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Joe O'Hara
25-Dec-2010, 18:44
There doesn't seem to be a thread here with the word Grass in the title. This image was made earlier this year at Corson's Inlet SP in New Jersey. Let's see what others have done with grass as the main subject.

mdm
25-Dec-2010, 22:45
Theese are a bit rough but consider them proof of concept, rather than final product. 210mm Fujinar, 5x7 FP4+.

jss
25-Dec-2010, 23:53
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2400/2262231721_9307db73fc_z.jpg
(link (http://www.flickr.com/photos/schlachet/2262231721/))

this was maybe one of my first/few images of grass as a subject. taken with a jamin-darlot lens, hp5+ pulled to 160 and developed in rodinal.

IanG
26-Dec-2010, 06:36
http://www.lostlabours.co.uk/wyre/images/clee02sm.jpg

Old colliery tramway, Clee Hills. Walked along here with 2 other members of this forum in November :D

Ian

Maris Rusis
27-Dec-2010, 17:40
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5003/5284686318_eb7c96b0a0_b.jpg
Woodland Grove, Soft Focus

Gelatin-silver photograph on Fomapan Variant 111 VC FB, image area 19.6cm X 24.7cm, from a Fomapan 200 negative exposed in a Tachihara 810HD 8x10 field view camera with a 400mm f11 single meniscus lens.

How often do I hate grass! Odd grass stems infest the front of many landscape pictures where they are invisible at full aperture but turn up in annoying half-focus on the negative. In "Woodland Grove, Soft Focus" I wanted those gorgeous foreground clumps of grass to gleam against the solid tree trunk in the backgound. To get rid of the small stuff sticking up right in front of the lens I flattened it under my focussing cloth, black side up.

Harold_4074
28-Dec-2010, 14:50
Okay, botanically oats are grasses....

FP4+ in PMK; 5x7 Kodak 2D with a 9-3/4 Heliar, natural light. Gold-toned POP print.

Liam:
28-Dec-2010, 15:12
One from this afternoon

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5041/5300575639_94f38ab81a_z.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/53243597@N02/5300575639/)

Crown Graphic / 200mm / fomapan 100

vinny
29-Dec-2010, 15:04
June Lake, California. Fall 2009 4x10 efke 25

Richard M. Coda
29-Dec-2010, 15:44
Rio Salado Habitat, downtown Phoenix, AZ 2008
8x10 TMax

Donald Miller
1-Jan-2011, 13:37
I hesitated whether to post this in LF landscapes or grass. I guess it could go either way.

Pinal County, Arizona

5X7 - 180 Nikkor

Portra

Frank Petronio
1-Jan-2011, 13:46
http://www.rangefinderforum.com/photopost/data/500/eugene_mowed.jpg

and small format, sorry...

http://www.rangefinderforum.com/photopost/data/500/sarah_rachel_061010_08.jpg

Brian Vuillemenot
1-Jan-2011, 18:55
on the shores of Mono Lake

ghostcount
1-Jan-2011, 19:01
and small format, sorry...

http://www.rangefinderforum.com/photopost/data/500/sarah_rachel_061010_08.jpg

I just gained 5 pounds looking at this! (hehehe....)

sly
2-Jan-2011, 02:44
Brian, that's stunning! Great colour!

sly
2-Jan-2011, 02:46
Here's one I took last winter - kneeling on the cold sidewalk with my Crown Graphic.

gevalia
2-Jan-2011, 04:14
Simply reeds. Heliar, 4x5, ADOX 25 in Pyrocat HD.

http://ronmiller.smugmug.com/Landscapes/Black-and-White-Landscapes/img115fixed/766987179_KF6r7-X2.jpg

bbarna
2-Jan-2011, 06:57
Alti Plano, Bolivia
Chamonix 45, Schneider 135/5.6, Foma 100

Struan Gray
3-Jan-2011, 12:00
I've been trying for years to capture the luminescent effect of machair after rain. The salt-tolerant grasses are often tinged blue-green, and the shell-sand they grow in acts like bright white underpainting. A long sopping day of light rain makes the true machair and the backlands shimmer, even in a very dull overcast light.

Capturing it on film is an exercise in frustration, and wetness.


http://struangray.com/miscpics/machair.jpg

Backland machair, Achnahaird

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Heroique
10-Jan-2011, 22:39
I find all kinds of pretty grasses deep in my film.

