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David Hedley
...I have no clouds to offer...
No clouds here, either – just clear skies above, slushy July snows beneath.
I didn’t reach the summit, but I took a shot before descending (Cascade range, Washington).
A super-contrasty scene – and since I wanted all the evergreens to show, I exposed them for zones 3, 4 and 5. This of course came with a price – it forced the snow into zones 8 and 9. To save the highlights, I developed the film in a very dilute concentration of HC-110 – about 1+123 direct from concentrate (not stock), and developed for 19 minutes in 68° F, w/ a little bit of agitation every few minutes. The compensation effects came to my rescue, saving more sunny snow than I thought possible.
Tachi 4x5
Schneider 150/9 g-claron
Ilford FP4+ (in dilute HC-110)
Epson 4990/Epson Scan
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Darren H
More great images here. Good job all!
Here is one from last year in Big Bend. Taken on Velvia 100F and converted in CS5 to monochrome.
Arca-Swiss 4x5 with Nikon 210mm lens
Very nice Darren.
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jim kitchen
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A recent image from a late snowy afternoon in April.
jim k
Damn Jim,
that is perfect.
Just gorgeous!
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Punchbowls - Queen's Canyon
E100G, 75/f8 Super Angulon, f32, 4sec, 3 stop soft GND
http://ladewigs.com/Gallery/d/2769-1...000723_005.jpg
I also shot this on Ektar 100 and am hoping that I'll keep better shadow detail on the top section. I'll get to scanning that soon.
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Hi!
This one with a Shen Hao 45A, Schneider 75mm f8, tmax 100.
Location: Carilo, Argentina
I hope you´ll enjoy
Greetings
Alejandro
http://ufpd.net/dr/naufrago2.jpg
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Nice image, Alejandro. Clean and simple.
Like others, I've been inspired by Jim K's Cowboy Trail cloudscapes. I set out a couple months ago to try to emulate him, and the attached is the best I could do. We grow potatoes (e or no e? Call me Dan Quayle!) around here, more than cows. The light line across the bottom of the frame is spray from irrigation sprinklers. The rock formation is called the Peninsula, for reasons unknown to me. I'd speculate that it was a peninsula into Tule Lake before the Army Corp of Engineers drained the area for farmland. It is near Newell, CA.
Any critiques or suggestions for improving the image would be welcome!
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Gentlemen,
Great images everyone, and thank you for comments too... :)
Attached is an image that I captured several years ago, and an image that I probably showed before within the sunset thread, but it was an image that reminded me of an incident, and a comment about looking up to the clouds. I truly believe that when the opportunity presents itself, any expansive, interesting, and well-balanced foreground should add value to an image, such as John's recent image, and if the clouds add more value than a cluttered foreground, I do point my camera to the clouds, where I try to minimize my image's support with a clean simple baseline.
As for the incident, my heart was broken that very day by a beautiful, but tenacious Alberta Black Widow, so I stopped along her rural road on my way home to give my mind and body a brief reprieve, and to try to capture this image. The developing scene was more interesting, compared to my fretting about her terrible bite, and I also decided to see whether she had any siblings hiding in the shrubbery, so I could possibly step on them. Actually, the more I think about it, her image happens to be well placed beside several Webster's Collegiate dictionary definitions. Damn, I how I love those free spirited cowgirls add new meaning to your life, during Stampede...
It’s funny how an image can trigger a dormant memory cell or two...
I have not added this to my Cowboy Trail series, but I might.
jim k
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Ken Lee
Massachusetts
Sinar P, 450mm Fujinon C
5x7 HP5+, Pyrocat HD
That is the nicest photograph I have seen in this thread for some time. The whites on the barn roof and the verandah give it some zing. I bet the owners of the farm would love to have a copy.
This thread is pure cliche, thank you for breaking the mould. If you managed to delete this thread, accidentaly, most of the lost photographs could be replaced by posting just one photograph.
David
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mdm
...This thread is pure cliche, thank you for breaking the mould...
I dunno, David – if I complained about clichés, I wouldn’t rhapsodize about a barn in the country. ;) Me, I like & learn from many of the clichés here, and whether my images are original or just “typical,” in each case I try to return the favor by providing a useful insight, or sharing a fun narrative (like Jim’s Alberta Black Widow). I think the widespread sharing here invites many more people than the clichés keep away.
