Large Format Landscapes

[julie nightingale]

Hi Edd,
Here is my contribution to this post. THis was shot with high speed infrared film with 25a red filter Sinar 4X5 with 210 Schneider lens. In the hills around Santa Barbara. Back then I was really into the zone system.

[mrladewig]

Just out of curiosity, how on earth would you apply visualization and zone techniques to wavelengths you can't see?

I've never shot any IR films, so I'm just curious about them. Not trying to be critical.

[ljsegil]

I may have already tried to pass this one off on a sunset thread, but I can't find it, so forgive me if it's a repeat. Canham 5x7, Provia 100F, 150mm SSXL. I like the glow, but I'm probably too easily pleased.
LJS

[Phil O.]

LJS,

Speaking as a seasoned cloud chaser, I have to say that your sunset image is one of the nicest cloud formations I've seen in a good long while.

[Steve M Hostetter]

Great work here! Silo, Sinar P 480mm 8.4 Symmar on 8x10" Tmax400 in D-76 scan neg
in northwest Indiana

[ljsegil]

Thanks Phil, that formation certainly caught my eye (and several sheets of film).
Attached here, no clouds, but running water (comes from clouds, I guess), Wehman 8x10, Astia (when will more 8x10 become available again???), Fuji A 240mm.
LJS

[julie nightingale]

Just out of curiosity, how on earth would you apply visualization and zone techniques to wavelengths you can't see?

I've never shot any IR films, so I'm just curious about them. Not trying to be critical.

Hey mrladewig, We used the zone system for exposing and developing infrared film. Even though incident and incandescent light meters are barely sensitive to infrared wave lengths we used spot meters and had calibrated them to give us the dynamic range needed to plot optimal exposure for HSIR. I was attending a technical photography school back then and everything we did was buttoned up almost to the point of lunacy. Reflecting back its no wonder I've been anal my whole life. - We checked and double-triple checked our metering and the exposure of our film and took crazy ass notes on everything. To this day I remember cursing the incoming cloud formations in front of my trusty Cambo clamped to that flimsy Husky! And film handling ... we even monitored the temperature of the coolers that were stashed in the interior of our cars under the hot Californian sun. Film processing ... making sure temperatures were always accurate, agitation was as consistent as possible and chemistry was accurate and replenished religiously in excruciatingly accurate amounts with no contamination!!. We were graded not only on the subject matter we chose to shoot but on the density in ten areas of the negative. They used a densitometer. Grueling wonderful days but days I cherish and hold dear! I learned allot!

[Jiri Vasina]

I hope you'll like this one:

Old Orchard II

Chamonix 5×8", Meyer Aristostigmat 160mm, Adox CHS 25 in 5×8", Rodinal.

[Richard Martel]

Jiri, That is just lovely..

Regards, Richard

[Jiri Vasina]

Thanks Richard

Jiri