810V
Nikkor-SW 150 f/8
Ilford FP4+ 8x10
1/15” f/32
Lee 0.6 Hard Grad, #16 Yellow/Orange
12º down angle from level on Arca Cube head, about 1º extra front tilt, rear tilt back to vertical

N-development, BTZS tubes, Pyrocat HD 2:2:100, 10’30”, 21ºC
Acetic acid stop, TF-4 Fix, Hypoclear, 30min wash

Nice!

[orgraph]

Color version of a photo I shot last month.

Sunrise on Hunting Island at High Tide
Mercury 4x5 3D-printed camera equipped with Schneider 47mm XL, Portra 400

http://www.esearing.com/Bryan/AV/photosharing/sc-5362ss.jpg

Nice!

[AlexGard]

A re-edit of an old large format photo now that we have so much time... Ektar 100, somewhere out behind Anawhata beach in New Zealand.

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49805024426_2864aba049_h.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/2iT6LzG)


Damn that kinda looks like my neck of the woods almost. Nice !

[Corran]

Thanks orgraph

Backyard Deadfall
Intrepid 4x5 "Black," 90mm f/6.8 Optar, T-Max 100 dev'd in Rodinal 1:50:

http://www.esearing.com/Bryan/AV/photosharing/backyard-5381ss.jpg

[Dugan]

Damn that kinda looks like my neck of the woods almost. Nice !

Very painterly, plein-air...

[Ben Calwell]

Thanks orgraph

Backyard Deadfall
Intrepid 4x5 "Black," 90mm f/6.8 Optar, T-Max 100 dev'd in Rodinal 1:50:

http://www.esearing.com/Bryan/AV/photosharing/backyard-5381ss.jpg


I like that, Bryan.

[Corran]

Thanks Ben.

[Alan Klein]

My first 4x5's. Taken with Tmax 100. Which do you like? Comments appreciated.

[rfesk]

My first 4x5's. Taken with Tmax 100. Which do you like? Comments appreciated.
They look great. I especially like the one on the right. Tonality is very good.

[Peter Lewin]

Alan, technically they look fine, with nice textures and cloud detail in the sky, so your metering was accurate (as was development, but I think you sent these out for processing). In the third image, the barn is leaning very slightly to the right, I suspect that you swung the back to get the fence in focus front to back, and that caused a very slight deviation from vertical in the barn. I like the middle image best of the three since I think it has the most interesting point-of-view. The two pictures of the barn are essentially documentation shots, and I realize your objective was getting used to using your new view camera; I suspect that there were more interesting images in the textures of the wood on the building and the fence; in another thread on Fred Picker, those of us who took his workshops around 30 years ago reminisced about how he told us that after we had composed what we thought was our image, pick up the camera and move forward!

[AndrewBurns]

Some 4x5 shots on Portra 400 that I ended up cropping square, my chemistry is exhausted so they came out a little grainy and I'm not sure about the compositions but I really enjoyed getting out for the first time in weeks and taking them.

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49845434212_85edf28aaa_b.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/2iWET19)

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49845437782_8a1dde17c8_b.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/2iWEU4G)

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49847881937_98889f2aa8_h.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/2iWTqCi)

[Alan Klein]

Alan, technically they look fine, with nice textures and cloud detail in the sky, so your metering was accurate (as was development, but I think you sent these out for processing). In the third image, the barn is leaning very slightly to the right, I suspect that you swung the back to get the fence in focus front to back, and that caused a very slight deviation from vertical in the barn. I like the middle image best of the three since I think it has the most interesting point-of-view. The two pictures of the barn are essentially documentation shots, and I realize your objective was getting used to using your new view camera; I suspect that there were more interesting images in the textures of the wood on the building and the fence; in another thread on Fred Picker, those of us who took his workshops around 30 years ago reminisced about how he told us that after we had composed what we thought was our image, pick up the camera and move forward!

Thanks Pete for working me originally to get me started. Yes Picker is right. I heard it: when you think you're too close, get closer. Maybe I still think in terms of color. But it's a great suggestion.

The barn is actually tilted. If you look at the other barn shot with the light sky, you see it's tilted also, especially the left side of the barn. My notes don't indicate I swung either standard, They say I used asymmetrical back tilts for both shots. So could the fact I used the back tilt have accentuated the tilt and shape of the barn? On the second barn shot with the clear sky, I raised the front standard to put the asymmetric line on the trees. Once focused, I dropped it back down again and tilted the back standard to get the water pump in focus.

I'm playing around with using asymmetric tilts or using the old fashion way of iteration with the front standard. I'm not settled which way to go. It's all new to me so I'm trying different things to learn.

[scheinfluger_77]

Any time you make adjustments with the back standard, you will effect the shape of the image on the ground glass, and thus the film. The effect might be subtle or exaggerated, but it does occur.

[Alan Klein]

Any time you make adjustments with the back standard, you will effect the shape of the image on the ground glass, and thus the film. The effect might be subtle or exaggerated, but it does occur.

So I should NOT use asymmetric tilts when shooting anything that has a building in it since the Chamonix uses the back standard. I should use the traditional method of using the front standard for tilts and ignore asymmetric tilts?

[Peter Lewin]

So I should NOT use asymmetric tilts when shooting anything that has a building in it since the Chamonix uses the back standard. I should use the traditional method of using the front standard for tilts and ignore asymmetric tilts?
There are no rules. Your ground glass has a grid. Just use the vertical and horizontal lines to get the image the way you want it to look. I was being extremely pedantic with my comment about the slightly tilted appearance of the barn only because I know that you are experimenting with view camera movements. And if the barn was actually off-vertical, then my comment is totally useless! I can't find it right now, but Austin Granger has a photo somewhere of a barn that is exceedingly tilted by the prevailing winds, it has nothing to do with the photographer or camera! But seriously, try not to think in terms of rules or the technicalities of your swings and tilts (i.e. try to ignore your engineering background!), use the ground glass as your guide.

[alfredian]

I love old barns - both Maryland, where I now reside, and Western Upstate New York, where I grew up are full of them. One visually interesting aspect of these old-old buildings is the likelihood that at least one, of not all, of the once "vertical" members are now not-so-vertical. Some of these old gems begin to go "parallelogram" and finally turn into jumbles of weather beaten slats under one snow-load too many. Utility poles are another "vertical" that maybe isn't.- alfredian

[Mael]

Bagnac Castle, France.

Speed Graphic, FP4+, 90mm Optar

https://i.ibb.co/HgncHVY/bagnac1web.jpg

[AndrewBurns]

Two shots on Provia 100 4x5 slide film.

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49878022257_35fae79e35_b.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/2iZxUhZ)

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49877709066_57b00c19d4_b.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/2iZwic9)

[Meekyman]

Suilven Sunrise, Scottish Highlands.

Taken late October 2016 along the road to Clachtoll, near Lochinver in the Scottish Highlands. We had arrived at Clachtoll intending to head to the beach, but it was insanely windy. So, with time before sunrise fast disappearing we traced our steps back and came across a viewpoint. Hell, the photo was taken 10 metres from the car! Doesn't always have to be a hard slog to be so gloriously rewarded! Technically flawed with flare and too strong a sun (if only couldhave been 15 minutes earlier) but I like the feelings it evokes in me.

Chamonix 045N-2, Rodenstock 135mm f5.6@f16 and 2/3, 1/2s, Kodak Portra 160@ISO 100, no filters. Epson V700 scan, lightroom and colorperfect processing.

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49879842821_435b7f6740_c.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/2iZHeu2)Suilven sunrise (https://flic.kr/p/2iZHeu2) by Graham Meek (https://www.flickr.com/photos/11704207@N00/), on Flickr

[Corran]

Honeysuckle and Covered Bridge - Forsyth, GA
Intrepid 4x5, Nikkor 90mm f/8, TMX, Rodinal 1:50, N+2 development

http://www.esearing.com/Bryan/AV/photosharing/poolesmill-5385ss.jpg

Found a little county park with a covered bridge, (re)built in 1901 and repaired in in 90s. The water was very calm, giving a nice reflection, and these honeysuckles seemed like a nice foreground. Heavily pushed the development to increase the contrast as it was getting late and there was little light left. I also took a color image, so it will be interesting to see if the white and yellow of the honeysuckle come through well.

[Roberto Nania]

https://www.largeformatphotography.info/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=203635&d=1589185222

Trak around my neighborhood.

Chamonix 45N-2 with Symmar 5.6/150
Foma 400 @ei200 on HC110 1+47
Scanned with DSLR and macro lens

[Corran]

Green-Spring
Intrepid 4x5, Nikkor 90mm f/8, Portra 400

http://www.esearing.com/Bryan/AV/photosharing/amicalola-5392ss.jpg

[Vaughn]

Tis the green time of year, Bryan! A wonderful image. The yellow and/or paler green weaves nicely thru the image. I never worked with LF color (other than a 6x7 rollback on 4x5).

[Corran]

Thanks Vaughn! I struggle with using color with purpose, but this more-or-less monochromatic image jumped out at me during a nice hike my wife and I took this evening. Plus I need more negatives to hone my RA-4 printing techniques!

[Gary Beasley]

203708
A cascade next to a primitive campsite on Blood Mountain in Georgia. 8x10 neg on a Van Dyke print on 90# cotton cover.

[CreationBear]

Green-Spring


Let's see: Christmas fern (?), Virginia Creeper, Poison Ivy...that might be the only ten square feet of Georgia without kudzu.:) At any rate, well seen as they say--and the Portra seems to be handling the greens pretty well the way you've processed it.

[ericantonio]

Green-Spring
Intrepid 4x5, Nikkor 90mm f/8, Portra 400

http://www.esearing.com/Bryan/AV/photosharing/amicalola-5392ss.jpg

Sweet

[Corran]

Thanks!