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Heroique
I dunno, David – if I complained about clichés, I wouldn’t rhapsodize about a barn in the country. ;) Me, I like & learn from many of the clichés here, and whether my images are original or just “typical,” in each case I try to return the favor by providing a useful insight, or sharing a fun narrative (like Jim’s Alberta Black Widow). I think the widespread sharing here invites many more people than the clichés keep away.
Well said, Heroique.
Originality is important, but it can be stultifying in its own way. Particularly as defined by young folks today where it seems to be more about carefully messed up hairdo's than anything else.
The bottom line, though, is that its easy to critique the work of others when you're not posting any of your own. Let's see it, David.
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Heroique
I dunno, David – if I complained about clichés, I wouldn’t rhapsodize about a barn in the country. ;) Me, I like & learn from many of the clichés here, and whether my images are original or just “typical,” in each case I try to return the favor by providing a useful insight, or sharing a fun narrative (like Jim’s Alberta Black Widow). I think the widespread sharing here invites many more people than the clichés keep away.
Still a valid opinion. Formula=wide lens. Big sky + strip of foreground or Big foreground + strip of sky. Filters coming out of the ears. A nice balanced one one was the recent one posted of mono lake with bushes in the foreground and a hole in the clouds above the lake, that was good, it had a sense of place and the light was nice.
Look at this link http://lenscratch.blogspot.com/2010/07/russ-martin.html This guy takes lots of photographs (not lf) of the same thing, the same things others on this forum photograph over and over again, they still manage to produce many different lines and compositions and values in their photographs. If I had hostas available to me, I would be there trying to produce something good too, and no doubt failing but that is preferable to plonking down the camera and thinking, hm, this is a leaf, or hm, this is a landscape and churning out another routine big sky/big foreground. Is there no other way of seeing a landscape?
Of course, I am an arrogant ____, there is huge value in the taking of a photograph and of sharing it, and no one should be afraid of posting a photograph because of what others may think or say. But also we should not be afraid of calling a spade a spade, in case of causing offence. I have inflicted lots of rubbish on this forum myself and would take no offence to robust critiscism. Do you post photographs for the pleasure of shareing the results of our hobby/passtime/profession, or to garner approval?
Perhaps as pennance someone would like to lend me a wide lens and a red filter and I can do my time on the big skys under which I live my life.
David
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David, you make a good point. I told myself I wasn't going to get sucked into this, but here I go!
First off, try as I may I can't even seem to get good cliche images, much less something original! I suppose there are others at this forum like me who struggle enough just trying to learn the craft of LF, much less make meaningful images. :D
When I want to take a landscape shot, I need to choose a lens. If it is an image of a wide open landscape, it seems that a wider lens best conveys the feel of the land, which is what I think many of us are trying to communicate. In spite of this, I think the image I just posted was using a 150 lens on 4x5, not particularly wide.
Then one must decide where to put the horizon. Occasionally the middle works, but often not. Could then go with the rule of thirds, but that's a bit formulaic. That leaves a narrow strip of land or a narrow strip of sky. Or you can leaveoutthe ksy o r the land, morelikely the sky. Check out Charles Cramers' website - it is a rare image of his that contains any sky at all.
What then does a person do to be original? I really like Michael Kenna's stuff, but a lot of it feels cliche now that many other people have created images very similar to his.
It is a rare image, be it landscape, portrait, flower, etc., that is not cliche to those who have looked at a lot of images. Ken's image looks unique in this thread, but if someone started a thread of "pastoral landscapes," barns would probably be well represented...
So what the heck am I getting at? I don't know, I guess I'm just streaming a few thoughts. I'm glad you posted your comments, and I take issue with, but not offense at, them. For all you others, keep the images coming, cliche or not! :)
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Actually, I have a book somewhere titled 'Golf is Not a Game of Perfect'. Click the shutter and it is gone, just like a golf ball. Only thing left to do is take the next shot.
