Large Format Landscapes

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Originally Posted by AnzaRunner

Here is a series of photos I shot on my annual winter visit to Zion.

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Very nice! Makes me want to go back to Zion again.

I remain to be convinced if this actually works, but here it is. Shot last year, I had this composition in mind but even stopped down to f/64 I had nowhere near enough DoF (lens was a 150 or 240, I forget) so I decided to go the other way and shoot it wide open and emphasis the "glowing" rock.

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Velvia 50, Chamonix 045F1.

Dave, it feels crowded and even a bit chaotic.

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Originally Posted by Jim Becia

Here are a couple of images taken last spring that I finally scanned. Both of these were taken with a Chamonix 5x8. The first was taken near Hanksville, Utah and was on Velvia 100 and the second was in Capitol Reef using Velvia 100F. I did not record nor do I remember the lenses used.

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Hi Jim,
two great shots, the "golden" cloud of second is fantasic.
At the next.

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Grand Ronde by Isaac Sachs, on Flickr

The near-far relationship on this last one RHITmrB is especially nice.

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Originally Posted by Corran

The near-far relationship on this last one RHITmrB is especially nice.

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Thanks!

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Originally Posted by dave_whatever

I remain to be convinced if this actually works, but here it is. Shot last year, I had this composition in mind but even stopped down to f/64 I had nowhere near enough DoF (lens was a 150 or 240, I forget) so I decided to go the other way and shoot it wide open and emphasis the "glowing" rock.

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Dave, I think it "almost" works. The colors are wonderfully vivid, but the small subject surrounded by blurred space is hard to overcome. I'd much rather have wanted to see the near rocks in focus and the farther one out of focus, if you had to choose.

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Originally Posted by krishmandal

Dave, I think it "almost" works. The colors are wonderfully vivid, but the small subject surrounded by blurred space is hard to overcome. I'd much rather have wanted to see the near rocks in focus and the farther one out of focus, if you had to choose.

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Yeah I know what you mean, that's kinda what I was feeling. I think whenever the closest object to the camera isn't in focus you've always got to really justify it compositionally. As my attention was drawn to the centre rock primarily I wouldn't have even thought of letting it go out of focus.

I do have a second version of this stopped down a lot, but the foreground rocks are sharper but nowhere near looking in focus, so it looks just like they're out of focus accidentally rather than deliberately, so it ends up looking worse.

I will have to get up there this summer and have another attempt at it, it's only a certain time of year that the centre rock is struck by the setting sun. Might actually be better trying it with a smaller format camera, for greater DoF with a shorter lens - might even work better as an iPhone shot!

Trickle at Middle Falls, Old Man's Cave, Hocking Hills

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Tachihara 8x10 + Fujinon W 250mm f/6.7
Ilford HP5+ in Pyrocat HD 1:1.5:100