Large Format Landscapes

[Arkasha_from_Russia]

Arkasha -- Another fine capture of an intriguing subject.

Thanx Jim!

[ericantonio]

Milford Sound.

My daughter is studying in NZ right now. I can't wait to visit her!! Is it hard to find LF film?

[mdm]

Yes, I get my film from B&H, ebay or probably in the future fomafoto.com . It may be possible to buy 4x5 somewhere here but the price is likely to be exhorbitant and selection poor.

[JeRuFo]

Try macodirect.de if you need a wider selection, they ship worldwide at quite low cost too and have almost everything you could possibly need.

[Corran]

Thanks chassis and KarlT.

Hope you guys like waterfalls...

So I went to another one this weekend. Spent several hours trying to puzzle out a composition - there was a lot going on in the foreground. Took a few photos, none of which I was real happy with, because there was a lot of junk in the "middle" ground. This is the photo I liked most, except for that middle area:



Was fiddling with it in Photoshop and with a little bit of creative editing I eliminated the middle ground problem:



Bet no one could tell I cut out the middle unless I told you! I need to go back and try a longer lens with a lower vantage point to simulate this shot, but I don't think it's possible due to too much in between the foreground and waterfall/pool, which will block the view.

Chamonix 45n1, 90mm Nikkor, TMX, Pyrocat

[Peter Mounier]

That's pretty good! Did you a content aware tool, or do it manually? I've noticed some weird artifacts on the couple of occasions I've tried content aware scaling. I haven't used content aware fill.

[Corran]

All I did was select the bottom third and copy/paste it up where it is, then put a masking layer on that and masked out the area above the larger rocks until it looked natural. The water was easy to blend obviously. A bit of careful masking around the rocks and I was done. So no content aware tool here. That would be much tougher I think.

[Leigh]

All I did was select the bottom third and copy/paste it up where it is, then put a masking layer on that and masked out the area above the larger rocks until it looked natural. The water was easy to blend obviously. A bit of careful masking around the rocks and I was done.

And I always thought LFPF was an analog forum.

- Leigh

[Peter Mounier]

It looks seamless. Nice job!

[Corran]

And I always thought LFPF was an analog forum.

- Leigh

Nope, there is not a single analog photo available on this forum at all...

Also, I can "burn" this image onto film through a lab with LVT recorder and print it in my darkroom if I wish...so, tell me, what's the issue?

BTW, nothing new here, Jerry Uelsmann does much more extravagant editing/compositing in the darkoom.