Wow, Jim, fantastic...
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Wow, Jim, fantastic...
Jim, great image!
Nice image Jim. Very dramatic with a bit of a twist. I guess I would call it a reversed atmospheric distance sort of thing. -- where the foreground appears lighter than the far distance. This conflicts with how my brain wants to interpret the scene, adding a little tension into the image.
Gentlemen,
Merci... :)
The distance issue Vaughn, was surely influenced by the rapidly changing cloud pattern during that afternoon, where the cloud's shadows, combined with the adjacent mountain's shadows, influenced the light upon the distant valley. As I made the exposure the light in the valley changed, causing a slight underexposure, but not enough to cause the image to suffer. I remember that I clearly had a very difficult time with the image's total tonal balance in the darkroom, as I made a few silver prints several years ago. The darkened valley produced a very distinct tonal range with wonderful deep blacks, excellent clarity, and great separation among the distant trees. The leading edge of the valley's trees, as they fall away into the valley, became enveloped in total cloud cover too, and the tree's rich black tops provide a small yet visible atmospheric shift to the distant valley. I found the darkened cloud cover to be an unexpected, but value added effect in the image.
Again gentlemen, thank you.
jim k
Jim - a wonderful photograph, and it might be my favourite of those you have posted so far. I will definitely have to visit this area at some time, and while I'm still able to climb.
Chilnualna Creek, Yosemite National Park
Scanned 8x10 platinum/palladium print
Warner Lake, Manti-La Sal National Forrest, Utah.
Shen-Hao 4x5, Fugi-Quickload ISO 100.
Unfortunately, there were no clouds.
Seeli
http://i121.photobucket.com/albums/o...o/seeli-3a.jpg
Toyo 4x5, Nikkor 300mm, Ilford Delta 100 / PMK Pyro, yellow filter
f/32, 1s
Another from last weekend;
Brunnen, towards Bristen
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2614/...50d95887_b.jpg
Toyo metal field (4x5), Schneider 180mm, Ilford Delta 100 / PMK Pyro, orange filter
f22 2/3, 1s
Nice one, David!
I hope my contribution is enough 'landscapy' to be in the right topic here.
Made with a Burke&James with a 210mm lens on HP5+, developed in Rodinal 1+25
http://dongen.its-s.tudelft.nl/photo...91122-0005.jpg