Large Format Landscapes

**David Lobato** · 14-Jun-2015, 16:58

Originally Posted by Colorado CJ

I went on a bike ride in the mountains yesterday and had my camera along for the ride. It JUST fits in my hard panniers with all the other gear. The weather was turning pretty bad with a supercell starting to form right above me, so I found a spot on the edge of a cliff and set up my camera for a shot.

I was using some old T-Max 400 (tmy2) I bought off ebay and this was my first time using Pyrocat MC with it, so the negatives were pretty thick (14 minutes with 5 inversions every 4 minutes), so I need to drop the time down some.

Colo CJ, glad to see you posted another photo. Excellent. I like it.

**dperez** · 15-Jun-2015, 06:49

Speedfreak, you are very observant. There is a road in the intermediate distance and I deliberately positioned myself to exclude it, because I didn't think it added anything to the scene. Thanks for the feedback.

-Daniel

Originally Posted by speedfreak

This is beautiful and very interesting; the scale is quite deceiving! The scrub brush/bushes in the foreground give way to undoubtedly large geological forms, but the intermediate gradation to this scale seems to be missing, making these mountains seem very close and small but huge at the same time, if that makes sense. And on x-ray film no less! Bravo on all the shots!

**kabbott** · 15-Jun-2015, 08:23

Originally Posted by mdm

Lake Te Anau, New Zealand.
Whole Plate Fomapan 100, Pyrocat M, I havent worked out how to get silver efex onto my new computer yet so tone is thanks to Ken Lee

I like the placidity of the scene in this one. There is definitely something quite peaceful about it.

Karl

**mdm** · 15-Jun-2015, 16:28

Thanks for that. I like it for the same reason.

**Colorado CJ** · 15-Jun-2015, 16:53

Originally Posted by David Lobato

Colo CJ, glad to see you posted another photo. Excellent. I like it.

Thanks David.

Yeah, its been a while. I need to make it a point to get into the mountains on a more regular basis. The mountains are right out my back door (Rocky Mountain National Park is a 30 minute drive up the canyon), but a busy life gets in the way some times.

**vitality** · 17-Jun-2015, 05:26

Hohenschwangau Castle
Linhof Technika V 5x7 with reduction back 4x5, Rodenstock Apo-Ronar 360mm.
Velvia 100, pull 1 stop, Tetenal E6.

**sdzsdz** · 17-Jun-2015, 10:09

Originally Posted by vitality

Hohenschwangau Castle
Linhof Technika V 5x7 with reduction back 4x5, Rodenstock Apo-Ronar 360mm.
Velvia 100, pull 1 stop, Tetenal E6.

Whow! Amazing Lighting! Amazing scenery! Why did you pull it one stop?

**vitality** · 17-Jun-2015, 13:45

Thank you.

It is a bit stupid story: after I shot this frame I was walking with camera and noticed that lens was not stopped down, so I assumed that I overexposed this sheet by 2 2/3 stops. Decided to try to save it, by pulling at least 1 stop... Now I'm looking and I actually don't know if I didn't stop down lens, or I did. Or I calculated exposure completely wrong. Or I pulled more than 1 stop

Anyway it worked out nicely in the end. Some kind of magic or may be simply luck.

Another thing is that I think Velvia 100 has to much of contrast, so I have an idea/plan to try it as ISO 50 + pull, may be I will like it more this way.

**steveo** · 17-Jun-2015, 14:24

A couple of shots from the disused Torphin Quarry in the Pentland Hills

wheel barrow in Torphin Quarry by Steven, on Flickr

**Robert Langham** · 17-Jun-2015, 16:16

Postcard printed on photo paper. Contacts I expect, by the hundreds. This one a very righteous image of El Capitan in Yosemite. Morning light. About 1936. I've got this jewel propped up on my bedside table right now so I can learn something.