Large Format Landscapes

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Originally Posted by koraks

Those colors. Those trees. Excellent! You must have done more with those trees, no? We don't get them like that around here with the lichen hanging down from the branches like that. Pity, really!

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The really big cypresses that are spectacular aren't around here. The other thing is a lot of the best angles seem to be in the water and I have an aversion to that...

Anyway, I was back out today. Wanted to shoot more with the 35mm/612 combo. I took this concept even further into ridiculousness though. I shot this scene twice because it was too dark to even see the GG at all, so I was completely guessing the composition. I decided after the first shot that I wanted to pan over about 50% to get a different composition. After scanning, I then took these two images into Microsoft ICE and stitched them like I do panoramic images, essentially making this even wider!

Here it is. Taken on Portra 160NC, unperforated, from a bulk roll:
http://www.oceanstarproductions.com/...6-stitchss.jpg

And since I made it so tiny for the purpose of posting, HERE is a link to the same image at twice the size if you would like.

Now that I've done this, I'm thinking I'm going to try this but swing the camera around a full 360 degrees, after carefully leveling the tripod, and take like 5-6 images. Wonder what that'll do???

Corran, I always enjoy panoramas, and your recent experiments are wonderful! Please keep up your experiments and post the results.

Stunning Bryan! You are inspiring me.
The detail on the Palmettos and is wonderful as is the reflection and transparency of the water.

Thank you Peter, Marty!

I feel a little guilty, as I have a very nice Shen Hao 617 camera here that I really should be using more. But it's a lot harder to "commit" to shooting a few rolls of 120 on a casual afternoon hike. The other thing is that in terms of angle of view, I don't have any lenses that cover 617 quite like the 38mmXL covers the 35mm/612. The 58mmXL just barely is shy of covering 617 sadly, and when using the center filter it really cuts into the image (This last one was with the CF and it was a lot more evenly exposed than the first image I posted). I believe the 58mmXL on 617 would be equivalent to what I'm shooting here in field of view. Also I have boxes and boxes of expired 35mm film that I got for pennies on the dollar...

At the risk of monopolizing this thread for a minute, here's the rest of the "keepers" from the rolls I shot. I also have a couple of vertical images that I like but really don't work on a computer monitor. I will probably put them on my blog though sometime tonight.

http://www.oceanstarproductions.com/...mas-0093ss.jpg

http://www.oceanstarproductions.com/...mas-0094ss.jpg

http://www.oceanstarproductions.com/...8mm-0100ss.jpg

http://www.oceanstarproductions.com/...8mm-0110ss.jpg

Yes, I love the last one very much. This is one I have been trying to capture in varying lights.
I would really like to get into the panorama end of this. Seems I end up cropping most my landscapes to mimic it.

Also, I have use the stitching in the lite version of Elements 10. It seems to work very well.

Yeah I am very happy with that one. The Saw Palmettos are a challenging subject to me. Half of them are damaged from bugs or other environmental factors, there's usually a ton of them in a big jumble so it's hard to compose, and then you've got to balance the extreme shadows underneath with the reflective fronds. This one was one of the last frames I shot and it was pretty much dark, around 8:30. This was a one-minute exposure and I probably could've given it double that. The late evening light was helpful.

Don't worry about monopolizing this thread Corran, the panoramas are lovely!

Back to 4x5, one from yesterday:
http://www.koraks.nl/galleries/snaps...D45_141_04.jpg
Symmar-S 210/5.6, Fomapan 100, Rodinal 1+100, 4990 scan

Your panos rock, Bryan! The palmettos reach right out of the frame.

Thank you both. I am glad you and others like them. I've been in a bit of a slump in my photography so it means a lot to me right now! :)

As a side note, I have been noticing some poor image quality on larger views of these panoramas in the background areas especially. I found a brass shim on the ground today that I think fell out of the lens when I was attaching it to a lens board. Totally missed it being in there when I took it apart. I will have to see if that improves the image quality...

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Originally Posted by Nana Sousa Dias

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Home made 4x5 camera, Schneider SA 47 XL, Fomapan 100, 25A filter, Rodinal, Epson V700.

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Very nice image, Nana