Some really magnificent work on the last pages of this thread, my compliments to all contributors! It makes me want to dash out of the city and walk through the country and look and see (and take a picture or two, perhaps) :)
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Some really magnificent work on the last pages of this thread, my compliments to all contributors! It makes me want to dash out of the city and walk through the country and look and see (and take a picture or two, perhaps) :)
Taken at a lavendar farm north of Mount Shasta, CA.
Thanks Shailendra. The lens is the first LF lens I ever owned, a humble second (at least) hand Sinar branded Sironar-N, 150mm. I like it - it's light and compact, was pretty inexpensive, and any deficiency in results has more to do with the user than the lens!
Wow, been away from this thread for quite some time. Wonderful uploads.
Here is a relatively recent one. Shot with a Toyo 45a, Schneider 210mm, Kodak e100G developed in Tetenal at home.
http://db.tt/P51kzuh
I sat at the beach/fern parking lot for 10 minutes debating whether to ask someone but decided against it.
I saw your Flickr and think it's a great shot. I have a similar one that didn't quite turn out because my shutter for some reason was pretty much going instant when I needed 1/2 second.
Thanks again and thanks dasBlute for the comment. Your shot is also great. Creates an atmosphere and that is something I try to do with all of my photos.
The Quarry at the megalithic site of Filitosa - Corsica
http://www.mauritsbollen.com/files/images/c_06.jpg
Hermagis Objectif à Portrait #6 (Petzval) on 4x5" Adox CHS 25
Maurits
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So a few months ago I spent a bit of time driving around some bits of Australia, and got to "know" my 4x5 camera.
I'll be posting a few other images in the appropriate thread, but here are a few photos I took while in the Blue Mountains.
These are my first real attempts at 4x5, so any comments and/or advice will be much appreciated.
The first 2 were Velvia 50, the third was on Astia. I think they were all shot with a Nikon 210mm lens.
SCM - amazing, would you share how it was made?
Cambo Wide 580, Schneider 58mm, Fuji Pro 160, Wales.
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6148/...d986853c_b.jpg
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6124/...ecd0a7b2_b.jpg
Wow, Nicholas, that last one is beautiful!
Here's my most recent Redwoods Entry. I'm not thrilled with it, but what can you do. I liked the scene, but don't love the result. (sorry for the large size)
http://www.tylerwestcott.com/2011Jul...stcott.com.JPG
Hi Tyler, thanks for the comment. I must say (and it's not a you comment me I comment you back thing) that it's difficult not to like the photo you've posted. IMO the composition is very solid, with two nice, solid, static anchoring points surrounded by natural chaos and I like the certain lack of strong contrast (I also tend to create pretty "washed" out BW).
I really like this one a lot too. Any info on the film and exposure?
Many photos seem to be dominated by the darker tones, say zones II and III. Nothing wrong with that when it suits of course and I've done plenty of those myself, but I've never found it quite as easy to get good separation of highlight values in things like this snow scene. Very well done.
May I ask what film size you used ? This photo depends on extremely fine detail, and the jpg file doesn't look very sharp. The composition and subject are lovely and majestic, but in such soft lighting, being able to see every pine needle (the special magic of Large Format) really transforms such photos into a visual delight - as Ansel demonstrated time and again.
IMHO, forest photography is very difficult to do well. This is a subject where 8x10 film helps considerably - as Ansel has demonstrated time and again :)
Another approach is to apply sharpening, using one of the more elaborate methods that emphasizes detail but doesn't introduce too many artifacts.
Mt. Wheeler from the alpine lakes below the saddle.
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6138/...23256ffd_b.jpg
Hello Roger, thank you for your interest.
This photo was made on Kodak Tmax100 4x5 and developed in Tmax RS
I didn't record the exact exposure settings but I'm almost sure it was f22 and 1/15.
I do remember that I placed the tree texture in Zone IV, waited for the sun to come into the scene and clicked.
I'm really impressed with Tmax latitude, I've done some tests shooting directly into the sun like in this scene and it still holds a lot of info un highlights. Actually I did a really flat scan of this neg and found that even the brightest spots on the snow have texture and detail.
For example, I have this shot on Tmax:
http://db.tt/7hL7Yg4
Pulled the holder out and shot it on E100G:
http://db.tt/xDsvE7n
I guess a really good drum scan could pull the highlight info out of the slide but it's not an easy task with a flatbed...
