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Corran
Neat! I'd like to see the originals, not toned down, out of curiosity.
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Professional
+1, Let's see the real color or original without editing. :p
Without editing? Man, that's hard to nail down with a digital/scanned workflow. But I went back to my file (well, just for the one) and I had 3 separate adjustment layers that toned down the eye-burning reds, so I eliminated those. The final photo is still quite saturated, but without toning it down a bit I didn't care for it.
Final | Too Saturated
http://www.tylerwestcott.com/2011Jul...on_vof_600.JPGhttp://www.tylerwestcott.com/2011Jul..._vof_600_2.JPG
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bbuszard
Thanks, and nice pictures for you as well. I haven't been to Zion since the `90s, but remember that part of Utah fondly. I haven't been to this state park, though. I presume from the name that it's either very hot, very dry, very red, or all three.
Thanks! And you are right on all accounts, Valley of Fire was very hot, very dry, and very red - the fire trifecta!
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Thanks for posting.
On an image like that the crazy color makes it even more interesting in my eyes, personally. Both neat looking though.
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Yes, i also like that saturated scan, but as Bryan said, both are neat.
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I'm not sure if this is a landscape exactly, but I'm not sure where else to put it.
Anyway, I recently spent some days alone in the middle of a dry lake bed in Nevada, and anyone who has been by themselves in that sort of place will understand me when I say that the days can become very, very, very long. One finds ways to entertain oneself or risks going crazy.
Here is the midday sun in my Yashica Mat:
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6020/...ab239aa3_b.jpg
www.austingranger.com
http://www.flickr.com/photos/austingranger/
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Corran / Professional - thanks again for the feedback. I initial like the more saturated versions - they're more eye-catching, but I find them fatiguing too. I just find they look over-baked and unrealistic. At some point it reminds me too much of what I see on flickr with so much cranked saturation, so I like to keep it a little more subdued.
(Why shoot Velvia then? Good question, seems like I'm asking for trouble. But anytime I compare a Velvia and a Provia slide I invariably prefer the Velvia)
Austin - I really like that actually! The flare in the viewfinder is very cool.
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MumbleyJoe
Corran / Professional - thanks again for the feedback. I initial like the more saturated versions - they're more eye-catching, but I find them fatiguing too. I just find they look over-baked and unrealistic. At some point it reminds me too much of what I see on flickr with so much cranked saturation, so I like to keep it a little more subdued.
(Why shoot Velvia then? Good question, seems like I'm asking for trouble. But anytime I compare a Velvia and a Provia slide I invariably prefer the Velvia)
Austin - I really like that actually! The flare in the viewfinder is very cool.
I wish my Velvia can be tha saturated ;)
In fact i prefer Velvia the most as slide, but i may use neg if i want in between or more natural colors, wish Fuji produce Reala film for large format then it will be my favorite color film overall.
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Can't decide. Color or BW?
http://i51.tinypic.com/2hmowtj.jpg
http://i56.tinypic.com/neavew.jpg
Briones Regional Park, CA
Fujinon 125mm f/5.6, Provia 100F
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Beautiful
What are you scanning with?
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Zaitz
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djjohnr
Definitely Color even though that B&W is cool as well!
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Professional
Definitely Color even though that B&W is cool as well!
i agree...
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austin granger
i don't know why.. i don't know how...
but i like this .. although i don't think it classify as landscape.
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Bavi Forest, Hanoi, Vietnam
Eastman View No.2
H.Eidoscope No.3
X-Ray film
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6024/...484b022e_b.jpg
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Professional
Definitely Color even though that B&W is cool as well!
I agree. By nature I prefer B&W, but realize some scenes lend themselves to color. This is one of them. Nice shot.
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http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6127/...f391aed1_b.jpg
A wider view of Baker Lake in Great Basin Nat'l. Park.
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djjohnr
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Professional
Definitely Color even though that B&W is cool as well!
