post your trees!

[donkittle]

This picture has a lot wrong with it technically but I really like the tree so I thought to share it. It's shot on paper within an hour of unpacking the camera. I was so excited to get out I forgot to preflash the paper so the negative is super contrasty. To help with the contrast, I tried contact printing for the first time but I don't have any glass large enough to cover 8x10 so the exposure was just lying over top of the undeveloped paper. Still, I kinda like how that gives me those soft focus edges and "light leaks".

Oh, and the bellows have a lot of sag which, I think, explains why the picture is partially occluded..


Ent by Don Kittle, on Flickr

[Randy]

Here's a revised version.

I really like it. I can almost see Scout and Jim walking along the path. Do you remember the f/stop?

[Courtlux]

Berlin Grunewald Linhof Master Technika Fuji 135 mm Fomapab 100

[Ken Lee]

I really like it. I can almost see Scout and Jim walking along the path. Do you remember the f/stop?

It was probably f/11.

[Kevin J. Kolosky]

I'm looking at it on a cheap laptop today rather than my big photo editing monitor, but that revision looks nice Ken! Your area has good woods too.

These are scans from a recent visit to Beech Hill in Rockport ME. Most people take the scenic path through a blueberry field to the top of the hill. This is the woods path on the SE corner of the property. Great place to pick up ticks in the summer, but a nice place to visit in the winter with a variety of tree species and shadows and snow. 4x5 speed graphic, 9" Gundlach Hyperion soft focus lens, fp4+ in pyrocat hdc.


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by Jason Philbrook, on Flickr


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by Jason Philbrook, on Flickr

To me the soft focus lens does nothing for this subject.

[reedvalve]

Taken last fall with very expired Velvia 5x7

Alley Pond Park, NYC - 2016-11-15 - 2

Rittreck View | Wide Field Ektar 135mm | 5x7 RVP50 (expired ~1995 !)

[reedvalve]

Alley Pond Park, NYC - 2016-11-21 - 1

Travelwide | 90mm Super Angulon | HP5+

[Roger Thoms]

Nice job Jason, I have to say I've really been enjoying you SF forest work for sometime now. Bravo!

Roger

[jp]

Roger; thanks!

To me the soft focus lens does nothing for this subject.

Kevin, I do appreciate the honesty of your opinion. What we like is certainly subjective and I don't expect everyone to like my photos.
If I may discuss it, what do you see as the subject and what is SF better used for?

[Maris Rusis]

Massive Snow Gum, Charlotte Pass

Gelatin-silver photograph on Fomabrom Variant III VC FB photographic paper, image size 24.5cm X 19.5cm, from a 8x10 Fomapan 200 negative exposed in a Tachihara 810HD triple extension field view camera fitted with a Schneider Super Angulon 121mm f8. Signed, titled, and stamped verso.