Large Format Landscapes

[austin granger]

Northern Plains

Made this in southern Wyoming at the end of October. I love that wide-open country.

Though I've never been to Wyoming, I love the wide-open country too, and I love this picture! Beautiful Harley. The crop really adds to the sweeping, cinematic feel.

[austin granger]

A little different landscape for me.

Clearing, 2012
Humboldt County
Scanned 8x10 Carbon Print

Comments & critiques welcomed

Nice one. The quality of your pictures always come through Vaughn, even on the computer. I imagine they're stunning in person.

[DJG]

Thank you. I am going to have to flatten the print and re-scan it. It is a bit of a mess.

vaughn

Just curious, do carbon prints tend to have this problem (I have yet to try one or hold one in my hands for that matter), or for the most part are they the same as a typical Pt/Pd (or other alt process) print on typical watercolor paper when it comes to flatness?

Very nice print, even on my screen, thanks for sharing.

[Vaughn]

My prints have a lot of relief, thus the image is made up a wide range on thicknesses of the gelatin layer. As the gelatin dries, it shrinks and pulls at the paper as it does so. The different thicknesses of the gelatin across the image means that this pulling is not even. A little time in a hot mount press will take care of it.

You can imagine with the print below, that the dark redwoods are actually much thicker bands of gelatin. But the warping is not much greater than a standard fiber-based silver gelatin print...it is just not as even as Silver gelatin prints' gelatin layer is uniform.

Redwood, Bull Creek Flat, 2012
Humboldt Redwoods State Park
Scanned 8x10 carbon print

[austin granger]

Hoodoos, Bryce Canyon, Utah


http://www.flickr.com/photos/austingranger/

[dave_whatever]

Here's a few 6x17s from this autumn (thats "fall" to you guys over the pond).

Storm over Stanage

Super angulon 90/5.6 on velvia

Autumn colours

Super angulon 90/5.6 on velvia

The Hope Valley

150/5.6 Sinaron-SE (Sironar S) on velvia

[mono]

I especially like the 2nd one - Herbstfarben or autumn or fall colours, whatever you like ;-)

[andreios]

Dave, these are very nice indeed - and the Velvia sings here! (And yes, I admit autumn is the only time of year when I almost regret not having any Velvia at hand..)

[jcoldslabs]

When I squint at this image it resembles its antithesis: a dense urban landscape of some kind. The hoodoos look like skyscrapers in a ragged city. Fantastic range of tones and light. Beautiful.

Jonathan

[cpercy]

northern plains

made this in southern wyoming at the end of october. I love that wide-open country.

Chamonix 4x5, fujinon 450mm, acros, rollo pyro

civil comments and critiques are more than welcome.

wow!