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Dear Denise, David et al,
Merci for your kind comments... :)
When I post an image to the Forum, I am not attentive to any special image attributes, because I have never witnessed an image displayed properly on any web site, even my own. So, with that thought in mind I do not make an exquisite image for the web, given the display portal's issues, and the fact that I do not know whether any individual's monitor is calibrated properly, or not. I am not frustrated by this, but the displayed and heavily reduced image quality can surely detract from the perceived final image, compared to the original framed image. JPEGs drive me crazy with their inglorious induced artifacts, but having said that, the JPEG issue is a moot point, regarding a quick and dirty web image.
I set my JPEG images into a special folder within my website, and I reference that image through HTML code which is buried in text that accompanies my image. There are references to this method within the Large Format Forum, but it is very simple to do, especially if you have access to an external server. The code resembles the following:
"[IMG]" some web location where the image happens to be "[/IMG]"
I do however, reduce the file size to accommodate a reasonable internet delivery time, and I try to keep the size of the displayed image to a set of reasonable dimensions. Dial-up connections are unfortunately, slower, but sometimes that issue is negated with a great image on your monitor. Small images are great too, where I periodically review a return to the smaller format, but never seem to do that exercise.
Again, thank you.
jim k
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Matterhorn reflected in the Riffelsee, Zermatt
Toyo metal field (4x5), Fujinon 90mm, Ilford Delta 100 / PMK Pyro
this is very nice!
Solid.
Andrew
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Sunset, Barrier Lake Entrance, Kananaskis Provincial Park, Alberta, Canada, 2009
Jim,
I think this one will look very nice on a silver contact. the texture, the tonality, almost like a abstract.
Andrew
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Valley of Fire State Park, Nevada. The area is called "Fire Canyon"
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The nicest time to photograph under the redwoods, especially on a cloudy day, is 10am to 2pm. Don't have to wake too early and home in time for tea...
Vaughn
PS...sid, very nice image -- great use of color in the composition.
Second PS...I like it even more with about half the sky -- that allows the red going off to the upper right side to become more significant. Just a personal quirk...
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Sid,
I've got to agree that the color in the composition makes it work. Lots of items guiding the eye up through the photo.
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Great images everyone... :)
Another recent image, which happens to show my son Alex's second favourite fly fishing pond in mid October. We've sat on that snow covered picnic table several times enjoying the view of Mount Kidd located on the opposite side of the pond...
While I was there and wiping the falling snow off my equipment, two Loons were having fun in the pond, diving and swimming underwater obviously looking for a small snack. I could not help play a game myself to see where they would surface, once they dove underwater. I failed miserably at that game.
As a side note, this view looks east south east to the Fisher Mountain Range, and this view is not a view of Wedge Mountain, where Wedge Mountain happens to be to the right and due south of this location.
jim k
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That's a beauty, Jim; there's a powerful sense of both permanence and change.
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Thought about putting this in the rocks thread, or maybe trees, but decided on here instead. Tulelake Wildlife Refuge, California. 4x5, fuji 240, on some FP4 that Eddie gave me over a year ago when I bought some film holders from him. At the time my idea of developing film was putting chromes in the mail, so I had no idea what I was going to do with it! It languished in a pile of junk on a desk until I recently dug it out.
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Thanks for the feedback Vaughn.
I left that much sky because I felt the clouds made it more interesting. Had it been a plain blues sky I would have cut more of it out.
Sid
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CORRECTION:
I mean "a plain blue sky". A blues sky would be much more interesting
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Lake Umbagog, New Hampshire, viewed from just across the border in Upton, Maine.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2707/...c7035523_o.jpg
4x5 Graflex GV-II, 162mm Optar, f/22, yellow filter, 1/120 sec.
FP4+, pyrocat-MC 2:2:100, scanned negative
Joe
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Great Images everyone... :)
Another image from this past February, while heading to the southwest corner of the Province...
A young Coyote happened to cross my path on this bitterly and blustery cold day while I set my camera, where it paused for a second to gaze at me and my equipment, and quickly continued with his hastened gait toward the foothills. I do remember that the late afternoon temperature approached minus 40 degrees Celsius with the wind, adding too an unwelcome feeling to my southwesterly jaunt.
jim k
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Jim,
this image is quite something...
it looks as a quite windy circumstance .