Heh, the trail up on the ridge above gets just about impassable before park clean-up crews cut back the kudzu. Not sure the conditions needed, but this area gets little direct sunlight. Also, luckily I am immune to poison ivy! I rooted around a bit here to get rid of a few pieces of detritus and distractions. The fern is what sealed the deal for me - an interesting interloper to break up the other similar plants.

I am liking Portra more and more. Besides the ability to actually print C-41 negatives, I'm just kinda over the heavy-contrast and oversaturation of chromes, especially in many situations I find myself in here, as you well know.

[CreationBear]

Also, luckily I am immune to poison ivy!

Ha, as I might have mentioned before, histamine reactions increase with exposure--you'll know when you've voided your warranty.:)

[Roger Thoms]

Corran, watch you exposure to poison ivy. I used to be immune to poison oak but after one particular heavy exposure I lost my immunity.

Roger

[Corran]

Good points! I will keep that in mind. I don't plan on using it like aloe, at least :).

[Gary Beasley]

Watch getting into situations where you damage the plants, such as tearing the leaves and vines or digging the roots. That how my immunity went away, a large enough dose of urishiol will do you in.

[jtomasella]

Let's see: Christmas fern (?), Virginia Creeper, Poison Ivy...that might be the only ten square feet of Georgia without kudzu.:) At any rate, well seen as they say--and the Portra seems to be handling the greens pretty well the way you've processed it.

I'd say Virginia Creeper (5 leaves). Definitely not poison Ivy.

[CreationBear]

That how my immunity went away, a large enough dose of urishiol will do you in.

Another PSA:): if you're regularly wading through the stuff, in the name of domestic harmony, think about segregating your wash away from your wife's clothes in case she's a little more sensitive to urishiol than you are.

Don't ask me how I know this.:p

[superman9]

Brand new to LF, this is the fourth photograph I've made. Fujinon 150/5.6, Intrepid 4x5 mkIV, Ilford Hp5 at box speed developed in ID-11 and shoddily scanned and stitched together on my Epson V600. Would appreciate any criticism or advice that could help me in the future. 203788

[Vaughn]

Another PSA:): if you're regularly wading through the stuff, in the name of domestic harmony, think about segregating your wash away from your wife's clothes in case she's a little more sensitive to urishiol than you are.

Don't ask me how I know this.:p

One of the reasons I ended up doing the laundry instead of my wife...

[Scyg]

Brand new to LF, this is the fourth photograph I've made. Fujinon 150/5.6, Intrepid 4x5 mkIV, Ilford Hp5 at box speed developed in ID-11 and shoddily scanned and stitched together on my Epson V600. Would appreciate any criticism or advice that could help me in the future. 203788

Nice image. As to advice, it's hard to tell anything technical from a web-size scan. Just off hand, it seems like your contrast could use some work, as well as your development - I read the sky as showing uneven development, most likely from insufficient agitation. Of course that could be the stitching you referred to. But I really do like the composition and the overall feel of the image.

[superman9]

Thank you for the advice. I don't think the issue is with the development—my negative looks solid—i think you're correct it's an issue with the scanning but that's something I don't really know how to trouble shoot. My guess is it has to do with the negative sitting unevenly but i could be wrong. On the contrast front, what would you do differently? Do you have any resources you could point me to with info relating to my contrast issues?

[jtomasella]

Thank you for the advice. I don't think the issue is with the development—my negative looks solid—i think you're correct it's an issue with the scanning but that's something I don't really know how to trouble shoot. My guess is it has to do with the negative sitting unevenly but i could be wrong. On the contrast front, what would you do differently? Do you have any resources you could point me to with info relating to my contrast issues?
I know the woes of trying to scan 4x5 on a V600. Other than that a very nice image, anything I could criticize would be nit picking. It very easy to miss things when you are out taking pictures.

[Alan9940]

Brand new to LF, this is the fourth photograph I've made. Fujinon 150/5.6, Intrepid 4x5 mkIV, Ilford Hp5 at box speed developed in ID-11 and shoddily scanned and stitched together on my Epson V600. Would appreciate any criticism or advice that could help me in the future. 203788

Very nice start! I agree with the above that the sky appears to reveal some uneven development, but that could simply be scanning & stitching. Personally, I would like to see the foreground rocks (the ones sticking out of the lake) larger and of more dominance. Don't know if it would have even been possible--given available lenses--I would have eliminated the submerged rocks and used a little back tilt causing those foreground rocks to "loom" a bit. Placement of the focus plane would have been somewhat tricky, but I think it could work. All that said, it's one man's opinion and simply that...an opinion! I think it's a very nice image nonetheless.

[Dugan]

Superman9, I like that image. Very well seen & executed. Some may not like the deep shadows of the foreground rocks, wanting to see detail there, but I have no issue with it. Well done, an excellent first effort.

[6x6TLL]

Brand new to LF, this is the fourth photograph I've made. Fujinon 150/5.6, Intrepid 4x5 mkIV, Ilford Hp5 at box speed developed in ID-11 and shoddily scanned and stitched together on my Epson V600. Would appreciate any criticism or advice that could help me in the future. 203788

I think you're off to a great start! Not sure what's up with the sky, the rest looks pretty good. It's your eye and your composition, although personally I agree with the other poster who would crop out the foreground submerged stones and use back tilt to make the foreground rocks a bit larger.

Nitpicking aside, a great start!

[scheinfluger_77]

I think this is a fine photograph for an early attempt. I find the rocks underwater pleasing and would not remove them. If anything they should be printed a little lighter (along with the above-water rocks). I think the back tilt would add some extra drama.

[Alan Klein]

Nice shot superman. I've never stitched but I do have a V600. What settings do you use when you scan? It seems to me that both pictures should be scanned flat with no auto or manual adjustments at all, no black and white points, no levels,no ICE, no sharpening, etc. Then stitch the two pictures. Then do all the adjustments in post. Otherwise one scan is going to be slightly different than the other if done before stitching.

[Scyg]

Thank you for the advice. I don't think the issue is with the development—my negative looks solid—i think you're correct it's an issue with the scanning but that's something I don't really know how to trouble shoot. My guess is it has to do with the negative sitting unevenly but i could be wrong. On the contrast front, what would you do differently? Do you have any resources you could point me to with info relating to my contrast issues?

My comment was based on what I could see on my screen, from a stitched negative scan. The contrast seems a bit flat on my side, with the shadow sides of the rocks somewhat below the straight line of the film's characteristic curve. But again, there's nothing substantive I could tell you from what I can see over the interwebs. As I said, overall it's a fine image, especially for a first attempt.

[superman9]

Thanks Dugan I appreciate it!

[superman9]

Nice shot superman. I've never stitched but I do have a V600. What settings do you use when you scan? It seems to me that both pictures should be scanned flat with no auto or manual adjustments at all, no black and white points, no levels,no ICE, no sharpening, etc. Then stitch the two pictures. Then do all the adjustments in post. Otherwise one scan is going to be slightly different than the other if done before stitching.

I make levels adjustments and then move the negative but dont change the settings so in theory it should be the same right?

[superman9]

I know the woes of trying to scan 4x5 on a V600. Other than that a very nice image, anything I could criticize would be nit picking. It very easy to miss things when you are out taking pictures.

Hey thanks! Do you have any tips for how to mount negatives for a V600?

[giganova]

The second LF photos I ever took (last week):

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[Alan Klein]

The second LF photos I ever took (last week):

203936

Very nice.

[AlexGard]

Green-Spring
Intrepid 4x5, Nikkor 90mm f/8, Portra 400

http://www.esearing.com/Bryan/AV/photosharing/amicalola-5392ss.jpg

Really nice colours and so not what I'm used to seeing this film used for. A little bit psychedelic even with that distorted perspective.

[Meekyman]

Clip, a hill in the Rhinogs range, part of Snowdonia National Park, Wales, UK. Seen from the a path known as the Roman Steps on a wintery day in February 2020. A week before the UK went into lockdown. Damn lovely part of the world and can't wait to return.

Chamonix 045N-2, Rodenstock 135mm f5.6@f16 and 1/3, 1/2s, Kodak Ektar 100, 81A warm-up filter. Epson V700 scan, colourperfect and lightroom processing.

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49734808436_c62d403a0c_c.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/2iLTTPb)Clip (https://flic.kr/p/2iLTTPb) by Graham Meek (https://www.flickr.com/photos/11704207@N00/), on Flickr

[giganova]

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[Corran]

Thanks Alex!

giganova, I like that second one. If you don't mind me saying so, it does seem heavily underexposed though.

A sheet from yesterday - at the base of Bearden Falls. This is a lesser-known waterfall that is somewhat difficult to get to. I'll have to return in the fall/winter when there's less growth to see the top better.

Intrepid 4x5, Nikkor 90mm f/8, T-Max 100, Pyrocat:

http://www.esearing.com/Bryan/AV/photosharing/bearden-5401ss.jpg

[CreationBear]

is somewhat difficult to get to


Ha, definitely like a square crop from the top--Wehman ought to work just fine.:)

[Corran]

LOL, well the last part of the trail up to the falls you can see in the trees is about an 80-90% grade, so not sure about that one.

Since I've been trying to make larger enlargements for festivals, 4x5 is my go-to format, since I can only do 8x10 contact prints until I finally get that enlarger built. But I don't have room for it at the moment.

[rrunnertexas]

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49936468901_e4456e551d_b.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/2j5HsrK)ROC Improved Petzval Lake Tree (https://flic.kr/p/2j5HsrK) by rrunnertexas (https://www.flickr.com/photos/18736302@N03/), on Flickr

Rochester Improved model 5 x 8 camera with a Petzval lens, Arista EDU 100 - at the lake.

[giganova]

giganova, I like that second one. If you don't mind me saying so, it does seem heavily underexposed though.
The negative is fine, it's my endless frustration with Photoshop: looks perfect in Photoshop (16-bit monochrome TIF file), but when I export it, it is 2-stops too dark. Exporting to web with embedded color profile doesn't help. Heck, even when I open the TIF file (which looks perfect in Photoshop) with the Finder, it looks way too dark.

