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Red and purple tulips at Goeree-Overflakkee.
Linhof MT with a Sironar N 210mm lens and a Lee 0.6 hard grad on Velvia 50 (cropped)
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A wonderful photograph.Quote:
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Have you considered it without the film edge, and with less blue ? I think it's even more beautiful that way :)
This is totally amazing!Quote:
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You need to look at a "real deal hanging on the wall 16x20 or larger silver halide photograph" made by a master photographer to appreciate L/F . 35mm will fall way short in the "wow" department. I also like looking at the old" Grossbild Technik" german large format magazines to see the stunning quality of big neg's -- that the difference.Quote:
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You are not seeing them but a representation on a monitor.Quote:
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He's yanking your chain - ignore him! One of the forum curmudgeons...
Bill's post is two and a half years old, guys.
Quick and dirty scan.
APX 100
Xenar 210mm
This is the first picture I have ever seen of anything green in that part of the country! Very nice.Quote:
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Bob
Thank you! You are right, it's not even green like this every year and not for long when it is. Usually.Quote:
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Lovely shot. If I make the switch back to color neg film it will be Portra 160Quote:
one of the first few shots taken with the new portra 160.
this is encouraging :)
here is my first and humble contribution... i have a long way to go so please feel free to comment and critique
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6016/...1b2b8e7f45.jpg
AlHadba - Saudi Arabia by agarzai, on Flickr
Beautiful light and a very interesting scene. Well done.
+1, algarzai!
Nice composition!
My critique - the one obvious flaw is that I didn't take it.
Very nicely done; congrats!
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thanks guys...
this is really encouraging .. much to come then :)
Gorgeous..
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...what Randy said.
Great work!
Superb! Stunning! Is this scanned from a negative or a print? One minor issue to work on is the slight "halo" from burning the sky over the mountains from left to about midway. If you are printing digitally it is easy to solve by working your mask at a finer level. If your doing it traditionally it is a bit harder but burning a bit further down with a really soft edge tool will smooth the transition.Quote:
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The upright rocks look very much like what we call "tombstone schist" in the gold country of California.
thanks Kirk for your praise, and productive feedback. it is in fact a scan of the negative. the halo might have been increased due to a poor reduction technique. I have to admit thought that my photoshop skills are something to work on.. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Kirk Gittings
interesting ... i've googled it.. the ones i've seen here are much smaller than the pictures i saw..Quote:
Originally Posted by Drew Wiley
I can't determine the sense of scale in your shot, but the schist stones here can get to about 15 feet tall, though shorter stones are much more frequent. I like the fact that you have left them backlit and nice and dark.
the biggest in that location was about 3 metersQuote:
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http://theblood.smugmug.com/Other/LF...lliams-2-L.jpg
nr. Williams, CA
Nikkor 90/8 w/orange. Chamonix n1, Delta 100, pmk,
Nevada Falls Yosemite. Climbed down onto the rocks and got blasted and soaked with the mist.
http://img23.imageshack.us/img23/5257/img305mw.jpg
Crown Graphic - Caltar 75mm f6.8 @ f32 1/15sec - red filter
HP5+ @320 in Rodinal 1:50 for 10min.
I prefer the digital version I also captured.
http://www.artlimited.net/user/0/0/2..._img310555.jpg
Sunset near Dzwirzyno, Poland, Europe :)
Sinar F2 + Rodenstock Sironar-N 210mm/5.6
1 sec f64 ISO100
Film: 4x5"Fomapan 100
Dev: 10 minutes @23°C in CaffenolCM (RS) rotary procesing in Jobo CPA2plus processor
Scanned from print with Epson 4870
Very nice indeed; I do like that combination of film and developer.Quote:
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Looks great!!! I've always wanted to explore the foothills of the Sac Valley.Quote:
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Thanks David and Sam. There's a lot of wonderful scenery all the way up the west side of this valley, IMO, particularly when the clouds are moving in from the coast. As is often the case, access to the right spot is a big challenge.
One of the few I got of the redwoods:
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6010/...0d35e30e_b.jpg
4x5 HP5+ @320 in Rodinal 1:50 for 10 minutes.
Crown Graphic Special - Caltar 75mm f/6.8 @f/32. Metered time of 6 seconds exposed for 36 to account for reciprocity.
Lovely tones, atmosphere and composition.