Often, they surprise me when I’m dust spotting. Like this one.

Be careful – it’s a jungle down there.

Tachi 4x5
Schneider 150mm/9 g-claron
FP4+ (in Rodinal 1:50)
Epson 4990/Epson Scan

mdm
10-Jan-2011, 23:44
5x7 Shanghai 100, Pyrocat M, 210mm Sironar S

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QmQjKxnDU-c/TSv8RblWYrI/AAAAAAAAAok/lOPoZk9WuFc/s1600/Scan-110111-0007-1.jpg

Jiri Vasina
10-Jan-2011, 23:50
David, that's a great one...

Jiri

mdm
10-Jan-2011, 23:53
Thanks for that, I liked the lines.

Vaughn
10-Jan-2011, 23:55
Grasses and Rocks. 2010
Dry Falls State Park, Washington

After sunset, after a very hot day this past summer.

From a scan of an 8x10 negative, but should look about like this someday. Platinum/palladium probably.

mdm
11-Jan-2011, 00:47
Grasses and Rocks. 2010
Dry Falls State Park, Washington

After sunset, after a very hot day this past summer.

From a scan of an 8x10 negative, but should look about like this someday. Platinum/palladium probably.

In carbon it would be more about rocks.

It is impossibe for me to take a picture of the landscape without lots of grey boring grass, but on a high relief print from a contrasty negative, made in directional evening light say, with backlit sheep or something along those lines, it sings. When you get it right.

Like this mushy looking negative scan, pretty carbon transfer.

Joe O'Hara
12-Jan-2011, 07:47
Nice one! It will look great in Pt/Pd.



Grasses and Rocks. 2010
Dry Falls State Park, Washington

After sunset, after a very hot day this past summer.

From a scan of an 8x10 negative, but should look about like this someday. Platinum/palladium probably.

sly
11-Feb-2011, 14:52
Winter Grass

Crown Graphic

Looking forward to spring and the arrival of new greenery.

austin granger
11-Feb-2011, 15:29
These are not strictly about grass, but there is a lot of grass in them-does that count?

The Path to Chimney Rock, Point Reyes
http://austingranger.com/web/elegy/75-the_path_to_chimney_rock.jpg

Field, Starlings, Gathering Storm, Point Reyes
http://austingranger.com/web/elegy/65-field_starlings_gathering_storm.jpg

Unfortunately, neither of these translate to the computer screen very well... Ah well, sharpen them in your mind. And on the first shot, there's a little arrow on the post.

www.austingranger.com

austin granger
11-Feb-2011, 15:31
And some color.

Train Car, Astoria Bridge
http://austingranger.com/web/astoria/01-05_train_car_bridge.jpg

St. Mary's, Astoria
http://austingranger.com/web/astoria/02-05_st_marys.jpg

From the Column, Astoria
http://austingranger.com/web/astoria/02-07_from_the_column.jpg

www.austingranger.com

tgtaylor
11-Feb-2011, 16:18
Bar and Grass

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5177/5436830557_8408f789ac.jpg

Scan of a print that didn't work out - note the crud that was on the negative in the top left.


Thomas

Jim Cole
11-Feb-2011, 20:56
Zion National Park. Autumn grasses.

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4114/5437905756_ac5e74efa1_b.jpg

Preston
11-Feb-2011, 22:18
Wonderful work, everyone!

I'm inspired to look where I'm walking!

--P

Keith Pitman
13-Feb-2011, 11:11
Disk and Grass.

Scott Schroeder
2-Mar-2011, 08:33
Probably more reeds than grass but all the same.....
http://www.schroederworks.com/Wetplate/McNeilPark001.jpg

http://www.schroederworks.com/Wetplate/McNeilPark002.jpg

Scratched Glass
10-Mar-2011, 07:13
These are sedges, in a different family than grasses, but most people would assume there grasses, and that's ok.
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1397/5505752161_1ee5028a38.jpg

Technical Data: Cropped
Graphlex Pacemaker Speed Graphic 4x5
Graphlex/Wollensak Optar 135mm f4.7
Kodak Ektachrome 100 Plus 10 years past its expiration

Joe O'Hara
25-May-2013, 04:04
Reviving this thread with a new one from last week. Near Emigrant Lake, Oregon.

