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PostPosted: Sun Oct 26, 2008 7:07 pm    Post subject: A Couple of Squares - Images, That Is... Reply with quote

Perusing the hard drive, and found these lurking in the depths of all the files. I think I might have posted the Frosted Salal before, but what the heck....I'm not sure, my brain is deteriorating... Laughing

Anyway, I've always liked the square format, it always seems to be nice for filling the image from edge to edge both horizontally and vertically.

Frosted Salal
Rollei 6006
Planar 80 with short extension tube
Exposure unrecorded
Provia



Night Stacks - taken approximately midnight, with the Summer extended twilight lighting the sky from the other side of Earth
Yashica Mat 124
f:8, 5 seconds
Velvia


PostPosted: Sun Oct 26, 2008 7:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I remember them well - both still well worth a revisit though. Cool

#1 is pure Zeiss. Cool


PostPosted: Sun Oct 26, 2008 7:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

bob955i wrote:
I remember them well - both still well worth a revisit though. Cool

#1 is pure Zeiss. Cool


I've posted BOTH of them before, Bob? Shocked I remembered the Salal posting, but didn't remember the seastacks being posted.

My brain IS deteriorating! Shocked Embarassed

Yes, the first image certainly belies the "Zeiss feel" of the Planar. I do miss that lens, but the Rollei 6006 camera was costing me $$$ for problems every time I stared at it the wrong way...too bad, it is a nice concept.


PostPosted: Sun Oct 26, 2008 7:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Beautiful Larry. You really are one of the film kings.


PostPosted: Sun Oct 26, 2008 7:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

beautiful pics! both are magical


PostPosted: Sun Oct 26, 2008 8:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Both are shots to be envious of.

Incredible sharpness!


PostPosted: Sun Oct 26, 2008 8:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

@ Larry:

The seastacks image was one of the first you posted on here with the Yashi IIRC.


PostPosted: Sun Oct 26, 2008 8:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

bob955i wrote:
@ Larry:

The seastacks image was one of the first you posted on here with the Yashi.


Hmmmm....are you sure it wasn't one with the fog and blue sky rolling into the seastacks? Nah...you are probably right... Cool


PostPosted: Sun Oct 26, 2008 8:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Post it again and remind me/us.... Laughing Wink


PostPosted: Sun Oct 26, 2008 8:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ron and poilu: Thank you, sorry if you saw these before...I appreciate your kindness.

Sven: How can one NOT have a sharp image with a Planar, right? Laughing


PostPosted: Sun Oct 26, 2008 8:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

bob955i wrote:
Post it again and remind me/us.... Laughing Wink


Okay, I'll go find it...it's GOT to be on one of these CDs...right? (Too many CDs, not enough ability to navigate through them...haha!)

**Larry madly flipping through the shoeboxes full of CDs...**


PostPosted: Sun Oct 26, 2008 8:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Posted before or not... it doesn't matter with so beautiful captures!
Thanks for showing them (perhpaps again). Wink


PostPosted: Sun Oct 26, 2008 8:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

wow!!

REALLY SUPERB !!!

I like the square format -- I have done some rolls with Hassy --- have to get a scanner...

tf


PostPosted: Sun Oct 26, 2008 8:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Flip, click, whizz whizz, nope....

Whizz, click, flip, flip, click, whizz whizz, nope....

Whizz, click, flip, flip, click, whizz whizz, nope....

Whizz, click, flip, flip, click, whizz whizz, nope....

Whizz, click, flip, flip, click, whizz whizz, nope....

Whizz, click, flip, flip, click, whizz whizz, nope....

Whizz, click, flip, flip, click, whizz whizz, nope....

Whizz, click, flip, flip, click, whizz whizz, damnit....

Laughing

No need to go out of your way Larry - I do remember that image and I doubt if any of us would ever tire of seeing your work so keep posting them. Cool


PostPosted: Sun Oct 26, 2008 9:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Flip, flip, flip, buzzzzzzz, click....PRESTO! I FOUND IT!

Interestingly, it was filed under "Quinault Rain Forest"....go figure, it's got NOTHING to do with the rain forest....

Someday I need to actually take the time to come up with something meaningful for filing images....but I know damn well I never will.... Laughing

Anyway, this is the one I was thinking of, Bob...

Emerging Seastacks
Yashica Mat 124
f:16, 1/125th
Velvia


PostPosted: Sun Oct 26, 2008 9:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yup - I remember that one.

