What did you compose at Waters Edge?

[chassis]

North and South Views of the Overseas Railway, Florida Keys

Provia 100F 4x5"

Great juxtaposition and nice palette.

[jp]

At the R Waldo Tyler preserve in Thomaston Maine. This is a salt water marsh that floods during astronomical high tides (like recently) with ocean water. The earth never really freezes 100% as fresh seawater comes in every day. I wore snow shoes so I didn't sink any places and had traction where it was icy. fp4+ in pyrocat hdc. 7.25" verito. One of my rules for soft focus is to avoid highly detailed subject matter like the grass here. But rules are made to be broken and I was willing to try. There is some detail but it's secondary to the light and composition.

img150 by Jason Philbrook, on Flickr

[Corran]

I'm stretching the definition of "Water's Edge" here. These icicles were definitely on the edge of becoming water .

Finally this is a soft-focus shot I can be proud of, I think. The 8 3/4" focal length Verito here was perfect for the detail shot. Set at just about half a stop down from wide open, shot on TMX and pushed slightly to up the contrast:

[jp]

Now I will be on the lookout for icicles! I think you're on to something. I stopped photographing them with my digital camera as sort of cliche, but these look real nice glowing in soft focus.

Here's one more from the salt water marsh. Tide goes out, ices slides down the bank into the water. Then tide comes in and floats these pieces on their edge. Sun shines through them. The light was nice. We'll see how the next batch of 120 film from my Rolleiflex looks in comparison. I should have shot this with the aero ektar too but didn't think of that.

img151 by Jason Philbrook, on Flickr

[Joe O'Hara]

Reflection in a small canal, with moss.

[Ken Lee]

Reflection in a small canal, with moss.

Bravo !

[John Layton]

Posted this awhile ago...from Sept. 2014, 5X7 L-57A, 210 Sironar-N, fp4 3 minute exp. Pyrocat-HD:


Image from Sept. 2017...looking back towards first photo's vantage point (small shelf upper rt...just below top of cliff) 5X7 L-57A, 120SA (just printed this to 30x40)


With 20 minutes to get on the boat...the fog really rolled in - but by that time my LF stuff was packed...so needed to run down to cove with Fuji/Voigtlander 667W.
The one that got away? Actually, the soft/etheral MF image enlarges well to 20x26(appx) and will try going to 30x40 soon.:


Please ignore apparent tonal shifts. Actual images slightly warmer than first one...slightly cooler than last two.

[Joe O'Hara]

Thanks, Ken!

[Joe O'Hara]

Posted this awhile ago...from Sept. 2014, 5X7 L-57A, 210 Sironar-N, fp4 3 minute exp. Pyrocat-HD:


Image from Sept. 2017...looking back towards first photo's vantage point (small shelf upper rt...just below top of cliff) 5X7 L-57A, 120SA (just printed this to 30x40)


With 20 minutes to get on the boat...the fog really rolled in - but by that time my LF stuff was packed...so needed to run down to cove with Fuji/Voigtlander 667W.
The one that got away? Actually, the soft/etheral MF image enlarges well to 20x26(appx) and will try going to 30x40 soon.:


Please ignore apparent tonal shifts. Actual images slightly warmer than first one...slightly cooler than last two.

John, those are really very nice, especially the last two.

Actually I like the warm tone as depicted in the renderings here. Something to consider, maybe?

[jp]

Reflection in a small canal, with moss.

Very nice!