Andrew
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here's my first picture contribution everybody.
this was taken at uvas canyon county park in gilroy, ca.
speed graphic, fuji 90 f8 lens, kodak 160vc.
as soon as i saw it, i thought it should be called "my big toe" :p
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Coyote Path, Clearing February Squall, South South West of Stavely, Alberta, Canada, 2009
Forbidding, but also utterly compelling!
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Great Images everyone... :)
Another image from this past February, while heading to the southwest corner of the Province...
A young Coyote happened to cross my path on this bitterly and blustery cold day while I set my camera, where it paused for a second to gaze at me and my equipment, and quickly continued with his hastened gait toward the foothills. I do remember that the late afternoon temperature approached minus 40 degrees Celsius with the wind, adding too an unwelcome feeling to my southwesterly jaunt.
jim k
Great image, Jim. As usual. :)
But... minus 40? I really don't know how you do it, I start freezing at 40 F above...
This just adds a whole new quality to your images in my mind.
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Gentlemen,
Thank you for your comments... :)
The weather in south central Alberta can be a mixed bag at the best of times, but there are days when the mountains block any massive northern cold air mass from cruising into the southwestern corner of British Columbia. These Alberta Clippers are redirected by the mountains, where they can be cruel with their large cold air mass and when the wind picks up, you are exposed to a wind chill factors that would spook your mom. The coldest wind chill factors I have ever encountered happened to be minus sixty (60) degrees Celsius a few years ago in a small town called Estevan, located in southeast Saskatchewan, near the American border and the State of North Dakota. I had to let my vehicle run continuously for five days straight to keep the vehicle alive, filling the pickup truck with gas every morning. It was not a healthy exercise for the environment, but it was healthy for my pickup truck.
This image shows a condition that exists periodically along the leeward side of the Canadian Rockies, where a strong westerly flow of warm air occasionally hiccups over the mountains from southwest British Columbia, throwing a wee bit of warm moist air at higher elevations into any large cold Alberta air mass, therefore causing the short lived squalls of snow. The warm British Columbia air mass happens to be visible within the image, where the wave patterns in the upper atmosphere show as stripes along the left side of the image. The stripes are the condensed tops of several warm air mass wave forms entering Alberta from British Columbia.
Living within this area causes you to adjust to the weather conditions quickly, and to be prepared for any incremental inclement weather condition that any northern cold air mass can direct your way. My equipment and I surely change character in a heartbeat...
Again, thank you.
jim k
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Great images everyone... :)
An image from this past September, while hiking within Kananaskis Provincial Park along a ridge at the base of Mount Baldy, where the ridge happens to overlook Barrier Lake's southern entrance and provides a good view of Mount Lorette's leeward side...
jim k
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Nice! Jim K. I don't know what else to say. I'd be happy to hang that on my wall.
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I had to let my vehicle run continuously for five days straight to keep the vehicle alive, filling the pickup truck with gas every morning.
Those of us who have spent time in Manitoba/Saskatchewan/North Dakota/Minnesota have at least a passing familiarity with something called a block heater.
Guess the idea hasn't hit Alberta; must be those chinooks lulling people into complacency :)
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Dear r.e.,
I spent two long years in that neck of the woods, and every winter my block heater would crap out on me, once the temperature went south of minus 40 degrees Celsius.
The jaunt from the heated truck to the field office was very brisk during those intense cold spells... :)
Merci Richard, too.
jim k
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Jim, I am assuming that you used (at the least) filtration to achieve such bright values for the aspens and such dark values for the conifers. I would love to know what techniques you use to achieve that separation. It is really striking in this photo. Surely it's more than waiting for a sunray to land just on those aspens.
Rick "curious" Denney
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Rick, my guess would be an orange filter (it would have more affect on the greens than a yellow filter would). But a yellow filter is a favorite tool of mine right now. Under the redwoods, the maples (Vine and Big-leaf) are peaking and the yellow filter really make the yellow leaves snap. Soon the berries and cascara will start turning yellow also.
