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Harley Goldman
Beautiful image. I like the way the clouds completely fill the sky in the upper part of the image and the light filters through the lower section of the frame between the ground formations, gently highlighting one side of the triangular butte. Lovely !
Dennis
Sorry, I lost some of your original info in the quote.
Re: Large Format Landscapes
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jcoldslabs
Here's another one shot on that same ortho film in late afternoon sun.
Pacemaker Speed Graphic, 18cm f/4.5 Xenar, Kodak Aerographic Duplicating Film (2421).
Jonathan
I've always avoided the blue-sensitive stuff, thinking it would just automatically blow-out the sky, but clearly you've disproved that notion.
Re: Large Format Landscapes
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Harley Goldman
I was in Death Valley last weekend and visited Butte Valley. It was a bit of a rough road getting back there and I would not recommend it unless you have a high clearance vehicle and no loose teeth...
Wonderful morning light, Harley! I am not familiar with Butte Valley. Eureka Valley was bad enough...normal clearance okay, but wash-boarded! I need to have my passenger door looked at -- something rattled loose and I can not open the door from the inside!
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OCM
Nice grey tones and selected focus on the asphalt.
Thank you.
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Harley Goldman
Real nice lines, layers and depth. This works very well. Nicely done!
Thanks, Harley. The selective focus was more determined by practicality than aesthetics. I only had my Speed Graphic with me and without front and rear tilts there was no way I was going to get the whole scene in focus, so I went with a less literal interpretation.
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DennisD
Interesting, almost dreamy look with clouds and background not sharply focused. Nicely controlled focus between sharp road and soft background !
Thank you, Dennis.
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Corran
I've always avoided the blue-sensitive stuff, thinking it would just automatically blow-out the sky, but clearly you've disproved that notion.
The sky does blow out at times depending on conditions and will always be rendered lighter than with panchromatic films, of course. To be honest I thought there would be less tonality in the sky in this image, but slightly pulling the development seems to have helped. (For whatever reason this 2421 film stock responds really well to N minus development. I have rarely ever had blown highlights with it.) If you look at the shot I posted in the 'mistakes' thread from this same outing you'll see what the film did to a yellow road sign, though. Oops.
Jonathan
Re: Large Format Landscapes
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Harley Goldman
I'm jealous of the image--what a classic-looking western landscape--and of your time spent in Death Valley. I was only there once on a school field trip in the early 80s and the only camera I had with me was a Kodak 126 Instamatic. I'd love to back with some LF gear someday.
Jonathan
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Re: Large Format Landscapes
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Harley Goldman
I was in Death Valley last weekend and visited Butte Valley. It was a bit of a rough road getting back there and I would not recommend it unless you have a high clearance vehicle and no loose teeth.
This is a view of Striped Butte in morning light.
Chamonix 4x5
Fujinon 240
Delta 100
Rollo Pyro
Amazing shadows, greys tonal and PDC.
Nicely done!
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Steve M Hostetter
I like it. nice lines and shapes and mood!
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Thanks jp,, I shot that in an old Italian WW11 prisoner of war camp (Atterbury) converted to a nature preserve w/ a 135mm f4.5 Meniscus at around f8 I think on 4x5" TXP 320
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One from the first outing with my new 045N-2.. I've not shot film for a couple of years so it was great to be composing on the ground glass again...
My developer and fixer are both a couple of years old and I think the fixer has had it - its left some funny marks on the negs that I can't seem to clean off... Anyways, my first time shooting Fomapan 100, and first time developing it I feel I under developed...
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Fomapan 100 Classic, Rodinal 100:1 for 25 mins @ 20°C with two agitations (one at 7 and one at 14 minutes, 10sec each)
1/15th @ f/22 - 90mm f/8 with a bit of rise, forward tilt and a very moderate swing.
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