Now that I see it, you may be correct that it predated the twilight stack image - not by much though as I'm sure these were some of the first images that you showed us from the Yashi. This is also before you got the Rollei 6006 too - again IIRC.

Still a masterpiece either way. Cool

At leat you have some sort of filing system - I have all my stuff on a 160Gb external HDD and it's categorised by date of shooting which is completely meaningless when I'm looking for a specific shot. Laughing Rolling Eyes

Mind you, I did make a start to categorising by area. Laughing


PostPosted: Sun Oct 26, 2008 9:26 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The first one is superb shot, I really like it.
For me this is the first time. Cool


PostPosted: Sun Oct 26, 2008 9:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Laurence wrote:
Flip, flip, flip, buzzzzzzz, click....PRESTO! I FOUND IT!

Emerging Seastacks
Yashica Mat 124
f:16, 1/125th
Velvia


wow !!!
tf


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PostPosted: Sun Oct 26, 2008 9:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yeah! Larry! ...


PostPosted: Sun Oct 26, 2008 10:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Laurence
I do not mind at all that you post a picture more than once. They are all so good I can certainly stand looking at them again


patrickh


PostPosted: Sun Oct 26, 2008 11:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

koji, my "first time" was a long time ago and i doubt that the girl enjoyed it....oh...wait! You mean seeing the image? Laughing

patrick and Attila: Thanks! I really didn't mean to re-post the images; I need to keep track of what I've posted in the past.

So...now here is a re-post on purpose! The comments on
this one when I first posted were nice, but there was
a consensus that the image was "flat". Well, now I've
learned a few things in Photoshop, plus I've been learning
more about the V700, especially with Silverfast which I like.

So...here's a MUCH better scan than before. The contrast has been
handled well this time, and Silverfast allows me to tweak the
highlights to keep them not QUITE so blown out. At least enough
that I think the image is certainly better than before.

Feel free to critique, as there may be more I can do to this shot.

This was on an old abandoned trail that had very difficult travel.
Routefinding and navigation was difficult, and sometimes I just
had to crash through the brush and try to pick up remnants of
the old trail again.

In this case, I lost the trail at the bottom of the falls that are out
of sight (thus the dropoff). So, I worked my way up the left side of
the rise in terrain to pick up the feeder creek. The sun was just
cresting the top of a ridge when it started to shine into the deep
forest, and flooded the "hole" beyond with light. The very top is still
blown, but actually I don't want to change it, as it was equivalent
to the harshness that I saw with my own eyes. Also, I wanted the dark areas to "be there".

The falls is about 100 feet and pretty impressive on its own. The terrain
was too rough at the bottom to get a shot though.

I will be going back with the Bessa R and CV 15/4...

Dropoff Heaven
Pentax 645
Pentax-A SMC 55mm lens
f:16 and 1/8th second (4 stops from sunny 16)
Velvia


PostPosted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 12:39 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Larry,
these last two photos are of the "Omigosh, how could he make them?" category Very Happy

Seriously, landscape work at the finest.

I regularly read travel and nature magazines but rarely I can remember landscape photos of such impact.

The Emerging Seastacks is so powerfully evocative, I can no find photo comparisons for it, only painting:
http://tinyurl.com/67b63c
and yours is much better!


PostPosted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 2:05 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Orio wrote:
Larry,
these last two photos are of the "Omigosh, how could he make them?" category Very Happy

Seriously, landscape work at the finest.

I regularly read travel and nature magazines but rarely I can remember landscape photos of such impact.

The Emerging Seastacks is so powerfully evocative, I can no find photo comparisons for it, only painting:
http://tinyurl.com/67b63c
and yours is much better!


Wow, thank you, Orio!

The seastacks are often shrouded in fog, even in the summer. The North Pacific high pressure system creates an anomalous air flow that eddies off the Olympic scarp, goes out the ocean, then sinks. The prevailing westerlies pull that cold air right back against the land, and it starts to form fog offshore about a mile. That fog "breaks off" and rushes in to surround the seastacks. It is such a strong climate phenomenon that it can be prevalent for weeks at a time.

Inland a few hundred yards it can be 80 degrees, while on the beach it is maybe 55 degrees with the adabiatic air flow. A welcome relief in summer.


PostPosted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 6:18 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I forgot to tell you how I miss you using a Planar Smile Rolling Eyes


PostPosted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 9:21 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Your majesty! The king of the film!