post your trees!

[Ben Calwell]

I've been on this forum since 1999, and here is my first picture post (unless I've somehow screwed it up.) This was shot on 8x10 Tri-X, developed in HC-110 with minimal agitation. It's been adjusted a bit in Photoshop Elements.

[Steven Ruttenberg]

Work in progress while I practice using 4x5 and slide fil. Fuji Provia 100F. 75mm lens, unfirtunately it is a borrowed lens and doesn't cover 4x5 adequately. The strong backlighting and sunset time makes this a hard image. Used no filters.

[Steven Ruttenberg]

I've been on this forum since 1999, and here is my first picture post (unless I've somehow screwed it up.) This was shot on 8x10 Tri-X, developed in HC-110 with minimal agitation. It's been adjusted a bit in Photoshop Elements.

Very nice!

[Ben Calwell]

Thank you -- I bought a V700 scanner from a forum member, so I've been feverishly scanning some of my large format negs!

[paulbarden]

A second image from last week's hike into the old growth forest at Cape Perpetua, OR.
This is my first time using PMK developer (shot on 8X10 FP4). It made scanning the negative challenging (so different) but I am curious to see how it alters the printing process.

[jp]

Very nice Paul.
You might try both graded and VC paper and the stain will affect the contrast some.

[Steven Ruttenberg]

Thank you -- I bought a V700 scanner from a forum member, so I've been feverishly scanning some of my large format negs!

Nice

My V850 is pretty good. Just took a bit to get the focus adjusted using the Better Scanning wet mount holder.

[Steven Ruttenberg]

Black and white of Aspens in Flagstaff, AZ 4x5 Shot with Ilford D100 at sunset. No filters used. If I had had them, I think I would have used red or possibly green. Yellow doesn't really seem to do much except in certain situations. The 75mm lens's image circle is not quite big enough for 4x5. I borrowed this until I buy my own. Decided to not spend the time to remove the vignetting and crop out where they clipped onto the film at the developers. This is exact same scene as what I posted from a slide and colorneg. The bw proved a bit easier to work with and appears to be a bit sharper as well.

[jp]

If you're shooting at dusk with no filters, you're basically gently filtering it blue, since the sky's color temp gradually goes very blue (high number) once the sun is out of sight. I think this scene works pretty good as a low contrast scene and filtering it to make the foreground contrastier would not improve things.

[Steven Ruttenberg]

If you're shooting at dusk with no filters, you're basically gently filtering it blue, since the sky's color temp gradually goes very blue (high number) once the sun is out of sight. I think this scene works pretty good as a low contrast scene and filtering it to make the foreground contrastier would not improve things.

Thanks for the input and your critique. Agree with your assessment.