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"Detail everywhere and I strive for simplicity."
Boy do I hear ya! It's really a challenge to sort some order out of the 'chaos'. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. But you really hit the mark here. I think in part the detail is allowed to shine in the foreground, but the fog softens it in the distance - together all of that detail doesn't become overwhelming.
And my knees are going too - I'm 33, not old, but old enough for some joints to start creaking. I did about a 12-13 mile hike down in Prairie Creek SP in Redwoods and was feeling it pretty badly by the end too. I figure as long as I'm carrying my camera it's time well spent. When my knees no longer permit me to hike, maybe THEN I'll start catching up on scanning my film and processing my images. :)
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After seeing some of these images, I was hesitant to jump in. But what the heck....
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Sunlight in the Redwoods does take special treatment. Actually, that was one of the driving forces of my shifting to platinum and carbon printing -- to be able to play with that type of light after 15 years of photographing with only fog or cloud cover in the redwoods.
Vertical 4x10 -- platinum/palladium print
vertical 5x7 -- carbon print.
Sorry for the poor reproductions, but they are enough to get the idea.
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szadow
http://www.artlimited.net/user/0/0/2..._img310555.jpg
Sunset near Dzwirzyno, Poland, Europe :)
Sinar F2 + Rodenstock Sironar-N 210mm/5.6
1 sec f64 ISO100
Film: 4x5"Fomapan 100
Dev: 10 minutes @23°C in CaffenolCM (RS) rotary procesing in Jobo CPA2plus processor
Scanned from print with Epson 4870
Hi - I think this is a wonderful shot! Are you using the Caffenol CM recipe from Reinhold's site (caffenol.blogspot.com)? I've just started trying to use the same film/developer combination (substituting CL), but so far without success.
Thanks for sharing -
Duane
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Vaughn
Wonderful image, Zaitz! Good to see that you got to play in some fog!
MJ -- that sort of light in the redwoods is perfect for relative easy exposure and development for silver printing. Lots of contrast, but not too much. Getting the wind to stay quiet for the length of the exposure is the tough part!
I made an 11x14 image last Sunday under the redwoods -- metered f90 at 2 minutes. The film I used (Efke 100 IR) fails greatly with reciprocity, so I exposed at 8 minutes (+2 stops), and another at 16 minutes (+3 stops). The 16 minute one came out pretty nice, though even with greatly increased development, I could not get a lot of density in the higher values. Should make a fine silver gelatin print, but not enough for carbon printing (may be enough for Platinum). I should have gone for 30 minutes -- I think that would have really nailed it for me (or I could have backed down to f64, but it was a 24" lens and not a lot of DoF for the situation.
There is a little bit of movement here and there (wind from passing cars, road was only 30 feet or so away) and some small birds that land on branches and shake them.
I'll see about photographing (digital) the neg on a light table this evening and reversing it in PS and posting it. It is of a maple tree I have been working with for years.
Thanks and thanks for sharing that. I thought about filling my holders with Acros for that reason!
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MumbleyJoe
"Detail everywhere and I strive for simplicity."
Boy do I hear ya! It's really a challenge to sort some order out of the 'chaos'. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. But you really hit the mark here. I think in part the detail is allowed to shine in the foreground, but the fog softens it in the distance - together all of that detail doesn't become overwhelming.
And my knees are going too - I'm 33, not old, but old enough for some joints to start creaking. I did about a 12-13 mile hike down in Prairie Creek SP in Redwoods and was feeling it pretty badly by the end too. I figure as long as I'm carrying my camera it's time well spent. When my knees no longer permit me to hike, maybe THEN I'll start catching up on scanning my film and processing my images. :)
Wait wait wait....the miners ridge and Irvine loop? If so that also is the one that ruined me. Not thinking, I figured the James Irvine was a 4.5 mile loop and not a there and back....I was wrong. Not wanting to do the same thing back I looped it to the miners ridge. I overfilled my pack by an obscene amount and it was near 50lbs literally. All my joints about fell apart and I felt two sharp pains in my left knee the next day.
And thanks again! Seems we were there with the same goals and concepts.
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Vaughn
Sunlight in the Redwoods does take special treatment. Actually, that was one of the driving forces of my shifting to platinum and carbon printing -- to be able to play with that type of light after 15 years of photographing with only fog or cloud cover in the redwoods.
