Large Format Landscapes

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Originally Posted by SocalAstro

This is an amazing shot! Great job.

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Thank you.

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Originally Posted by Nana Sousa Dias

Thank you, Jim

Another of your fantastic skies! How do you do that? Is that a scenery you have on your backyard? ;)

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Dear Nana,

Thank you too, stranger... :)

This image, for some unknown reason, happens to be presenting itself just a wee bit too darkly, so I shall revisit the image in a few days, and possibly adjust the tones to where they should be. You ask how do I do this? Sometimes the image just seems to be as easy-peasy as making bacon, because the clouds pop out of the negative effortlessly, and then there are days that the image requires a few more hours with a hammer and a chisel to extract and release the cloud information properly from the negative. This negative was surely the latter, and for the moment, I definitely knew why after reviewing my notes.

Soft floating clouds like these, move very quickly across our Alberta backyard, and these clouds tend to hug the ground while following the jet stream above, which enters the province periodically from the southwest corner. Sometimes I get lucky, being at the right place, at the right time, and other days it was just a good hike...

jim k

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Originally Posted by SocalAstro

Thanks Jon,

I did not use a center filter. I did use a polarizer though.

This is what the camera looks like:
http://www.largeformatphotography.in...ad.php?t=67354

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Now I remember! Impressive camera!

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Originally Posted by jim kitchen

Dear Nana,

Thank you too, stranger... :)

This image, for some unknown reason, happens to be presenting itself just a wee bit too darkly, so I shall revisit the image in a few days, and possibly adjust the tones to where they should be. You ask how do I do this? Sometimes the image just seems to be as easy-peasy as making bacon, because the clouds pop out of the negative effortlessly, and then there are days that the image requires a few more hours with a hammer and a chisel to extract and release the cloud information properly from the negative. This negative was surely the latter, and for the moment, I definitely knew why after reviewing my notes.

Soft floating clouds like these, move very quickly across our Alberta backyard, and these clouds tend to hug the ground while following the jet stream above, which enters the province periodically from the southwest corner. Sometimes I get lucky, being at the right place, at the right time, and other days it was just a good hike...

jim k

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Impressive photos and impressive skies...regards.

http://cache.photosight.ru/img/0/2b3/4000673_large.jpg
Kazakhstan, Altyn-Emel national park
Linhof MT 4x5, Nikkor-SW 90/8 (B+W polarizer attached), Velvia 50QL.

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Originally Posted by dofmaster

http://cache.photosight.ru/img/0/2b3/4000673_large.jpg
Kazakhstan, Altyn-Emel national park
Linhof MT 4x5, Nikkor-SW 90/8 (B+W polarizer attached), Velvia 50QL.

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Great work from a place most people have never heard of. Thanks for sharing.

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Originally Posted by dofmaster

http://cache.photosight.ru/img/0/2b3/4000673_large.jpg
Kazakhstan, Altyn-Emel national park
Linhof MT 4x5, Nikkor-SW 90/8 (B+W polarizer attached), Velvia 50QL.

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It's a small world for sure. The shot really looks awsome, size does matter :)

Shen Hao 45, Schneider Symmar-S 210 f5.6 at f16
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5166/...6ca6d34e_b.jpg

http://cache.photosight.ru/img/e/f07/4013958_large.jpg
Kazakhstan, Altyn-Emel national park
Linhof MT 4x5, Rodenstock Sironar-S 135/5.6, Velvia 50QL.

Sorry Nicolas, you've seen it before :) Nice b/w, as always.

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Originally Posted by dofmaster

Kazakhstan, Altyn-Emel national park
Linhof MT 4x5, Rodenstock Sironar-S 135/5.6, Velvia 50QL.

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Excellent again, dofmaster. I hope there are more images of this location to come. The landscape looks similar to what you'd find in Utah or Arizona.