Agreed with Martin, they are lovely, Michael.
Agreed with Martin, they are lovely, Michael.
Kerosene, the two sepia images are exceptional. Well done! They remind of seeing a comment a couple of years ago saying that landscape photography is easy. Ha! And those clouds just happened to be perfectly integral and harmonious with your composition the moment you arrived, and stayed there motionless while yo set up and composed. Right.
Paul Strand once invited Walter Rosenblum to accompany him on a commercial shoot of a city skyline. Longer story short, Walter gave up after two or three days (I forget which) of Strand setting up but not making a single image all day, because the clouds weren't right.
Ilford has a post recently about a photographer who tracks wild animals in Africa. He speaks of waiting hours in his car for a pair of young lions to awake from their nap.
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Thompson Street Jetty, Drummoyne NSW: Toyo Field 810M with single-coated Fujinon W 180mm f5.6 and single-coated Fujinon W 210mm f5.6 lenses. Exposures are 1/15s f32 for both using Shanghai GP3 100 developed in HC-110 1+39 21˚C for 7.5 minutes using continuous agitation. The 180mm lens is the Copal shuttered version which has slightly larger (~10mm) image circle than the Seiko shuttered version, which only just covers 8x10. The 180mm was used without movement (the camera was adjusted from the horizontal in lieu of raising the front standard) while the 210mm lens has about 30mm of movement of which about 15mm of rise was applied to the front.
This was a test of the Leofoto G4 geared head I just acquired, it's atop a Leofoto LS-364C tripod. The Leofoto design and manufacturing is superb, arguably the best from China and probably the most expensive, but still significantly cheaper than Gitzo et al. The G4 head is a beautiful piece of engineering and IMHO is adequate to the task of holding the 7kg Toyo 810M steady with lenses up to maybe 300mm, but would not be sufficient for longer lenses. For any smaller and lighter camera the head would be perfectly fine. The geared actions are smooth.
^^^ I really like the subtle color in this image.
Well done!
Nice detail in shadows and highlights, too.
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