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WJT

Cambo 6x9 film back. Exposure was 1/4 second at f22. Bogen tripod. Cropped from the 6x9. Levels adjusted in Ektaspace using Photoshop CS3.

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FLOWERS-TREES-GARDENS by WJT

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TACK SHARP! :-) It's a great image, Walt - but come ON ... you MUST have some nice spring images! This makes me feel like you're dragging us backwards!
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Lou Ann...my primary goal in life is to be a recalcitrant recidivist ;0) but I will try to spring forth with something more timely (if spring ever arrives here). Regards.
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This one really sings! I've never seen anything like this composition. It really works well with little going on in the middle of the frame.
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Thanks Dave, I wish my point of focus was two inches closer to the camera (or that I would have stopped down to f32). Regards.
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The contrast of the fiery leaves against the dark grey tree bark is exquisite! What keeps me into this after that initial bait of red leaves, is the arc of the leaves which seems to frame and draw me into the image to the darker out of focus tree in the back. With that semi circular colorful framing, I feel like I'm looking into a tunnel and those few green branches are a gate that I'm invited to open and walk right into to explore what is beyond the baited red leaves.

Well seen and composed, excellent!

 

Kirk

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Thanks for the comment Kirk! Yes, The "tunnel" was what I was trying to go for in this comp...did not know if it would work. The "gate" I did not think of, good observation! I must reiterate, I wish that I had a little more DOF. I have a pretty good grasp of my P67 system, but using this Graflex is a whole 'nother game. Regards.,
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Shot with a Graflex Crown Graphic 4x5! Wow, Walt! How much are you charging for wall-sized blow-ups?

 

I bet it made a magnificent print.

 

--Lannie

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Walter, I think the DOF with the back out is what contributes greatly to the tunnel feel and certainly to a mystique of not knowing exactly what is back there. That to me is an invitation to step in with my imagination and wonder. If it were sharp, front to back, it may become flat and not invoke those feelings. Although, you did say "a little more DOF" so maybe you wanted some out of focus, not necessarily front to back sharp - somewhere between where it is now and all sharp might still work. I like this as is, it only has a few elements but is still as strong as your other great landscapes that capture acres more in the frame.

 

Kirk

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Hi Kirk. What I am referring to is the slight unsharpness of the lowest of the leaves in the lower right corner. My point of critical focus is on the leaves about two-thirds up from the bottom of the frame. If I understood how to hyperfocal my 4x5 as well as I can my P67 those lower leaves would have been tack sharp while still maintaining the soft background. The easisest way would have been to close down one more stop, but that would have brought more of the BG into focus. I agree with you that it was best not to have done that. Thanks again. Regards.
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Gotcha, I see what you're talking about now. Glad to know I'm not the only one that is my own worse critic.

 

Kirk

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Wonderful color and the composition is well balanced and pleasing. I see what you mean about the DOF, but agree with Kirk, you are your own worst critic. I'd be quite happy to have taken this shot.
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I like this picture because of the colors.Im guessing that you sat the red branch by yourself in the picture so that you whould get this contrast.

Stefan Ambrus.

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As always, your work is stunning! I love this one in particular.
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This is so beautiful: the light coming from the top, middle of the frame; the framing of the red leaves; the gray trunk, in a curve shape; and I love how the red leaves overlap the green ones. Beautiful composition. (I will keep looking this fall for opportunities  to make beautiful fall photographs, like this one).

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