Yeah no tilt, not a whole lot of depth of focus needed here. I'm definitely not afraid to use f/32 or even f/45 though if need be. This was f/32.
White Twig, New Brunswick - 1970
4x5 Plus-X, D-76
. . Columbia Gorge. Washington
Split Tree & Fence East of Horsethief Lake (Columbia Gorge) Klickitat County, Washington.
. . Columbia Gorge. Washington by Reinhold S., on Flickr
Neg# PLTR 027. Split 5x7= two 6x17. . 90mm, Yg filter, FP4 film. 1991
The camera here... https://www.photrio.com/forum/thread...ne-’93.155715/
more 6x17 here... https://www.flickr.com/photos/154287...79438365/page2
Reinhold
4x5 speed graphic / Aero Ektar at Bemis Brook Trail, Crawford Notch state park, New Hampshire. FP4+ in pyrocat hdc. June 1 2019.
A month earlier I became acquainted with a bunch of nice people at Steve Sherman's PAX event in CT and following up from that, Daniel Lin and Peter Bosco and I went shooting in Crawford Notch state park for the day. Bemis Brook has some nice small waterfalls, lots of cool geology and woods, and is an easy walk but far enough into the woods that you can get mentally immersed and get your blood flowing enough to improve your mental state in photography, especially going back and forth to the vehicle multiple times. The Bemis brook is named for Samuel_Bemis who was perhaps the first camera buyer and one of the first landscape photographers in the US. Obscure local history. I shot 12 sheets of 4x5 (still have to develop a few), 3 rolls of 120, and several color dslr photos an afternoon. Meanwhile wife and daughter spent my money at the outlet store destination of North Conway 30 minutes south.
img841 by Jason Philbrook, on Flickr
img839 by Jason Philbrook, on Flickr
img842 by Jason Philbrook, on Flickr
Aspirational oak in an unfinished business park.
4X5 / Fujinon 135mm f/5.6 / FP4+
David
Comments and critique always welcome.
Here's another image of a tree, also using a Fujinon 135mm and FP4+Originally Posted by DDrake
One of only three 4x5 images I've taken so far (only started LF this week).
Something perhaps a little different from me on this one: an image from a new project I'm developing, photographing trees with a particular poetic aesthetic in mind (ancient pastoral, including writing on trees).
Acontius Project: Dove
Beech Tree Detail
Wayland’s Smithy, Oxfordshire Ridgeway, England
29/6/19
Chamonix 810V
Nikkor-W 300 f/5.6
Ilford FP4+ 8x10
3” f/22
400mm bellows extension
15mm front fall
N-development, BTZS tubes, Pyrocat HD 2:2:100, 9’27”, 22ºC
Acetic acid stop, TF-4 Fix, Hypoclear, 30min wash
Scanned with Epson V850 and gold/selenium toned in Photoshop
Thoroughly enjoying the 8x10 experience, and have finished off my first box of FP4+ in three months. Also enjoying the striving to achieve perfect negatives that eventually I will try alternative process printing with.
A few notes on this project, which I added to a post on Instagram recently for an interested viewer:
Memory, writing, photography, landscape, pastoral. There's a classical tradition in pastoral and elegiac poetry in which writing on trees features prominently, going back through Virgil's Eclogues at least as far as the story of Acontius and Cydippe in Callimachus' Aetia. (Callimachus is the most famous Hellenistic poet - 4-3C BC - but little known outside Classics, my profession...). For me, the photographic element allows a focus on the replication of the gesture of script as memory with the writing of light on film.
Ha, I'd almost forgotten Gallus and Lycoris--Virgil would support a number of "tree" projects...the Georgics of course, would keep you busy, but the cypresses in the Aeneid are terribly evocative as well.(FWIW, you might be interested in the Iroquois "False Face" societies, whose masks were carved into living trees before being hewn off, and thus considered remaining in the category of "living things" whilst being worn.
Excellent. Thankyou. I have more...!
North American material fascinating too of course.
Highlands northern NSW, horseman FA45 green xray film
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