That's absolutely lovely, John. Very nicely done.Quote:
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BTW, where do you rent your clouds? I've tried a couple of local rental outfits, but they don't deliver. :rolleyes:
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stunning!Quote:
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This is REALLY nice :-) Great shot.Quote:
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-Leon
Well Zaitz, outstanding work - both Yosemite and Redwoods.
I shot in Yosemite last year along the mist trail but I was not as brave as you to venture down onto the rocks like that. I love the results though, truly. Kudos for not just the shot, but the effort required to get it.
The Redwoods shot is outstanding! Oh how I wish I had some fog to work with when I was there. I was just thinking of posting another shot of my own, but after seeing that I'm really reluctant, I may need to at least give it a page or two of buffer space so as to avoid comparison. It's truly outstanding! Very very well done.
My Redwoods shots have suffered from excess contrast (at least for scanning), due in part to likely taking the wrong approach to developing the negatives. I don't really know anything about developing with Rodinal - was your approach specifically tailored to mitigate the contrast (compensating, or N- for example) or was the light really as forgiving as it appears. Well, none of the technical details are all that important, it's the end result that matters, and you absolutely nailed it here - what a beautiful photograph.
Wonderful image, Zaitz! Good to see that you got to play in some fog!
MJ -- that sort of light in the redwoods is perfect for relative easy exposure and development for silver printing. Lots of contrast, but not too much. Getting the wind to stay quiet for the length of the exposure is the tough part!
I made an 11x14 image last Sunday under the redwoods -- metered f90 at 2 minutes. The film I used (Efke 100 IR) fails greatly with reciprocity, so I exposed at 8 minutes (+2 stops), and another at 16 minutes (+3 stops). The 16 minute one came out pretty nice, though even with greatly increased development, I could not get a lot of density in the higher values. Should make a fine silver gelatin print, but not enough for carbon printing (may be enough for Platinum). I should have gone for 30 minutes -- I think that would have really nailed it for me (or I could have backed down to f64, but it was a 24" lens and not a lot of DoF for the situation.
There is a little bit of movement here and there (wind from passing cars, road was only 30 feet or so away) and some small birds that land on branches and shake them.
I'll see about photographing (digital) the neg on a light table this evening and reversing it in PS and posting it. It is of a maple tree I have been working with for years.
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Wow, thanks for the nice comments! Really appreciate it. I was looking for a safe spot down to the rocks and found one. You could tell people have done it before and I was well away from the rushing water and had a relatively flat spot to set the tripod. I was fortunate to find it and get a nice view of the falls. I was impatient and should have waited a little longer than I did for some even better light but I was very hungry and only brought 1 water up (which I refilled with MTN water).Quote:
Originally Posted by MumbleyJoe
I know EXACTLY what you mean about the Redwoods. For me it was almost a nightmare to photograph in during any kind of direct light. I too was hoping for some dense fog. Most mornings had a bit but it always seemed away from where I needed it. The rest of the day was spent hiking and really busting my knees (at 23!). The bit of sky showing through the canopy gets blown out and the dark shadows at the base of trees and plants gets blocked. It was also a trying environment to compose in. Detail everywhere and I strive for simplicity.
I did try to shoot and develop most of my sunlit scenes in an attempt to reduce contrast. I don't have a lot of experience yet but knew I needed to curb it a bit. But with the fog it was already very nice. Somehow I managed to expose it nearly perfectly with the reciprocity failure. Thanks again for the comments and post your photo up! I think this may be my only 4x5 from there that I am satisfied with.
"Detail everywhere and I strive for simplicity."
Boy do I hear ya! It's really a challenge to sort some order out of the 'chaos'. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. But you really hit the mark here. I think in part the detail is allowed to shine in the foreground, but the fog softens it in the distance - together all of that detail doesn't become overwhelming.
And my knees are going too - I'm 33, not old, but old enough for some joints to start creaking. I did about a 12-13 mile hike down in Prairie Creek SP in Redwoods and was feeling it pretty badly by the end too. I figure as long as I'm carrying my camera it's time well spent. When my knees no longer permit me to hike, maybe THEN I'll start catching up on scanning my film and processing my images. :)
After seeing some of these images, I was hesitant to jump in. But what the heck....
