Forest pounds

[Francis R]

These are temporary pounds in the forest. I'll post a few more in the coming days.

Woodyman 4x5, Fujinon 150mm f/5.6, Foma 200.

 

[Francis R]

 

[Francis R]

 

[Ian Grant]

I think you need to open these up.



Ian

 

[Francis R]

Thanks Ian for the suggestion.

 

[Ian Grant]

A green filter is very useful when shooting in woodland, particularly when there are different variations in leaf colour.. I use a Cokin P series dark green filter.

Here's 3 examples:







Ian

 

[thronobulax]

Thanks Ian for the suggestion.

These scenes are tricky because you can have an overall long subject brightness range from dark shadow to bright sunlit highlights, while at the same time having a rather muted mid-tone local contrast.

For these kinds of situations, I use very long development with very dilute developer and agitate very infrequently. The so-called "semistand" and "extreme minimal agitation" techniques develop shadows fully and keep the highlights from blowing out while simultaneously expanding middle tone contrast.

Here's one I did last year that had a very long SBR and really dull middle contrast in the naturally occurring scene. I'm still debating whether this should be printed "down" a little or left higher key as seen here.

12x9 Fomapan 100, D-23 1+9 + 0.5g/l lye, semistand processed for one hour. Scan of silver print:

 

[Francis R]

Thanks both of you for your advices.
I should definitely get equipped with a filter system in the near future. Green would be useful as you mention, Ian, and orange for open landscape, at least.
Thronobulax, your shot is great! I've never tried stand or semistand development, but it looks well adapted for such situations. Do you develop using tray or tanks in this case ?

 

[thronobulax]

Thanks both of you for your advices.
I should definitely get equipped with a filter system in the near future. Green would be useful as you mention, Ian, and orange for open landscape, at least.
Thronobulax, your shot is great! I've never tried stand or semistand development, but it looks well adapted for such situations. Do you develop using tray or tanks in this case ?

I use an open tank with 2 litres of developer.

Low agitation techniques are tricky to get working and have many ways to ruin your negatives. This is a topic of some religious debate among photographers. So....

Some years ago I worked to systematically discover what worked and what did not. I kept notes:

tundra/Stand-Development

gitbucket.tundraware.com

 

[Francis R]

Huge piece of work! Thanks