Vertical 4x10 -- platinum/palladium print
vertical 5x7 -- carbon print.
Sorry for the poor reproductions, but they are enough to get the idea.
Those are both great examples but I really like how the second one renders the light.
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I am surprised you did not hitch a ride back with a tourist! My camera pack weighs 45 to 50 pounds and another 17 pounds of tripod, so I keep my hikes to about 5 miles max. Gone are the days (and knees) of 11 mile hikes with the 8x10!
It has been a long time since I did the Irvine/Miners Ridge loop -- and I did it without a camera (my pre-photo days)...just with some friends. We also went body-surfing before hiking back. We ran a lot of the last bit of trail due to the coming darkness -- and no flashlights) Ah...the good old dumb days of youth (I must have been 22 or so! -- 35 yrs ago!)
Another fine loop (and not so long) is starting out on the Irvine Trail, but take the West Ridge Trail (a unique trail that follows the ridge top), then down one of the Zig Zag Trails (a couple of them, allowing for a shorter or longer hike) to the Prairie Creek Trail and back to the headquarters.
I usually do not give fancy titles to my images, but that 5x7 is "Redwood Cathedral", just because it is.
Vaughn
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lots of fine work here...
szadow: Sunset near Dzwirzyno, Poland, Europe: somehow the branch puts us in the image, really nice...
Zaitz: One of the few I got of the redwoods: marvelous soft feel to this, good feelings abound
mandoman7: nr. Williams, CA: this is so evocative of all the central valley, takin' me back
here's one from spring, in the foothills south of San Jose... 5x7 cropped
http://www.timsandstrom.com/images/new/img040.jpg
"one tree hill"
[note to self: find a way to see some of vaughn's carbon prints....]
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Awesome shot...did you happen to use a gradual neutral density filter, as well?
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Originally Posted by
szadow
http://www.artlimited.net/user/0/0/2..._img310555.jpg
Sunset near Dzwirzyno, Poland, Europe :)
Sinar F2 + Rodenstock Sironar-N 210mm/5.6
1 sec f64 ISO100
Film: 4x5"Fomapan 100
Dev: 10 minutes @23°C in CaffenolCM (RS) rotary procesing in Jobo CPA2plus processor
Scanned from print with Epson 4870
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Brilliant work amigo....
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dasBlute
lots of fine work here...
szadow: Sunset near Dzwirzyno, Poland, Europe: somehow the branch puts us in the image, really nice...
Zaitz: One of the few I got of the redwoods: marvelous soft feel to this, good feelings abound
mandoman7: nr. Williams, CA: this is so evocative of all the central valley, takin' me back
here's one from spring, in the foothills south of San Jose... 5x7 cropped
http://www.timsandstrom.com/images/new/img040.jpg
"one tree hill"
[note to self: find a way to see some of vaughn's carbon prints....]
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Wow, it's been a fine 12 hours or so for the Landscape thread!
Vaugh, I recall you mentioning how well redwoods works with the alternative processes, like carbon printing. I have a couple negatives that I would be better served to at least contact print (I have no enlarger) but just presented too much density for my scanner, at least that's my excuse. :) Really, I think I just fumbled around Redwoods awestruck, I was probably too distracted to really think about what I was doing.
Zaitz, yup - I did Miner's Ridge to Gold Bluffs Beach (we decided to hike the road, not the beach), up through Fern Canyon, and then back to the car via the James Irvine Trail. I posted my shot on flickr from the James Irvine Trail, but haven't gotten it here yet (I guess I should have just done that now, but it didn't occur to me :-P) I remember you posting in the 'locations' thread about your upcoming trip, as I had recently resurrected that thread myself for my own trip (also stayed at the Mill Creek Campground in Del Norte where I think you got a site). It's nice to see the follow up here to see what you came away with (which I am again pretty awestruck with each time I scroll past it in this thread).
dasBlute - Awesome! I feel like a broken record here, but this is another beauty of a shot. I lived in San Francisco for several years and I commuted along highway 280 every morning. I loved watching the early morning fog rolling through the oak trees all along that route, and occasionally ventured in to explore them a bit, but it was just as I was learning to operate a dSLR - I have nothing to show for it. But this is such a wonderfully familiar scene to me (not quite the same hills, but very close) - I love it.
Kudos for all these recent posts - what a treat.