[Corran]

Use sRGB and you'll be a lot less frustrated. Unless you have a meticulous understanding of your color workflow, any other color space is a waste of your time.

[Meekyman]

Two more from the same wintery trip to Snowdonia National Park, Wales, UK, this February.

1) Rhinog Fach from Foel Wen: a day that threatened snow all day but never actually delivered the white stuff, but only lovely winter light and snowy tops.

Chamonix 045N-2, Rodenstock 135mm f5.6@f32, 1/4s, Fuji Provia 100F, 1.5 stop hard ND graduated filter. Epson V700 scan, lightroom/capture nx processing.

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49757244191_345f921c6d_c.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/2iNSTbx)Rhinog Fach from Foel Wen (https://flic.kr/p/2iNSTbx) by Graham Meek (https://www.flickr.com/photos/11704207@N00/), on Flickr

2) Sunset detail, Llandanwg Beach: Taken just as the sun set out to sea on a lovely winter's day.

Chamonix 045N-2, Nikon 300mmf9@f16 and 1/3, 2s, Fuji Velvia 50, no filters. Epson V700 scan and lightroom/capture nx2 processing.

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49738772156_efe183e917_c.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/2iMfd6b)Sunset, Llandanwg Beach (https://flic.kr/p/2iMfd6b) by Graham Meek (https://www.flickr.com/photos/11704207@N00/), on Flickr

[dpaqu]

I'm impressed how in focus those rocks are given the aperture and focal length.

[Chris7521]

Near Lincoln, MA
Chamonix 4x5
CM fujinon W 125mm f5.6
delta 100

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49947191306_c73d3dbdd7_b.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/2j6EpQN)img720 (https://flic.kr/p/2j6EpQN) by Chris (https://www.flickr.com/photos/-chris_b/), on Flickr

[Meekyman]

I used movements and if you look at the face of the rock bottom RHS away from you, not very much in focus. Likewise it's neighbouring rock and closest face. I can see it an A3 print.

[Chris7521]

Pillar Mt., Kodiak, AK
pentac 8 inch f2.9
speed graphic
delta 100

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49946697578_19e5895a84_b.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/2j6BT5f)img332 (https://flic.kr/p/2j6BT5f) by Chris (https://www.flickr.com/photos/-chris_b/), on Flickr

[Barry Kirsten]

Like both of these Chris.

[Alan Klein]

Chris Nice shots.

[Chris7521]

Like both of these Chris.


Chris Nice shots.

Thanks guys!

[Ben Calwell]

Near Lincoln, MA
Chamonix 4x5
CM fujinon W 125mm f5.6
delta 100

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49947191306_c73d3dbdd7_b.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/2j6EpQN)

img720 (https://flic.kr/p/2j6EpQN) by Chris (https://www.flickr.com/photos/-chris_b/), on Flickr



I love that.

[Chris7521]

I love that.

Thank you Ben!

[PatrickMarq]

https://www.marquetecken.be/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/888-positive-e1591046885735.jpg

Portra 160 & Drumscan.

[PatrickMarq]

https://www.marquetecken.be/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/880-positive.jpg
Ektar 100 - somewhere in the German Eifel

[orgraph]

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49973838428_f9c9f48e3a_o.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/2j91Z6W)Kiev Rus, 2020 4x5 (https://flic.kr/p/2j91Z6W) by Yuriy Sanin (https://www.flickr.com/photos/52922077@N08/), on Flickr
Ukraine, Heliar 210/4.5@22

[orgraph]

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49973838563_d5d4da2bbb_o.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/2j91Z9g)Kiev Rus 2, 2020 4x5 (https://flic.kr/p/2j91Z9g) by Yuriy Sanin (https://www.flickr.com/photos/52922077@N08/), on Flickr
Ukraione. Congo 120/6.3@22

[Tin Can]

Great stuff Yuriy!

[orgraph]

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49974617042_c935b88173_o.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/2j95Yyj)Kiev Rus 4, 2020 4x5 (https://flic.kr/p/2j95Yyj) by Yuriy Sanin (https://www.flickr.com/photos/52922077@N08/), on Flickr

Ukraine. Congo 120/6.3@22

[Barry Kirsten]

Great work, Yuriy, love them all.

[Ulophot]

Patrick, that's lovely.

[Michael Teresko]

Chamonix 45N-1
Fujinon-W 125mm f/5.6
TMax 400
pyrocat-hd
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49979098087_20fe15e7e9_h.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/2j9tWBH)200606-2 (https://flic.kr/p/2j9tWBH) by Michael Teresko (https://www.flickr.com/photos/miter/), on Flickr

[John Olsen]

Chamonix 45N-1
Fujinon-W 125mm f/5.6
TMax 400
pyrocat-hd
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49979098087_20fe15e7e9_h.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/2j9tWBH)200606-2 (https://flic.kr/p/2j9tWBH) by Michael Teresko (https://www.flickr.com/photos/miter/), on Flickr

Looks like a friendly place. What is it? Great find!

[Michael Teresko]

Looks like a friendly place. What is it? Great find!
It's an unused warehouse at the Richmond Shipyard in Richmond, CA. Here's another view
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49903828826_f39790edc6_c.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/2j2QaFQ)200515.2-2 (https://flic.kr/p/2j2QaFQ) by Michael Teresko (https://www.flickr.com/photos/miter/), on Flickr

[grat]

A very historic building-- was part of the shipyard when they were knocking out Liberty Ships by the dozen during World War II. Part of the "Rosie the Riveter" historical park, and on the National Register.

Not often you find a genuine art deco warehouse. :)

[Corran]

Found a very old box of Fuji NPS in my freezer, so I loaded up my Kinematic and brought it along last time I was out hiking to test out. Seems to be in good shape. There's something about NPS that is very identifiable to me...something about the greens, which were really glowing in this scene.

Intrepid 4x5, Nikkor 90mm f/8, Fujifilm NPS 160:

http://www.esearing.com/Bryan/AV/photosharing/bearden-5423s.jpg

[ljb0904]

Overdeveloped...but I like where I'm going with it. So I'm going to try it again

4x5, Fuji 180mm, Ilford Delta 100, red filter, 1+9 Ddx 50 minutes 1 min agitation + 3 rotations @ 25 minutes, 68 degrees. Water cooled by 2 frozen burritos a a frozen fish.
https://laurentbaig.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/bw0006-1.jpeg

[Ben Calwell]

Overdeveloped...but I like where I'm going with it. So I'm going to try it again

4x5, Fuji 180mm, Ilford Delta 100, red filter, 1+9 Ddx 50 minutes 1 min agitation + 3 rotations @ 25 minutes, 68 degrees. Water cooled by 2 frozen burritos a a frozen fish.
https://laurentbaig.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/bw0006-1.jpeg


I like it. I can feel the desert heat.

[DaveF]

Latest from me, made on Sunday afternoon and developed last night.

With the Rushes

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49990958458_73f1b704ef_h.jpg

Otmoor RSPB, Oxfordshire, England

Chamonix 810V, Rodenstock Apo-Sironar S 240mm f/5.6
Ilford FP4+ 8x10
½” f/45
15mm front fall, and lots of front tilt (possibly a bit too much in fact but in a bit of a hurry, but quite a tricky scene for focusing so I'm letting myself off)

Stearman SP810, Pyrocat HD 2:2:100, 15’36, 21ºC, N+1 development, TF-4 Fix, hypoclear, wash, Ilfotol rinse; darkened quite a bit in post.

[CreationBear]

and lots of front tilt (possibly a bit too much in fact but in a bit of a hurry, but quite a tricky scene for focusing so I'm letting myself off)

Ha, crop/mat it as Whole Plate and nobody will ever know.:) Otherwise, you're providing me a lot of lessons in terms of focal length--coming from MF, my initial gravitation was toward the normal/tele end, but for what I'd consider "true" LF subjects, "wide" seems to provide the essential perspective.

[DaveF]

Thanks lol. I cropped out about half an inch from the top because of an encroaching vignette: if I'd had more time I would have thought to use some rear tilt as well. But actually the focus is really ok I think. Yes, the uppermost last inch gets very soft, but that just emphasises what matters in the image I think.

Lens-wise, horses for courses I reckon. I started off with the holy trinity (150, 300, and 450 Nikkors); a natural thought was then a 600mm. But I actually don't do that much epic landscape work where I'd want compression, and haven't used the 450 lens as much as I thought I might. I've not so far encountered a subject where I needed one. I do though have images where something in the middle between normal and super wide is required.
The trick/issue with (modern) normal to wide-angles is of course coverage. If you want to be free to compose creatively with quite a lot of movements, then lenses get very big and very expensive very quickly!

PS as before, 5k XL size on Flickr! I like this one a lot and will probably post on my new portfolio website.


Ha, crop/mat it as Whole Plate and nobody will ever know.:) Otherwise, you're providing me a lot of lessons in terms of focal length--coming from MF, my initial gravitation was toward the normal/tele end, but for what I'd consider "true" LF subjects, "wide" seems to provide the essential perspective.

[CreationBear]

PS as before, 5k XL size on Flickr! I like this one a lot and will probably post on my new portfolio website.

That should be a sight--I'll definitely check it out.

One more question if you're still on these comms: I'm impressed with how you're sifting the tonalities of the vegetation here, even without a contrast filter of some sort. Granted, you're rolling in that other Eden, demi-paradise and not the green hell of East Tennessee:), but I was wondering if you carried, say, a #13 or 040 in your bag for some applications.

[DaveF]

Frankly no. For B&W I don't really bother with filters except when I need a polariser or have a sky to contend with, where I might well use a yellow/orange or light red and/or a grad. For the majority of my efforts I'm very definitely a hybrid worker still doing quite a lot on the scans with curves in photoshop - curves layers are such an incredible tool for black and white. I also have no intention of getting an actual darkroom. Works for me so far.