Vaughn
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Jim, I am assuming that you used (at the least) filtration to achieve such bright values for the aspens and such dark values for the conifers. I would love to know what techniques you use to achieve that separation. It is really striking in this photo. Surely it's more than waiting for a sunray to land just on those aspens.
Rick "curious" Denney
Dear Rick et al,
Again, thank you for your comments... :)
I do my "filtration" in the darkroom and I learned to transfer my darkroom filtration techniques into Photoshop, after recognizing a momentary darkroom tonal separation technique discussed by Bruce Barnbaum, Jay Dusard, and Ray McSavaney, while attending an Owens Valley Workshop or two, many years ago.
The image you discuss happened to be lighted by a thick haze covered sky, producing a softer more even light than I expected within the shadows and the background, but allowed the negative to produce a wonderfully soft image none the less. I knew that I had to apply a few darkroom techniques to raise the lighter tree's luminosity and control the pine tree's darker tonality within the foreground grouping, before I would consider printing an image. The negative's information controlled the original pine tree tonality, causing me to direct my attention to lightening the foreground trees properly, and effectively.
That said, the process happens to be a very, very tedious, and time-consuming exercise that could allow anyone to bring out specific features within their images, especially if the information you wish to display properly would normally remain dormant, or forever forgotten within the image. I process each image stage in a reiterative fashion, holding onto the original image I saw in my head prior to the negative's exposure, where each image stage is reassessed at the end of an iteration. The iterations depend upon the subject's complexity, my challenging patience, the shadow detail's luminosity I wish to display within the final image, and the tonal separation I wish to express.
Please feel free to contact me off list, where I should be able to point you in the right direction to start, and possibly supply you with a few good hints along the way. I know I could write a long winded exercise here, regarding this subject and the associated techniques that fulfill this subject, but my writing could occupy a book or two. It is however, an interesting exercise that an individual must practice to obtain consistent results.
Again, thank you for your interest...
jim k
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............... I know I could write a long winded exercise here, regarding this subject and the associated techniques that fulfill this subject, but my writing could occupy a book or two. It is however, an interesting exercise that an individual must practice to obtain consistent results............
I would love to hear some more from you, Jim, regarding that technique, and if it needs a book or two to contain it, then here's your first buyer. Anything that you would be willing to share in the way of details would be most gratefully received. The landscapes you have given us a view of have convinced me that whatever you have to say regarding their execution would be very much worth reading. Particularly, the original technique for wet darkroom work, since I'm not that much of a Photoshop guy.
Thanks again for some luminous work.
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One from yesterday - Evening clouds gather over Breithorn and Tschingelhorn;
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2655/...2b6bdaa1_b.jpg
Toyo metal field (4x5), Schneider 180mm, Ilford Delta 100 / PMK Pyro, orange filter
f/32 1/3, 1/4s
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I would love to hear some more from you, Jim, regarding that technique, and if it needs a book or two to contain it, then here's your first buyer. Anything that you would be willing to share in the way of details would be most gratefully received. The landscapes you have given us a view of have convinced me that whatever you have to say regarding their execution would be very much worth reading. Particularly, the original technique for wet darkroom work, since I'm not that much of a Photoshop guy.
Thanks again for some luminous work.
I wholeheartedly second that. All of it.
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Stunning mountainscape, David. The sense that is conveyed of the volume of space opening out before the viewer across to the range of peaks is so vivid that I could almost feel ice-wind in my nostrils. Well done indeed.
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Gentlemen,
Thank you for your encouragement about the book... :)
I would not wait for anything that I write, but I would like to direct you to an American Master Printer and image maker that taught me the method I use, and opened a door to my historical knowledge base, regarding my darkroom technique, and my eventual transfer of that technique to Photoshop.
I highly recommend this gentleman's images: http://www.barnbaum.com/Welcome.html
where Bruce certainly utilizes the method more effectively in a few of his images than I ever could,
and his text: http://www.barnbaum.com/Books_1.html
that touches upon and briefly illustrates the luminous method I used within in the darkroom, and more. This text is a valuable tool for any interested black and white printer, whether you are dedicated to a wet image in the darkroom, or interested in transferring the negative's information to the digital world.
