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StoneNYC
Wow lovely control of contrast in this, how did you get the whites so nice while bringing up the stone on the mountain so well? Excellent!
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Old-N-Feeble
Orange or red filter plus good choice of film and developer plus excellent control of exposure and development plus excellent scanning and/or printing techniques. Everything put together there is a very long and straight gamma curve minimizing compression all the way from Z III to Z VIII or IX. Printed on fixed grade 3 paper is my guess... or post processing is very good.
Hi Stone and Old-N-Feeble; thanks for the kind words. Normally I use the Zone system pretty much as Adams recommends, but the key thing for me is not to compress the tonal curve too much, otherwise everything seems (to me) to head towards a muddy grey middle ground. In high contrast situations like this scene, where there is full sun on snow, I’m probably putting ‘N’ a maximum of 1 1/3 stops below Zone IX. Development is normal, and I’m therefore relying on the film to handle the shadows. This is almost the reverse of the normal advice of ‘expose for the shadows and develop for the highlights’, but it seems to work well with both Fuji Acros and Ilford Delta 100, perhaps because they do offer a longer curve. I’m rating these films at either EI64 or EI80, depending on the contrast in the scene, and varying the development time a little as well, depending on the EI.
I used Ilford Delta 100 & PMK Pyro for several years – I think the pyro stain also helps contain the highlights within a full tonal curve – but I can’t find supplies of this developer in Europe any longer (neither Silverprint nor Lotus carry it). I began to try Acros with Xtol 1:1, and have been really impressed so far. Any experience and guidance on either Acros or Xtol would be appreciated!
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Peter Yeti
Wow, what an impressive mountain view! May I ask from where you took this? Somewhere close to the station at Jungfraujoch maybe?
Peter
Thanks Peter. This is over on the other side of the Bernese Oberland, from Eggishorn in the Aletsch area. I think there is a fairly challenging ski-trek to bring you over the back of the Bernese Oberland (either down from the Jungfraujoch towards Aletsch, past the Konkordiahütte, or in the opposite direction), but you need experience of cross-country skiing on glaciers for that.
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Hi, thanks for looking and commenting.
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David Hedley
May I ask where this was taken, Dirk? The composition and the rendering of the sky remind me of some of the mid-19th century romantic landscape painting of the Swiss landscape.
I was wrong with Oberwinter (GPS in my 5x7 can be unrealiable :cool: ) - actually it was taken at the small harbour of Brohl-Lützing. It was a very misty day, not uncommon in the valleys of the Rhine. The light can be spectacular in those cases.
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Peter Yeti
This is lovely and quite Sanderish, indeed. But I'm afraid that most people here are little familiar with August Sander's "Rheinlandschaften" or basically most of his work. What a pity.
Hi Peter, a few people, like yourself, will be familiar, that's all that matters. Many thanks for the comment, much appreciated!
Dirk
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Sinar F - Rodenstock Grandagon N 90 6.8 - Kodak Tmax 400 - Kodak HC-110 dil E. (1+47) - Yellow Filter
Tino's Island view from Palmaria Island
"5 Terre" Natural Reserve
Liguria - Italy
https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8702/...077b78e8_c.jpgIsola del Tino by Matteo Lazzerini, on Flickr
Matteo
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Ignace Ontario, a little place I love to go to even tho there is basically just this one feature - Raleigh Falls.
I drove an hour each way, and only took this one photo.
https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8692/...b1538b6f_c.jpg
Toyo 810G, Schneider - Kreuznach Symmar 355mm lens.
Film used was Fomapan 100, tray developed in HC-110 dilution 'B' for 7.5 mins at 18C.
Approximately 5 seconds at F64.
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David Hedley
Thanks Peter. This is over on the other side of the Bernese Oberland, from Eggishorn in the Aletsch area. I think there is a fairly challenging ski-trek to bring you over the back of the Bernese Oberland (either down from the Jungfraujoch towards Aletsch, past the Konkordiahütte, or in the opposite direction), but you need experience of cross-country skiing on glaciers for that.
Thank you, David. I don't know about the ski-trek but in summer it seems to be a fairly easy glacier tour going all the way down from Jungfraujoch to Konkordiaplatz and further on the Aletsch glacier. But I probably wouldn't want to carry my LF equipment.
Peter
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Dirk Rösler
Hi, thanks for looking and commenting.
I was wrong with Oberwinter (GPS in my 5x7 can be unrealiable :cool: ) - actually it was taken at the small
harbour of Brohl-Lützing. It was a very misty day, not uncommon in the valleys of the Rhine. The light can be spectacular in those cases.
Hi Peter, a few people, like yourself, will be familiar, that's all that matters. Many thanks for the comment, much appreciated!
Dirk
You are right, Dirk. But I think that quite many photographers are missing out because Sander's work is so little known internationally. Of course its strongest influence was on portrait, though even this didn't make it over to the other side of the great pond. Oh well...
Peter
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glass eye
Matteo,
I like your composition on this. Very nice use of the overhanging tree.
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I have to agree, the use of the tree with the island works really well imo
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Lake district, 4x5 Fomapan 100, Toyo VX125b and Schneider Super-Angulon 72mm f5.6 XL...
https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5450/...ecf17533_o.jpg
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spkennedy3000
Lake district, 4x5 Fomapan 100, (Toyo VX125b * ) and ( Schneider Super-Angulon 72mm f5.6 XL **).
* drool
** drool