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algarzai
i agree...
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bobwysiwyg
I agree. By nature I prefer B&W, but realize some scenes lend themselves to color. This is one of them. Nice shot.
+4.
I love black and white landscapes and this one does work as black and white, but I think what makes it better as color is the fact that the warm evening (or morning, but low sun in any case) light on the trees is an integral part of the image.
Generally when color is integral color is better. When it isn't and form predominates, I tend to prefer black and white.
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austin granger
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algarzai
i don't know why.. i don't know how...
but i like this .. although i don't think it classify as landscape.
I'd agree that I like it. I'll take a stab at how and why...
It really speaks to starkness and isolation. If it were just a shot of the lake bed it wouldn't work so well (though it might work.) But the tripod in the middle of it shows a single presence in all the isolation, and the emphasis on the sun reinforces the heat and brightness. I can almost feel the sun beating down, look all around at nothingness except what I brought...
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I agree with the others Austin, that shot is great.
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djjohnr
Beautiful
What are you scanning with?
Much appreciated! I scanned it with an Epson 4990. I may send it out to get drumscanned.
For your shot I think the color works better. The warmth of the light adds to the photo and also has a softer feel.
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Can't edit my post, must be too old.
Another from the Redwoods. I was chasing light rays too much. Did my best to reduce contrast but keep the light rays dominant and maintain texture in the trees.
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6139/...8f5aff01_b.jpg
4x5 HP5+ @250 f32 for 1 sec with Caltar 75mm lens. Developed in Rodinal 1:50 for 10 minutes.
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Zaitz
Can't edit my post, must be too old.
Another from the Redwoods. I was chasing light rays too much. Did my best to reduce contrast but keep the light rays dominant and maintain texture in the trees.
4x5 HP5+ @250 f32 for 1 sec with Caltar 75mm lens. Developed in Rodinal 1:50 for 10 minutes.
Fantastic image, Zach. It looks like you had some great conditions to work with. I think your chasing paid off.
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Zaitz
Can't edit my post, must be too old.
Another from the Redwoods. I was chasing light rays too much. Did my best to reduce contrast but keep the light rays dominant and maintain texture in the trees.
4x5 HP5+ @250 f32 for 1 sec with Caltar 75mm lens. Developed in Rodinal 1:50 for 10 minutes.
Well you certainly succeeded in achieving it. Beautifully done.
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bbuszard
A wider view of Baker Lake in Great Basin Nat'l. Park.
Beautiful scene, Bradley. Before scrolling down, my task bar had cropped your pic just above the log which provided another perspective of this beautiful vista. Nice work.
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Zaitz
Can't edit my post, must be too old.
Another from the Redwoods. I was chasing light rays too much. Did my best to reduce contrast but keep the light rays dominant and maintain texture in the trees.
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6139/...8f5aff01_b.jpg
4x5 HP5+ @250 f32 for 1 sec with Caltar 75mm lens. Developed in Rodinal 1:50 for 10 minutes.
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RickV
Well you certainly succeeded in achieving it. Beautifully done.
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Joel Truckenbrod
Fantastic image, Zach. It looks like you had some great conditions to work with. I think your chasing paid off.
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RickV
Beautiful scene, Bradley. Before scrolling down, my task bar had cropped your pic just above the log which provided another perspective of this beautiful vista. Nice work.
+3, beautiful!
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Joel Truckenbrod
Fantastic image, Zach. It looks like you had some great conditions to work with. I think your chasing paid off.
Really appreciate that. Since I found your work last fall you've been an inspiration! And you prove to me that there is plenty to photograph around here.
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RickV
Well you certainly succeeded in achieving it. Beautifully done.
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Roger Cole
+3, beautiful!
Thank you. I was unsure of this one at first, I appreciate the comments. I really wish I would have 'wasted' more film now. I had more than enough but was still too selective :(.
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Roger Cole
+3, beautiful!
