Large Format Landscapes

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Originally Posted by skiers4life

Thanks for the kind words everyone! They are very much appreciated.



I had no choice on the shutter speed. It's extremely dark in most areas of the Narrows and when you combine that with a polarizer, large depth of field, slow film speed, and reciprocity, you get water with no details. I don't mind the look, but it is what most people comment on when I show images. I hear a lot that I should choose a faster shutter, but it's not possible with most things that I shoot.

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While I abhor the use of digital imaging to change whats really there, I think in this case it might be a good thing to just try it if you ever get back to those spots again. You could shoot two negatives, one for the background, and one for the stream, and photoshop the stream into the background. You really wouldn't be changing what isn't there, but instead would be correcting an almost insurmountable technical problem.

Another things one could do would be to use an even wider angle lens, which would provide greater depth of field, and then crop the transparency and enlarge it, to get back to where you wanted to be in the first place.

Lots of work, yes. But for beautiful photographs like yours, it might be worth it.

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Originally Posted by skiers4life

Thanks for the kind words everyone! They are very much appreciated.



I had no choice on the shutter speed. It's extremely dark in most areas of the Narrows and when you combine that with a polarizer, large depth of field, slow film speed, and reciprocity, you get water with no details. I don't mind the look, but it is what most people comment on when I show images. I hear a lot that I should choose a faster shutter, but it's not possible with most things that I shoot.

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I think it is a matter of personal preference. To me that water adds that little special something to the look, and I wouldn't change it. When I first saw the images I thought it was all planned that way, and planned well.

Greetings, Thomas

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Originally Posted by alef_fela

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Linhof Technika III, Symmar-S 210mm f/5.6, expired (2003) Agfa APX @ 50 ISO, 16 min @ 20 C in Rodinal 1+50

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Excellent. Great depth to this one and it plays quite a trick with the eye. Beautifully seen and captured.

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Originally Posted by Thomas Greutmann

I think it is a matter of personal preference. To me that water adds that little special something to the look, and I wouldn't change it. When I first saw the images I thought it was all planned that way, and planned well.

Greetings, Thomas

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Yes, it adds to the look. But its really not the truth. And isn't large format photography supposed to be about the truth.
That "look" wasn't really there. What was there (what was truth) was a beautiful stream that our eyes see much differently.

Nothing about photography is "truth." And LF is certainly not about "truth."

I agree. Not in the literal sense of the word. A photograph isn't the object itself. Rather, the portrayal of an object.
But, at least for me if not for anyone else, I would hope that the portrayal I was seeing gave me the feeling that what was being portrayed gave me a taste of what was really there as I see it in my minds eye i.e. the truth to me.

Kevin,

Arnold Newman looks at it this way --

"Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create our own private world.
- Arnold Newman

Thanks everyone for the positive feedback, I'm rather new to LF and these were the first half decent outcomes of chasing the retreating tide at sunrise. They are from under a cliff, where there would have been masses of water a few minutes ago.

White Sands NM.

Very nice Craig. Great tones and shapes.