Large Format Landscapes

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Originally Posted by CreationBear

Excellent, a rather Pre-Raphaelite vibe.:)

I'm curious about your workflow, though, especially what you're calling the "HDR" aspect. I'm imagining, say, three separate bracketed exposures that you apply layer masks to in order to brush-in your dodge/burn edits. At any rate, a great use of a long focal length...

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Thank you :)

The "HDR" refers to blending of 3 bracketed exposures of each segment of the film during digitisation and stitching. I just merge all the files to an "HDR panorama" in Lightroom, then make my RAW adjustments from there. I only do this with slide film. At base ISO the D810 I use for digitisation has a dynamic range of over 14 stops, so it is capable of recording the entire Dmax range of even Velvia 50 with a single exposure, however I have found that having an extra couple of stops of information provided by a blended HDR raw helps to reproduce accurate shadow and highlight detail of the original (especially the highlights).

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Originally Posted by Vaughn

Yes -- excellent! A wonderful use of color as part (just about all, really) of the composition. Love the way the pink form on the left color-contrasts with the green form of the right, with both being contrasted by the white in the middle. All tied together by the red leaves (left-over fall maple leaves?)

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Many thanks.

Those deep crimson-purple leaves are not left over from Autumn, as this was shot in early May. That is just their colour; I believe the tree is a "Crimson King" acer, but am not 100% sure.

Excellent, it must take a bit of horsepower to handle those files! Otherwise, it's a great study.

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Originally Posted by CreationBear

Excellent, it must take a bit of horsepower to handle those files! Otherwise, it's a great study.

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Yes, I stitch 9 overlapping segments, and the resulting images are about 90 megapixels. With multiple layers/masks etc the final edited 16-bit files can easily end up being several GB each, but my machine can handle it pretty well.

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Originally Posted by CreationBear

Excellent, ... , it's a great study.

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Fully agree

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Originally Posted by otto.f

Fully agree

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Thanks :)

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Boulder, Colorado flatirons.
Fujinon 240mm + Toyo 45CF + Kodak 320XP + HC-110

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...5624fab5_b.jpgMount St. Helens by Austin Granger, on Flickr

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Originally Posted by austin granger

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...5624fab5_b.jpgMount St. Helens by Austin Granger, on Flickr

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Excellent!!!

An example of good reasons NOT to use a filter sometimes, where the distant haze look is allowed, and not a total loss of darker details in foreground ridge...

Bravo!!!

Steve K

Thanks, Steve!

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