Large Format Landscapes

[Steve Gledhill]

@ Steve: Yellow + Polarizer or Polarizer + Yellow (as recomended by Ken Lee)?

Are you (on behalf of Ken Lee) implying that there's a different effect dependent on which way round they are? Please elaborate.
My polarizer was in front.

[Philippe Grunchec]

Yes. I was just wondering.

[Steve Gledhill]

Yes. I was just wondering.

Philippe,

I was hoping you might offer an explanation of what differences to look for or at least give a web link so that I could read about it. Do you please have a link?

I've just taken my yellow and polarizers outside and tried to see if I can detect by eye any difference with the yellow in front and then behind. And I can't. Maybe a difference would show up in processed film but if it does then my guess by eyeballing it is that it will be almost undetectable. But then I stand to be corrected ... I'm always ready to learn. Or, maybe you were just joking?

[Philippe Grunchec]

No, Steve, I was serious. I think Ken wrote that somewhere, but may be I misunderstood: my english is very rusty, I'm afraid!

[Ken Lee]

On this page, I recommend the use of a Yellow Filter and a Polarizer together - but the order doesn't matter... as far as I know. I put mine in the front, so that I can rotate it easily while under the dark cloth.

An orange or red filter would have made a more "dramatic" image, but here, we can see into the shadows of the foliage. The overall feeling is that of England, not... Arizona

[Philippe Grunchec]

Thanks, Ken! BTW, I like your photos very much: you apparently love hortensias/hydrangeas, so do I. My family comes from Brittany, where they grow like crazy: my 88 year old mother has 115 of them on her property.

[Ken Lee]

Thank you Phillippe - Whatever flowers my wife will grow, I will try to make photos. Some are difficult subjects !

[Steve Gledhill]

Ken, Philippe,
Thanks for clearing up that bit of confusion. I must say that the combination of Y+P can be very effective in landscapes in that it can significantly darken sky blues whilst retaining shadow detail and more or less retaining the non-sky colour balance - I use this combination regularly.
And yes - the picture is definitely not at all like Arizona.

[Ken Lee]

Phillippe - Here's a recent Hydrangea. My wife has changed to a different variety, which I find an even more difficult subject. (Sorry - not really a landscape - but it's good to talk flowers.)

Sinar P, 240mm APO-Nikkor
4x5 TMY, Pyrocat HD

[h2oman]

This is a good place to insert a thank you to Ken for his interesting and informative web page. As a LF beginner I've always enjoyed it. (I remember it for some reason every few months.) The only problem is that today's visit has me thinking I really need (well, want) a telephoto lens! I went so far as to go to the KEH site and price Fujinon 400Ts...