With colour slide film though - which I haven't shot on large format for quite a while, though I'm seriously considering going back to it again - I do try to use colour correction filters on-camera because I want my slides to look as glorious as I can on the light panel; and grads are of course often essential. I have three Lee CC filters (81B, 85C, and #10 Magenta) for use with Velvia 50 alongside two different circular polarisers (one warming, one not). With colour slide I do try to edit in photoshop back to what the film looks like on the light panel, though increasingly I might also desaturate. The 81B filter is particularly useful in woodland where you might think of using the Lee landscape polariser (with built in 81A) but shutter speed ends up being too long. The Balnakailly Wood image in the trad landscapes section of my website was shot on Velvia 50 with an 81B warm-up.


That should be a sight--I'll definitely check it out.

One more question if you're still on these comms: I'm impressed with how you're sifting the tonalities of the vegetation here, even without a contrast filter of some sort. Granted, you're rolling in that other Eden, demi-paradise and not the green hell of East Tennessee:), but I was wondering if you carried, say, a #13 or 040 in your bag for some applications.

[CreationBear]

The Balnakailly Wood image in the trad landscapes section of my website was shot on Velvia 50 with an 81B warm-up.


Ah, very helpful--and I'd missed the Balnakailly set somehow...not exactly the Scots gorse 'n gritstone color palette I'm familiar with!

[Andrew Plume]

I like it. I can feel the desert heat.

Me too, the heat that is

Desert photography has it's challenges but if you were me, I'd be pretty satisfied with this

regards

Andrew

[Andrew Plume]

Thanks lol. I cropped out about half an inch from the top because of an encroaching vignette: if I'd had more time I would have thought to use some rear tilt as well. But actually the focus is really ok I think. Yes, the uppermost last inch gets very soft, but that just emphasises what matters in the image I think.

Lens-wise, horses for courses I reckon. I started off with the holy trinity (150, 300, and 450 Nikkors); a natural thought was then a 600mm. But I actually don't do that much epic landscape work where I'd want compression, and haven't used the 450 lens as much as I thought I might. I've not so far encountered a subject where I needed one. I do though have images where something in the middle between normal and super wide is required.
The trick/issue with (modern) normal to wide-angles is of course coverage. If you want to be free to compose creatively with quite a lot of movements, then lenses get very big and very expensive very quickly!

PS as before, 5k XL size on Flickr! I like this one a lot and will probably post on my new portfolio website.

More very precise/accurate work from you Dave

You do like your woods and streams

best regards

Andrew

[Andrew Plume]

Found a very old box of Fuji NPS in my freezer, so I loaded up my Kinematic and brought it along last time I was out hiking to test out. Seems to be in good shape. There's something about NPS that is very identifiable to me...something about the greens, which were really glowing in this scene.

Intrepid 4x5, Nikkor 90mm f/8, Fujifilm NPS 160:

http://www.esearing.com/Bryan/AV/photosharing/bearden-5423s.jpg

Yes, the 'greens' are very good, Bryan

regards

Andrew

[Willie]

Overdeveloped...but I like where I'm going with it. So I'm going to try it again

4x5, Fuji 180mm, Ilford Delta 100, red filter, 1+9 Ddx 50 minutes 1 min agitation + 3 rotations @ 25 minutes, 68 degrees. Water cooled by 2 frozen burritos a a frozen fish.
https://laurentbaig.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/bw0006-1.jpeg

Has a nice Walker Evans feel to it. Good job. Was the Frozen Fish a Bass you caught? Or maybe store bought stuff?

[Daniel Unkefer]

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49806210371_75ac20068a_z.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/2iTcR82)Southwest Colorado 1992 (https://flic.kr/p/2iTcR82) by Nokton48 (https://www.flickr.com/photos/18134483@N04/), on Flickr

4x5 Sinar Norma 90mm F8 Sinar Super Angulon HP5+ PMK+ 8x10 Arista RC #2 Multigrade dev

On our way to "The Great Sand Dunes National Monument" we stopped here and I was struck by the beauty of this scene. It was difficult to walk around with so many "stickers" everywhere.

[Daniel Unkefer]

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49806235316_be6d9bb672_z.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/2iTcYx7)Garden of the Gods Colorado 1992 (https://flic.kr/p/2iTcYx7) by Nokton48 (https://www.flickr.com/photos/18134483@N04/), on Flickr

4x5 Sinar Norma 90mm Sinar Super Angulon HP5+ PMK+ 8x10 Arista RC #2 Multigrade dev

[xbj9]

I went to a quite "famous" (for my region at least) spot this wensday, right after a storm.
In the beginning, i just wanted to take a picture of this hut:
204599
Sinar F2, Xenar 150mm F5.6@29, Fomapan 400@200 in Rodinal

But when leaving the valley i noticed this chaos, looking like a giant just tossed the trees around.
So i went for a kind of "minature look" with lots of front&back tilt:
204598
Sinar F2, Angulon 90mm F6.8@16, Fomapan 400@200 in Rodinal

[DaveF]

Thanks again.

I do think it's worth saying that I am increasingly striving to use 10x8 to think - to make photographs not straightforwardly "of" objects in the landscape at all - so to this extent it doesn't entirely matter whether I happen to be making images in woodland or marshland or meadows or wherever. I guess accuracy is about technique, not of perception: and I'll take that as a compliment! :)



More very precise/accurate work from you Dave

You do like your woods and streams

best regards

Andrew

[gimenosaiz]

Hi!!

I purchased my Sinaron 75/6.8 102º MC on march but I've not been able to use it until last sunday ...
I love it!!

1.
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49989763412_9b2a4684da_b.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/2jaqB3C)

2.
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49988999393_726074bf93_b.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/2jamFVT)

Chamonix F1 : Nikkor-M 300/9: Yellow filter
Foma 100 : HC-110 1+63 (h)
Epson V800 : Epson Scan

Kind regards from Spain!
Antonio

[ericantonio]

Hi!!

I purchased my Sinaron 75/6.8 102º MC on march but I've not been able to use it until last sunday ...
I love it!!

1.
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49989763412_9b2a4684da_b.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/2jaqB3C)

2.
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49988999393_726074bf93_b.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/2jamFVT)

Chamonix F1 : Nikkor-M 300/9: Yellow filter
Foma 100 : HC-110 1+63 (h)
Epson V800 : Epson Scan

Kind regards from Spain!
Antonio

Both outstanding! I'd love to get my hands on a 75mm as well. I love sweeping views. My fav on a 35mm camera is a 20 or 21mm

[Merg Ross]

204615

Tule Lake, CA, 1967

8x10/TR 12"/ Plus-X

[ljb0904]

Has a nice Walker Evans feel to it. Good job. Was the Frozen Fish a Bass you caught? Or maybe store bought stuff?

Store bought, lol. I really need to get some ice packs

[ljb0904]

Hi!!

I purchased my Sinaron 75/6.8 102º MC on march but I've not been able to use it until last sunday ...
I love it!!

1.
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49989763412_9b2a4684da_b.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/2jaqB3C)

2.
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49988999393_726074bf93_b.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/2jamFVT)

Chamonix F1 : Nikkor-M 300/9: Yellow filter
Foma 100 : HC-110 1+63 (h)
Epson V800 : Epson Scan

Kind regards from Spain!
Antonio

That second one though!

[Alan Curtis]

204615

Tule Lake, CA, 1967

8x10/TR 12"/ Plus-X

Terrific photograph Merg. Must have been confusing to focus, the near and far look identical.
Jerry Uelsmann comes to mind.

[gimenosaiz]

Hi!!


Both outstanding! I'd love to get my hands on a 75mm as well. I love sweeping views. My fav on a 35mm camera is a 20 or 21mm

Thank you very much!! I also love sweeping views. My favourite on 35mm is 24mm. I also have the Nikkor-SW 65/4 but I think that 75 is "easier" to use.


That second one though!

Thank you very much!

Kind regards,
Antonio

[gimenosaiz]

Hi!

Another three photographs of that day ...

1.
Nikkor-W 150/5.6 - Yellow filter
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49989763867_6267333ed4_b.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/2jaqBbt)

2.
Nikkor-M 300/8 - Yellow filter
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49989518806_ae9c5b2c0b_b.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/2japmkh)

3.
Nikkor-M 300/8 - Yellow filter
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49988999158_edb02b9fe5_b.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/2jamFRQ)

Cheers!
Antonio

[Merg Ross]

204625
Terrific photograph Merg. Must have been confusing to focus, the near and far look identical.
Jerry Uelsmann comes to mind.

Thanks Alan. Interesting, I hadn't thought of Jerry. Actually, the difficulty was in printing, and matching the reflection to the sky.

Slight correction, the lens was a 7 1/2" TR in barrel using a Packard shutter. It was one of the very few times I used a lens this wide on 8x10.

[DaveF]

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50016094107_338f3f9bf0_h.jpg

Latest from me: as before, 5k on Flickr!

New River Ray
Otmoor, Oxfordshire
14th June 2020, 1:20pm

Chamonix 810V, Nikkor-W 300mm f/5.6
Ilford FP4+ 10x8
1” f/32⅓, few degrees front tilt
Lee landscape polariser

Stearman SP810, Pyrocat HD 2:2:100, 10’55”, 22ºC, N-development

[Alan Klein]

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50009699352_8912045df5_h.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/2jcbMiJ)
Craig House 1 (https://flic.kr/p/2jcbMiJ) by Alan Klein (https://www.flickr.com/photos/alanklein2000/), on Flickr
Chamonix 45H-1, Tmax 400, Clayton F76+ developer by North Coast Photo, Epson V850 Scanner, edited in Lightroom
Craig House, Yr. 1840, Monmouth Battlefield, NJ

[Tin Can]

Like!