Thanks Nicolas. TMY-2 is my primary film too and I agree. TMX of course has pretty much the same advantages only with even less grain. OTOH, a shoulder isn't necessarily a bad thing, it depends where it falls and how much it levels off. If it goes to horizontal then there simply isn't any separation there. But if the slope simply decreases it can still record detail where a straight line might have pushed highlights to XIII or wherever, still there but very difficult to print or requiring a lot of N- development. I never liked what minus development more than -1 or so does to midtone and shadow contrast even if it does tame the highlights.
But I do love TMY (and TMX, I just don't really need the finer grain and can use the two stops of speed) in large format. Since I don't currently print larger than 11x14 and don't even plan to print larger than 16x20 grain is pretty much a non-issue for me in 4x5, and with that combined with the low inherent grain of TMY for a 400 film it frees me to expose generously, get rich detailed shadows and still have plenty of easily printable highlight detail.
Another great film in that regard was XP2. I wish it were still available in 4x5, it would sorely tempt me to stock up on C41 chems. I have an 8x10 from 35mm XP2 hanging on my living room wall, also a snow scene, and it's virtually grainless at any reasonable viewing distance. Of course C41 gets less grainy with more exposure.
Sunrise, Black Rock Desert, Nevada
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6012/...a336fa3d_b.jpg
http://www.flickr.com/photos/austingranger/
www.austingranger.com
Excellent as usual, Austin.
Zaitz, Vaughn, Nicolas - thanks for the feedback. Contrast was tough on this one (I wish I'd tried a proper compensating developer in the end, but I haven't yet gone down that road). I really tried to ease up on the contrast.
Ken Lee - I shot it on 4x5 FP4+, Caltar 150mm lens. There are two things I don't love about the photo, one is that there's a bit too much movement which muddies up the frame a bit (one gust of wind on a 4s exposure can spoil a shot) and the other is just the 1000px image. Even at 2x this size more of the detail starts to emerge and it doesn't look quite so jumbled, but rather into a "visual delight" to use your expression. That was what I was going for anyway - I'm sure everyone here knows the frustration of compressing a beautiful large format frame into a small JPG - sometimes it goes better than others.
My photo was sharpened as well (as always) but I think I took a gentle approach with this one because heavier sharpening wasn't looking great to me either.
Regardless - thanks again for the feedback!
Thank you. The only movement I used was a little front tilt to get everything in focus. The camera was a Deardorff 5x7 with a Fujinon 250 lens. Film was Tri-X.
As for the Black Rock Desert, it is a magnificent place indeed, and a place I love to explore and photograph. If anyone's interested, I've been putting pictures from this trip up over on Flickr:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/austingranger/
(see "New New Work")
Thanks again!
-Austin
Totally Cool Austin,
Have you gone 5 by 7 on us? (As opposed to 8 by 10)
I really like this photograph. NASA may be calling you to find out how you did this.....
-Brad
Thanks Brad. Yeah, after going back and forth between 4x5 and 8x10 a few times, I thought I'd mix it up a little and try 5x7. I'm liking it a lot. Actually, I have to admit, the first time I picked up a 5x7 holder, I kind of went "oooh..." It just felt 'right' somehow, familiar, like an old baseball glove or something.
Anyway, thanks again. I hope your own photographic endeavors are going well.
-Austin
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6122/...fe4517ac_b.jpg
Acropolis, an oddly named buttress in the Wheeler cirque, Great Basin National Park. Sorry about the eye-gouging Flickr sharpening on this one. It usually isn't so painful.
http://www.efimch.ru/images/LJ/08(2)lj.jpg
Russia. North of Ladoga Lake. Karelia.
Camera: Chamonix 45N
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6126/...91c49c1a_b.jpg
Olmsted Point in Yosemite Nat'l Park.
Very nice bbuszard! I love the views from Olmsted Point, and I love the way you've pulled the scene together!
I have a couple photographs from Valley of Fire State Park in Nevada - I stopped off with friends back in May on our way to Zion. Both Tachihara 4x5 shots on Velvia 50 (color toned down slightly). I wasn't sure whether to post these with landscapes or abstracts, but they felt more at home here.
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6148/...f4df6789_z.jpg
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6144/...0c9a2777_z.jpg
Neat! I'd like to see the originals, not toned down, out of curiosity.