Large Format Landscapes

[OMU]

Love your photo :-)

[OMU]

Thank you !

Some others, last batch I was able to make before the confinement.
I have 6 other sheets not yet processed that I made in the forest last Sunday.
If they are any good, I'll let you know.

All with Chamonix 4x5, T-Max in HC-110.
All in Burgundy, France.

Love them all

[Peter Lewin]

M. Apffel, your pictures are wonderful! Are you permitted to go out and take pictures if you are alone and not near other people?

[Ulophot]

Clement, your four landscapes are superb. The warm tonality has a marvelous glow rarely seen, and the soft feel of the rendering suits the lyrical composition perfectly. The careful timing, the compositional subtleties, and painterly shaping of the tones are a joy to study. What a pleasure!

[roscoetuff-Skip Mersereau]

Clement: REALLY like the first one of the four. Like all four - great skies by the way, but # 1 hits all my buttons. Ouch! Thank you !

[ostrygad]

8x10 salt print from wet plate collodion glass negative , i made in 2018. Near my hometown , Poland. Thanks !

[Clement Apffel]

M. Apffel, your pictures are wonderful! Are you permitted to go out and take pictures if you are alone and not near other people?

Thank you !

As it is not directly related to LF Landscapes, I'm not sure if I should answer your question here.

But here it is : Theoretically I'm not allowed to.

Only 4 reasons are valid for being away from home.

• Shopping for food or really necessary supplies
• Medical appointment or seeking medical attention (related or not to the virus)
• Going to work if you aren't able to work from home (employers have to deliver certificates to their employees proving they are needed physically at work in case of control)
• Doing physical exercise (like jogging, no collective sports) or walking the dog alone in the immediate proximity of your home

Police are doing controls on main roads and in cities. And are allowed to deliver fines (135€) to people in violation with this.

That being said, I live in the countryside (as you can see on the pics) and I think I could drive tens of kilometres without seeing any police cars.
And surely I wouldn't be near anyone doing this landscape work, apart from cows and sheep haha.
Though, I will not risk it nonetheless. Plus, I tend to be a very law obedient citizen.
So I'll just wait.

But I'm lucky : weather is announced to be very sunny in the coming weeks. And I'm not really a sunny weather photographer haha.

But I don't know, in ten days or 2 weeks I just might not resist and hike with my LF equipment from my home to expose some film in the woods near my village.
Who would argue that it isn't "doing physical exercise" ?

Clement, your four landscapes are superb. The warm tonality has a marvelous glow rarely seen, and the soft feel of the rendering suits the lyrical composition perfectly. The careful timing, the compositional subtleties, and painterly shaping of the tones are a joy to study. What a pleasure!

Thank you very much for the kind words !

Clement: REALLY like the first one of the four. Like all four - great skies by the way, but # 1 hits all my buttons. Ouch! Thank you !

A pleasure ! Thank you !

[Steven Ruttenberg]

8x10 salt print from wet plate collodion glass negative , i made in 2018. Near my hometown , Poland. Thanks !

Very nice!

[Peter Lewin]

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!

[Barry Kirsten]

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