Re: Large Format Landscapes
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Sal Santamaura
Please name names, particularly for C-41. :)
Do you scan them yourself? Using which scanner? Is the Ektar emulsion dull enough to preclude newton's rings in the absence of wet mounting?
Please do recommend them.
Thanks again!
C-41 LF processing - I've used Denver Digital Imaging (aka the Slideprinter) and Reed Photo Imaging.
I scan on an Epson 4990. I've had no trouble with newton rings with the elevated holders. The Ektar emulsion is quite glossy. I fluid mount on this scanner with a betterscanning holder when I want better quality scans.
I've recently started printing with myphotopipe.com. They're out of Atlanta and the quality is very good and they can print up to 60" width. Denver Digital Imaging also does excellent Chromira printing up to 30". Both have a good color workflow.
Re: Large Format Landscapes
Great images everyone... :)
A recent image.
jim k
Re: Large Format Landscapes
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dh003i
Jim Kitchen, mandoman7, and David Hendley all have excellent landscapes. Jim Kitchen's image focuses mostly on the clouds...
Dear dh003i,
I wish I knew your name.
Thank you for your comments and including me within this group, but a simple note without sounding rude, you certainly left out a few other excellent image makers that populate this forum, and produce superlative landscape images, such as Nana and Steve, et al... :)
That said, and just to take a moment of your time to let you know, these landscape images are bound to be reviewed for a series that I am currently working on, complete with several rancher's portraits, and the dirt they own along the Cowboy Trail in Alberta. The Cowboy Trail is filled with grand vistas, huge open skies, and you are periodically blessed with a few fabulous cloud formations, during your journey. As I mentioned earlier, and whether I consider that the foreground could add value to the scene, I will add more foreground to an image, compared to not, but only if the included foreground compliments any artistic rule within my viewing card. Most of the time though the clouds along the Cowboy Trail win that decision making process quickly, while I try to balance the image with a clean simple horizon.
As a side note, and to be very specific about any individuals within this group that believe these images are cliche, then that happens to be their problem, not mine, since I am creating these images with purpose, and I do not create these images to garner any specific individual's approval nor am I seeking attention. I am honoured to be spoken about and included within a group of forum individuals, in such a way that a few of my images might propel another image maker within this group to seek a better level. I am very glad that I could assist them, whether they are reviewing my images and, or asking a technical question, because I also take the time to enrich myself by viewing many other excellent image maker's creative work within this group, and I always wonder how they achieve such an excellent image, and whether I could achieve that level of proficient excellence too.
Lastly, and if you have a moment, you could take a quick look at my website, to view a few simple images that do not contain clouds...
jim k
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Deardorff 8x10 w/5x7 Reducing back, 10" Commercial Ektar, TMax I think, although could be TX320. Can't remember the exposure ... too many margaritias around the campfire the night before, and I'm terrible at record keeping. This is only the second one I've ever posted (the other is in the "Water's Edge" post.)
Re: Large Format Landscapes
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Richard Rau
Deardorff 8x10 w/5x7 Reducing back, 10" Commercial Ektar, TMax I think, although could be TX320. Can't remember the exposure ... too many margaritias around the campfire the night before, and I'm terrible at record keeping. This is only the second one I've ever posted (the other is in the "Water's Edge" post.)
nice image
Re: Large Format Landscapes
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Originally Posted by
Richard Rau
Too many margaritias around the campfire the night before, and I'm terrible at record keeping...
Dear Richard,
Maybe the margaritas are your secret weapon... :)
Nicely done.
jim k
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Thanks Jim. Appreciate the nice comments. I like some of your wide landscapes as well. You gotta work fast to get some of those cloud formations, Either that, or you're a lot more patient than me! Gives me a whole new perspective of what Canada looks like.
Ok, here's one more, while I was miles from nowhere in the far reaches of Capital Reef Nat. Park, photographed in the fall. Yeah ... yeah, I know, it looks like a postcard. Details, I think, that I shot it with a Deardorff 4x5 Special, maybe a 150 mm Nikkor, could have been a 210. Definitely a K2 Yellow filter stuck in there somewhere. Does it really matter? Again, probably too much single malt the night before around the campfire, (hmmm, maybe there's a trend here.)
Re: Large Format Landscapes
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Originally Posted by
Richard Rau
...too many margaritas...
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Richard Rau
...Again, probably too much single malt...
Glad you were able to focus on the GG and get these shots – what sunny drama in each.
And about those margaritas & single malts – heck, Ralph Waldo Emerson would have understood…
“As the traveller who has lost his way, throws his reins on his horse’s neck, and trusts to the instinct of the animal to find his road, so must we do with the divine animal who carries us through this world. For if in any manner we can stimulate this instinct, new passages are opened for us into nature, the mind flows into and through things hardest and highest, and the metamorphosis is possible. This is the reason why bards love wine, mead, narcotics, coffee, tea, opium, the fumes of sandalwood and tobacco, or whatever other species of animal exhilaration. All men avail themselves of such means as they can, to add this extraordinary power to their normal powers…”
Look forward to more!
;)
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Valle de Mena, Burgos, Spain. Whole plate ( cropped a little bit ) contact print. Sepia toned. Turner Reich triple convertible 5x8 lens, 14 inch back element only.
Igor.
Re: Large Format Landscapes
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Originally Posted by
jim kitchen
... a simple note without sounding rude, you certainly left out a few other excellent image makers that populate this forum, and produce superlative landscape images, such as Nana and Steve, et al... :)
The ‘et al’ is very important – I try to make time to look at many of the photographs posted here, and enjoy looking out for those posted by gandolfi, Jiri Vasina, jnanian, Jim Kitchen, Andrew ren, Christopher Broadbent, Victoria Perelet, Sam Reeves ... amongst many others. Photographers whose work I have got to know through this forum – such as Paul Schilliger – remain important to me even if they have not posted here for some time. This thread, and the alternative processes and portraits threads, seem to attract postings which are usually excellent, and sometimes inspirational. The only comment I have on the question of cliché is that the cycle of initial interest, emulation, innovation and transfiguration does seem to be important in photography – just as it is in music, literature or painting – and is certainly more complex than a simple polarisation allows.
