Large Format Landscapes

[tuco]

Wisner 4x5 TF, APO Symmar MC 120mm f5.6, Tri-X, PMK Pyro, Pentax Spotmeter V

[Peter Mounier]

That is really nice!

Peter

[tuco]

Thanks. Another along the Columbia River's edge near Astoria, Oregon.


River's Edge by tuco, on Flickr

Wisner 4x5 TF, Super-Agulon 90mm f8 , ND0.9 filter, 320TXP

[philosomatographer]

This sure is a large thread indeed! With my LF camera, the subject that I shoot least tends to be landscapes. These are three fairly recent images that I can contribute to this thread:

Hole in the mountain

(Ilford HP5+, Nikkor T*ED 360mm f/8, Linhof Technika V, 12x16in darkroom print)

Castes of botanical society

(Ilford HP5+, S-K APO-Symmar 150mm f/5.6, Linhof Technika V, direct scan)

Two lonely pylons

(Ilford HP5+, Nikkor T*ED 500mm f/11, Linhof Technika V, direct scan)

[Roger Cole]

Rick, Zaitz and Roger - thank you for your comments and advice. This was the first time I had used this lense, as I'd only recently bought it (on this forum), and I was interested to see if I would actually need a centre filter. Somewhere I have a Lee filters holder and hood, which I rarely use as I'm normally trying to take weight out of my pack, but which might be useful now.

I'm kind of interested in this topic of when center filters are needed and when they are not myself, out of a hypothetical interest in getting a shorter lens than 90mm eventually. I rarely wish for anything shorter than my 90mm Angulon on 4x5, but I want to use my rollfilm back more, mainly for color, and 6x7 could certainly use a wider lens as 90mm is pretty much a normal. I'm thinking it would be less needed as long as not much movement is used, as a lens that covers 4x5 is going to have minimal fall off in the 6x7 central part, but could be needed way more if rise or shift is used. Vignetting in the corners that is even can work with the image, as here, or be corrected in printing, or closely so, with careful edge burning, but that would be much more difficult with off center vignetting that might look like a fade to only one side, diagonal etc. depending on the movements used.

Wisner 4x5 TF, APO Symmar MC 120mm f5.6, Tri-X, PMK Pyro, Pentax Spotmeter V

Thanks. Another along the Columbia River's edge near Astoria, Oregon.

Wisner 4x5 TF, Super-Agulon 90mm f8 , ND0.9 filter, 320TXP, PMK Pyro, Pentax Spotmeter V

These are superb!

This sure is a large thread indeed! With my LF camera, the subject that I shoot least tends to be landscapes. These are three fairly recent images that I can contribute to this thread:

Hole in the mountain

Castes of botanical society

Two lonely pylons

Very nice. I especially like the last one.

[Leigh]

Wisner 4x5 TF, APO Symmar MC 120mm f5.6, Tri-X, PMK Pyro, Pentax Spotmeter V

Tuco,

That's a very neat shot. Thanks.

How long did you have to wait for the clouds to get in the right position?

- Leigh

[lbenac]

Oh I love this one. Nice timing.

Cheers,

Luc

Wisner 4x5 TF, APO Symmar MC 120mm f5.6, Tri-X, PMK Pyro, Pentax Spotmeter V

[tuco]

Tuco,

That's a very neat shot. Thanks.

How long did you have to wait for the clouds to get in the right position?

- Leigh

Thanks so much.

I was lucky to capture the moment. I was driving home from a days shooting and that scene unfolded when I came around a corner. The road is down on the valley floor. I took the nearest logging road I came upon to drive up the hill side for a better vantage point. I stopped at the first clearing that was half-way decent and set up my gear as fast as I could. It lasted long enough to get a couple of shots. But it seemed more amazing when I first saw it on the road.

Oh I love this one. Nice timing.

Cheers,

Luc

Thanks

[Zaitz]

Wisner 4x5 TF, APO Symmar MC 120mm f5.6, Tri-X, PMK Pyro, Pentax Spotmeter V

Awesome!

[Professional]

Tuco, both of your shots are fantastic, nice, well done!!!