Large Format Landscapes

[Steven Ruttenberg]

from a trip to Colorado over the summer.

Very well done.

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Very well done.

Thank you!

[ALVANDI Camera]

Iran, Panoral 45 camera, Nikkor-W 150/5.6, Kodak E100-VS 4x5in

[Alan Klein]

from a trip to Colorado over the summer.

Nice serenely colored scene. what film?

[Alan Klein]

Iran, Panoral 45 camera, Nikkor-W 150/5.6, Kodak E100-VS 4x5in

Nice shot. I didn;t know they still made E100 VS. Is that old Ektachrome?

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Nice serenely colored scene. what film?

Thanks Alan. It was portra 160.

[Vaughn]

Steve, That's a very dramatic shot. I think there's too much foreground that doesn't add to the picture. The water area is the subject. You can crop off 1/3 of the picture from the bottom and not miss anything. The colors are off. (I'm using a calibrated monitor set for sRGB). What film and scanner were you using? Ektar?

I find that can be the case with many images, but in this case I think Steven did a good job of bringing together a chaotic foreground and the distant grand landscape. A bit of vertigo to help create the feeling of depth and distance.

The color is tough to take in.

Colors are shifting due to time of day, parts of the landscape is under open sky and some not, colored light is reflecting off the clouds and off the landscape throwing colors around here and there, and so forth. The film is not recording light 'normally', there is no one single white-balance for the scene. If the exposures are long, the color layers do not respond in the neat linear fashion as they would normally (a form of reciprocity failure?). Post-processing can adjust these shifts to a certain extent. In Cape Light, Joel Meyerowitz used a long-exposure Tungsten-balanced color negative film (8x10) in daylight and corrected when printing (wet prints).

Steven's scene is during twilight, so I believe it is presented lighter and with more contrast than one might experience otherwise (depending on one's night vision), which can change one's perception of color. And people's eyes and brain record color differently. What one person sees and remembers will not match the next person. Which what makes color printing challenging.

I saw the water color and immediately thought of the glacial lakes of Patagonia.
I feel free to point the camera up or down as the image calls for it...but it is nice starting off level.
Back in the '77 I headed out the East Rim Drive and out of Grand Canyon NP. Headed north. Mid-day and the all the clouds were pink on the bottom -- red light was bouncing off the landscape up to the clouds. I never saw that back home where everything is green. But it would have messed with someone printing a color neg and trying to get a normal color balance.

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Another from the same trip. Also portra160.

[Vaughn]

Cool!

[ALVANDI Camera]

Nice shot. I didn;t know they still made E100 VS. Is that old Ektachrome?

Thank you, Yes I know. I found this photo from the my archive. It is from 7 or 8 years ago.