Sunlight in the Redwoods does take special treatment. Actually, that was one of the driving forces of my shifting to platinum and carbon printing -- to be able to play with that type of light after 15 years of photographing with only fog or cloud cover in the redwoods.
Vertical 4x10 -- platinum/palladium print
vertical 5x7 -- carbon print.
Sorry for the poor reproductions, but they are enough to get the idea.
Hi - I think this is a wonderful shot! Are you using the Caffenol CM recipe from Reinhold's site (caffenol.blogspot.com)? I've just started trying to use the same film/developer combination (substituting CL), but so far without success.Quote:
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Thanks for sharing -
Duane
Thanks and thanks for sharing that. I thought about filling my holders with Acros for that reason!Quote:
Originally Posted by Vaughn
Wait wait wait....the miners ridge and Irvine loop? If so that also is the one that ruined me. Not thinking, I figured the James Irvine was a 4.5 mile loop and not a there and back....I was wrong. Not wanting to do the same thing back I looped it to the miners ridge. I overfilled my pack by an obscene amount and it was near 50lbs literally. All my joints about fell apart and I felt two sharp pains in my left knee the next day.Quote:
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And thanks again! Seems we were there with the same goals and concepts.
Those are both great examples but I really like how the second one renders the light.Quote:
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I am surprised you did not hitch a ride back with a tourist! My camera pack weighs 45 to 50 pounds and another 17 pounds of tripod, so I keep my hikes to about 5 miles max. Gone are the days (and knees) of 11 mile hikes with the 8x10!
It has been a long time since I did the Irvine/Miners Ridge loop -- and I did it without a camera (my pre-photo days)...just with some friends. We also went body-surfing before hiking back. We ran a lot of the last bit of trail due to the coming darkness -- and no flashlights) Ah...the good old dumb days of youth (I must have been 22 or so! -- 35 yrs ago!)
Another fine loop (and not so long) is starting out on the Irvine Trail, but take the West Ridge Trail (a unique trail that follows the ridge top), then down one of the Zig Zag Trails (a couple of them, allowing for a shorter or longer hike) to the Prairie Creek Trail and back to the headquarters.
I usually do not give fancy titles to my images, but that 5x7 is "Redwood Cathedral", just because it is.
Vaughn
lots of fine work here...
szadow: Sunset near Dzwirzyno, Poland, Europe: somehow the branch puts us in the image, really nice...
Zaitz: One of the few I got of the redwoods: marvelous soft feel to this, good feelings abound
mandoman7: nr. Williams, CA: this is so evocative of all the central valley, takin' me back
here's one from spring, in the foothills south of San Jose... 5x7 cropped
http://www.timsandstrom.com/images/new/img040.jpg
"one tree hill"
[note to self: find a way to see some of vaughn's carbon prints....]
Awesome shot...did you happen to use a gradual neutral density filter, as well?
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Brilliant work amigo....
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Wow, it's been a fine 12 hours or so for the Landscape thread!
Vaugh, I recall you mentioning how well redwoods works with the alternative processes, like carbon printing. I have a couple negatives that I would be better served to at least contact print (I have no enlarger) but just presented too much density for my scanner, at least that's my excuse. :) Really, I think I just fumbled around Redwoods awestruck, I was probably too distracted to really think about what I was doing.
Zaitz, yup - I did Miner's Ridge to Gold Bluffs Beach (we decided to hike the road, not the beach), up through Fern Canyon, and then back to the car via the James Irvine Trail. I posted my shot on flickr from the James Irvine Trail, but haven't gotten it here yet (I guess I should have just done that now, but it didn't occur to me :-P) I remember you posting in the 'locations' thread about your upcoming trip, as I had recently resurrected that thread myself for my own trip (also stayed at the Mill Creek Campground in Del Norte where I think you got a site). It's nice to see the follow up here to see what you came away with (which I am again pretty awestruck with each time I scroll past it in this thread).
dasBlute - Awesome! I feel like a broken record here, but this is another beauty of a shot. I lived in San Francisco for several years and I commuted along highway 280 every morning. I loved watching the early morning fog rolling through the oak trees all along that route, and occasionally ventured in to explore them a bit, but it was just as I was learning to operate a dSLR - I have nothing to show for it. But this is such a wonderfully familiar scene to me (not quite the same hills, but very close) - I love it.
Kudos for all these recent posts - what a treat.