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    Re: Rocks and stones


    Angular Pool, Monument Bay
    Gelatin-silver photograph on Agfa Classic MCC 111 FB VC photographic paper, image size 16.3cm X 21.5cm,
    from a 4x5 Tri-X negative exposed in a Tachihara 45GF camera with a 90mm f8 Schneider Super Angulon lens.

    Yes, it is the same pool show in Graynomad's wonderful picture. The water level is maintained by a fresh water spring and a bit of wave spray so the pool looks much the same all year round. I first saw it years ago when working with a fellow photographer Graeme Parkes. Actually we both saw it at the same time and ran for it but he got there first because he was carrying a 4x5 outfit and I was loaded down with a 8x10. I sneaked back some days later and did this one.
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    Re: Rocks and stones

    Quote Originally Posted by h2oman View Post
    Fabulous! I love the textures, geometry of the water surface.
    Thanks H2O.


    Hey Maris.

    Yes I first saw this as a print on Graeme's wall, liked it but thought no more about it. But a week or two later I stumbled across the same pool. Here's the diary entry off my web site for that shot

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    A couple of years ago I was visiting a friend (Graeme) while staying on the Sunshine Coast. We had spent the afternoon photographing with Maris and Zigi (two other friends also large format landscape photographers) on the shore of a nearby lake. With a collection of 5x4 and 10x8 cameras it must have made quite a sight.

    After sunset we retired to Graeme's house and before dinner I browsed his small gallery, finding myself particularly taken by a shot of a very geometric rock pool.

    A week or so later I was roaming the shore in the Noosa National Park when lo-and-behold I saw the same pool. My first reaction was "that's a nice shot", followed immediately by recognition of the pool as being the one in Graeme's photo.

    Funnily enough Maris had also discovered the same pool and had photographed it although I don't recall ever seeing that print. Some people might be reluctant to essentially stand in line to take the same photograph, I however felt that nobody "owned" the pool or the image and proceeded to make my own version.

    I could not recall the exact perspective of the print on the wall and it didn't matter anyway, the light and conditions were probably different on the day I was there. The shot would be taken, or not, according to what I saw.

    I wanted to get higher to stretch the pool and create a squarer shot but the higher I got the more I lost the total reflection from the pool's surface and started to see the bottom. Eventually I reached a compromise and the result is as seen here.

    Looking at the image now I like the fact that I can see some of the pool's bottom with the snail trails in the sand.


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    Interesting to see the different images of exactly the same thing, and different approaches with you using a 90mm and me a 210mm.

    I'm building a camper right now, but when it's finished I plan to get out and about to take more photos. If I get down that way I'd like to drop in and catch up if that's OK.
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    Re: Rocks and stones

    Stone, Point Lobos, 1962

    8x10 Cronar Press, 16-D, 12" TR

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    Re: Rocks and stones

    Quote Originally Posted by Merg Ross View Post
    Stone, Point Lobos, 1962, 8x10, Cronar Press, 16-D, 12" TR
    The fine texture almost made me touch my screen.

    If natural, one will be curious about the role erosion played for shape and texture.

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    Re: Rocks and stones

    Lava Beds National Monument

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    Re: Rocks and stones

    Moss on rock at a park near my place here.
    Kodak Tech Pan 4415.

    I had a lot of movements happening here, but I think I was too close to the subject and my lens too fast at F22 to get everything in focus.



    Mossy pinnacle
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    Re: Rocks and stones

    Dawes Oriental Garden by Nokton48, on Flickr

    4x5 Sinar Norma 90mm F8 Sinar Norma auto iris Super Angulon. EFKE PL100 processed in PMK Pyro+. The + is a shot of Amidol. 4X 8x10 Aristo #2 RC Multigrade dev. Laser aligned Omega DII with Omegalite 180mm black Rodagon

    I was doing a lot of architectural work for money at this time in my life.
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    Re: Rocks and stones

    Nothing to brag about. But loved the colors in Portra 400.

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    Quote Originally Posted by kmallick View Post
    But loved the colors in Portra 400.
    If you're not a purist, I'm thinking that this is just an (ambitious) PS session from being really special. At any rate, I almost always like "intimate" landscapes like this better than the classic tripod-feet-to-horizon approach--this one also seems to have enough strong graphic elements that a monochrome conversion might be worth exploring, especially if you worked the Hues panel a bit.

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    Re: Rocks and stones

    Quote Originally Posted by CreationBear View Post
    If you're not a purist, I'm thinking that this is just an (ambitious) PS session from being really special. At any rate, I almost always like "intimate" landscapes like this better than the classic tripod-feet-to-horizon approach--this one also seems to have enough strong graphic elements that a monochrome conversion might be worth exploring, especially if you worked the Hues panel a bit.
    Encouraging and kind words like this make the learning adventure even so much more enjoyable. I will definitely give the b&w conversion a whirl. Thanks for the nudge.

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