Nathan Potter
25-May-2013, 08:34
These are sedges, in a different family than grasses, but most people would assume there grasses, and that's ok.
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1397/5505752161_1ee5028a38.jpg

Technical Data: Cropped
Graphlex Pacemaker Speed Graphic 4x5
Graphlex/Wollensak Optar 135mm f4.7
Kodak Ektachrome 100 Plus 10 years past its expiration

Beautiful image of wind blown grass. IIRC grasses are family Graminae and sedges are Cyperaceae. Sedges usually have a triangular stem. I doubt that the original poster meant to differentiate between the three families (the 3rd being rushes, can't remember the family).

Nate Potter, Austin TX.

Joe O'Hara
22-Feb-2015, 15:17
Marsh grass in early morning light.

Medium yellow filter used to emphasize the gentle contrast in the scene.

Nathan Potter
23-Feb-2015, 11:33
Maybe I've posted this somewhere already but I think this thread needs some color and activity. Seaside grasses here behind the cobble beach at Scots Bay Nova Scotia, on the Blomidon Peninsular. Linhof TK45 with a Nikon 210mm, August 9, 2001 and freezing my butt off. Fuji Astia 100. V750 scan. Wonderful beach area with endless possibilities for images.

https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3701/12472223664_57423e7f6f_c.jpg (https://www.flickr.com/photos/argiolus/12472223664/)
45MA01-76[F1 (https://www.flickr.com/photos/argiolus/12472223664/) by hypolimnas (https://www.flickr.com/people/argiolus/), on Flickr

Nate Potter, Austin TX.

David Brunell
17-Sep-2015, 15:42
http://i1056.photobucket.com/albums/t372/David_Brunell/Large%20format%20forum/_IMG_zpsuykaqq0f.jpg (http://s1056.photobucket.com/user/David_Brunell/media/Large%20format%20forum/_IMG_zpsuykaqq0f.jpg.html)

Chamonix 045N1, Sironar S 150, Fp4, Pyrocat HD, Forte Bromofort Gr. 2, Sepia/Selenium

gsinico
21-Sep-2015, 06:10
http://www.gelatina.altervista.org/pics/bn/bn_nat/emerocallis/content/images/large/1_emerocallis.jpg

This is a second submission, the first I do not remember where.
4x5' ; Sironar 180, some bellow factor, adox 100 in Jobo
pirocat HD.

Randy
21-Sep-2015, 14:42
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/52893762/img552b.jpg
Graflex Series D 4X5 (cropped slightly) - Wollaston Meniscus 190mm

Harley Goldman
22-Sep-2015, 14:40
http://www.gelatina.altervista.org/pics/bn/bn_nat/emerocallis/content/images/large/1_emerocallis.jpg

This is a second submission, the first I do not remember where.
4x5' ; Sironar 180, some bellow factor, adox 100 in Jobo
pirocat HD.


Very well done!

RSalles
22-Sep-2015, 18:22
Giovanni,

I remember this shot, unforgettable,

Cheers,

Renato

gsinico
24-Sep-2015, 06:56
thanks!

gsinico
24-Sep-2015, 06:58
Giovanni,

I remember this shot, unforgettable,

Cheers,




Renato


Renato,
you're so kind!
I enjoied shot this one.

AlexGard
24-Sep-2015, 17:45
What a great thread. Some awesome photos in here!

Maris Rusis
24-Sep-2015, 19:18
https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5743/21504432068_5d9780b320_c.jpg
Grass and Herbs, Mt Wheatley Track

Gelatin-silver photograph on Ultrafine Silver Eagle VC FB photographic paper, image size 21.4cm X 16.3cm, from a 4x5 Kodak Tmax 100 negative exposed in a Tachihara 45GF double extension field view camera fitted with a Nikkor-W 210mm f5.6 lens. Titled and signed recto, stamped verso.

The evening shadow has come across the ground and it is just beginning to rain. And the car is about 300 yards away. What to do? Stop and take the picture of course. It only really poured when I was fifty steps from sanctuary - wet photographer, wet camera bag, dry camera.

baro-nite
28-Oct-2015, 09:09
https://farm1.staticflickr.com/598/22554413461_f4aa1269eb_z.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/An4gkB)Flowed (https://flic.kr/p/An4gkB) by Jeff (https://www.flickr.com/photos/fiat-lx/), on Flickr

Salt marsh grass after a storm, Bald Head Island, NC (USA)

FP4+ developed in DD-X, v700 scan with a bit of PP for contrast enhancement.

Misko
7-Nov-2015, 00:33
http://www.gelatina.altervista.org/pics/bn/bn_nat/emerocallis/content/images/large/1_emerocallis.jpg
4x5' ; Sironar 180, some bellow factor, adox 100 in Jobo, pirocat HD.

Such a beautiful shot!

HCST
15-Nov-2015, 21:35
http://www.temnakomora.cz/uploads/gallery/album_330/gallery_7901_330_133394.jpg
Kodak 2D, Belar 210mm, Fomapan 100 8x10, Pyrocat M, Contact print Fomabrom 112 Matt in LQN.

jharr
17-Nov-2015, 08:54
E. WA wheat (that's grass right?)
Graflex Speed Graphic + Graflex Optar 135/4.7
Expired Vericolor II @ iso 25

https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5643/20636170869_f4dd23e79c_c.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/xrxLDt)
Wheat-Country2 (https://flic.kr/p/xrxLDt) by James Harr (https://www.flickr.com/photos/harrlequin/), on Flickr

Jiri Vasina
18-Nov-2015, 00:22
That's very interesting and nice, James...

jharr
18-Nov-2015, 09:11
Thank you Jiri.

austin granger
30-Sep-2016, 23:13
https://c3.staticflickr.com/9/8750/29742792050_2969c96086_b.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/MjgzRu)Oregon (https://flic.kr/p/MjgzRu) by Austin Granger (https://www.flickr.com/photos/austingranger/), on Flickr

Maris Rusis
1-Oct-2016, 00:10
https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1489/25223516055_13d0d74948_b.jpg
Grass Field, Coolum

Gelatin-silver photograph on Ilford VC FB photographic paper, image size 24.4cm X 19.6cm, from a 8x10 Kodak Tmax 400 negative exposed in a Tachihara 810HD triple extension field view camera fitted with a Fujinon-W 300mm f5.6 lens.

Joe O'Hara
29-Mar-2021, 06:19
https://www.josephoharaphotography.com/img/s/v-10/p2262326072-5.jpg
Deep Run

Mostly grass, with a few cranberries and some foxtail moss (Lycopodiella).

GRAYnomad
29-Mar-2021, 13:23
http://www.robgray.com/temp/02041.jpg

5x4 Tachihara, 210mm Symmar-S

Maris Rusis
29-Mar-2021, 19:11
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50077457666_2cd36ef30f_b.jpg
Storm-blown Sedge Field

Gelatin-silver photograph on Agfa Classic VC FB photographic paper, image size 16.3cm X 21.5cm,
from a 4x5 Kodak Tri-X negative exposed in a Tachihara GF field view camera fitted with a Nikkor-W 135mm f5.6 lens.

Andrew Tymon
31-Mar-2021, 05:14
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49195164713_a13b7cdda9_b.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/2hXd5x4)Ferns_2 (https://flic.kr/p/2hXd5x4) by Andy (https://www.flickr.com/photos/silverphotons/), on Flickr

MPP, 180mm Symmar, Fp4+, Rodinal 1+50

Andrew Tymon
31-Mar-2021, 05:20
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/16108476320_2ddcc8a75a_b.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/qxs9Nm)Grass. From the series, Woodland Seen. (https://flic.kr/p/qxs9Nm) by Andy (https://www.flickr.com/photos/silverphotons/), on Flickr

MPP, 180mm Symmar, Tmax 100, Rodinal 1+50.

CreationBear
31-Mar-2021, 06:27
A child said What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands;
How could I answer the child? I do not know what it is any more than he.

I guess it must be the flag of my disposition, out of hopeful green stuff woven.

Or I guess it is the handkerchief of the Lord,
A scented gift and remembrancer designedly dropt,
Bearing the owner's name someway in the corners, that we may
see and remark, and say Whose?

Or I guess the grass is itself a child, the produced babe of the vegetation.

Or I guess it is a uniform hieroglyphic,
And it means, Sprouting alike in broad zones and narrow zones,
Growing among black folks as among white,
Kanuck, Tuckahoe, Congressman, Cuff, I give them the same, I receive them the same.

