Large Format Landscapes

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Originally Posted by Corran

Nice image Vaughn.

To be fair, I generally don't have issues with folks coming into my shot. At worst, folks are in the shot while I set up, and I expect they'll be leaving soon, so I wait till this happens. This was a bit more...deliberate, it seemed, but it is what it is. I almost walked over and asked them to move slightly behind a tufa for a few minutes but didn't.

Anyway, I also shot this sheet, whilst specifically avoiding the area they were using (that's the thing - I was at least trying to stay out of their family photo shoot!). Same setup.

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Is the sky so blue because of no center filter or a polarizer? Nice shot.

Thanks Alan. I probably used a pol here. The sun was set but the sky in the upper right is still illuminated I guess (civil twilight) making it brighter. If on b&w film I could probably burn it down. On a print of this I might consider dodging the darker blue sky a bit.

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Originally Posted by h2oman

My wife and I listened to an interesting podcast recently, about being able to see other peoples' points of view. They featured a first grade teacher who had his students draw a picture of their home. He then asked them to draw three more, all different, to try to get them to look at things differently. I was thinking "I need to do that when I photograph!"

After that, he had the students constructively critique each others' drawings as well.

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FWIW, I have over the last couple of years changed my approach to landscape photography.

I have stopped just taking one photograph of a subject but to approach it more like a portrait session - spend a lot longer taking many more shots of a single chosen subject from different perspectives and different compositions using different lenses as necessary.

It means I end up with a range of shots of the subject to choose from.

YMMV

Martin

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...e0a8b956_b.jpgFrozen Cypress Swamp Dawes Arbor by Nokton48, on Flickr

Frozen Cypress Swamp Dawes Arbor 4x5 Sinar Norma 90mm Norma Super Angulon HP5 D76 1:1 8x10 fibre print Fortezo #2 Dektol.

Linhof Technikardan S45, Rodenstock Grandagon-N 4.5/90, Heliopan CPL, Ektar 100.

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...4eb52d82_b.jpgPadley Gorge, early autumn. by atomstitcher, on Flickr

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Lake Okonoka, Detroit, MI
Fuji HR-U
150mm

Nice shot Gabe. Is it a little dark to me. I have a monitor calibrated to sRGB. You say you color correct based on Adobe. But the internet uses sRGB. So could the conversion defeat your calibration?

Histogram seems a little on the dark side.
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Originally Posted by Alan Klein

Nice shot Gabe. Is it a little dark to me. I have a monitor calibrated to sRGB. You say you color correct based on Adobe. But the internet uses sRGB. So could the conversion defeat your calibration?

Histogram seems a little on the dark side.
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Thanks Alan. Adobe RGB vs sRGB won't have any noticeable affect on the image histogram.

The image is purposefully somewhat dark, which matches my recollection of the conditions at the time. Bear in mind this was fairly late on an overcast day in October, and also the subject is in a heavily wooded gorge. Viewing it on a white background doesn't help though. Better to view it fullscreen on black.

Edison, that's superb.

Lovely, Gabe.