[ericantonio]

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50009699352_8912045df5_h.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/2jcbMiJ)
Craig House 1 (https://flic.kr/p/2jcbMiJ) by Alan Klein (https://www.flickr.com/photos/alanklein2000/), on Flickr
Chamonix 45H-1, Tmax 400, Clayton F76+ developer by North Coast Photo, Epson V850 Scanner, edited in Lightroom
Craig House, Yr. 1840, Monmouth Battlefield, NJ

Jeebus, that's lovely. Sharp, it hurts my eyes! f/2million!

[George E. Sheils]

Very nice work with that 75mm, Antonio.
Bravo.

[Salmo22]

On relatively clear summer mornings, the first full rays of direct sunlight can be harsh in the Arizona desert. No matter, it often creates wonderful backlighting and contrast. This magnificent Saguaro resides next to a slab of concrete that at one time was an Army Air Field barracks during World War II. The old and dying Mesquite, that wraps around the lower half of this Saguaro, once served as a nurse tree providing shelter and protection during the tenuous early years of this Saguaro’s growth. As often is the case, as the Saguaro grew larger it competed for the same life-sustaining resources needed by its nurse tree. Such is the unique circle of life in the Arizona desert. The nurse tree is slowly killed by the Saguaro it has protected so well.

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50026644961_3d5de2970b_h.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/2jdFCDp) NURSE TREE CONSEQUENCES (toned) - Coolidge, Arizona (https://flic.kr/p/2jdFCDp) by Jeffery Dale Welker (https://www.flickr.com/photos/jeffwelker/), on Flickr

Camera: Arca-Swiss 4x5, Developer: Ilford Ilfotch DDX, Exposure: 1/4th @ F/32, Film: Illford FP4+ @ ISO 100, Filter: B+W Orange MRC 040M, Lens: Nikon Nikkor-SW 90mm f/8, SP-445 Compact 4x5 Film Processing System

[ericantonio]

On relatively clear summer mornings, the first full rays of direct sunlight can be harsh in the Arizona desert. No matter, it often creates wonderful backlighting and contrast. This magnificent Saguaro resides next to a slab of concrete that at one time was an Army Air Field barracks during World War II. The old and dying Mesquite, that wraps around the lower half of this Saguaro, once served as a nurse tree providing shelter and protection during the tenuous early years of this Saguaro’s growth. As often is the case, as the Saguaro grew larger it competed for the same life-sustaining resources needed by its nurse tree. Such is the unique circle of life in the Arizona desert. The nurse tree is slowly killed by the Saguaro it has protected so well.

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50026644961_3d5de2970b_h.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/2jdFCDp) NURSE TREE CONSEQUENCES (toned) - Coolidge, Arizona (https://flic.kr/p/2jdFCDp) by Jeffery Dale Welker (https://www.flickr.com/photos/jeffwelker/), on Flickr

Camera: Arca-Swiss 4x5, Developer: Ilford Ilfotch DDX, Exposure: 1/4th @ F/32, Film: Illford FP4+ @ ISO 100, Filter: B+W Orange MRC 040M, Lens: Nikon Nikkor-SW 90mm f/8, SP-445 Compact 4x5 Film Processing System

this is wonderful! That poor nurse tree...

[Alan9940]

Salmo22, the harsh light in that image truly reveals the look of our desert landscapes in full sunlight. Nice job!!

[gmed]

204967

Redwoods
Arca Swiss F Line Metric / Nikon 150mm
Ektar 100

[Ben Calwell]

204967

Redwoods
Arca Swiss F Line Metric / Nikon 150mm
Ektar 100

Very nice!

[Salmo22]

this is wonderful! That poor nurse tree...

Thank you Eric.

[Salmo22]

Salmo22, the harsh light in that image truly reveals the look of our desert landscapes in full sunlight. Nice job!!

Thank you Alan.

[ericantonio]

204967

Redwoods
Arca Swiss F Line Metric / Nikon 150mm
Ektar 100

Ohhh, memories when I used to live in Palo Alto and drove all over to Half Moon Bay and down towards Watsonville. Lovely. Reminds me of my young kids hiking around.

[olegkasko]

https://i.ibb.co/7rcbhf7/oleg4.jpg

France, Villers Cotterets, 2020
20x24” FB print.
At the intersection of the wings you can notice two capital letters, I think it’s the architect’s initials, but I couldn’t find any information about this windmill.

Some details:
https://i.ibb.co/xCNdw24/oleg6.jpg (https://ibb.co/dWRxXfh)

https://i.ibb.co/9yPTKRX/oleg7.jpg (https://ibb.co/wptWGDH)

[olegkasko]

https://i.ibb.co/z5MMJkv/full1.jpg

Somewhere around Paris. January 2020. 35x60cm Ilford FB.
In the cropped image with the horse, you can see its breath. It was morning and the air was cool. The horse noticed me, raised its head and looked at the camera.

https://i.ibb.co/hxN1Xry/D35A0149.jpg (https://ibb.co/1YNJsBL)

https://i.ibb.co/vqBPfqW/D35A0143.jpg (https://ibb.co/LRPtBRy)

[Alan Klein]

Nice shots of the windmill and horse. What does FB mean? When you provide the dimensions 20x24 cm, what does that mean? Did you scan the print or what?

[Greg Y]

Alan 35cm x 60cm is a print size approximately 14" x 24"(2nd photo). The Windmill print says 20"x24" print. FB is fiber-based silver gelatin paper, rather than RC (resin coated). I'm not sure how Oleg did it, but I take an iPhone photo of a print (don't have a scanner) & then upload to instagram or flickr.
Very nice photo Oleg.

[Vaughn]

Hi!!

I purchased my Sinaron 75/6.8 102º MC on march but I've not been able to use it until last sunday ...
I love it!!
...
Kind regards from Spain!
Antonio
Lovely images. I appreciate the nicely handled skies...the sweep of the clouds and the tonality of the skies work perfectly with the light coming off the fields of grain.

A whole bunch of excellent images since I have visited last! Allen...nicely seen image (fence & barn)...you tied everything together well.

And a French Devil Horse! (atmospheric wonder!)

[Vaughn]

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Redwoods
Arca Swiss F Line Metric / Nikon 150mm
Ektar 100

Ah...I pity those tourists that must buzz through the redwoods on a sunny summer day! Nicely done! Color can be very difficult in the redwoods -- everything is so green!

I am off soon for 5 days up Redwood Creek (Redwood Nat. Park) -- the Park finally opened up the back country for permits...I'll load up six 5x7 holders for the trip...make them count! I'll miss all the fireworks and explosions...darn!

[Drew Wiley]

For Alan : Nice work integrating all those angles, forming a very interesting "picture frame" for the house.

[Chris7521]

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50049048161_41dd15924e_c.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/2jfEskt)Sharon, Massachusetts (https://flic.kr/p/2jfEskt) by Chris (https://www.flickr.com/photos/-chris_b/), on Flickr

Moose Hill, Sharon Massachusetts
Dallmeyer Triple Achromatic (Modified) center lens removed.
Speed Graphic
Ilford Delta 100
Xtol 1:1

[olegkasko]

Nice shots of the windmill and horse. What does FB mean? When you provide the dimensions 20x24 cm, what does that mean? Did you scan the print or what?

Thanks!
both on 20x24 inch paper, but the horse I cutted to panorama view


Alan 35cm x 60cm is a print size approximately 14" x 24"(2nd photo). The Windmill print says 20"x24" print. FB is fiber-based silver gelatin paper, rather than RC (resin coated). I'm not sure how Oleg did it, but I take an iPhone photo of a print (don't have a scanner) & then upload to instagram or flickr.
Very nice photo Oleg.

Thanks!
Yes, you are absolutely correct :)
I take a photo of the print with a digital camera, 100mm 2.8 canon macro is quite sharp, and it is possible to take a photo of some details very close

[Ironage]

Well seen Chris. Was the Dallmeyer intended to be a soft focus lens?


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[Tin Can]

Like the big picture a lot!

the detail crops perhaps


https://i.ibb.co/z5MMJkv/full1.jpg

Somewhere around Paris. January 2020. 35x60cm Ilford FB.
In the cropped image with the horse, you can see its breath. It was morning and the air was cool. The horse noticed me, raised its head and looked at the camera.

https://i.ibb.co/hxN1Xry/D35A0149.jpg (https://ibb.co/1YNJsBL)

https://i.ibb.co/vqBPfqW/D35A0143.jpg (https://ibb.co/LRPtBRy)

[Chris7521]

Well seen Chris. Was the Dallmeyer intended to be a soft focus lens?


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Thank you! I think it was made as an all around lens. It’s when you remove the middle lens element it gets very soft around the edges while remaining sharp in center. I have yet to use it unmodified but I think it would be fairly sharp overall .

[lassethomas]

https://scatteredlightblog.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/sheet0126.jpg

Chamonix 45H-1, Fujinon T 400/8

[hiend61]

https://scatteredlightblog.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/sheet0126.jpg

Chamonix 45H-1, Fujinon T 400/8

Great shot!

[hiend61]

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Redwoods
Arca Swiss F Line Metric / Nikon 150mm
Ektar 100

Beautiful!

[Daniel Unkefer]

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48566525216_61a5a17a15_z.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/2gZE8V3)Dawes Oriental Garden (https://flic.kr/p/2gZE8V3) by Nokton48 (https://www.flickr.com/photos/18134483@N04/), on Flickr

4x5 Sinar Norma 90mm F8 Sinar Norma Super Angulon EFKE PL100 PMK+ Aristo 8x10 #2 RC Multigrade dev

[John Olsen]

Down in the woods again. Depth of field is the big problem; here I tried to use front swing and tilt to make the focal plane follow the trail. TriX film, 150 mm lens, scan from FB print.

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50075903341_3918073d17_k.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/2ji36rP)Neg18AHokey VI comp (https://flic.kr/p/2ji36rP) by John Olsen (https://www.flickr.com/photos/153201054@N08/), on Flickr

[AndrewBurns]

Haven't posted in a while, here are three shots from the same trip to a local beach (which is exceptionally hard to get to).

