soft focus landscape

[edp]

I just discovered this thread and IMO this is a spectacular image:



What makes it for my is it's tonal values and the size of the tree. Perfect!

Thomas

I concur. I like that a lot. Another of those "I wish I'd done that" images.

[Maris Rusis]

Forest Light, Soft Focus

Gelatin-silver photograph on Fomabrom Variant 111 VC FB, image area 21.4cm X 16.5cm, from a Tmax 100 negative exposed in a Tachihara 45GF 4x5 field view camera with a 3 dioptre single meniscus lens.

[dsim]

Beautiful image Maris.

[Jim Galli]

Gelatin-silver photograph on Fomabrom Variant 111 VC FB, image area 21.4cm X 16.5cm, from a Tmax 100 negative exposed in a Tachihara 45GF 4x5 field view camera with a 3 dioptre single meniscus lens.

Is it the 4rth of July already! Beautiful Maris.

[stefan d]

P&S VQ No. 3, 8x10" Kodak TriX Tanol

[Maris Rusis]

Is it the 4rth of July already! Beautiful Maris.

Thanks Jim.

A single meniscus lens seems to lay down image points with a surprisingly sharp core surrounded by fuzz. Those fuzzy rays look to be a combination of spherical aberration, coma, skew ray flare and who knows what else. There is actually not a vast quantity of light going out of control and the dark details of the picture hold together quite well. But specular highlights are very bright and the "flare" goes crazy.

Fourth of July? Definitely!

[Steve M Hostetter]

beautiful work Maris

[Stephane]

Maris, very moody, especially with the girl on the swing...
And the PS of Stefan makes the trees move...

[Robert Hughes]

Some of these shots remind me of what I see right after a glaucoma test...

[jb7]

Lovely pictures Stefan and Maris-