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Sam:
>"Nice! I've never thought of Capitola as an empty beach.
>Usually there's siclone and sting bikinis running rampant
>everywhere during the summer"
thanks Sam - well, probably not at dawn :)
Technically, this is New Brighton beach but it's
Capitola to me <grin>
Robert:
> That's the stretch-iest 4x5 I've seen all week!
> Anamorphic lens, huh?
Nah, just a crop, not alot going on in the
sky that morning;
Jiri, lovely image. My opinion it doesn't need color. Perfect!
Thanks for the comments on mine too.
:)
Chamonix 5×8″, Schneider-Kreuznach Xenar 210mm, 5×8″, Adox CHS 25, Rodinal.
Summertime… :)
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2477/...892c120a_b.jpg
Charten 5x7, Goerz Dagor 1:6.8 6˝ inch, Fomapan 100. R09 1:40, 8 min @ 20°C.
8x10 210 Dagor, TMY and Lodima/Amidol.
Great images everyone... :)
A recent image...
jim k
Near Dusk, South Southwest of Ptarmigan Cirque, Kananaskis, Alberta, Canada, 2009
http://largeformatgroupimages.jimkit...s/09082105.jpg
Isle of Skye, Trotternish coast
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2633/...01d1fec5_o.jpg
4x5, Apo-Ronar f9/360mm, D100 in D76 1+1
Nice shot, Jim - excellent layers and diagonals.
Jiri - I love both sunflower shots. Your pastoral landscapes have inspired me, and I tried to emulate your style this morning. The result is not worth posting!:D
Here's a shot from a place I discovered about a week ago. I bungled the shot then, but a couple nights ago things were looking promising for some fantastic light and clouds. Well, they materialized, but I wasn't there! I got away from the house a little late, stopped on the way to talk to someone I hadn't seen in a couple months, then couldn't find this spot! I ended up at a poor substitute, tried to make it work, and never even tripped the shutter... :( I went back last night in far less optimal conditions, to make sure I could find the place next good opportunity!
Osaka 4x5, Sironar-N 150mm, 2 second exposure
http://www.greggwaterman.com/sh1.jpg
Another beautiful shot, Gregg! Love the gradations in the water.
Gregg (? - h2oman), keep trying, the right shot will eventually come through. Though, the landscape here around me helps quite a lot, it's rather calm, without drama (usually). Even the pre-storm cloudy skies, the only thing that can add dramatic atmosphere, are not that common. To me, the landscape really speaks of calmness and serenity by itself - as I try to show in this portfolio.
And second reason, I have enough stress and adrenalin in my day job (and while surviving the activities of my small children), so I try to find relaxation and calmness when I'm out photographing (and when I look at photos, too).
I think the quality and mood of photos you capture has a lot to do with the mood and way of life you lead (or what you miss in it)...
Jiri
Boat on a calm water, Vilkokšnis lake, Lithuania
p2 + R 210 @ 8, 2sec, foma100 + tmaxdev.
I like that, Tomas!
I bet I know the camera you took that with.
Very Nice!
Quote:
Originally Posted by csant
It has a very nice feeling !Quote:
Originally Posted by creep
Great images everyone... :)
Gregg et al, merci.
An image from this past August, while cruising the mountain passes.
A side note about this image: I keep forgetting how sharp my lenses are, where I always tend to remove a few minor dust marks from my scanned image and cruise the image for any additional anomalies. Periodically I come across interesting items within the image that I did not see at the time, and this time I discovered a spider web at the top of the "Queen," and the obvious outline of the resident spider occupying the web... Go figure. Thank God it was there and not drifting down onto my shoulder, as they have earlier. Those mountain arachnids find me quicker than any mountain bear.
jim k
Dusk, Queen's Court, Kananaskis Provincial Park, Alberta, Canada, 2009
A couple of new collodion landscapes:
http://www.kerik.com/davenport_1.jpg
Sea Stack, Davenport, CA
http://www.kerik.com/davenport_2.jpg
Railroad Tracks, Davenport, CA
Both are 8x10 on aluminum.
