post your trees!

[MultiFormat Shooter]

4x5 Nagaoka 150mm lens @F45. This is a scan of the darkroom print I made this morning. 1 minute contrast 0 and 9 seconds no filter. The roots are what originally drew me to this location 2 days earlier as me and the wife were out for a stroll. I came back to make a video and all the shots I had scouted changed including this one.

They definitely create an interesting texture and repeating pattern. I think the shadows from the other trees help accentuate that texture. What about the scene changed, since you had scouted it?

[Scyg]

Wow, what a thread. Love trees, though I most often have contact with the urban kind. I have recently made an 8x10 pinhole camera specifically for the purpose of taking pictures of the trees in my neighborhood:



Here's one example of what I'm doing (you can see the rest on my IG - address in my signature):



These are shot on my sizeable stock of outdated Kodak Polycontrast RC paper, processed in HC-110, scanned and reversed in computer.

[Scyg]

Indian Shell Mound IV

Korona / Deardorff 8x20, Schneider G-Claron 305mm f/9 (Dagor-type), Ilford HP5+ dev'd in HC-110 dil. H for 10 minutes:



Actually shot this over a year ago but didn't develop it till now. Just kept putting it off and then forgot.

What a fantastic image. I love the format.

[Vaughn]

I like the sense of time, Bill, that the blowing grass and tree branches gives your image. Sort of a natural soft-focus lens created temporally rather than optically. Nicely composed and balanced.

[jtomasella]

They definitely create an interesting texture and repeating pattern. I think the shadows from the other trees help accentuate that texture. What about the scene changed, since you had scouted it?

I actually saw it from the other direction. I got there at the same time of day but it just didn't look the same. I don't know if it was because it had rained the night before and the day I saw it it was dry.

[Bill Christian]

Hi Vaughn,

Thanks, it was very windy that day so I thought I should try to enhance it.

I like the sense of time, Bill, that the blowing grass and tree branches gives your image. Sort of a natural soft-focus lens created temporally rather than optically. Nicely composed and balanced.

[Corran]

Thanks Simon. It's a fun format, even if the camera is huge and cumbersome. Need to do another batch of 8x20 contact prints...

[Meekyman]

Like it Graham, really like it, post #6388

regards

Andrew

Thanks Andrew. I hit and miss with Portra 400, but when I hit there's something I really like about the way the film reproduces the scene. I guess the scenery and light at that time helped!!!

Graham

[Meekyman]

This is lovely, Meekyman. A bit surreal.

Thanks Jim!

[DaveF]

Some very cool images posted on the last few pages here.

Here is a re-edit of an image of mine from last year, for these rather bleak lockdown times - one from my still-progressing - if paused - Acontius project.

Cropped square and gold tone added to highlights digitally in post for a summery, warm, buttery, nostalgic feel.

Re-edited inc. square crop



Whichford Wood, Warwickshire Cotswolds, England
5th July 2019

Chamonix 810V
Nikkor-SW 150 f/8
Ilford FP4+ 8x10
8” f/32
A few degrees of front swing

N-2 development, BTZS tubes, Pyrocat HD 2:2:100, 5’40”, 22ºC
Acetic acid stop, TF-4 Fix, Hypoclear, 30min wash

I'm so glad I decided to move up to 8x10 last year. Even though I only up to this point have shot B&W with it, the immersive quality it gives is unlike anything else. I'm still yet to get a digital large print made but can't wait to do so!