This one is velvia 50, dynamic range was a bit too much for slide film to handle.
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50042543088_8d02de5d77_b.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/2jf67B3)

This one was ektachrome 100 but shot at EV 80 which I feel works a lot better than 100. Just after the sun had gone down so it was a ~15 second exposure.
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50043355642_311fb00bd9_b.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/2jfah9A)

This one was Portra 400, was hard to get a composition that included the big rock as everything else around the scene was very busy but I think the rock pools reflecting the sky helped a lot.
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50074114028_15e9cfdfaa_b.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/2jhSVxA)

[Chris7521]

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50077139518_75d1d78fe1_c.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/2ji9qVd)img725 (https://flic.kr/p/2ji9qVd) by Chris (https://www.flickr.com/photos/-chris_b/), on Flickr

Sherborn, Massachusetts

Chamonix 045n-2
CM Fujinon W 125mm f5.6
Delta 100

[Alan Klein]

Down in the woods again. Depth of field is the big problem; here I tried to use front swing and tilt to make the focal plane follow the trail. TriX film, 150 mm lens, scan from FB print.

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50075903341_3918073d17_k.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/2ji36rP)Neg18AHokey VI comp (https://flic.kr/p/2ji36rP) by John Olsen (https://www.flickr.com/photos/153201054@N08/), on Flickr
I just started with a 4x5 and am learning tilts. I find that in shots like this it doesn;t work because the tree extends through the whole vertical leaving the tops of the trees out of focus. I have to try just working with smaller apertures and leave tilts alone for these type shots.

[Gary Beasley]

I just started with a 4x5 and am learning tilts. I find that in shots like this it doesn;t work because the tree extends through the whole vertical leaving the tops of the trees out of focus. I have to try just working with smaller apertures and leave tilts alone for these type shots.

Another option is to tilt halfway and use apertures to finish the job.

[John Olsen]

Another option is to tilt halfway and use apertures to finish the job.

That compromise is pretty much included in the shot above, but perhaps could have been done more skillfully. Actually, in the same location work the previous week I used TMZ 35 mm and got much nicer results. I'm loaded now to return to a nearby spot that has less tree presence in the near field. That should help.

[Swami]

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Though I am looking forward to moving to 8x10, I have to say I do enjoy my 4x5. Guess it will have to do until I can find the right 8x10.

Managed to find some time to get to the beach and capture this image. I’m relatively new to large format but really enjoying the process and images.

Cheers
Matt

[ljb0904]

4x5
180mm Fujinon
Ilford delta 100. DDx 1+9 40 minutes
https://laurentbaig.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/34b67a7c-0d10-4b28-afb4-33c5333c5582.jpeg

[Merg Ross]

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This goes back a long time, I was 13. The photograph was made in 1954 on a trip with Brett Weston and my dad. We were passing through Bridgeport, California, late afternoon on our way home to the Bay Area. I was using a 4x5 Brand 17 camera and 250mm Zeiss Tessar lens. The three of us set-up here that afternoon. In case it looks familiar, Brett's photograph was published soon after in the US Camera Annual.
Scan from contact print.

[CreationBear]

4x5
180mm Fujinon
Ilford delta 100. DDx 1+9 40 minutes
https://laurentbaig.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/34b67a7c-0d10-4b28-afb4-33c5333c5582.jpeg

Nicely done in what looks to have been pretty tough conditions!:) If you're not a traditionalist when it comes to 1:1.25, you might think about a 3:5 aspect ratio across the bottom of the frame--"pruning" the top of the tree might help unify the two major components of the image.

[ljb0904]

Nicely done in what looks to have been pretty tough conditions!:) If you're not a traditionalist when it comes to 1:1.25, you might think about a 3:5 aspect ratio across the bottom of the frame--"pruning" the top of the tree might help unify the two major components of the image.

Thanks! And i do like the crop suggestion.

[Andrew Plume]

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Though I am looking forward to moving to 8x10, I have to say I do enjoy my 4x5. Guess it will have to do until I can find the right 8x10.

Managed to find some time to get to the beach and capture this image. I’m relatively new to large format but really enjoying the process and images.

Cheers
Matt

Hi Matt

Yes, I really like this + that you didn't go down the oft chosen 'f64 route', so something a little different.............

Details of the location would be good

regards

Andrew

[John Olsen]

Top of Cedar Grove Trail, 150 mm lens, TriX with yellow filter, scanned from Ilford FB print.

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50109054978_3abe91ae1b_b.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/2jkY1gL)Neg8Bb flkr (https://flic.kr/p/2jkY1gL) by John Olsen (https://www.flickr.com/photos/153201054@N08/), on Flickr

[Vaughn]

4x5
180mm Fujinon
Ilford delta 100. DDx 1+9 40 minutes
[

I like the framing -- the first thing I thought of was a movie studio portrait of John Wayne in some western shoot-em-up.

[John Olsen]

And at the bottom of Cedar Hollow Trail: 150mm lens, yellow filter, overcast skies, scanned from FB print.

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50109626561_b4cd299c3e_b.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/2jm1WbD)Neg20Ac flkr (https://flic.kr/p/2jm1WbD) by John Olsen (https://www.flickr.com/photos/153201054@N08/), on Flickr

[orgraph]

A view of Bearhat Mountain and Hidden Lake in Glacier National Park.

This photo was originally taken on 4x5 large format Velvia 50. I’m rediscovering it almost 5 years later. The scene was quite contrasty, with the snow on the mountain, and, unfortunately, the film was generally underexposed. I was able to rescue the image by bringing up the shadows and converting to monochrome. It is still quite dark, however; I think it works to set a moody, dramatic, scene.

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49478053347_e7f36764cf_b.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/2iocXti)
Bearhat Mountain and Hidden Lake (https://flic.kr/p/2iocXti) by Michael Schomer (https://www.flickr.com/photos/mjschomer/), on Flickr

Nice

[Merg Ross]

205898

Sunset by the Bay, San Francisco, CA 1994

FP4+, Metol/Acetone, Print scan

[Gary Beasley]

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Sunset by the Bay, San Francisco, CA 1994

FP4+, Metol/Acetone, Print scan
First Ive heard of acetone in a developer, did autocorrect strike again or is that really a thing?

[Merg Ross]

First Ive heard of acetone in a developer, did autocorrect strike again or is that really a thing?

No. Water/Acetone/Sodium Sulphite/Metol. The acetone combines with the sodium sulphite to form sodium hydroxide, which acts as the accelerator. Simple, clean, and proven to produce beautiful negatives!

[Drew Wiley]

Ordinary sodium carbonate would seem to be an easier accelerant to fine-tune that sodium hydroxide, which is used in crystal form for very high contrast A&B lith developers, no acetone involved. But there's no arguing with Merg's results, which as usual are a delight to see.

[Alan Curtis]

Merg
Thanks for going back into your archives with the last few days posts. As Drew just said they are a delight to see.

[Gary Beasley]

No. Water/Acetone/Sodium Sulphite/Metol. The acetone combines with the sodium sulphite to form sodium hydroxide, which acts as the accelerator. Simple, clean, and proven to produce beautiful negatives!

That is quite interesting. Is the formula posted anywhere we can see it?

[Merg Ross]

That is quite interesting. Is the formula posted anywhere we can see it?

This may work.

https://www.photrio.com/forum/threads/acetone-developer.119157/page-2#post-1578910

Scroll down to pages #32 & #35.

There is an interesting history here. The original Metol/Acetone formula that many use as g. Paul Bishop's formula, was refined in collaboration with my father. Paul was a very fine portrait photographer working out of Berkeley. The initial experiments were for 120 film. Another person involved in the development was John Below, also of Berkeley, who was a professional chemist. John made Amidol for Brett Weston on a barter basis. He ultimately had an excellent collection of Brett's prints! John devised the Phenidone print formula that I presently use and was a good friend for many years.

[Merg Ross]

Merg
Thanks for going back into your archives with the last few days posts. As Drew just said they are a delight to see.

Thank you, Alan and Drew.

I should add, years of experimentation went into the final formulation of the referenced g. Paul Bishop developer. A talented group was involved, using the known chemical options. It was concluded, with the introduction of acetone, the developer had unique qualities. I was involved in some of those experiments, once developing a 120 roll that resulted without a trace of an image! But, they finally got it right.

[Michael Roberts]

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48566525216_61a5a17a15_z.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/2gZE8V3)Dawes Oriental Garden (https://flic.kr/p/2gZE8V3) by Nokton48 (https://www.flickr.com/photos/18134483@N04/), on Flickr

4x5 Sinar Norma 90mm F8 Sinar Norma Super Angulon EFKE PL100 PMK+ Aristo 8x10 #2 RC Multigrade dev

Love this one, Daniel! Near, far, texture, overall composition--well done!

[Daniel Unkefer]

Love this one, Daniel! Near, far, texture, overall composition--well done!

Thanks Michael! Your comments are much appreciated :)

[lassethomas]

https://scatteredlightblog.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/sheet0156.jpg

Åkerholm in southern Sweden
Chamonix 45H-1, Super Angulon 75/5.6, Fomapan 400 9x12

[MattKHardy]

Trevose Head Lighthouse, Cornwall UK.

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50158605352_8e7e661093_b.jpg

Schneider 58mm XL
Ilford HP5+
Developed in XTOL

Trevose Head Lighthouse (http://mkhardy.com/2020/07/27/trevose-head-lighthouse/)

[Ben Calwell]

Trevose Head Lighthouse, Cornwall UK.

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50158605352_8e7e661093_b.jpg




Lovely image!

[Dugan]

MattKHardy, I really like the luminous qualities of that image...Bravo!

[Willie]

You cant be serious?

It all you are looking at are online images - it is easy to miss reality from the real thing.