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http://www.dlinphotography.com/siteb...nt-600x442.jpg
Below Blue Hen Falls, Cuyahoga Vallen National Park
Negative: TMY developed in Pyrocat HD
Print: Agfa Classic toned in selenium and thiocarbamide
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Knoxville, TN
90mm Grandagon
FP4+ in Rodinal 1:50
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First off, try as I may I can't even seem to get good cliche images, much less something original! I suppose there are others at this forum like me who struggle enough just trying to learn the craft of LF, much less make meaningful images.
It is a rare image, be it landscape, portrait, flower, etc., that is not cliche to those who have looked at a lot of images. Ken's image looks unique in this thread, but if someone started a thread of "pastoral landscapes," barns would probably be well represented...
So what the heck am I getting at? I don't know, I guess I'm just streaming a few thoughts. I'm glad you posted your comments, and I take issue with, but not offense at, them. For all you others, keep the images coming, cliche or not! :)[/QUOTE]
I think that many of us here are in the same stage of learning as h20man--first the technical aspects of the craft and then the art of LF imaging . I am less than a year into this and I have yet to create an image that I am willing to share. I am getting better at the technical part of making an image (thanks in no small part to the discussions I read on this forum) but the art and vision part are developing much, much slower. Therefore, I study the images I see here and in other venues--determining what appeals to me about the image and what doesn't. And I try to emmulate those images and, by doing so, learn something of the craft and, hopefully, hone my visualization skills. I am thankful for forums like this where so many skilled, talented artists exhibit their work (cliche or not) and provide me, maybe unwittingly, a visual thesis for my art training.
As to cliches, as many images as have made and exhibited (and, more recently, posted on some website or other electronic venue) over the last 150 years or so, I suspect there are very few that aren't cliche at least in some respects. And those vey few are created by the real artisrts of this medium--some of whom exhibit their images on this website and one day will be recognized alongside the greats of this medium.
Like h20man, I like'em. Please keep them coming.
Robert
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StevenJohn
Knoxville, TN
90mm Grandagon
FP4+ in Rodinal 1:50
I like this shot Steven. A distinctive arrangement.
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Oh! And one more thing. Many of you have been at this LF thing, or some other art form or medium, for 10, 20, 30, 40 or more years developing your art and craft to the point where your images are not cliche but are truly unique art. Most of us aren't born gifted, talented artists but have to work to develope those gifts and skills and, in that process, produce much cliche work. I suspect even Michaelanglo produced some cliches in his body of work.
One of the wonderful things about this, and other forums, is that people like me have available to us the benefit of the hard work and experience (cliche or not) of people like you to help us in climbing that learning curve.
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I think that many of us here are in the same stage of learning as h20man--first the technical aspects of the craft and then the art of LF imaging . I am less than a year into this and I have yet to create an image that I am willing to share. I am getting better at the technical part of making an image (thanks in no small part to the discussions I read on this forum) but the art and vision part are developing much, much slower. Therefore, I study the images I see here and in other venues--determining what appeals to me about the image and what doesn't. And I try to emmulate those images and, by doing so, learn something of the craft and, hopefully, hone my visualization skills. I am thankful for forums like this where so many skilled, talented artists exhibit their work (cliche or not) and provide me, maybe unwittingly, a visual thesis for my art training.
As to cliches, as many images as have made and exhibited (and, more recently, posted on some website or other electronic venue) over the last 150 years or so, I suspect there are very few that aren't cliche at least in some respects. And those vey few are created by the real artisrts of this medium--some of whom exhibit their images on this website and one day will be recognized alongside the greats of this medium.
Like h20man, I like'em. Please keep them coming.
Robert
At the very least, David's cliche accusation has prompted some good comments.
As you've suggested, Robert, the question of what is cliched can be elusive. For some, any work that doesn't involve alternate processing is mundane. For others, its about the arrangement of shapes and not whether the subject matter is new. For yet another group, its about the subtle tonalities and the emotions they evoke. The point being that, as a viewer, we might be jumping to conclusions that a piece is derivative, and be missing what the artist is actually trying to do.
It might be, also, that the poster's observation was more about the responses to the work on this forum than the work itself. It does seem that the more Ansel-like work gets more response on the forum, along with long exposures of water movement, or approaching storm scenes. Conversely, sometimes there are distinctive images that get posted but get little response. Its a group that has its tastes, for better or worse, like any focus group. If getting good responses on the forum is your only goal, then the cliched shots mentioned might be something to shoot. If you're trying to get in a gallery, they might want something different.
