That's a beautiful first Palladium print. Congrats.
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That's a beautiful first Palladium print. Congrats.
Thank you Jan, I think I'm addicted!
Here is the 2nd one, but I'm having a hard time matching the print.
I need to enhance my computer skills.
Yes, very nice, Brian! It is thetype of light that pt can express so well. You'll be lugging around a lerger camera before you know it!
Pt prints are difficult to scan.
vaughn
Well if I can find one that is bigger than my 11x14 I'd be happy to lug it around.:) I'm a little nervous about pouring that much chemistry for now.
All right! It is a good idea to learn with a smaller neg. You can send me your 11x14 and I'll keep it from getting rusty until you want to start making bigger platinum prints (which unfortunately for me, won't be long, judging from your 4x5's!)
Wonderful feeling of light -- even on the computer screen.
vaughn
Vaughn, if you saw my 11x14 you'd laugh. It has a few character flaws in all the wrong places, but it works most of the time.:)
Thanks for the kind words, greatly appreciated!
I see how people become addicted to this process, I absolutely love the look and feel of the finished print.
Near Steamboat Rock/ Grand Coulee Washington. The sun on the grass and tree was so bright the sky actually came out underexposed.
went out shooting more burned trees this weekend, this time along Corral Canyon Road in Malibu. http://www.buckshotsblog.com/?p=64
90 Super Angulon:
http://www.buckshotsblog.com/wp-cont...corral_02a.jpg
240 G-claron:
http://www.buckshotsblog.com/wp-cont...corral_04a.jpg
I just wanted to thank Daniel and all the contributers to this wonderful thread. I have been checking for new posted images whenever time permits. Great photos everyone!
My first 5x7 contact print.
B&J Commercial View, 210mm Symmar convertible.
Kodak 320TXP, HC-110 dil D
Ilford MGIV RC Deluxe
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/222/4...0a06341211.jpg
Gum at Devils Marbles Central Australia
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/180/4...cfbb8367c2.jpg
Mountain Ash on Narrow Neck Plateau The Blue Mountains
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/243/4...18f0cdeb81.jpg
Tree struggles to hold onto the rock The Top End
wonderful contrast and tones on the first one Leonard! Is that a product of the film choice and development? or the scene itself? I love it!
Len, I love the first two shots, especially the tonality.
A tree at the old Pensacola cemetery:
http://www.rbarkerphoto.com/Misc/Tra...tone-550bw.jpg
Testing reciprocity....The neg was a little bit too thin and the palm fronds suffered from it....
Messing around with some 1949-expired Defender 4x5 I found. I was surprised to get any image at all from it.
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/173/4...bdaab178_d.jpg
Here is an image for your tree collection, just because you said you like trees. This image is not worthy of the forum's quality. It was raining when I took this shot. I'm surprised the image even came out this well. But this is one of the Titan redwoods of Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park. Have your read about the titans in the book by Preston, The Wild Trees? Anyway, I decided to go and find them. Which I did. Grove of Titans that I found. That's my page about my hunt. Wish I could say where they are, but it needs to remain a secret. I'll be returning this month to camp, and maybe get much better photos. This tree below is not in the Grove of Titans, but is in the park as a co-champion for largest known redwood in the world. It's the Del Norte Titan. If anyone has not read The Wild Trees, go to my page link, scroll down, and find a link to one of the chapter from the book online at Orion's website... Looks like the forum software shrinks the images a bit - oh, well... Enjoy...
What sort of large format camera do you take with you on your adventures. I find hauling my 8x10 cross-country through the redwoods to be quite harlarious at times...seems like I spend more time hortizontal than vertical! LOL!
Since it is closer, I tend to stay down around Redwood National Park, but Jedediah certainly is a great place.
Vaughn
There ain't no way I'd have hauled a large format camera to these particular redwoods - just my small digital. That was just a sharing of a tree, since the initial post expressed enjoyment of trees. And this Titan is scarce on the internet as far as photos go. I wish I could share it's location so others could experiment, but that still does not eliminate the terrain difficulty.
In that park, Jedediah Smith Redwoods, I think that the Boy Scout Tree trail might offer a decent variety of tree specimens, where access is relatively easy-going.
In the autumn, there are some very interesting displays of sulfur shelf fungi that photographers might enjoy experimenting with. But you almost have to live near there, or drive there monthly to get the right weather at the right time.
There are some wood bridges along Hiouchi trail, and Hatton trail, that seem to provide for nice photographs. I think that late spring would be the time to photograph those foot bridges, after new fern fronds have developed. And there might even be a few Rhododendrons blooming.
150mm f2.9 Plaubel Anticomar
six trees
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2407/...fb97f5419b.jpg
one root system
More aspens. Somewhere off hwy 24 in Colorado years ago.
Gorman, CA
Gale
that's got a really nice feel to it bob. pretty.
Oh damn! that's nice Colin.
I'll second that. Not only beautiful, but also majestic, and mysterious. And all in equal measure.
Very nice Colin!
4x5 PD/PT
http://ashphotography.ca/zenphoto/al...each/palms.jpg
A new one. From Long Beach. Not my usual type of trees :)
50mm pinhole.
Colin, that last image is very nice. I only wish I could see it larger. It must be even more powerful...
lostcoyote, I love the six trees. And I'm sure computer screen does not represent the tonality perfectly. I'm happy I have not seen it in print, as I would not return it to you :)
Hi all,
Beech woods near Guildford, Surrey in the UK.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2297/...6d9fe1fa11.jpg
Cheers,
James
Trees and tubes, Switzerland 3 weeks ago. Tachihara with Rodenstock 150 on Ilford FP4. Lot of potential there, I shall return.
Many thanks for the comments.
I'm glad this thread keep going, some really nice work here.
i'm pretty sure it was expanded and it prints normally
thanks for the comments... my scans are all done on a cheesy flatbed so yeah, the quality here's not on par with any print, either conventional or digital.
here's some silhoutted oaks...
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2021/...cfa4edc3b7.jpg
here is one of my first photographs in LF - Wista RF, 203mm Ektar, 4x5 Kodak HIE, #25 red, the print is cleaner of course and with Septone inks well defined tonalities and detail make this print one of my favorites
Lost Coyote,
your work is phenomenal. keep posting in the pic threads!
Zebra
Here's what's left of a tree or two, Point Lobos, CA, October 2006. I'm pleased at how much detail I got from the scan of this negative, which combines too dense with too thin.
Drew
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i will try and post a tree i took today in port penn , delaware . this is my first posting and i hope i am doing this right . we'll see
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ha . it worked i am always amazed i can do the simplest things . touche !!!
Finding that special tree or composition is the beginning. When I'm in Italy, I scout with just a small digital camera so I'm mobile, then come back when the light is perfect with my real camera.
Anyone do this for trees?
Asher
Asher, thank you.
Difficult print, but I like the way it came out.
sometime ago I decided that paper flashing can be abused if for the right reasons.
The light areas of the background are totally dark in the negative, impossible to print through.
SO I flashed the paper to get to the tonalities you see in the sky and rest was printed in grade 5.
By the way, I have a beautiful specimen of this image in 3x41/2 in. framed in 11x14.
Interested? ;)
nice light Robert - a real favorite time of the day for me