[keeds]

7x17 negative scan (and digital processing) of St Botolph's Church over the River Alde at Iken, Woodbridge, UK. Negative shot and developed 10 years ago and stored under the bed until recent scanning and processing. Just un-mothballing "The Beast" and trying to get back into the swing of ULF! Wish me luck.

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[MattKHardy]

MattKHardy, I really like the luminous qualities of that image...Bravo!

Many thanks! Normally the sea needs a polarizer to remove the shine but this time it was used to darken the sky behind the lighthouse.

[Tin Can]

Luck!


7x17 negative scan (and digital processing) of st botolph's church over the river alde at iken, woodbridge, uk. Negative shot and developed 10 years ago and stored under the bed until recent scanning and processing. Just un-mothballing "the beast" and trying to get back into the swing of ulf! Wish me luck.

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[Kusya123]

The photo is really very beautiful





https://realcanadian.win/

[orgraph]

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50176177286_2259be4471_o.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/2jrU2oW)2014-10-27 Житом обл 001 web (https://flic.kr/p/2jrU2oW) by Yuriy Sanin (https://www.flickr.com/photos/52922077@N08/), on Flickr
Ukraine. Linhof III, Symmar 135/5.6, Shanghai GP3 100

[Mark Sampson]

keeds,
vert nice work. Happy to hear that you're getting back into the game.

[Corran]

Bamboo Forest
East Palisades Trail, part of the Chattahoochee River NRA near Atlanta, GA
Mercury 4x5, Schneider 47mm XL, T-Max, Pyrocat

http://www.esearing.com/Bryan/AV/photosharing/bamboo-5506ss.jpg

[John Olsen]

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50176177286_2259be4471_o.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/2jrU2oW)2014-10-27 Житом обл 001 web (https://flic.kr/p/2jrU2oW) by Yuriy Sanin (https://www.flickr.com/photos/52922077@N08/), on Flickr
Ukraine. Linhof III, Symmar 135/5.6, Shanghai GP3 100

This is a great composition. Congratulations.

[Ken Lee]

Bamboo Forest
East Palisades Trail, part of the Chattahoochee River NRA near Atlanta, GA
Mercury 4x5, Schneider 47mm XL, T-Max, Pyrocat

http://www.esearing.com/Bryan/AV/photosharing/bamboo-5506ss.jpg

Bravo !

[Corran]

Thank you Ken.

[CreationBear]

Bamboo Forest

Very nice--if you're pushing a pack through bottomland in this humidity, you've earned a PhD in moisture management at the very least.:)

[Corran]

:)
It's been a little while (pandemic) and I was really feeling the heat/humidity out there! But we got to the trailhead at 7am and was out around 12, which helps.

[jon.oman]

Bamboo Forest
East Palisades Trail, part of the Chattahoochee River NRA near Atlanta, GA
Mercury 4x5, Schneider 47mm XL, T-Max, Pyrocat

http://www.esearing.com/Bryan/AV/photosharing/bamboo-5506ss.jpg

Nice one!

[DaveF]

Some new 10x8 colour work from me. This one on colour neg.

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50185642233_df503d467e_h.jpg
West Kennet Long Barrow and Silbury Hill
Avebury, Wiltshire
31st July 2020, 6:10am

Chamonix 810V, Rodenstock Apo-Sironar S 240mm f/5.6
Kodak Portra 160 10x8 (@160)
½” f/45, front swing, 12mm front rise
Lee 0.6 Hard GND

Stearman SP810 (Bellini C41 chemistry in 40ºC waterbath, with 1min 40ºC prewash)
Epson V850

[mhayashi]

Nice work, Dave!
Good saturation and minimum loss of dynamic range of rock textures.
Is this scene before sunrise?
Swung focused on the plane parallel to the rocks?
It looks like no wind at the scene based on your shutter speed.

[Ken Lee]

http://www.kennethleegallery.com/images/forum/Road17.jpg
Massachusetts, October 2018
Sinar P, 200mm Nikkor M
4x5 FP4+, D-23

[DaveF]

Nice work, Dave!
Good saturation and minimum loss of dynamic range of rock textures.
Is this scene before sunrise?
Swung focused on the plane parallel to the rocks?
It looks like no wind at the scene based on your shutter speed.

Many thanks for this. Here's a a repost (I made the mistake of inverting the neg without turning colour management off in the scanner - hence the wild colours). Bit frustrating: had to rescan and re-spot.
Much more muted, but consistent with the Portra look, and much truer to the conditions at just after sunrise. Yes, focus was on the plane from the left edge of the largest stone to about half way in to the distant fields from the edge of the frame. Lost a bit of sharpness on the foreground grass, but not a problem, and, as you say, zero wind.

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50191933641_c083fc8fb1_h.jpg

[John Olsen]

West Kennett Barrow! Wow, that brings back memories. I shot inside at midnight back in '88. Stumbling around on the top of the hill I didn't realize I was so close to Silbury.

Here's something more recent, another try at my favorite trail in the Ft. Ebey State Park - Hokey Ka Do Do, it's called.

150 mm lens, TriX with yellow filter, f22, 2 s, N+1 dev and scanned from print.

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50193126426_4b360d9ebc_b.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/2jtoTMu)Hokey VII Flkr (https://flic.kr/p/2jtoTMu) by John Olsen (https://www.flickr.com/photos/153201054@N08/), on Flickr

[Helcio J Tagliolatto]

205898

Sunset by the Bay, San Francisco, CA 1994

FP4+, Metol/Acetone, Print scan

Really fine image, Merg.

I am always in doubt when I see images captured on black and white film and scanned from the negative only.
It may be my prejudice, but to reveal how much a large format photographer knows about the process and the full (almost) depth of an image obtained from a large format camera, the posted image should always be scanned from the printed image, either it by traditional or digital processes.
Just saying...

[mhayashi]

Dave, that’s a different look indeed.
I only take pics by color transparencies so I really can’t tell in the case of negs, but
I probably use a reverse nd grad 0.9 after sunrise and at the sunrise or, nd grad 0.6 well before sunrise during dawn.

Sorry not LF pics, the following is a example by nikon D100 way back in 10 years ago or so.
Japan alps about 3000m in Nagano prefecture.

https://images.shopping-charm.jp/UserArea/docs/sensory_gallery_rs.html

[Merg Ross]

Really fine image, Merg.

I am always in doubt when I see images captured on black and white film and scanned from the negative only.
It may be my prejudice, but to reveal how much a large format photographer knows about the process and the full (almost) depth of an image obtained from a large format camera, the posted image should always be scanned from the printed image, either it by traditional or digital processes.
Just saying...

Thank you, Helcio.

I agree completely. Over the years that I have shared my photographs on this forum, they have been scanned gelatin silver prints. At best, they are not true representations of the original, and for that reason I do not offer works for sale from my website. When I published a monograph of my work in 2017, all of the scans were made by the publisher, who was himself on press with my original prints for comparison. The results, duotone with stochastic screening, were a very good representation of my photographs.

[Corran]

On a good screen and with proper calibrated process with regards to scanning / editing, when I send off for prints they come back looking exactly as I expect from my screen.

Silver prints scanned to me do not look as good as in-person. IMO, a scanned negative is better than a scanned print.

[grat]

I am always in doubt when I see images captured on black and white film and scanned from the negative only.
It may be my prejudice, but to reveal how much a large format photographer knows about the process and the full (almost) depth of an image obtained from a large format camera, the posted image should always be scanned from the printed image, either it by traditional or digital processes.


I'm not sure I see the difference. Scanned is scanned, and while you can certainly get a reasonable (but not great) scan from a bad negative, there's no reason you can't manipulate a scan of a print, as well. As this is a digital forum, there is no process I'm aware of for directly uploading an analog print that doesn't involve converting to digital at some stage.

[John Olsen]

Corran and discussion of scans of negatives here in LFF: Well, of course the scan of the negative will look better here than the scan of a darkroom print. One messy and compromising step has been avoided. If what you're offering the public is a digital print, then that's the way to do it. Personally, I'm only offering darkroom prints in the gallery, so it's appropriate for me to only share scans of prints. For that reason, I appreciate it when folks here on the Forum specify whether they're sharing negative vs. prints scans.

Here's a print scan of a 500 sq ft treehouse that has recently been added to our nearby forest. It's on a very steep hillside over a state park lake. TriX with yellow filter, f22.3, 1/15s. I reduced agitation in the film processing and printed as grade 1 1/2 on Ilford MG paper.

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50193127931_9f45112887_b.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/2jtoUer)TreeHouse flkr (https://flic.kr/p/2jtoUer) by John Olsen (https://www.flickr.com/photos/153201054@N08/), on Flickr

[Corran]

Personally, I'm only offering darkroom prints in the gallery,

Same here John, at the gallery and art fests...not sure what it has to do with sharing online as neither is "real life." My print scans don't look as good as the print. Generally the scan is closer in look w/o the intermediary. Sometimes I print radically different than the (initial) scan later, esp. if I reprint a neg, but that's a different topic.

[orgraph]

http://www.kennethleegallery.com/images/forum/Road17.jpg
Massachusetts, October 2018
Sinar P, 200mm Nikkor M
4x5 FP4+, D-23

Somehow, everything stuck together. Doesn't sound like you.

[Ken Lee]

Somehow, everything stuck together. Doesn't sound like you.

Privyet Yuri -

We get lucky sometimes :cool:

- Ken

[giganova]

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50206721248_b49db5baa6_h.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/2juAz3Y)Coveys_Landing_1_2_2000pix (https://flic.kr/p/2juAz3Y)

[orgraph]

Privyet Yuri -

We get lucky sometimes :cool:

- Ken

:-)

[Ulophot]

Well seen, giganova.

[lassethomas]

https://scatteredlightblog.files.wordpress.com/2020/08/sheet0186.jpg

The 1500 feet north-east face of Borka in northern Sweden

Chamonix 45H-1, Symmar 135mm, FomaPan 400

[John Olsen]

https://scatteredlightblog.files.wordpress.com/2020/08/sheet0186.jpg

The 1500 feet north-east face of Borka in northern Sweden

Chamonix 45H-1, Symmar 135mm, FomaPan 400

Nice. I really liked your Kvarnforsen waterfall in the other thread too.