There's a flip side to an over stringent approach to being "creative" that I've seen among artists, though, too. Replicating the mannerisms of a creative person doesn't make you a creative person, yet we see characters in funny hats with wispy beards selling work like crazy in the downtown galleries. Originality is where you find it.
The best thing for this group to think about is posting work as often as you can manage, whether or not it qualifies as great art. Its good for you and the group at large. The family with the active discourse is healthier than the one where everyone withdraws with hurt feelings. I believe its growth inducing to put it out there and find out what people think, even with the occasional hurt feelings, and that its likewise educational to watch other people present work and get varying responses. Its not the real world, but its nonetheless a place where things can be learned through participation.
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mandoman7
At the very least, David's cliche accusation has prompted some good comments.
As you've suggested, Robert, the question of what is cliched can be elusive. For some, any work that doesn't involve alternate processing is mundane. For others, its about the arrangement of shapes and not whether the subject matter is new. For yet another group, its about the subtle tonalities and the emotions they evoke. The point being that, as a viewer, we might be jumping to conclusions that a piece is derivative, and be missing what the artist is actually trying to do.
It might be, also, that the poster's observation was more about the responses to the work on this forum than the work itself. It does seem that the more Ansel-like work gets more response on the forum, along with long exposures of water movement, or approaching storm scenes. Conversely, sometimes there are distinctive images that get posted but get little response. Its a group that has its tastes, for better or worse, like any focus group. If getting good responses on the forum is your only goal, then the cliched shots mentioned might be something to shoot. If you're trying to get in a gallery, they might want something different.
There's a flip side to an over stringent approach to being "creative" that I've seen among artists, though, too. Replicating the mannerisms of a creative person doesn't make you a creative person, yet we see characters in funny hats with wispy beards selling work like crazy in the downtown galleries. Originality is where you find it.
The best thing for this group to think about is posting work as often as you can manage, whether or not it qualifies as great art. Its good for you and the group at large. The family with the active discourse is healthier than the one where everyone withdraws with hurt feelings. I believe its growth inducing to put it out there and find out what people think, even with the occasional hurt feelings, and that its likewise educational to watch other people present work and get varying responses. Its not the real world, but its nonetheless a place where things can be learned through participation.
Thank you for your comments. I do welcome criticism; I don't always like it, but I do learn from it. And rarely do I get my feelings hurt by critism. You are also correct in that I am remiss in not posting my own stuff. I will rectify that. Thank you again.
Robert
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Well, I guess I've got some more cliche rubbish to add to the pile.
This is the same setup as my last, but shot on Ektar 100, which has worked better for me in this high contrast situation.
http://www.ladewigs.com/Gallery/d/27...725_002_sm.jpg
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Lovely tones and well done with the contrast. If cliche, even Mozart had to practice his scales...
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NOT to say that I think the shot is cliche...:rolleyes:
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mdm
That is the nicest photograph I have seen in this thread for some time. The whites on the barn roof and the verandah give it some zing. I bet the owners of the farm would love to have a copy.
This thread is pure cliche, thank you for breaking the mould. If you managed to delete this thread, accidentaly, most of the lost photographs could be replaced by posting just one photograph.
David
I'm all for breaking the mould, but I see personal styles more than cliche. Although in general landscapes are easy cliche, I see more cliche in the still life category of photography. Still life has a long and health history in the art world, so it's apparently not written off as cliche, but it's not my thing generally, but that's how I see it. Sometimes certain things like Weston's images of vegetables transcend my prejudice about the category for example.
The cowboy trail photos are to me sort of like the Equivalent series of photos. The clouds make the photo, it's something everyone has access to with their own eyes and camera, an unassuming composition, simple. Jim makes this wonder into photos and I don't get tired of looking at them, nor do I tire of the style. I wish the clouds would stay that way till they got to me! They can through his landscape photography. He's created a style to be emulated. Sometime after he's dead, people will criticize students for copying the Cowboy Trail style. Then call it cliche if you want.
