Large Format Landscapes

[Leigh]

My English isn't very good. So please don't be angry if I don't write so extensively or make mistakes. But I am very interested in your opinion about my pictures!

Hi Frischbild,

It seems your English is excellent, just like your pictures
Hope to see more photos. Thanks.

- Leigh

[Jerry Bodine]

Hello Frischbild, and welcome to the forum.

You're fortunate to have such landscapes available to you, and you are treating them very well indeed. I'm curious whether the sign post at the foot of the spire is a caution to "hikers" to proceed with caution beyond this marker and be cognizant of falling rocks.

[Vaughn]

Chamonix H1, Rodenstock Grandagon 75mm/f4.5, Ilford Delta 100, T-max Dev.

For me, the shadow area in the foreground, sweeping left and continuing to the top of the rock spire, combined (or working with) the shadow area coming in from the right, makes the composition powerful.

Clouds would take away from the strength of this image. The atmospheric distance is well presented.

[Frischbild]

Thanks Leigh, Vaughn and Jerry!

Yes, I am grateful to live here in Switzerland. I love the mountains and I can not get enough of taking pictures of them But often it is also exhausting, the whole equipment together with tent and sleeping bag to tow up the mountain.

The sign at the mountain is a marker of the hiking trail. The path leads over the visible ridge in the image to this mark and from there left or right directly below the rock over. Fortunately, no stone fell down as I passed by.

[ALVANDI Camera]

Iran, Tehran, Firuzkuh, Panoral 45 camera, Schneider Super Angulon 90/5.6, Schneider IIIC center filter, Kodak E100VS 4x5in slide film.

[Corran]

I struggled finding the right angle for this shot for quite awhile. Didn't help that the thick grass or whatever would stick me like little lances if I wasn't careful, and I was climbing all in it. Shot two images from different vantage points and didn't like either of them. I was playing around with the second image and found a crop I liked better, from a horizontal 4x5 sheet to a vertical 3.5x3 image. Probably could still be improved with a more dynamic sky, but I never seem to get lucky with early-morning clouds. Will try again perhaps next time.

Gulf Islands National Seashore - Ocean Springs, MS
Chamonix 45n1, 65mm f/8 SA:

[Vaughn]

And cropping the top to a square is even nicer (just above the long horizontal branch). The receding oak(?) branches give a feeling of depth/distance without distracting from the forms of the lance-like grasses. I can see where this area can be difficult to work with.

Photographing down in the Grand Canyon, I jumped down only to stick a banana yucca (Yucca baccata) a half-inch so into my leg. Pulled my leg off the yucca and fortunately continued my hike for the next week with no problems from it. Could have been worse -- I could have stepped one of those cute pink rattlesnakes they have.

[Corran]

Thanks Vaughn for the suggestion. I will keep playing with it. I am really behind on DR printing so this will be in my "maybe" pile.

[CreationBear]

I struggled finding the right angle for this shot for quite awhile.

One of my favorites that I've seen of yours--I think you won't worry about the crop once you print it big.

At any rate, if we're having a "sharp things where they don't belong" contest, back on the farm I managed to step on a honey locust thorn while wearing sneakers--which then broke off flush with the sole. Made for a longish walk back up the hill for a pocketknife and a pair of pliers...

[chassis]

Iran, Tehran, Firuzkuh, Panoral 45 camera, Schneider Super Angulon 90/5.6, Schneider IIIC center filter, Kodak E100VS 4x5in slide film.

Beautiful.