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Zaitz
Really appreciate that. Since I found your work last fall you've been an inspiration! And you prove to me that there is plenty to photograph around here.
Thank you. I was unsure of this one at first, I appreciate the comments. I really wish I would have 'wasted' more film now. I had more than enough but was still too selective :(.
wonderful photograph Zaitz...
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Roger Cole
I'd agree that I like it. I'll take a stab at how and why...
It really speaks to starkness and isolation. If it were just a shot of the lake bed it wouldn't work so well (though it might work.) But the tripod in the middle of it shows a single presence in all the isolation, and the emphasis on the sun reinforces the heat and brightness. I can almost feel the sun beating down, look all around at nothingness except what I brought...
I think you nailed it :)
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Zaitz
Can't edit my post, must be too old.
Another from the Redwoods. I was chasing light rays too much. Did my best to reduce contrast but keep the light rays dominant and maintain texture in the trees.
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6139/...8f5aff01_b.jpg
4x5 HP5+ @250 f32 for 1 sec with Caltar 75mm lens. Developed in Rodinal 1:50 for 10 minutes.
Looks great to me. You may have been able to bring the contrast down more, but there's no guarantee the image would have worked better.
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Zaitz
Can't edit my post, must be too old.
Another from the Redwoods. I was chasing light rays too much. Did my best to reduce contrast but keep the light rays dominant and maintain texture in the trees.
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6139/...8f5aff01_b.jpg
4x5 HP5+ @250 f32 for 1 sec with Caltar 75mm lens. Developed in Rodinal 1:50 for 10 minutes.
+6, a real beauty for sure. The redwoods in Santa Cruz never get that quality of light, so I'm jealous! :D
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It's been good to browse through the last several pages of this thread - some very interesting images for sure - I particularly like efimch's image from Lake Ladoga in Karelia, and Duyfam's petzval image from Bavi Forest in Vietnam.
Here's one from last week in the French Alps - we generally had poor weather which frustrated hiking and photography, but occasionally the clouds cleared;
La Meije et le Rateau, Rhône-Alpes
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6141/...26e912eb_b.jpg
Sinar F, Schneider 58mm Super Angulon XL, Ilford Delta 100 / Tanol
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algarzai
wonderful photograph Zaitz...
I think you nailed it :)
Thanks!
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djjohnr
Looks great to me. You may have been able to bring the contrast down more, but there's no guarantee the image would have worked better.
I think you are right. There is ample exposure even in the shadows. As is it developed and scanned flat but bright. Straight CS5 levels on the photo resulted in mucho contrast.
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SamReeves
+6, a real beauty for sure. The redwoods in Santa Cruz never get that quality of light, so I'm jealous! :D
Thank you. The light rays were everywhere! Every evening. The only problem was they were strongest when looking into the sun....making the already tough conditions even tougher.
Austin I am surprised that is yours. It doesn't have your usual toning. I've still never been to the Grand Canyon even though both my road trips went near it.
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Another one from my 4th of July trip:
http://48pixels.com/images/mammoth006.jpg
4x10 Shen-Hao, 210mm Symmar-S, HP5+
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That is spectacular.
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Marko
Hi Marko,
I like the reflections in this quite a bit.. Was this a negative scan?
I use a 4x10 Shen-Hao as well :-)
Cheers,
Leon
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Hi Leon,
Thank you for the compliment.
Yes, that's a negative scan. Just a temporary one, because this one has quite a lot of Newton rings - it was scanned emulsion-down directly on the scanner bed.
I still have to find a piece of ANR glass for proper scans.
Marko
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Montreux
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6126/...ca7e52b1_b.jpg
Sinar F, Rodenstock Grandagon-N 75mm, Ilford Delta 100 / Tanol
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Steve M Hostetter
flatrock river in winter 8x10 chrome 480mm very cold morning I think tungsten film
Beutifull,:o
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David Hedley
What is that line in between the river ?