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Catawba Valley, Roanoke County, VA
Schneider 135mm APO Symmar f22 @1/125
Tri-X 320
I think that I loaded the film incorrectly and managed to fog the film.
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mrladewig
Well, I guess I've got some more cliche rubbish to add to the pile.
This is the same setup as my last, but shot on Ektar 100, which has worked better for me in this high contrast situation.
I think you are right, this did capture the light and contrast much better. On the first one I thought to crop the sky completely out and just focus on the water. Here it all works much better.
Amazing how a change of film "makes" the image.
Thumbs up!
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I've been out for a while since my last post on page 174.
Great images I've seen from that page untill this one.
Congratulations to all of you, guys, for your beautifull photographs.
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mrladewig
Well, I guess I've got some more cliche rubbish to add to the pile.
This is the same setup as my last, but shot on Ektar 100, which has worked better for me in this high contrast situation.
One of the best colour photos I've seen latelly.
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Cliche or original, Beauty is always... beautiful :)
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StevenJohn
Knoxville, TN
90mm Grandagon
FP4+ in Rodinal 1:50
That's awesome!
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mrladewig
...This is the same setup as my last, but shot on Ektar 100, which has worked better for me in this high contrast situation...
Was the 3 stop soft NDG used on that Ektar sheet too?
Your second version is magnificent, enough to make me reconsider color film. Apologies in advance if I do start using Ektar, thereby inspiring Kodak to drop it. :)
Where did your image originate? Scanned negative or print? How do you print? And where do you have the film processed? I never found a lab that delivered even skies with C-41 sheets -- does yours?
Thanks in advance for your answers and inspiration!
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Sal Santamaura
Was the 3 stop soft NDG used on that Ektar sheet too?
Your second version is magnificent, enough to make me reconsider color film. Apologies in advance if I do start using Ektar, thereby inspiring Kodak to drop it. :)
Where did your image originate? Scanned negative or print? How do you print? And where do you have the film processed? I never found a lab that delivered even skies with C-41 sheets -- does yours?
Thanks in advance for your answers and inspiration!
Thanks for your kind words all.
Sal,
I'll do my best to answer your questions.
A 3 stop soft GND + 81b were used on this according to my notes. The exposure was f32, 8sec, EV range 6-14.7.
My process is to scan my processed film, then prepare for print in photoshop. I typically have my larger prints made by chromira printers on RA-4 materials and can recommend a couple labs for digital printing if you're so inclined. I do 16X20 and smaller prints on an Epson 3800.
I use a couple labs in Denver, Colorado for my film processing and both have delivered good processing, though there are occasional issues. I've never had any issue with uneven development in skies on any film though.
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mrladewig
I typically have my larger prints made by chromira printers on RA-4 materials ... I do 16X20 and smaller prints on an Epson 3800.
Mel,
Beside the size, on a comparable paper, which print usually look better: by Chromira or Epson ?
Thank you
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Jim Kitchen, mandoman7, and David Hendley all have excellent landscapes.
Jim Kitchen's image focuses mostly on the clouds, the the trees as a kind of "dramatic background" -- a high-impact image, stark. The attention of the viewer is very polarized.
mandoman7's is a more neutral, classic type of photograph, split into approximate thirds. The attention of the viewer is more evenly split, with focus on the land and the clouds as a dramatic backdrop. The ground scenery is very serene, while the sky contrasts that.
David Hedley's image is dramatic with the foreground and background, yet serene. It feels like an eyelevel type shot that pulls the viewer in.
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StevenJohn
Knoxville, TN
90mm Grandagon
FP4+ in Rodinal 1:50
Wonderful play with foreground + background, flowers + flower pattern on this one Steven! The single sunflower standing up to the horizon and the big one in front make me believe that the camera position was actually carefully chosen. There's of course a bit of luck with the sky having such a delicate cloud pattern to reflect those flowers, but I strongly believe that luck comes deservedly to the ones who are working to make it welcome! I really would like to see this in a proper print instead of on a computer screen!
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This is the same setup as my last, but shot on Ektar 100, which has worked better for me in this high contrast situation.
