Large Format Landscapes

[Corran]

A terrific photo Bryan and a great example of solarization. I thought modern films weren’t supposed to do that but apparently the Efke 25 is retro enough to generate the effect.

Thanks Steve. Yeah I was just reading someone's topic here recently about black suns. I've always been interested in the effect since reading about it in Ansel's books, but of course T-Max 100 doesn't do anything like that. I briefly thought maybe the Efke would do it but never really "tried" to make it happen. I'll have to load up some more and see if I can do it again purposely.

Thanks to the earlier comments.

Here is one from Capitol Reef last fall. I was lucky enough to have the small rainbow stick around until I was able to compose and set up the 8x10. Usually, the rainbows disappear as soon as I pull the camera out of the pack. This image was made with a Nikkor 450M using Provia.

Like +1!

I know well the disappearing rainbow problem with LF! Good catch.

[Steven Ruttenberg]

Here is the processed lightning shot from Alstrom Point this month. shot at f4.5 so lightning is a bit soft. Next time I will go either f/16 or f/32. 75mm Nikkor on Tmax100 PyrocatHD. Yes, i was far away except for the one in the foreground.

[jon.oman]

Here is the processed lightning shot from Alstrom Point this month. shot at f4.5 so lightning is a bit soft. Next time I will go either f/16 or f/32. 75mm Nikkor on Tmax100 PyrocatHD. Yes, i was far away except for the one in the foreground.

Now, that is amazing, but scary!

[Steven Ruttenberg]

Thanks. There were a couple bolts shot thru camp just above ground level and parallel to it. I caught those on my digital camera.

[Corran]

Very cool Steven. Is the foreground cropped, or both top and bottom?

[Tin Can]

Very good Steve

[Steven Ruttenberg]

Very cool Steven. Is the foreground cropped, or both top and bottom?

I cropped a bit off the top and a fair amount from bottom. The lens showed it really needed a center spot filter in this image at f/4.5. I darkened the foreground as well, it wasn't that interesting.

[Corran]

Gotcha, just curious. Yes I'm sure the fall-off and performance suffered at f/4.5, but that hardly matters when you've got that main bolt that looks in-focus and sharp enough!

[Steven Ruttenberg]

Thanks Bryan. I'm finding out too, that negatives that are really dense, even though they look good on the light table, really suck for scanning. I'm working on one now developed with Tmax dev at normal times, but I cooked the negative by about 3 stops over exposed. I mention because the lightening one was super thin in the foreground but I still got detail with little work. The current one is just the opposite.

[Corran]

Two Scenes from Yellow Branch Falls, near Walhalla, South Carolina.

Chamonix 45n1, 300mm and 90mm Nikkor lenses, T-Max 100 dev'd in Pyrocat: