Both images taken with a Chamonix 045F1 and a Fujinon W 180mm lens. Scanned on my Howtek 4500.
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Love the color pop Ethan! Lovely images.
Pali
Thank you both.
My backyard is a big hill that slopes down to a creek that only runs after rain. It rained a few days ago and so it was flowing nicely, and these big beds of ferns had grown up around the creek area (I think it is a fiddle-head, just fully outstretched). I struggled for a bit to compose an image of the ferns, but ended up finding a nice one without any damage or chewed-up leaves and set it on the ground straddling that piece of wood. The camera was aimed straight down, no movements, and set to f/32. The background leaves are still clearly out of focus even at that aperture, with the large magnification. A bit of dodging of the fern and burning of the background leaves was done to get the fern to be a bit more luminous (probably could've done an N+2 development, but this works fine).
Will probably make a contact print of this. Perhaps on ART 300 textured paper.
Yeah I think our particular mix of overwhelmingly green foliage and midtone soil can be difficult to handle. Another shot I took yesterday was indeed "grey mush." A partly-cloudy day with directional but diffuse lighting when the clouds obscure the sun is a great solution to that, if you are lucky enough to get those conditions. Directional, dappled light is another equally difficult condition for other reasons.
A fresh edit of a single sheet of 8x10 from last year. Chamonix, NikkorW300, 450 bellows, FP4+, high-key exposure.
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