Funny, when I saw the first one with the mention of the grad filter (and still hardly able to corral in all that contrast), I was thinking about going to suggest color negative film... and then along comes this one. Color negative film when properly scanned really allows to bring scenes with strong contrast to come alive. The choice what to burn out and where to clip highlights (or in a lesser degree shadows) is yours then, more creative freedom. I think in this one you could have done even without the grad filter, maybe with a lower grad filter at most.
Apart from the technical excellence, I just like looking at the picture and enjoying it. I don't know if it's artistic, cliche, or whatever, but sitting in my office here, I like looking at it - sometimes as an abstract design, sometimes imagining the place.
I can't comment on all the good images posted here and I try to really word it out instead of doing a flickr-shoulderslap (like the ever successful "good shot"), but there are a lot of really good pictures on this forum... which is pushing me to try to get better myself, no matter if there is repetition or all originality! Also I have learned by people like David Hedley (just to name one example) that there is always a fresh angle at stuff that many people have seen a million times - and it can be turned into a super picture.
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http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4099/...22f00961_b.jpg
Fuji Pro 160s, Toyo VX-125b, 72mm Schneider super-angulon XL, garden, strong contrast.
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mrladewig
...I use a couple labs in Denver, Colorado for my film processing and both have delivered good processing, though there are occasional issues. I've never had any issue with uneven development in skies on any film though.
Please name names, particularly for C-41. :)
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mrladewig
...My process is to scan my processed film, then prepare for print in photoshop...
Do you scan them yourself? Using which scanner? Is the Ektar emulsion dull enough to preclude newton's rings in the absence of wet mounting?
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mrladewig
...I typically have my larger prints made by chromira printers on RA-4 materials and can recommend a couple labs for digital printing if you're so inclined...
Please do recommend them.
Thanks again!
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Prunes were big here in the 50's, before the wine industry, and carry a lot of nostalgia for locals. I was getting jet trails in the skies which was annoying, but as I waited they dissipated in a way that kind of worked with the image.
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I like this shot Steven. A distinctive arrangement.
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Sascha Welter
Wonderful play with foreground + background, flowers + flower pattern on this one Steven! The single sunflower standing up to the horizon and the big one in front make me believe that the camera position was actually carefully chosen. There's of course a bit of luck with the sky having such a delicate cloud pattern to reflect those flowers, but I strongly believe that luck comes deservedly to the ones who are working to make it welcome! I really would like to see this in a proper print instead of on a computer screen!
Thanks John and Sascha. I just printed an 11x14 last night and it is drying while I'm at work. You can see the many bees in the enlargement. I also took a shot in E6 and I get that back from the developer this week. I can't wait!
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Sal Santamaura
Please name names, particularly for C-41. :)
Do you scan them yourself? Using which scanner? Is the Ektar emulsion dull enough to preclude newton's rings in the absence of wet mounting?
Please do recommend them.
Thanks again!
C-41 LF processing - I've used Denver Digital Imaging (aka the Slideprinter) and Reed Photo Imaging.
I scan on an Epson 4990. I've had no trouble with newton rings with the elevated holders. The Ektar emulsion is quite glossy. I fluid mount on this scanner with a betterscanning holder when I want better quality scans.
I've recently started printing with myphotopipe.com. They're out of Atlanta and the quality is very good and they can print up to 60" width. Denver Digital Imaging also does excellent Chromira printing up to 30". Both have a good color workflow.
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Great images everyone... :)
A recent image.
jim k
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dh003i
Jim Kitchen, mandoman7, and David Hendley all have excellent landscapes. Jim Kitchen's image focuses mostly on the clouds...
Dear dh003i,
I wish I knew your name.
Thank you for your comments and including me within this group, but a simple note without sounding rude, you certainly left out a few other excellent image makers that populate this forum, and produce superlative landscape images, such as Nana and Steve, et al... :)
That said, and just to take a moment of your time to let you know, these landscape images are bound to be reviewed for a series that I am currently working on, complete with several rancher's portraits, and the dirt they own along the Cowboy Trail in Alberta. The Cowboy Trail is filled with grand vistas, huge open skies, and you are periodically blessed with a few fabulous cloud formations, during your journey. As I mentioned earlier, and whether I consider that the foreground could add value to the scene, I will add more foreground to an image, compared to not, but only if the included foreground compliments any artistic rule within my viewing card. Most of the time though the clouds along the Cowboy Trail win that decision making process quickly, while I try to balance the image with a clean simple horizon.
