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Rain Forest Images - Yashica Mat and Rolleiflex
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PostPosted: Tue Jun 02, 2009 1:39 am    Post subject: Rain Forest Images - Yashica Mat and Rolleiflex Reply with quote

I'll use this posting to add some rain forest images.

Not trying for great shots. More like just trying to show the
various moods and views within the rain forests here.

These first two shots are an attempt to photograph "old"
subjects from a new angle.

Oxalis Monobiome
Rolleiflex SL35-M
Rollei Planar 50/1.8
Provia
Vignetted in corners from adding two polarizers.
Still learning the use of the lens.
Taken from very low angle, almost ground level.




Vine Maple and Giant Spruce
Yashica Mat
f:22 and 1/60th
Provia
Auxiliary wide angle lens.
Overcast day, but the leaves always seem to glow with translucent light.
The scale is hard to discern, but the Spruce trunk near the ground level
is about 12 feet (4 meters) in diameter.


More coming as I scan them...


PostPosted: Tue Jun 02, 2009 1:52 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Another scan of 35mm slide.

Look closely at the groundcover; every square inch of the forest floor
is taken by some kind of plant. Shocked I try to walk on rotted wood,
stones, and anything else to keep from trampling the groundcover,
so my progress in these areas is very slow.

There was just a faint stream of sunlight angling through the middle area.

The viewfinder of the this old Rolleiflex is huge! The view through the
prism to the subject is astonishing.

Groundcover
Rolleiflex SL35-M
Rollei Planar 50/1.8
Provia


PostPosted: Tue Jun 02, 2009 2:31 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

They are beautiful Larry, as always.


PostPosted: Tue Jun 02, 2009 4:24 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Schnauzer wrote:
They are beautiful Larry, as always.


Thanks Ron. These aren't meant as beauty shots as far as technical work goes - but the inherent beauty of the deep rain forest is not to be denied. Like I said..."get on over here"! Very Happy


PostPosted: Tue Jun 02, 2009 8:27 am    Post subject: Rain forest Reply with quote

These old MF cameras are great for landscape work.
cuts a nice image !


PostPosted: Tue Jun 02, 2009 10:09 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

superb Laurence! you are great to smell the light; most of us will only get a boring uniform green from those rain forest


PostPosted: Tue Jun 02, 2009 11:39 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I am always amazed at the scenes from within the NW's rainforests. So unlike what I see here in the Deep South's forests...I'm jealous...Great shots of the forests!


PostPosted: Tue Jun 02, 2009 11:44 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

No, sorry, that Rolleiflex just won't do. Advertise it for 20 bucks and I'll relieve you of it, just to save you the hassle of an ebay auction Wink

There's something about those lush greens and yellowish light that just does it for me. Smile

My list of place to go photograph grows by the day. I want to photograph your rain forests, Jesito's village, Attila's city and zoo....... I'll run out of life before I get to all those places Laughing


PostPosted: Tue Jun 02, 2009 2:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

As always your motives(?) are stunning.

To me they look a little to green, but off course I have not seen real ting.


PostPosted: Tue Jun 02, 2009 4:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

lahnet wrote:
As always your motives(?) are stunning.

To me they look a little to green, but off course I have not seen real ting.


Henrik, that is a common statement. Cool In fact, there was no
saturation increase applied to the images.

I guess one way I could describe it, is that before entering the
Olympic National Park, there are several miles of logged land
that are, of course, very scarred and harsh. Then, when you come
to the Olympic Park border in the Quinault Valley, the
green OVERWHELMS me every time.

If I use Velvia, I DO manipulate the saturation DOWN by
20-25%, because the already intense green goes "over the top".
With Provia, in my opinion, it is much closer to reality. And that
reality is GREEN to the max.

I think what I can do as an exercise for photography, is go
to the demarcation line of the National Park, and I will take
two images. One looking into the logged area, and the other
180 in the other direction into the rain forest. That might be a
good way to show the shocking differences.


PostPosted: Tue Jun 02, 2009 9:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

All are amazing, but really love the lush greens in the first! Shocked


PostPosted: Tue Jun 02, 2009 10:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Laurence wrote:
lahnet wrote:
As always your motives(?) are stunning.

To me they look a little to green, but off course I have not seen real ting.


I think what I can do as an exercise for photography, is go
to the demarcation line of the National Park, and I will take
two images. One looking into the logged area, and the other
180 in the other direction into the rain forest. That might be a
good way to show the shocking differences.


Thanks for explaining, and yes that could be interesting Smile