Large Format Landscapes

[ericantonio]

Another from Death Valley made with my Ebony 8x10 using a Nikkor 450 lens on Velvia 50 film.

Oh la la! I love Death Valley. I need to go back soon

[ShugPug]

That's beautiful - is that Gowers Gulch area? Time to get back there now it's not too stupid hot!!

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[Steven Ruttenberg]

Another from Death Valley made with my Ebony 8x10 using a Nikkor 450 lens on Velvia 50 film.

Excellent image!

[Steven Ruttenberg]

Grand Canyon North Storm. 4x5 shot with Portra160, Nikkor 75mm f4.5@f/32. Scanned on Howtek.

[Steven Ruttenberg]

As above, so below

Great movie! Makes you feel clostraphobic

[Steven Ruttenberg]

Image made with an Ebony 8x10 using a Fuji 300 lens on Provia film.

Peaceful Image, I like.

[Alan Klein]

Great shot Steve. The scan looks pretty good. One thing. There's a vertical dark band on the right side just to the left of a lighter band along the edge. I also see vignetting too on both sides. Were you using a center filter?

[Steven Ruttenberg]

Thanks!

That band is rain clouds. You get the these vertical winds out of the canyon that can cause vertical separation of clouds and rains. I have a black and white of the canyon with a storm that shows the same thing, but more pronuounced.

I did not use a center spot filer. Still want to get one though. How is yours working out for you?

I don't see the vignetting you are talking about. There are some parts in the bottom right and left that are at 0 simply because they were underexposed for this scene. There is literally no detail in them.

One thing about the canyon is it is really difficult to shoot. It has a mind of its own and most of the time dictates the image you will get vs you getting the image you want.

Thanks for the observations. I will look at what you perceive is vignetting and see what it is and if I can fix it if it needs fix.

Hope all is well in your neck of the woods.

[Steven Ruttenberg]

Grand Canyon from Lipon PT. Tmax100, red 25A, 75mm Nikkor f4.5@f/32. Rescanned using Howtek


Epson V850 Scan. Some of the differences are in post-processing 2 years later.


There are a couple of areas I am may crop out when I go to print that I am not happy with.

[Gary Beasley]

I like the tonality of the Howtek scan. I guess the epson cant be trained to do that?