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Thread: Large Format Landscapes

  1. #14861

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    Re: Large Format Landscapes

    Overdeveloped...but I like where I'm going with it. So I'm going to try it again

    4x5, Fuji 180mm, Ilford Delta 100, red filter, 1+9 Ddx 50 minutes 1 min agitation + 3 rotations @ 25 minutes, 68 degrees. Water cooled by 2 frozen burritos a a frozen fish.
    Laurent

  2. #14862

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    Re: Large Format Landscapes

    Quote Originally Posted by ljb0904 View Post
    Overdeveloped...but I like where I'm going with it. So I'm going to try it again

    4x5, Fuji 180mm, Ilford Delta 100, red filter, 1+9 Ddx 50 minutes 1 min agitation + 3 rotations @ 25 minutes, 68 degrees. Water cooled by 2 frozen burritos a a frozen fish.

    I like it. I can feel the desert heat.

  3. #14863

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    Re: Large Format Landscapes

    Latest from me, made on Sunday afternoon and developed last night.

    With the Rushes



    Otmoor RSPB, Oxfordshire, England

    Chamonix 810V, Rodenstock Apo-Sironar S 240mm f/5.6
    Ilford FP4+ 8x10
    ½” f/45
    15mm front fall, and lots of front tilt (possibly a bit too much in fact but in a bit of a hurry, but quite a tricky scene for focusing so I'm letting myself off)

    Stearman SP810, Pyrocat HD 2:2:100, 15’36, 21ºC, N+1 development, TF-4 Fix, hypoclear, wash, Ilfotol rinse; darkened quite a bit in post.
    http://www.davidfearnphotography.co.uk
    see too my 5x4 and 8x10 flickr albums

  4. #14864

    Re: Large Format Landscapes

    Quote Originally Posted by DaveF View Post
    and lots of front tilt (possibly a bit too much in fact but in a bit of a hurry, but quite a tricky scene for focusing so I'm letting myself off)
    Ha, crop/mat it as Whole Plate and nobody will ever know. Otherwise, you're providing me a lot of lessons in terms of focal length--coming from MF, my initial gravitation was toward the normal/tele end, but for what I'd consider "true" LF subjects, "wide" seems to provide the essential perspective.

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    Re: Large Format Landscapes

    Thanks lol. I cropped out about half an inch from the top because of an encroaching vignette: if I'd had more time I would have thought to use some rear tilt as well. But actually the focus is really ok I think. Yes, the uppermost last inch gets very soft, but that just emphasises what matters in the image I think.

    Lens-wise, horses for courses I reckon. I started off with the holy trinity (150, 300, and 450 Nikkors); a natural thought was then a 600mm. But I actually don't do that much epic landscape work where I'd want compression, and haven't used the 450 lens as much as I thought I might. I've not so far encountered a subject where I needed one. I do though have images where something in the middle between normal and super wide is required.
    The trick/issue with (modern) normal to wide-angles is of course coverage. If you want to be free to compose creatively with quite a lot of movements, then lenses get very big and very expensive very quickly!

    PS as before, 5k XL size on Flickr! I like this one a lot and will probably post on my new portfolio website.

    Quote Originally Posted by CreationBear View Post
    Ha, crop/mat it as Whole Plate and nobody will ever know. Otherwise, you're providing me a lot of lessons in terms of focal length--coming from MF, my initial gravitation was toward the normal/tele end, but for what I'd consider "true" LF subjects, "wide" seems to provide the essential perspective.
    http://www.davidfearnphotography.co.uk
    see too my 5x4 and 8x10 flickr albums

  6. #14866

    Re: Large Format Landscapes

    Quote Originally Posted by DaveF View Post
    PS as before, 5k XL size on Flickr! I like this one a lot and will probably post on my new portfolio website.
    That should be a sight--I'll definitely check it out.

    One more question if you're still on these comms: I'm impressed with how you're sifting the tonalities of the vegetation here, even without a contrast filter of some sort. Granted, you're rolling in that other Eden, demi-paradise and not the green hell of East Tennessee, but I was wondering if you carried, say, a #13 or 040 in your bag for some applications.

  7. #14867

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    Re: Large Format Landscapes

    Frankly no. For B&W I don't really bother with filters except when I need a polariser or have a sky to contend with, where I might well use a yellow/orange or light red and/or a grad. For the majority of my efforts I'm very definitely a hybrid worker still doing quite a lot on the scans with curves in photoshop - curves layers are such an incredible tool for black and white. I also have no intention of getting an actual darkroom. Works for me so far.

    With colour slide film though - which I haven't shot on large format for quite a while, though I'm seriously considering going back to it again - I do try to use colour correction filters on-camera because I want my slides to look as glorious as I can on the light panel; and grads are of course often essential. I have three Lee CC filters (81B, 85C, and #10 Magenta) for use with Velvia 50 alongside two different circular polarisers (one warming, one not). With colour slide I do try to edit in photoshop back to what the film looks like on the light panel, though increasingly I might also desaturate. The 81B filter is particularly useful in woodland where you might think of using the Lee landscape polariser (with built in 81A) but shutter speed ends up being too long. The Balnakailly Wood image in the trad landscapes section of my website was shot on Velvia 50 with an 81B warm-up.

    Quote Originally Posted by CreationBear View Post
    That should be a sight--I'll definitely check it out.

    One more question if you're still on these comms: I'm impressed with how you're sifting the tonalities of the vegetation here, even without a contrast filter of some sort. Granted, you're rolling in that other Eden, demi-paradise and not the green hell of East Tennessee, but I was wondering if you carried, say, a #13 or 040 in your bag for some applications.
    http://www.davidfearnphotography.co.uk
    see too my 5x4 and 8x10 flickr albums

  8. #14868

    Re: Large Format Landscapes

    Quote Originally Posted by DaveF View Post
    The Balnakailly Wood image in the trad landscapes section of my website was shot on Velvia 50 with an 81B warm-up.
    Ah, very helpful--and I'd missed the Balnakailly set somehow...not exactly the Scots gorse 'n gritstone color palette I'm familiar with!

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    Re: Large Format Landscapes

    Quote Originally Posted by Ben Calwell View Post
    I like it. I can feel the desert heat.
    Me too, the heat that is

    Desert photography has it's challenges but if you were me, I'd be pretty satisfied with this

    regards

    Andrew

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    Re: Large Format Landscapes

    Quote Originally Posted by DaveF View Post
    Thanks lol. I cropped out about half an inch from the top because of an encroaching vignette: if I'd had more time I would have thought to use some rear tilt as well. But actually the focus is really ok I think. Yes, the uppermost last inch gets very soft, but that just emphasises what matters in the image I think.

    Lens-wise, horses for courses I reckon. I started off with the holy trinity (150, 300, and 450 Nikkors); a natural thought was then a 600mm. But I actually don't do that much epic landscape work where I'd want compression, and haven't used the 450 lens as much as I thought I might. I've not so far encountered a subject where I needed one. I do though have images where something in the middle between normal and super wide is required.
    The trick/issue with (modern) normal to wide-angles is of course coverage. If you want to be free to compose creatively with quite a lot of movements, then lenses get very big and very expensive very quickly!

    PS as before, 5k XL size on Flickr! I like this one a lot and will probably post on my new portfolio website.
    More very precise/accurate work from you Dave

    You do like your woods and streams

    best regards

    Andrew

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