And now it seems to me the beautiful uncut hair of graves.

Tenderly will I use you curling grass,
It may be you transpire from the breasts of young men,
It may be if I had known them I would have loved them,
It may be you are from old people, or from offspring taken soon out of their mothers' laps,
And here you are the mothers' laps.

This grass is very dark to be from the white heads of old mothers,
Darker than the colorless beards of old men,
Dark to come from under the faint red roofs of mouths.

O I perceive after all so many uttering tongues,
And I perceive they do not come from the roofs of mouths for nothing.

I wish I could translate the hints about the dead young men and women,
And the hints about old men and mothers, and the offspring taken soon out of their laps.

What do you think has become of the young and old men?
And what do you think has become of the women and children?

They are alive and well somewhere,
The smallest sprout shows there is really no death,
And if ever there was it led forward life, and does not wait at the end to arrest it,
And ceas'd the moment life appear'd.

All goes onward and outward, nothing collapses,
And to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.

Andrew Tymon
31-Mar-2021, 07:16
Mr. Whitman?��

CreationBear
31-Mar-2021, 07:41
Mr. Whitman?��

Indeed, (Section 6 of Leaves of Grass)--nothing like a bit of barbaric free verse yawping on a rainy day.:)

At any rate, I'm digging the second picture especially--y'all do seem to have rather the tradition of small, dark prints over the Pond, no? (Shall we call it the "Britbox" movement?) I could definitely see this one floating on generous white margins, tho' only after a suitable application of selenium and Nelson's Gold.

Andrew Tymon
31-Mar-2021, 07:52
Indeed, (Section 6 of Leaves of Grass)--nothing like a bit of barbaric free verse yawping on a rainy day.:)

At any rate, I'm digging the second picture especially--y'all do seem to have rather the tradition of small, dark prints over the Pond, no? (Shall we call it the "Britbox" movement?) I could definitely see this one floating on generous white margins, tho' only after a suitable application of selenium and Nelson's Gold.

Yeah, we are all moody gits, I blame the rain! :)

Martin Aislabie
1-Apr-2021, 05:01
http://www.robgray.com/temp/02041.jpg

5x4 Tachihara, 210mm Symmar-S

This is lovely

Martin

GRAYnomad
1-Apr-2021, 14:14
Thanks Martin.

Roberto Nania
2-Apr-2021, 09:00
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51089871576_a6821f8139_b.jpg

Rodenstock Doppel Anastigmat Terogonal 6.8/240mm
Galli shutter method at around 1/250 (need to get experience on even movement over the lens), f12.5
Fomapan 400 at iso100

Andrew Tymon
2-Apr-2021, 09:27
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49204906218_50d6737b5b_b.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/2hY51m3)Blue bells and stump, perimeter edge, from Woodland seen. (https://flic.kr/p/2hY51m3) by Andy (https://www.flickr.com/photos/silverphotons/), on Flickr

MPP, 180mmm Symmar, Fp4+, Rodinal.

CreationBear
2-Apr-2021, 10:39
Barrow-wight Action Figure (TM) sold separately.:)

Andrew Tymon
2-Apr-2021, 14:05
:) batteries sold separately.

Ulophot
2-Apr-2021, 19:38
Andrew, that's really fine.

Andrew Tymon
3-Apr-2021, 04:30
Andrew, that's really fine.

Thanks Philip!

Andrew Tymon
9-Apr-2021, 08:26
https://live.staticflickr.com/3837/33248157802_cdcca4997d_c.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/SE2uY3)Fern and Grass. From the series Woodland Seen. (https://flic.kr/p/SE2uY3) by Andy (https://www.flickr.com/photos/silverphotons/), on Flickr

Heroique
9-May-2021, 15:15
215676

Seattle cemetery grass under a majestic Tulip tree.

Tachi 4x5 (17mm front rise)
Schneider XL 110mm/5.6
Fuji Tungsten 64 + 85b filter
Epson 4990/Epson Scan

carlo.dainese
10-May-2021, 05:02
I don't believe that this image is only-about grass, but the role that played here is fundamental.

https://carlodainese.files.wordpress.com/2021/05/2021-04-24-0003_dxo.jpg

Padua, Italy, 4/2021

Rollei 400 IR / D76 1+1 / scan of the negative / Intrepid camera 4×5"