The Setup and the Shot

[neildw]

Lucia by Smith De Westelinck, on Flickr

Lucia by Smith De Westelinck, on Flickr

[Ootsk]

Speed Graphic with a Darlot lens. f4
HP5 in Rodinal

[Old_Dick]

Ootsk, gold stars. Thanks/

[justinbriggs]

Wandering around in Sedona, AZ in 2018.

[Ulophot]

Nice, Justin.

[ericantonio]

Lucia by Smith De Westelinck, on Flickr

Lucia by Smith De Westelinck, on Flickr

I love how mentally, I see the colors like it is on the large format more than I see colors with the digital shot above it. Love that subdue colors. When I worked in fashion and eventually a lab in NYC, I was getting so tired of that "snappy, true to life, super pin sharp, saturated colors, "

[DaveF]

Agreed. What is also obvious here is that way that large format can carve portraits out of space, like nothing else (I imagine a top-end Leica with really exotic optics might also do the trick, but where's the fun in that, lol). Lovely work.
Colour saturation with digital is often overwhelming: yes. Colour saturation in colour slide film, e.g. Velvia, can also overwhelm, but used well in my experience Velvia and Provia do things with light that digital technology still cannot come close to. It's the flatness wrt, almost a sense of a lack of care wrt, the intricacies of light that makes digital still a bit problematic for me. When I do produce nice digital colour work I almost immediately ask what film would have done, and the answer inevitably seems to be 'same or better'. I think it's definitely true that if you want to come to understand how to produce great digital colour photographs, working with colour film first helps massively. I'm personally eager to do more work with large format colour slide film, but probably as a bid to transform the ordinary in close-up work in light shifted away from a neutral daylight temperature.

I love how mentally, I see the colors like it is on the large format more than I see colors with the digital shot above it. Love that subdue colors. When I worked in fashion and eventually a lab in NYC, I was getting so tired of that "snappy, true to life, super pin sharp, saturated colors, "

[Pieter]

Lucia by Smith De Westelinck, on Flickr

Lucia by Smith De Westelinck, on Flickr

I'm sorry. Large format takes some patience setting up and composing, There's no reason the chimney should be where it is.

[Andrew Plume]

Yes, unfortunately I agree, it's pretty distracting, a shame since the location was superb

Andrew

[ljb0904]

Riparian zone in the desert