Large Format Landscapes

Here are a couple of images that I finally got scanned. Both are from Mono Lake. First one was taken a couple of years ago and I finally got around to getting it scanned. The image was taken at sunset and the exposure ran well over two minutes. I "dodged" the sky with my darkslide for about half the time. I didn't have a graduated ND filter with me, it was in another camera pack back in the car. Image was taken with Velvia 50 on an Ebony 8x10 with my trusty Fuji 300 5.6 which continues to astound me with its sharpness. The second one was also taken at sunset this past Feb. The wind was just howling, but I was able to get behind one of the tufa formations just enough to block the wind, although at the time I was taking the shot I was "praying" to the photo gods to let the wind subside. I really had not expected the image to be sharp, but it was. Again, the exposure on this one was somewhere around 1 minute. Taken on Velvia 50 with the 8x10 Ebony and the Fuji 300 5.6. Jim

The first one is just marvelous Jim !

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Originally Posted by mathieu Bauwens

The first one is just marvelous Jim !

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Ditto.

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Originally Posted by barnninny

Ditto.

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Ditto squared!

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Originally Posted by Jim Becia

First one was taken a couple of years ago and I finally got around to getting it scanned. The image was taken at sunset and the exposure ran well over two minutes. I “dodged” the sky with my darkslide for about half the time. I didn't have a graduated ND filter with me...

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Ditto cubed!

I’ve never dodged an image like that, but it sounds like a useful idea in a pinch...

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Originally Posted by Heroique

Ditto cubed!

I’ve never dodged an image like that, but it sounds like a useful idea in a pinch...

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I have done it several times now with good success. I just keep the dark slide moving. Of course it tends to work best (for me) when the exposure is more than 5 or 6 seconds. Jim

Great shot Jim, to echo everyone else.

I've done that trick a couple of times, it works in a pinch.

Ditto! (That's ditto factorial. And a self-ditto factorial, at that.)

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Originally Posted by David Lobato

Bisti Wilderness in New Mexico

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...ness%20000.jpg
Toyo 45A, Nikkor 135mm, Tri-X

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Excellent. Where did you get your Martian lander though?

Vermont farm along route 2 near Marshfield VT. showing fairly rotten fall color of 2012.
Taken Oct. 11 about 5 PM.

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8407/8...3db152ae_c.jpg
4510-11-12-1:H>B,D[f1 by hypolimnas, on Flickr

TK45 with a 360mm Nikon T ED lens. Fuji Astia 100 Quickload in interminable wind. Epson V750 scanned with PS work.

Nate Potter, Austin TX.