Large Format Landscapes

[Clement Apffel]

Thank you also from me, Clement. Beautiful images which are a joy to contemplate.

Thank you Barry !

M.Apffel, Thank you for response. To clarify, my question was meant to relate to LF photography, since many of the European restrictions are being implemented here, sometimes with a time delay. So I asked out of self interest, I now suspect that our ability to go out with our cameras may also be curtailed in the near future. I may have to start thinking about indoor still life’s!

I understand. And I think you are right, the wave will come to you eventually. As I was writing my answer I was wondering what was the situation in the US.
And I saw the threads "Still Life 2020" and "Around the house" coming up as a sign you guys were preparing for the same confinement measures, if not already under it.

I never had inspiration for still life in LF (or in any format for that matter). That might be the occasion to try !

In any case, take good care of you, everyone. And I wish you all inspiration for indoor LF shooting !

[ostrygad]

Very nice!

Thank you kindly !

[David Schaller]

[Ben Calwell]

Wow — nice image!

[David Schaller]

Thanks Ben. I need to hike up there with my 8x10.

[jmontague]

I second the kudos. Very nice.


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[DaveF]

No time like the present to expose 8x10 film. Makes the mundane luxuriously special for me.



Daeda's Wood
Deddington, Oxfordshire, England
17th March 2020 2pm
Chamonix 810V
Nikkor-SW 150 f/8
Ilford FP4+ 8x10
1½” f/45
Lee landscape polarizer
small amount of front tilt
(slight vignette removed by a slight crop, but only because I have two filter slots on the wide-angle hood - should perhaps remove one since rarely/never use multiple filters with B&W).

N development, Stearman SP810 tray, Pyrocat HD 2:2:100, 12”, 21ºC
Acetic acid stop, TF-4 Fix, Hypoclear, wash, Ilfotol rinse.

[CreationBear]

I need to hike up there with my 8x10.

I definitely keep being more impressed the more I look at this one, especially since it seems to be a scene where contrast could get on the wild-and-wooly side. Did you do much special with the exposure/development?

[David Schaller]

I definitely keep being more impressed the more I look at this one, especially since it seems to be a scene where contrast could get on the wild-and-wooly side. Did you do much special with the exposure/development?

Thanks. It was a bit hard to find a shadow to meter! The shadow at the bottom of the tree was EV 10 and the brightest highlight I could find was EV 15. I placed the shadow on Zone III. It’s FP4, and I used a yellow filter, so my exposure was at ei 50, instead of 100. Although a lot of people would have just done N, I gave it N-1 development, which for me is Pyrocat 1:1:100 for 9 minutes with 15 seconds agitation at first and 10 seconds every minute, hand inversions in a JOBO tank.

[CreationBear]

It was a bit hard to find a shadow to meter!

Excellent, thanks for elaborating--leaf litter for some reason gives me fits, but everything here just lays-in nicely.