Film: Spring Saplings, Mount Beauty.

[Maris Rusis]

Spring Saplings, Mount Beauty

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Gelatin-silver photograph on Agfa Classic MCC 111 VC FB, image area 16.3cm x 21.2cm, from a Tmax 100 negative exposed in a Mamiya RB67 camera fitted with a 127mm lens.

 

[fahim mohammed]

Maris, what a wonderful scene; so delicately captured and presented.

While I cannot fathom the intricacies of your art and technical knowledge; I can appreciate things of beauty.

This one and your previous post have me envious of your photographic talents.

Regards.

 

[Asher Kelman]

Spring Saplings, Mount Beauty

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Gelatin-silver photograph on Agfa Classic MCC 111 VC FB, image area 16.3cm x 21.2cm, from a Tmax 100 negative exposed in a Mamiya RB67 camera fitted with a 127mm lens.

Maris,

This is a special experience. The tress have silver magic in them.

We're so often looking for the latest digital camera with ever increasing detail capture and dynamic range. Here we see the result of 100 year old fundamental photography. The camera is available with that lens at http:/www.KEH.com for bargain prices. It even has bellows! The film can be developed at home or in a lab of very little. We can learn from you and others who are so devoted to fundamentals. I'm inspired.

Of course, I'd like more! More pictures of the area and more real estate.

Asher

 

[Maris Rusis]

Maris,

This is a special experience. The tress have silver magic in them.

We're so often looking for the latest digital camera with ever increasing detail capture and dynamic range. Here we see the result of 100 year old fundamental photography. The camera is available with that lens at http:/www.KEH.com for bargain prices. It even has bellows! The film can be developed at home or in a lab of very little. We can learn from you and others who are so devoted to fundamentals. I'm inspired.

Of course, I'd like more! More pictures of the area and more real estate.

Asher

Bicheno, Wave

Gelatin-silver photograph on Agfa Classic MCC 111VC FB, image area 16.3cm x 21.4cm, from a Tmax 400 negative exposed in a Mamiya RB 67 camera fitted with a 127mm lens and #25 red filter​

The Bicheno Wave is an exercise in opposites. A wave, dynamic and evanescent, contrasts with the geological solidity and timelessness of the big rock. The shore-grasses in the foreground are passing witnesses to a spectacle that has played a million times.

The scene is also celebrates the extremes of natural lighting ranging from the raw sun-glare on the sea to the deep shadows between the rocks. The dynamic range may be ten or eleven stops. The sun-glare blew my meter off-scale and the deep shadows were at least 6 stops below pure white. Film processing was routine and the final gelatin-silver photograph occasioned no special effort in the darkroom.

In these modern times when digital picture-making has a recurrent anxiety about dynamic range and looks to HDR rescues of contrasty scenes people forget film has delivered answers for more than a century.

 

[Asher Kelman]

Maris Rusis: Bicheno, Wave

Gelatin-silver photograph on Agfa Classic MCC 111VC FB, image area 16.3cm x 21.4cm, from a Tmax 400 negative exposed in a Mamiya RB 67 camera fitted with a 127mm lens and #25 red filter​

The Bicheno Wave is an exercise in opposites. A wave, dynamic and evanescent, contrasts with the geological solidity and timelessness of the big rock. The shore-grasses in the foreground are passing witnesses to a spectacle that has played a million times.

There's another comparison, here Maris! The upper half, on its own, so simple in geometry versus untamed fluidity, that it's almost surreal. The lower portion, OTOH, is so rigorously mundane and fundamentally disordered and naturally earthly! Together they make a metaphor for man's works too!

Asher

 

[Mike Shimwell]

Hi Maris

A very nice pairing - and 6 by 7 offers so much.

Interesting that you comment on dynamic range. Iirc correctly a sensibly processed TMY2 neg can contain something like 17 stops of dynamic range. Of course how to present that on paper maybe a challenge, but it gives huge freedom of course.

Best

MIke