Those are wonderful shots, Kerik, especially the first one.
(but now I'm not sure I should post my new one next to yours ;) But what the heck...).
Chamonix 5×8″, Hugo Meyer Wide Angle Aristostigmat 160mm, 13×18cm, Fomapan 100, Rodinal.
thanks for warm words folks, it was shot just couple minutes to magic hour, all very calm around. lots to learn and the camera is quite heavy for that, nevertheless it couldn't be accomplished without full sinar movements - the front fall is all the way down - the cliff i was standing on was quite high. Thanks once again.
Jiri - this one is just lovely and amazing. the trees sit there like a chocolate puddings. ;) superb. thanks for sharing.
Jiri, I normally hate when someone makes me keep repeating myself, but I really like your landscapes. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Jiri Vasina
One of my LF shorts from New Zealand. We were slowly returning from a trip and stopped just for a few last views before leaving this area - valley above Glenorchy. This view got my attention nearly immediately. So - here is the result of my attempt.
Taken with Tachi 4x5, Osaka 400/8, E100G. Needed quite some PS work (underexposed with blue cast in shadows) and finally the BW version just looks better to me (I have yet to get the color one yet).
sorry for the large stamp - I have learned in the mean time that these are, well, a sign of amateurism ...
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2597/...ac077be9_o.jpg
Matus,
Beautiful tones! I don't see any amateurism here.
Tomas and Marko, thanks a lot. (Marko, I keep trying to produce something interesting again and again, so it might induce some repeating too :D ).
Matus, that mountain scene is great, wonderful scale and great tonality...
Jiri
Excellent work Jiri. I like that rolling slope of the sunflowers.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jiri Vasina
Awesome work. A very epic mountainscape. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Matus Kalisky
Great images everyone... :)
Jiri and Matus, very well done.
I could not resist this scene as I returned home from the Columbia Icefields. A small meadow along the Mistaya River at the base of the Kaufman Peaks, located in the Waputik Mountain Range, Banff National Park.
jim k
Kaufman Peaks, Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada, 2009
http://largeformatgroupimages.jimkit...ufmanPeaks.jpg
I made this one last week. It was taken looking south soon after sunrise from Stinchcombe Hill in Gloucestershire, England. The monument on the distant hill is the Tyndale monument erected to the memory of William Tyndale who first translated the bible into Early Modern English in the 16th century. He was born in the village of North Nibley at the foot of the hill. It's one of a series I'm in the process of taking whilst walking along the Cotswold Way and which I'm recording in my blog (link below).
http://www.virtuallygrey.co.uk/files...hcombehill.jpg
That's nice Steve, what filter did you use?
Sort of nearing large format (really MF I know, but bigger than 6x6cm), if 6x9cm rollfilm backs on a 4x5" can count, then perhaps an image from a 6x9cm Voigtlander Bessa RF folder ca. 1936 +/- (prewar only early Voigtlander folder, model prior to postwar Bessa I and II) with a sweet 105/3.5 Heliar lens can sneak into the thread? Shot in late afternoon haze on Portra 400NC, somewhere close to wide open, lovely forest preserve site north of Chicago meant for humans but conquered by mosquitoes (look like dust on the image would you believe?). Please slap me appropriately if this cannot qualify for these threads, as otherwise more may follow.
Peace,
Larry
Thanks.Quote:
Originally Posted by Patrick Dixon
Yellow + Polarizer
@ Steve: Yellow + Polarizer or Polarizer + Yellow (as recomended by Ken Lee)?
Are you (on behalf of Ken Lee) implying that there's a different effect dependent on which way round they are? Please elaborate.Quote:
Originally Posted by Philippe Grunchec
My polarizer was in front.
Yes. I was just wondering.