I believe that darkroom printers might enjoy this method using Potassium Ferricyanide, and water. Once you witness the effect it could have upon a darkened image, where I must take a moment to reiterate how quickly it could damage a finished image too, you should be able to produce an effective image with a few hours of diligent practice. The method is not simple nor unique, but the method can be exquisite, when executed properly.
jim k
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Ah, yes Jim. Liquid light! Great stuff and Bruce's article is a good one. I have the one from his book.
Jim
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Truly stunning David. The contorted forms of the rock layers and the powder snow finish directs my eyes all over the image and the atmospheric conditions worked out really well. Very well done.
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Dear David,
Great image... :)
Captured at a fabulous time of day.
jim k
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Dear Group,
Another image I found from the past... :)
This area, near Kananaskis Provincial Park's southern boundary, is open to free range cattle ranching, where cattle call sounds echo continuously among the trees, and the foothills. The park's southern boundary presents a very different atmosphere, compared to the balance of the park. The Alberta and British Columbia border follows the mountain top ridge...
jim k
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Thought I'd pop in one of my recent images,taken today, this is the rebuilt hut used in the Man from Snowy River Movie, it was burnt down a few years back and re built, Tachihara 4x5, Schneider 210mm, 30 @ f22, ERA at 80asa, Dev Ilford LC29 @ 1+19
Regards to all
Brian :D
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Clouds over Woodlawn, Ontario - the view from the end of my laneway. Grafelx 1/4 plate Super D, old brass projection lens I bought for a $ at a flea market, Efke PL100 sheet film, red filter, 1/300 at wide open (?f4) I like the soft effect this old lens gives.
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Free Range, Base of Armstrong Mountain, Kananaskis Provincial Park, Alberta, Canada, 1985
I like that a lot, Jim; when I first looked at it I thought you had captured a star wars freighter that had crashed headfirst into the Canadian tundra, leaving only the smoking engine cowlings visible :-)
Many thanks for all the positive comments on the photograph posted earlier; here is another from the Bernese Oberland, taken a little earlier in the afternoon than that one;
Eiger, Mönch, Jungfrau
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3497/...94b48bc9_b.jpg
Toyo metal field (4x5), Fujinon 90mm, Ilford Delta 100 / PMK Pyro, orange filter
f/32 1/3, 1/8s
I apologise in advance if this is too large - I can't find a smaller size that looks sensible.
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I apologise in advance if this is too large - I can't find a smaller size that looks sensible.
I wish it was even larger, so I could see this image "more real"... and I wish I had a larger monitor. This tiny screen on the Macbook is not cutting it.
I love the huge sky. Sometimes being in the mountains lets me see how huge the sky is, this image captures something of that.
Thank you for showing these wonderful pictures!
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Wow, David, that last one is fantastic. I think it is my favorite of all your recent ones. The sky is nice, and I just like the geometry of those peaks, which the light brings out nicely.
Not as dramatic, but this is one of our local peak, Mount McLaughlin. It kind of gets lost, being between Mt. Shasta, the Three Sisters (near Bend) and Mount Hood. The lake is Klamath Lake, the largest lake in Oregon. This shot is taken with the Fuji 400T from a ridge above the east side of the lake.
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Great images everyone... :)
An image from the past, captured after a brief summer snowfall, while a top the summit of Mount Standish. The image looks south into British Columbia showing three tarns in the foreground, where Rock Isle Lake is to the left, Larts Lake is at the lower elevation, and a smaller unnamed tarn is right center. A larger tarn, called Grizzly Lake, is a few meters outside the framed image to the right. The Alberta and British Columbia boundary happen to be beneath my tripod's legs, along the summit's ridge.
jim k
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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.
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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
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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.
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Chilnualna Creek, Yosemite National Park
Scanned 8x10 platinum/palladium print
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Warner Lake, Manti-La Sal National Forrest, Utah.
Shen-Hao 4x5, Fugi-Quickload ISO 100.
Unfortunately, there were no clouds.
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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
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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
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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