It looks like an underwater bridge.Loved it
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RickV
Beautiful scene, Bradley. Before scrolling down, my task bar had cropped your pic just above the log which provided another perspective of this beautiful vista. Nice work.
Thanks, Rick. I saw the same thing when I took the shot. For the first time I really couldn't decide between a normal and a wide-angle view, so I took both. The flickr page for the picture has a link to the 150mm version:
http://flic.kr/p/a8p2UL
After much hemming and hawing I think I like the 90mm version best. And as an extra surprise, I think it reveals my lowly Angulon as sharper than my Fuji 150mm. It just doesn't have any room for movements.
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Just coming back from a trip into Banff and Yoho national parks in Canada.
I took the 4x5 for a full day hiking (20 km) and survived. I am just starting developing and scanning...
Chamonix 45n2 - Nikkor 300/9 - FP4+ Divided Pyrocat MC
http://www.lucbenacphoto.com/img/v27/p663630172-5.jpg
Cheers,
Luc
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Just coming back from a trip into Banff and Yoho national parks in Canada.
I took the 4x5 for a full day hiking (20 km) and survived. I am just starting developing and scanning...
Chamonix 45n2 - Nikkor 300/9 - FP4+ Divided Pyrocat MC
http://www.lucbenacphoto.com/img/v27/p663630172-5.jpg
Cheers,
Luc
wow lbenac, this is beautiful . Hope you enjoyed lot after reaching upto to that much height . Hats off to you.
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Lawrence - thanks. It's a walkway for swimmers to enter the lake. Here's another from a different place along the same lake;
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6013/...a93227c6_b.jpg
Montreux
Sinar F, Schneider 58mm Super Angulon XL, Ilford Delta 100 / Tanol
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lawrencebrussel
wow lbenac, this is beautiful . Hope you enjoyed lot after reaching upto to that much height . Hats off to you.
Thanks. I cheated. I was carrying the backpack with the equipment but my "sherpa" was carrying the tripod. That said this was the last leg of a 20 km hike - I took only two lenses :D Fuji-NW 125/5.6 and Nikkor-M 300/9
Cheers,
Luc
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Luc, that's a great photo! I'm glad to see you're getting good use out of the Chamonix. Sherpa's are handy :D
I have never really done any landscape, but I gave it a go over the Canada Day long weekend (Tachihara 8x10 with a Calumet Caltar 300/6.8, FP4+ in Ilfosol 3):
http://www.grahamcase.ca/blog/images..._CanadaDay.jpg
I'm currently building a lens board for a Kodak Ektar 14", and have some filters for it, so I'm looking forward to being able to do some landscapes with a red filter, and see what happens!
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Ken,
That is stunning!
Doug
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Ken Lee
Nice picture!
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David Hedley
ok but previous pic that bridge looks like an illusion to me.
But Loved your work David. And shot is also cool .
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lbenac
Thanks. I cheated. I was carrying the backpack with the equipment but my "sherpa" was carrying the tripod. That said this was the last leg of a 20 km hike - I took only two lenses :D Fuji-NW 125/5.6 and Nikkor-M 300/9
Cheers,
Luc
hahahahaha . But you did a great job anyway :o
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grahamcase
Luc, that's a great photo! I'm glad to see you're getting good use out of the Chamonix. Sherpa's are handy :D
I have never really done any landscape, but I gave it a go over the Canada Day long weekend (Tachihara 8x10 with a Calumet Caltar 300/6.8, FP4+ in Ilfosol 3):
http://www.grahamcase.ca/blog/images..._CanadaDay.jpg
I'm currently building a lens board for a Kodak Ektar 14", and have some filters for it, so I'm looking forward to being able to do some landscapes with a red filter, and see what happens!
Hello Graham,
Ok I won't hike with a 8x10 :eek:
We should try to get together after the summer.
Cheers,
Luc
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