Large Format Landscapes

[Steven Ruttenberg]

Definitely. I hope I will be taking another trip there later this year for a conference, and spending some time with relatives. My aunt and uncle live way down past Senoita near the border, in the Coronado National Monument. Some wonderful, lesser-known landscapes down that way.

Cool.

[Steven Ruttenberg]

It depends in how you use a LF camera.

First a LF shot may have optical 600Mpix equivalent, allowing for insane enlargements.

Second, Scheimflug is an integral resource in LF cameras, allowing for impressive things.

Of course one also may use a view camera like if it was an smartphone, and obtaining a similar result, but this is only a particular case.

I would also say that it affords you a much wider field of view for a given focal length over smaller formats which can translate into greater detail for said equivalent field of view. Ie 75mm on 4x5 is equivalent in terms of field of view to a 21mm on a 35mm format. By default you have better resolution giving greater detail and larger image size for print.

[Reinhold Schable]

Windmill & Fence East of Centerville (Goldendale) Washington

WIMI 071 Wmill 8"600:95 by Reinhold S., on Flickr

Neg# WIMI 071. K.B.Canham 8x20" camera, 335mm, O2 filter, HP5 film. 2000

More 8x20" examples here... https://www.flickr.com/photos/154287...57689659371185

Reinhold

[Ironage]

Reinhold,
How did you get the sky to cooperate so beautifully?
Very nice work.

[PRJ]

Polaroid 110B conversion, Schneider Symmar 135mm, HP5, Pyrocat-PC

There is a little white cross on the hill to the right. It makes the image, but you can just barely see it here.

[Steven Ruttenberg]

Polaroid 110B conversion, Schneider Symmar 135mm, HP5, Pyrocat-PC

There is a little white cross on the hill to the right. It makes the image, but you can just barely see it here.

I like this one

[gnuyork]

One more from Jekyll Island. After reflecting I think this is my favorite of the day. Unusual for me, this was the second image of the day on this beach. Usually I hit my stride a few images in and make the keepers. But this was a little after 8am, and the sun was rising fast...later images have less beautiful light. As typical for south Georgia, the light is great for about an hour after sunrise and then it's pretty rough for the rest of the day.

Chamonix 45n1, Nikkor 90mm f/8, APX 100:

I know this spot... I have photographed it with both Rolleiflex and digital. No 4x5 though. You're right - must work quickly in the morning.

[gnuyork]

Badwater Basin Sunrise
Arca Swiss F Line Metric
Rodenstock 90mm
Fuji Velvia 50

[img]Untitled by Gevork Mosesi, on Flickr[/img]

Holy cow! Stunning - the contrast of the foreground with the pop of color on the mountains in the distance..and the softness of those clouds. Very well seen!!

[Corran]

I know this spot... I have photographed it with both Rolleiflex and digital. No 4x5 though. You're right - must work quickly in the morning.

I plan to ask others in the NGLFP group if they'd like to camp on Jekyll sometime in the summer. Normally Jekyll has been an add-on activity and getting there in the afternoon/evening sucks (sun is on the left but the forested area makes everything shadowed). My wife and I were actually staying in Savannah and so we got up at 5:30am to get out here just after sunrise, which was amazing. I want to camp for a few days...blow a dozen sheets every morning or so. Plenty of subjects to shoot as you know!

I found some old digital images and actually a few shots from my first TLR, a Yashica 124G, I shot back in 2013. I can tell how much I've grown.

[scm]

The Great Salt Lake from Promontory Point - Fujichrome Astia RAP