Large Format Landscapes

[Chris7521]

Taken up at Moose Hill in Sharon, Massachusetts
CM fujinon W 125mm f56
Chamonix 045n2
Ilford delta 100

[newtorf]

lovely!

Taken up at Moose Hill in Sharon, Massachusetts
CM fujinon W 125mm f56
Chamonix 045n2
Ilford delta 100

[Gary Beasley]

Taken up at Moose Hill in Sharon, Massachusetts
CM fujinon W 125mm f56
Chamonix 045n2
Ilford delta 100

I like how well you got the tonal separation in this image. Not always easy to do that.

[Vaughn]

Amicalola Creek, Fall 2022
Speed Graphic, modded with Pentax 67 35mm f/4.5 fisheye, at f/22 with yellow filter on T-Max 100 dev'd in Acufine:
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Hello! Missed this post somehow. Very cool. Wonderful image...I like how it does not over-play the fisheye effect. Having that tree trunk on the left is perfect...and I like that the composition, while not centered, places one's eye in the image's center -- and since there is nothing in the center to grab one's eye, one is free to wander back into the rest of the environment. It keeps the image active. Pretty nice 'test image'!

A good friend does a lot of work with the circular image...an interesting departure from his earlier panoramic work. Going out into the field with him is fun -- his camera 'sees' so differently! I have a couple of his prints in my living room.

He has enlarged them to mural size (digitally) and made large silver gelatin prints. One of his is on my wall (living room) is a 14" dia image on a 15x19 horizontal black frame, with the non-image portions of the paper exposed to black. The framing is an interesting choice, normally would not be my first choice but works well specifically with this image.

With your image (and if it were mine to frame), I would tend towards a more traditional approach. Printed on silver gelatin paper, window matted square, but on a vertical rectangular frame. Square frames can work very well, but they also can tend to over-play the form of the circle. But what is more comforting than a square box containing a circle of warm pizza, cut into lovely triangles? Excuse me...still on my diet...

Another way to get white around the image area is to make a circular mask to lay on the photopaper. You could make a mask slight larger than the image if you wanted a thin black line around the image (to hold in skies, etc). Edited -- whoops I read a later post that this is what you'll be doing.

Have fun!

PS -- just thinking...if your enlarger is not well aligned, the circle may not be so circular!

[Chris7521]

lovely!

Thank you!

I like how well you got the tonal separation in this image. Not always easy to do that.

Thanks, I get lucky every now and then!

[Corran]

Hello!

Thanks for your thoughts Vaughn! It was great seeing Geir's prints on your wall. I found a website with some of his fisheye images.

I definitely will be thinking about presentation. I did get a circular mat cut, inside of a square mat, and I like the look. But there's lots of options to try. I also had some time this afternoon to shoot more circular images that I need to develop here tonight...

[Corran]

Another:

Laurel Cathedral
Wildcat Mountain, from Hogpen Gap on the AT
Same setup as before

[fotopfw]

Great addition Corran! Love these circular images. Make them often with the Mamiya Fish Eye.

[Corran]

The Mamiya 37mm was my initial plan, what with the shutter. But I had the Pentax already so went with it, for now. Would love to see some of your circles!

One more, same location, not sure which I prefer yet:

[John Layton]

I find each to be wonderful...but prefer the bilateral symmetry of the first. Bryan these are truly fantastic! Looks like you are really on to something with these!