Large Format Landscapes

Dear Denise, David et al,

Merci for your kind comments... :)

When I post an image to the Forum, I am not attentive to any special image attributes, because I have never witnessed an image displayed properly on any web site, even my own. So, with that thought in mind I do not make an exquisite image for the web, given the display portal's issues, and the fact that I do not know whether any individual's monitor is calibrated properly, or not. I am not frustrated by this, but the displayed and heavily reduced image quality can surely detract from the perceived final image, compared to the original framed image. JPEGs drive me crazy with their inglorious induced artifacts, but having said that, the JPEG issue is a moot point, regarding a quick and dirty web image.

I set my JPEG images into a special folder within my website, and I reference that image through HTML code which is buried in text that accompanies my image. There are references to this method within the Large Format Forum, but it is very simple to do, especially if you have access to an external server. The code resembles the following:

"[IMG]" some web location where the image happens to be "[/IMG]"

I do however, reduce the file size to accommodate a reasonable internet delivery time, and I try to keep the size of the displayed image to a set of reasonable dimensions. Dial-up connections are unfortunately, slower, but sometimes that issue is negated with a great image on your monitor. Small images are great too, where I periodically review a return to the smaller format, but never seem to do that exercise.

Again, thank you.

jim k

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Originally Posted by David Hedley

Matterhorn reflected in the Riffelsee, Zermatt
Toyo metal field (4x5), Fujinon 90mm, Ilford Delta 100 / PMK Pyro

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this is very nice!

Solid.

Andrew

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Originally Posted by jim kitchen

Sunset, Barrier Lake Entrance, Kananaskis Provincial Park, Alberta, Canada, 2009

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Jim,

I think this one will look very nice on a silver contact. the texture, the tonality, almost like a abstract.

Andrew

Valley of Fire State Park, Nevada. The area is called "Fire Canyon"

The nicest time to photograph under the redwoods, especially on a cloudy day, is 10am to 2pm. Don't have to wake too early and home in time for tea...

Vaughn

PS...sid, very nice image -- great use of color in the composition.

Second PS...I like it even more with about half the sky -- that allows the red going off to the upper right side to become more significant. Just a personal quirk...

Sid,

I've got to agree that the color in the composition makes it work. Lots of items guiding the eye up through the photo.

Great images everyone... :)

Another recent image, which happens to show my son Alex's second favourite fly fishing pond in mid October. We've sat on that snow covered picnic table several times enjoying the view of Mount Kidd located on the opposite side of the pond...

While I was there and wiping the falling snow off my equipment, two Loons were having fun in the pond, diving and swimming underwater obviously looking for a small snack. I could not help play a game myself to see where they would surface, once they dove underwater. I failed miserably at that game.

As a side note, this view looks east south east to the Fisher Mountain Range, and this view is not a view of Wedge Mountain, where Wedge Mountain happens to be to the right and due south of this location.

jim k

A Light Snow Fall, Wedge Pond, Kananaskis Provincial Park, Alberta, Canada, 2009

http://largeformatgroupimages.jimkit...s/09101409.jpg

That's a beauty, Jim; there's a powerful sense of both permanence and change.

Thought about putting this in the rocks thread, or maybe trees, but decided on here instead. Tulelake Wildlife Refuge, California. 4x5, fuji 240, on some FP4 that Eddie gave me over a year ago when I bought some film holders from him. At the time my idea of developing film was putting chromes in the mail, so I had no idea what I was going to do with it! It languished in a pile of junk on a desk until I recently dug it out.

Thanks for the feedback Vaughn.
I left that much sky because I felt the clouds made it more interesting. Had it been a plain blues sky I would have cut more of it out.
Sid