Large Format Landscapes

[Vaughn]

Great, Bryan!

[Martin Aislabie]

Simply lovely Vaughn.

Martin

[Vaughn]

Thanks, Martin -- my first negative has the fall centered -- but fortunately I did not stop there.

[h2oman]

Thanks, Martin -- my first negative has the fall centered -- but fortunately I did not stop there.

My wife and I listened to an interesting podcast recently, about being able to see other peoples' points of view. They featured a first grade teacher who had his students draw a picture of their home. He then asked them to draw three more, all different, to try to get them to look at things differently. I was thinking "I need to do that when I photograph!"

After that, he had the students constructively critique each others' drawings as well.

[Alan Klein]

Nice image Vaughn.

To be fair, I generally don't have issues with folks coming into my shot. At worst, folks are in the shot while I set up, and I expect they'll be leaving soon, so I wait till this happens. This was a bit more...deliberate, it seemed, but it is what it is. I almost walked over and asked them to move slightly behind a tufa for a few minutes but didn't.

Anyway, I also shot this sheet, whilst specifically avoiding the area they were using (that's the thing - I was at least trying to stay out of their family photo shoot!). Same setup.

Is the sky so blue because of no center filter or a polarizer? Nice shot.

[Corran]

Thanks Alan. I probably used a pol here. The sun was set but the sky in the upper right is still illuminated I guess (civil twilight) making it brighter. If on b&w film I could probably burn it down. On a print of this I might consider dodging the darker blue sky a bit.

[Martin Aislabie]

My wife and I listened to an interesting podcast recently, about being able to see other peoples' points of view. They featured a first grade teacher who had his students draw a picture of their home. He then asked them to draw three more, all different, to try to get them to look at things differently. I was thinking "I need to do that when I photograph!"

After that, he had the students constructively critique each others' drawings as well.

FWIW, I have over the last couple of years changed my approach to landscape photography.

I have stopped just taking one photograph of a subject but to approach it more like a portrait session - spend a lot longer taking many more shots of a single chosen subject from different perspectives and different compositions using different lenses as necessary.

It means I end up with a range of shots of the subject to choose from.

YMMV

Martin

[Daniel Unkefer]

Frozen Cypress Swamp Dawes Arbor by Nokton48, on Flickr

Frozen Cypress Swamp Dawes Arbor 4x5 Sinar Norma 90mm Norma Super Angulon HP5 D76 1:1 8x10 fibre print Fortezo #2 Dektol.

[Gabe]

Linhof Technikardan S45, Rodenstock Grandagon-N 4.5/90, Heliopan CPL, Ektar 100.

Padley Gorge, early autumn. by atomstitcher, on Flickr

[Edison]

Lake Okonoka, Detroit, MI
Fuji HR-U
150mm