Large Format Landscapes

[polyglot]

mandoman7: those are beautifully composed.

[D-tach]

D-tach, all of these recent posts are great but this one is my favorite.

Love the way the wave and the driftwood carry the diagonal division all the way through the frame.
A real ying yang between the solid of the earth and the fluid vapor of the sea & sky, with a little nebulous area in the center. Nice.

Thanks Cpercy!

[C4D]

C4D,

What is the make of the N.D. grad filter? It looks, at least on my monitor, that it is anything but neutral. I had a Cokin that had the same issue. I replaced it with Galen Rowel NDs from Singh Ray which is truly neutral.

I just borrowed a Chinese 6x17 back and am anxious to run some film through it. Really do like your image.

JD

Thanks JD!

I actually was using a Singh-Ray 3 stop hard grad... I love them and the Tiffen glass grad filters but I keep placing the Tiffen grads in my back pocket and sitting on them and breaking them!
I think the not neutral look might be from my lens vignetting at the top because I had a lot of front rise going on because I was actually beneath the scene and wanted to keep the film plane as parallel as I could. I also added a bit of warming to my sky as my Velvia scans on my 4990 have been coming out pretty cold.

Enjoy the 6x17 back! I'm having a blast with mine so far!

[Gary Tarbert]

Hi Dtach, My wife and i both love New Zealand , She has been trying to talk me into a trip in October this year , Your series of shots is making it hard to say no , Oh what the heck were booking this week .Cheers Gary

[D-tach]

Thanks Gary

Another view on Waimarere River Valley

[mandoman7]

mandoman7: those are beautifully composed.

Thanks polyglot.

[Zaitz]

Kind of a left over from Great Sand Dunes National Park. This was after I exposed a few other 4x5 slides. The light came and went in less than 10 minutes. Here it was waning. Not sure what I was composing but it was super quick and with a 210mm that was on for a photo before this. Kind of in between being not long enough and not wide enough for me.

4x5 Velvia 50
Crown Graphic Special
Graphic Kowa 210mm
f/32
Several seconds exposure, can't remember how many.

[Corran]

Wow, nice. While it doesn't have the dramatic lighting, there's still something special about it...great shot.

[Steve French]

I like the shot. The lighting seems to give it a lot of depth..kinda draws you in.

[Gary Tarbert]

Kind of a left over from Great Sand Dunes National Park. This was after I exposed a few other 4x5 slides. The light came and went in less than 10 minutes. Here it was waning. Not sure what I was composing but it was super quick and with a 210mm that was on for a photo before this. Kind of in between being not long enough and not wide enough for me.

4x5 Velvia 50
Crown Graphic Special
Graphic Kowa 210mm
f/32
Several seconds exposure, can't remember how many.

Hi Zaitz , Not as good as the one that will be hanging in my wall when it comes back from the framers, But still pretty good Cheers Gary