Re: Large Format Landscapes
Finarphin,
I think most people are being polite and are afraid too offend. Take your image for example. I like the image over all, but there are some things I would have done differently. Focus seems a tad soft for my tastes. A sharpen in post would help. There is not enough foreground to balance the image. The viewer gets very little hint as to how the monolith relates to the landscape. I do like the overbearing intensity. The question is whether it could be maintained with a different composition. You should try to work in the tree on the left rather than just lop it off. It is the most dominant object in the foreground. You gotta deal with it. By moving back some I think the smaller trees at the base could have played a different role.
I do like how the shadows on the face worked out. The contrast with the lit areas is great. Overall it is a good image.
Camera? Lens? Filter? Film? Processing?
This is the kind of review I would personally request. I would gladly offer the same given I had the time.
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Attachment 121743 Conrad Savanna Nature Preserve, 453 acres in northern Indiana 8x10" fujichrome
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FlashGordon
Maybe this one fits better into "alternative printing", however here it is:
Sinar P, Schneider Kreuznach 180/5.6, 9x12 Wephota NP15@25ASA in D-76 stock, printed on liquid emulsion, bleached and "bromoil processed"
http://www.largeformatphotography.in...8&d=1410438121
Sea View
this is great work
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Glad to discover new, interesting visuals through this thread !
Here is one from recently summer vacations.
It is sunrise (contre-jour) up in the Aubrac region in France.
Wonderful land.
There was too much to hold on one whole film negative,
but I decide to try anyway.
Adox 100 ASA b&w film(exposed at 25asa)
Dev -3
Scan 4x5" neg
Thats my tiny contribution,
MAC
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Breath taking!
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Originally Posted by
Miguel Coquis
Glad to discover new, interesting visuals through this thread !
Here is one from recently summer vacations.
It is sunrise (contre-jour) up in the Aubrac region in France.
Wonderful land.
There was too much to hold on one whole film negative,
but I decide to try anyway.
Adox 100 ASA b&w film(exposed at 25asa)
Dev -3
Scan 4x5" neg
Thats my tiny contribution,
MAC
Re: Large Format Landscapes
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Originally Posted by
Miguel Coquis
Glad to discover new, interesting visuals through this thread !
Here is one from recently summer vacations.
It is sunrise (contre-jour) up in the Aubrac region in France.
Wonderful land.
There was too much to hold on one whole film negative,
but I decide to try anyway.
Adox 100 ASA b&w film(exposed at 25asa)
Dev -3
Scan 4x5" neg
Thats my tiny contribution,
MAC
Very nice shot. Dev -3 means you developed 3 minutes less time to compensate for the 2 stops overexposure?
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hiend61
Very nice shot. Dev -3 means you developed 3 minutes less time to compensate for the 2 stops overexposure?
Basically, this are Zone system protocols.
More exposure, less dev intends to hold Zones III, V in place and bringing highlights nearer to Zone VII.
When the intensity range of values are to large on the subject, it would be necessary to produce "contraction".
The opposite situation, short range will suggere "expantion".
This are not rules, this are only a way of seeing and opens to different interpretation possibilitys.
Please check Adams, Minor White, Lorenz...etc for an approche to "Zone System".
Thanks for your comments, premortho, hiend.
MAC
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hiend61
Very nice shot. Dev -3 means you developed 3 minutes less time to compensate for the 2 stops overexposure?
A Dev -3 does not always mean 3 minutes less.
Each - increment (or + increment) is a percentage is a percentage of the original Dev time.
http://people.goshen.edu/~marvinpb/zone.html
http://www.largeformatphotography.in...tc-development
Some people do 10% increments, some do 15% increments and some do 20% increments.
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Light Guru
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Some people do 10% increments, some do 15% increments and some do 20% increments.
And some do sufficient testing with a Stouffer step wedge at different dev times to enable plots of characteristic curve at each dev time and can then obtain (1) a close estimate of the dev time needed each expansion/contraction and (2) the amount of additional exposure time needed to preserve shadow detail when using contractions. A densitometer is used for these tests to read the plot points from the separate negatives of the step wedge.
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