Philippe,Quote:
Originally Posted by Philippe Grunchec
I was hoping you might offer an explanation of what differences to look for or at least give a web link so that I could read about it. Do you please have a link?
I've just taken my yellow and polarizers outside and tried to see if I can detect by eye any difference with the yellow in front and then behind. And I can't. Maybe a difference would show up in processed film but if it does then my guess by eyeballing it is that it will be almost undetectable. But then I stand to be corrected ... I'm always ready to learn. :) Or, maybe you were just joking? :o
No, Steve, I was serious. I think Ken wrote that somewhere, but may be I misunderstood: my english is very rusty, I'm afraid!
On this page, I recommend the use of a Yellow Filter and a Polarizer together - but the order doesn't matter... as far as I know. I put mine in the front, so that I can rotate it easily while under the dark cloth.
An orange or red filter would have made a more "dramatic" image, but here, we can see into the shadows of the foliage. The overall feeling is that of England, not... Arizona ;)
Thanks, Ken! BTW, I like your photos very much: you apparently love hortensias/hydrangeas, so do I. My family comes from Brittany, where they grow like crazy: my 88 year old mother has 115 of them on her property.
Thank you Phillippe - Whatever flowers my wife will grow, I will try to make photos. Some are difficult subjects !
Ken, Philippe,
Thanks for clearing up that bit of confusion. I must say that the combination of Y+P can be very effective in landscapes in that it can significantly darken sky blues whilst retaining shadow detail and more or less retaining the non-sky colour balance - I use this combination regularly.
And yes - the picture is definitely not at all like Arizona.
Phillippe - Here's a recent Hydrangea. My wife has changed to a different variety, which I find an even more difficult subject. (Sorry - not really a landscape - but it's good to talk flowers.)
http://www.kenleegallery.com/images/forum/img191aa.jpg
Sinar P, 240mm APO-Nikkor
4x5 TMY, Pyrocat HD
This is a good place to insert a thank you to Ken for his interesting and informative web page. As a LF beginner I've always enjoyed it. (I remember it for some reason every few months.) The only problem is that today's visit has me thinking I really need (well, want) a telephoto lens! I went so far as to go to the KEH site and price Fujinon 400Ts...
Bryce Canyon, Fairyland Loop
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3452/...0369ff87_b.jpg
Toyo metal field (4x5), Fujinon 90mm, Acros / Rodinal
Hoodoo's! Very nice image.
Jon
Ken, congratulations to both of you, the gardner and the photographer!
David, good image! And as I scrolled down, your image got its top cut off -- actually works quite well also as a square, cropping from the top. As a square, I can really concentrate on the great light you captured on the spires! Might make a sweet little 10"x10"!
Vaughn
Ken, BTW, did you stop using vintage lenses for your flowers photos?
I haven't decided what to do yet with those vintage lenses. I have continued to use them for portraits. I need to make more images. Every lens has its own qualities, and sometimes my decision to use a particular lens is not based on logic, but on a subtle feeling.
False Kiva taken labor day weekend. I was very disappointed that I clipped the shadows since I had plenty of room on the highlights, but I was still happy to just be there.
http://www.ladewigs.com/Gallery/d/22...921_001_sm.jpg
Portra 400NC, Schneider SA 75/8 2 stop soft GND
Lots of inspiration here... Really some great images...
Here's another from me...
http://www.kgcphoto.com/Utah/Pine-Cr...Sand-4x5-1.jpg
Shen-Hao 4x5, Nikkor-W 150mm, Velvia 100F
Don't be disappointed - That photo has a wonderful deep feeling. of mystery and timelessness.Quote:
Originally Posted by mrladewig
Hi All.
fab shots,this is amazing stuff,Have included one of my meager attempts at landscapes taken on Tachi 4x5,150mm topcor, 8@f32 on 6x7 horseman back, Fuji Velvia 100F, scanned image Epson V700,
great Forum,
Brian from OZ :D