Large Format Landscapes

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Originally Posted by Steven Ruttenberg

Winter in the Superstitions, AZ. Acros 100, 75mm Nikkor f/4.5@f/22, Red25A, minimal agitation in Pyrocat at 1:1:175 for 1 hour at 68F. No reason for minimal agitation other than I wanted to try it. I have another version of this with mild sharpening, but uploaded it looks crispied. This doesn't have any sharpening applied at all.

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Steven, that is a very good photo. I'm a little surprised, though, by how grainy it is given large format Acros.

. . Friend, Oregon. .New snowfall on farm field and tracks leading to empty homestead, shed & corral.
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...4b14aa9c_k.jpg. . Friend, Oregon by Reinhold S., on Flickr. . Neg # RAnc 112. 4x5 Tachihara, 135mm, O2 filter, Kodak film, 1983

More here... https://www.flickr.com/photos/154287...57690079438365

Reinhold

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...0b4a2bef_z.jpgReprint DII Rock Bridge 3 by Nokton48, on Flickr

I am going through and printing negatives I made twenty-five years ago. I like this one.

Rock Bridge view from below

4x5 Sinar Norma, 58mm Graflex XL Grandagon lens (cable socket added) on custom made deeply recessed board. HP5 D76 Aristo RC #2 Multigrade dev

I read a review of this lens in View Camera Magazine, so I built my own. At the time there was nothing wider that covered in this FL.

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...7987c800_z.jpgCleveland Falls by Nokton48, on Flickr

I got excited when I saw the leaves swirling around in the circular pool.

Sinar Norma, 90mm F8 Sinar Super Angulon, HP5 D76 Aristo #2 RC Multigrade dev

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...b22e5444_z.jpgFrozen Cypress Dawes by Nokton48, on Flickr

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...778699c5_z.jpgReturn Ludlow Falls 2 by Nokton48, on Flickr

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...c07cbff6_z.jpgCleveland Lily Pond by Nokton48, on Flickr

Sinar Norma 4x5 360 Apo Kowa HP5 D76 Arista RC #2 Multigrade

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...c2d994df_z.jpgReturn Old Mans Cave 4 by Nokton48, on Flickr

Fine work, Daniel. I like Rock Bridge 3, in part because, except for the closest bottom foreground, the image does not have to so often forced appearance of such a wide-angle lens. It is a matter of taste, of course. But, as I near turning 68, I recall the sudden surge of the "wide angle look" and purposeful distortion that accompanied the tidal wave of psychedlics in the late '60s and on (which I thought was cool at the outset). The same look has become accepted as virtually normal now, with wider and better optics, in photojournalism, real estate offerings that turn cramped quarters into mansions, and, probably, on TV (wouldn't know). In any case, I enjoy your composition and tonality. Cleveland Falls is, I think, an especially nice counterpoint of moving and still, fluidity and solid angularity.

I appreciate your response and comments, Philip :)

I'm about ready to start up shooting LF again.

Something to enjoy in my retirement years ahead.