Large Format Landscapes

[spkennedy3000]

Toyo VX125b, 4x5" Fuji Pro 160 NS, the sea.

[zenny]

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Traditional Georgian house on the cliff. Near the village of Kobe. Georgia.
Toyo 45aII, Schneider Apo-Symmar 150/5.6 L, Rollei Infrared 400, Heliopan infrarot 715

Majestic place and heart-rocking capture ! :-D

[Ken Lee]

Massachusetts, 2003
Arca-Swiss Discovery, 400mm Fujinon T
4x5 TMY, D-76

[zenny]

La Jolla, CA
4x5 Arca-Swiss, 90mm Schneider lens, Fuji Astia 100.
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La Jolla, CA
4x5 Arca-Swiss, 150mm 5.6 Symmar-S Schneider lens, Fuji Astia 100. 8 minute exposure using Lee 10 stop "Big Stopper" ND filter.
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-Daniel

Liked the play of light with ND filter in the second picture! Thanks Daniel for sharing you awesome work!

[zenny]

"Schlögener Schlinge", Danube river, July 2011.

Flickr Page: http://www.flickr.com/photos/martinj...n/photostream/


Toyo 45AII, Rodenstock 75mm Grandagon-N

@EOTS: What an amazing capture! Winning work!

Would love to hear a bit of story behind this capture including technicalities in detail! ;-)

[EOTS]

Hi Zenny!

Thank you very much for your interest!

That place is called "Schlögener Schlinge" in Upper Austria: In Schlögen, the Danube river forms a sling.
Coming from the west, the Danube forms a first horseshoe bend of 180 degrees, as seen in the photograph.
It then forms another horseshoe bend back towards the east
(if you look closely at the right of the picture, you can see the turning point of another sling)

Here's a satellite image:


There are tons of (for me) boring pictures of the sling ...
mostly of the same famous viewpoint...
Here's one ... http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schl%C3%B6gener_Schlinge
So I went there multiple times (I guess about 5 times with large format) to get a photograph which I would be satisfied with ...

It was hard to get the exposure / grad filtering right,
as I was starting with analog / large format in March 2011,
so I got ill exposed photographs multiple times
(one time too dark overall, another time blown out sky, other times the sunset/clouds did not work for me, ...)
What I remember, that was two neutral density grad filters stacked, a hard 0,3 and a soft 0,2!

Regarding post processing: I decided to darken the trees in the foreground,
otherwise postprocessing is only color corrections and further contrast regulation...

Best regards and sorry for my bad English ;-)
Martin

[zenny]

Hi Zenny!

Thank you very much for your interest!

That place is called "Schlögener Schlinge" in Upper Austria: In Schlögen, the Danube river forms a sling.
Coming from the west, the Danube forms a first horseshoe bend of 180 degrees, as seen in the photograph.
It then forms another horseshoe bend back towards the east
(if you look closely at the right of the picture, you can see the turning point of another sling)

Here's a satellite image:


There are tons of (for me) boring pictures of the sling ...
mostly of the same famous viewpoint...
Here's one ... http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schl%C3%B6gener_Schlinge
So I went there multiple times (I guess about 5 times with large format) to get a photograph which I would be satisfied with ...

It was hard to get the exposure / grad filtering right,
as I was starting with analog / large format in March 2011,
so I got ill exposed photographs multiple times
(one time too dark overall, another time blown out sky, other times the sunset/clouds did not work for me, ...)
What I remember, that was two neutral density grad filters stacked, a hard 0,3 and a soft 0,2!

Regarding post processing: I decided to darken the trees in the foreground,
otherwise postprocessing is only color corrections and further contrast regulation...

Best regards and sorry for my bad English ;-)
Martin

Hello Martin:


Thanks so much for taking time to explain.

BTW, when I checked your picture and the one here (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped..._Schloegen.jpg), the shadow confused me.

The wikipedia picture was taken when the Sun is behind/or on the slight left of the photographer. But when you took, the sun is opposite to you. However, when you check the shadows of the mountains, both looks similar. Or they are reflections? Did I miss something?

Your picture of Icicles at Vorderer Gosausee, Dachstein Mountain View is also mind blowing! I love tyour two pictures! :-D

/z

[EOTS]

Hello Martin:
BTW, when I checked your picture and the one here (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped..._Schloegen.jpg), the shadow confused me.

The wikipedia picture was taken when the Sun is behind/or on the slight left of the photographer. But when you took, the sun is opposite to you. However, when you check the shadows of the mountains, both looks similar. Or they are reflections? Did I miss something?

Good question!
Not sure about that. In the Wikipedia image, the shadow casted by the mountains to the right is a bit strange?!
Most of the hard shadows fall to the right side, given the light source at the left....

Your picture of Icicles at Vorderer Gosausee, Dachstein Mountain View is also mind blowing! I love tyour two pictures! :-D

Thanks!
Aah that reminds me, I'll have to print that one! :-)

[David Brunell]

Sutro Bath Ruins, San Francisco



Scan of an 8x10 Vandyke print.

Thomas

I like this Thomas, what toning solution do you use?

[Bill Kumpf]

Ken

I like this - very peaceful.