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I think that, in landscape photography, the most important things to achieve a good photo are just two items...(assuming, of course, that the photographer can, already, control the technical aspects)
1 - Knowing WHAT to shoot.
2 - Knowing WHEN to shoot it.
If we can't control these 2 items, there isn't any lens/camera/film/developer combination that can "save" the photograph.
I could call it the NSD Formula but, I don't want people to call me narcisist, so I will call it the WW Formula.
Heres one from me (I never like posting anything after Nana... It makes me look really incompetent)
"Infinite"
https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.n...71237019_o.jpg
045N-2, 90mm f/8
Fomapan 100 @ 100
2sec f/22
#25 Red
Dev: Rodinal 1:100 - 1hr Stand.
Ahahahahah...don't say that, this is a hell of a photo and you know it!Quote:
Originally Posted by alexn
Impressive images Nana!. I love the last one.
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Originally Posted by Nana Sousa Dias
Alex, you are holding your own with this one. :) Really well done. I love the perspective, the path to infinity.Quote:
Originally Posted by alexn
Thanks Nana & Harley, Appreciate it.. The image was intended to stay as a 4x5 ratio however due to a rather extreme light leak in the bottom half of the frame due to an old holder I had to crop this one 3:1...
Nana, that is really a beautiful shot.
The Towers of the Virgin, Zion National Park, shrouded in the clouds of a passing storm. Shot on 4x5 Fuji Velvia 100. 1s @f/51 with a 2-stop soft GND.
Very cool, Alan.. I like that a lot!
One more from me then I'm done for a while (horridly rainy weekend has had me revisiting old negatives and even finding this one that I had completely forgotten about...)
"Natures Cacophony"
https://scontent-b-sjc.xx.fbcdn.net/...82264904_o.jpg
Neopan Acros 100 @ 100
12min f/32
Rodinal 1:50 (I forgot the development time... it was made a few years ago now..)
Great shot gentlemen, and Nana is some sort of "Ors Concours" IMHO always good.
Both from Alex also, great shots, the Velvia also rocks, so subtil.
Coming back to the film subject - I'm totally new with LF until now, not having done my first 100 photos, but my milage comes from the seventies of the last century - what I have concluded is:
Depending of the tonal range I want to enhance, and the contrast of the subject itself:
With the same developer, Fuji Acros for the mid tones - details and revealing subtilities between zones III-VIII but even better for the low range III-V/VI.
Kodak TMax 100 and 400: Mid tone king also, but for the higher range, V-IX - brilliant tonality in the upper range of the negative, open highlights, looking at a given histogram, the ones in which the crucial data is at the right side.
Ilford FP4+, Delta 100 and 400: Dark kings! No other film I tried until now give me blacks and shadows like them. One have to pay attention in shadow placement with theses films to avoid black empty areas as it seems to me that their contrast curve at the left side of the contrast curve is very high.
Obviously, all this statements are dependable of the developer used and agitation: I will not conclude the same developing FP4+ with X-tol and Acros with HC-110, so YMMV.
Cheers,
Renato