As a side note, and to be very specific about any individuals within this group that believe these images are cliche, then that happens to be their problem, not mine, since I am creating these images with purpose, and I do not create these images to garner any specific individual's approval nor am I seeking attention. I am honoured to be spoken about and included within a group of forum individuals, in such a way that a few of my images might propel another image maker within this group to seek a better level. I am very glad that I could assist them, whether they are reviewing my images and, or asking a technical question, because I also take the time to enrich myself by viewing many other excellent image maker's creative work within this group, and I always wonder how they achieve such an excellent image, and whether I could achieve that level of proficient excellence too.
Lastly, and if you have a moment, you could take a quick look at my website, to view a few simple images that do not contain clouds...
jim k
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Deardorff 8x10 w/5x7 Reducing back, 10" Commercial Ektar, TMax I think, although could be TX320. Can't remember the exposure ... too many margaritias around the campfire the night before, and I'm terrible at record keeping. This is only the second one I've ever posted (the other is in the "Water's Edge" post.)
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Deardorff 8x10 w/5x7 Reducing back, 10" Commercial Ektar, TMax I think, although could be TX320. Can't remember the exposure ... too many margaritias around the campfire the night before, and I'm terrible at record keeping. This is only the second one I've ever posted (the other is in the "Water's Edge" post.)
nice image
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Too many margaritias around the campfire the night before, and I'm terrible at record keeping...
Dear Richard,
Maybe the margaritas are your secret weapon... :)
Nicely done.
jim k
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Thanks Jim. Appreciate the nice comments. I like some of your wide landscapes as well. You gotta work fast to get some of those cloud formations, Either that, or you're a lot more patient than me! Gives me a whole new perspective of what Canada looks like.
Ok, here's one more, while I was miles from nowhere in the far reaches of Capital Reef Nat. Park, photographed in the fall. Yeah ... yeah, I know, it looks like a postcard. Details, I think, that I shot it with a Deardorff 4x5 Special, maybe a 150 mm Nikkor, could have been a 210. Definitely a K2 Yellow filter stuck in there somewhere. Does it really matter? Again, probably too much single malt the night before around the campfire, (hmmm, maybe there's a trend here.)
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...too many margaritas...
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...Again, probably too much single malt...
Glad you were able to focus on the GG and get these shots – what sunny drama in each.
And about those margaritas & single malts – heck, Ralph Waldo Emerson would have understood…
“As the traveller who has lost his way, throws his reins on his horse’s neck, and trusts to the instinct of the animal to find his road, so must we do with the divine animal who carries us through this world. For if in any manner we can stimulate this instinct, new passages are opened for us into nature, the mind flows into and through things hardest and highest, and the metamorphosis is possible. This is the reason why bards love wine, mead, narcotics, coffee, tea, opium, the fumes of sandalwood and tobacco, or whatever other species of animal exhilaration. All men avail themselves of such means as they can, to add this extraordinary power to their normal powers…”
Look forward to more!
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Valle de Mena, Burgos, Spain. Whole plate ( cropped a little bit ) contact print. Sepia toned. Turner Reich triple convertible 5x8 lens, 14 inch back element only.
Igor.
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... a simple note without sounding rude, you certainly left out a few other excellent image makers that populate this forum, and produce superlative landscape images, such as Nana and Steve, et al... :)
The ‘et al’ is very important – I try to make time to look at many of the photographs posted here, and enjoy looking out for those posted by gandolfi, Jiri Vasina, jnanian, Jim Kitchen, Andrew ren, Christopher Broadbent, Victoria Perelet, Sam Reeves ... amongst many others. Photographers whose work I have got to know through this forum – such as Paul Schilliger – remain important to me even if they have not posted here for some time. This thread, and the alternative processes and portraits threads, seem to attract postings which are usually excellent, and sometimes inspirational. The only comment I have on the question of cliché is that the cycle of initial interest, emulation, innovation and transfiguration does seem to be important in photography – just as it is in music, literature or painting – and is certainly more complex than a simple polarisation allows.