[lassethomas]

Nice. I really liked your Kvarnforsen waterfall in the other thread too.

Thanks for those kind words.

/Lasse

[Alan Klein]

Nice landscape Lasse.

[lassethomas]

Nice landscape Lasse.

Thanks Alan, nice to hear you like it.

[ljb0904]

Yucca, Early Monsoon Clouds in the hill country in southeast Arizona, northeast of Arivaca.
https://laurentbaig.files.wordpress.com/2020/08/bw0007-2-1.jpg

[lassethomas]

https://scatteredlightblog.files.wordpress.com/2020/08/sheet0201.jpg

Moon over Borka
Northern Sweden

Chamonix 45H-1, G-Claron 9/240, Ilford HP5+ 9x12

[Ben Calwell]

https://scatteredlightblog.files.wordpress.com/2020/08/sheet0201.jpg

Moon over Borka
Northern Sweden

Chamonix 45H-1, G-Claron 9/240, Ilford HP5+ 9x12


Beautiful!

[roscoetuff-Skip Mersereau]

Lasse Thomas: Wonderful image. THanks!

[KarlT]

Been a while since I added anything.


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[lassethomas]

Beautiful!


Lasse Thomas: Wonderful image. THanks!

Thanks!

[Martin Aislabie]

Been a while since I added anything.


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I really like the b&w one.

Clevedon ?

Martin

[Greg Y]

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50252792711_5d3a02d240_c.jpg

Chamonix F2, G Claron 150, FP4+, print on Oriental Seagull. The print is sharp apologies for the shaky iPhone snap
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[unityofsaints]

https://scatteredlightblog.files.wordpress.com/2020/08/sheet0201.jpg

Moon over Borka
Northern Sweden

Chamonix 45H-1, G-Claron 9/240, Ilford HP5+ 9x12

Wow! Well done.

[lassethomas]

Wow! Well done.

Thanks!
It was well researched and planned and came out well I think. Could have had a bit more clouds/texture in the sky, but on the other hand I was lucky with the clouds on the mountain.

[Vaughn]

Nice image, Greg -- great light playing across the mountains.

[Jerry Bodine]

Thanks!
It was well researched and planned and came out well I think. Could have had a bit more clouds/texture in the sky, but on the other hand I was lucky with the clouds on the mountain.

Such a beautiful image, Lasse, but I'm curious about something. I went to Google Maps to locate Borka and found that, in Satellite mode, no such mountain exists anywhere near there. In fact all the terrain in that area is rather flat. Could it be that your memory is "hazy" or has Google Maps taken on the ability to edit images in Photoshop? :rolleyes: Please enlighten me. Here is a screenshot of what I see on Google Maps.

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[KarlT]

I really like the b&w one.

Clevedon ?

Martin

Yes, it makes for a good day out, probably easier in the winter months when there will be less people about

[lassethomas]

Such a beautiful image, Lasse, but I'm curious about something. I went to Google Maps to locate Borka and found that, in Satellite mode, no such mountain exists anywhere near there. In fact all the terrain in that area is rather flat. Could it be that your memory is "hazy" or has Google Maps taken on the ability to edit images in Photoshop? :rolleyes: Please enlighten me. Here is a screenshot of what I see on Google Maps.

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Thanks,

Lol,well that's another Borka. I think it's a village along the east coast. About 500 km off.
Not many mountains there.
No, Google doesn't get it right sometimes.
The long name is Borkafjäll but since fjäll just means mountain it's usually shortened.

Try this link instead:

https://www.google.se/maps/@65.2487622,15.4205714,3a,75y,175h,81.57t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sYBEjAKkx2nFJ_ncTDNi8mQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
(Not my car )

[Vaughn]

Beautiful country...I had tried to find it by looking for Borka Mountain (any excuse to travel by Google...).

[orgraph]

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50254401101_167c075660_o.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/2jyNWBp)2020-08-21 Congo 90/5.6@22 Red f Foma 200 in HC110 1+31 24C 7-15 min010 (https://flic.kr/p/2jyNWBp) by Yuriy Sanin (https://www.flickr.com/photos/52922077@N08/), on Flickr
Vasilkovsky Carpathians. Ukraine.
Not far from Kiev, there is an absolutely fantastic place called "Vasylkiv Carpathians". Among the flat terrain, ravines and gorges suddenly appear, overgrown with grassy vegetation and trees.
In this case, I liked the combination of geometric shapes and light accents.
A complex combination of front wall rise and back wall tilt was used.
Nagaoka 4x5. Congo 90/6.3@22. Red filter. Fomapan 200 in Ilfotech HC110 1 + 31.

[Vaughn]

A wonderful balance of light and dark forms -- with the dark forms staying quite alive and full of accessable information.
I like the tension between being invited to enter into the image but these beautifully lit thorns say otherwise.
And lastly -- I appreciate the open upper corners. This could have easily been a vertical with the tree branches sweeping up into the corners and enclosing this space. It would be a good photograph...but it would not capture what the photographer mentioned about this being an open landscape.

[lassethomas]

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50254401101_167c075660_o.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/2jyNWBp)2020-08-21 Congo 90/5.6@22 Red f Foma 200 in HC110 1+31 24C 7-15 min010 (https://flic.kr/p/2jyNWBp) by Yuriy Sanin (https://www.flickr.com/photos/52922077@N08/), on Flickr
Vasilkovsky Carpathians. Ukraine.
Not far from Kiev, there is an absolutely fantastic place called "Vasylkiv Carpathians". Among the flat terrain, ravines and gorges suddenly appear, overgrown with grassy vegetation and trees.
In this case, I liked the combination of geometric shapes and light accents.
A complex combination of front wall rise and back wall tilt was used.
Nagaoka 4x5. Congo 90/6.3@22. Red filter. Fomapan 200 in Ilfotech HC110 1 + 31.


Very nice. Interesting and well executed composition.

[Heroique]

https://scatteredlightblog.files.wordpress.com/2020/08/sheet0201.jpg

Moon over Borka
Northern Sweden

Chamonix 45H-1, G-Claron 9/240, Ilford HP5+ 9x12

Very nice, other-worldly, and I can't quite tell, but it looks like your exposure has captured detail on the moon's surface.

I'd enjoy seeing an image cropped from this one so we can better appreciate Diana's face.

I bet your g-claron's performance would help this work.

[lassethomas]

Very nice, other-worldly, and I can't quite tell, but it looks like your exposure has captured detail on the moon's surface.

I'd enjoy seeing an image cropped from this one so we can better appreciate Diana's face.

I bet your g-claron's performance would help this work.

Well, I have no idea how the g-claron would help in this case. It's quite capable to render some detail from the moons face. As is most lenses.

Which one of my two exposures, the one expected to render the moon, also did.
The other exposure bracket was intended for rendering the rest of the image, since it was pretty dark, and had a very overexposed moon, as you would guess.

It seems the bit about seeing the negative was edited out?

[Heroique]

It seems the bit about seeing the negative was edited out?

I was curious if you might re-scan the negative for a cropped image, or simply crop from your existing scan if it can bear it. My eye sees an image in the left third of the image, but it's hard to tell if it would be as satisfying as your given image with the ghostly ribbon of fog. Moon detail might be won, but the ghostliness might be lost.

[lassethomas]

I was curious if you might re-scan the negative for a cropped image, or simply crop from your existing scan if it can bear it. My eye sees an image in the left third of the image, but it's hard to tell if it would be as satisfying as your given image with the ghostly ribbon of fog. Moon detail might be won, but the ghostliness might be lost.

Here a is a 1:1 crop of my existing scan. It's 2200 dpi (as much as I can go) and scanned on my Imacon Precision 2.

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Personally I don't think it will stand up for too much cropping.
I'll have to go back next summer and shoot it with a longer lens :)

[Heroique]

That's more moon texture than I thought was there!

The detail hiding deep inside a LF negative is often surprising – even astonishing – when focus, exposure, and shot technique are working for you.

But I think you're right. The cropped landscape image I see is basically the bottom-left quadrant, with lake reflection, near trees, clouds, lower peak, and moon. But that might not bring-up the moon texture enough – and the drapery of fog would be lost, which is my favorite detail of your ethereal image.

[orgraph]

A wonderful balance of light and dark forms -- with the dark forms staying quite alive and full of accessable information.
I like the tension between being invited to enter into the image but these beautifully lit thorns say otherwise.
And lastly -- I appreciate the open upper corners. This could have easily been a vertical with the tree branches sweeping up into the corners and enclosing this space. It would be a good photograph...but it would not capture what the photographer mentioned about this being an open landscape.
Thanks!

[orgraph]

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50254578562_68f8091cdc_o.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/2jyPRn5)2020-08-21 Fujinon SF 180-56@22 Red f Foma 200 in HC110 1+31 24C 7-15 min006 4299x5412 Forest-40 web11 (https://flic.kr/p/2jyPRn5) by Yuriy Sanin (https://www.flickr.com/photos/52922077@N08/), on Flickr
Ukraine.
Not far from Kiev, there is an absolutely fantastic place called "Vasylkiv Carpathians". Among the flat terrain, ravines and gorges suddenly appear, overgrown with grassy vegetation and trees.
Nagaoka 4x5. Nikkor 300/9@22. Red filter. Fomapan 200 in Ilfotech HC110 1+31.

[David Schaller]

I was in Vacationland last week. I took only a Crown Graphic, and now wish I'd had more flexibility with movements and smaller f stops.
https://i.imgur.com/7kdg3TC.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/YTgawsv.jpg

[ALVANDI Camera]

Iran, Arjomand, Panoral 45 camera, Schneider Symmar-S 150/5.6, Hoya red filter, Ilford FP4 9x12cm Sheet film

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