Large Format Landscapes

[CreationBear]

The Balnakailly Wood image in the trad landscapes section of my website was shot on Velvia 50 with an 81B warm-up.

Ah, very helpful--and I'd missed the Balnakailly set somehow...not exactly the Scots gorse 'n gritstone color palette I'm familiar with!

[Andrew Plume]

I like it. I can feel the desert heat.

Me too, the heat that is

Desert photography has it's challenges but if you were me, I'd be pretty satisfied with this

regards

Andrew

[Andrew Plume]

Thanks lol. I cropped out about half an inch from the top because of an encroaching vignette: if I'd had more time I would have thought to use some rear tilt as well. But actually the focus is really ok I think. Yes, the uppermost last inch gets very soft, but that just emphasises what matters in the image I think.

Lens-wise, horses for courses I reckon. I started off with the holy trinity (150, 300, and 450 Nikkors); a natural thought was then a 600mm. But I actually don't do that much epic landscape work where I'd want compression, and haven't used the 450 lens as much as I thought I might. I've not so far encountered a subject where I needed one. I do though have images where something in the middle between normal and super wide is required.
The trick/issue with (modern) normal to wide-angles is of course coverage. If you want to be free to compose creatively with quite a lot of movements, then lenses get very big and very expensive very quickly!

PS as before, 5k XL size on Flickr! I like this one a lot and will probably post on my new portfolio website.

More very precise/accurate work from you Dave

You do like your woods and streams

best regards

Andrew

[Andrew Plume]

Found a very old box of Fuji NPS in my freezer, so I loaded up my Kinematic and brought it along last time I was out hiking to test out. Seems to be in good shape. There's something about NPS that is very identifiable to me...something about the greens, which were really glowing in this scene.

Intrepid 4x5, Nikkor 90mm f/8, Fujifilm NPS 160:

Yes, the 'greens' are very good, Bryan

regards

Andrew

[Willie]

Overdeveloped...but I like where I'm going with it. So I'm going to try it again

4x5, Fuji 180mm, Ilford Delta 100, red filter, 1+9 Ddx 50 minutes 1 min agitation + 3 rotations @ 25 minutes, 68 degrees. Water cooled by 2 frozen burritos a a frozen fish.

Has a nice Walker Evans feel to it. Good job. Was the Frozen Fish a Bass you caught? Or maybe store bought stuff?

[Daniel Unkefer]

Southwest Colorado 1992 by Nokton48, on Flickr

4x5 Sinar Norma 90mm F8 Sinar Super Angulon HP5+ PMK+ 8x10 Arista RC #2 Multigrade dev

On our way to "The Great Sand Dunes National Monument" we stopped here and I was struck by the beauty of this scene. It was difficult to walk around with so many "stickers" everywhere.

[Daniel Unkefer]

Garden of the Gods Colorado 1992 by Nokton48, on Flickr

4x5 Sinar Norma 90mm Sinar Super Angulon HP5+ PMK+ 8x10 Arista RC #2 Multigrade dev

[xbj9]

I went to a quite "famous" (for my region at least) spot this wensday, right after a storm.
In the beginning, i just wanted to take a picture of this hut:

Sinar F2, Xenar 150mm F5.6@29, Fomapan 400@200 in Rodinal

But when leaving the valley i noticed this chaos, looking like a giant just tossed the trees around.
So i went for a kind of "minature look" with lots of front&back tilt:

Sinar F2, Angulon 90mm F6.8@16, Fomapan 400@200 in Rodinal

[DaveF]

Thanks again.

I do think it's worth saying that I am increasingly striving to use 10x8 to think - to make photographs not straightforwardly "of" objects in the landscape at all - so to this extent it doesn't entirely matter whether I happen to be making images in woodland or marshland or meadows or wherever. I guess accuracy is about technique, not of perception: and I'll take that as a compliment!

More very precise/accurate work from you Dave

You do like your woods and streams

best regards

Andrew

[gimenosaiz]

Hi!!

I purchased my Sinaron 75/6.8 102º MC on march but I've not been able to use it until last sunday ...
I love it!!

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Chamonix F1 : Nikkor-M 300/9: Yellow filter
Foma 100 : HC-110 1+63 (h)
Epson V800 : Epson Scan

Kind regards from Spain!
Antonio