Sedge Field, Afternoon

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Maris
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Sedge Field, Afternoon

Postby Maris » 03 Mar 2015, 14:46

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Sedge Field, Afternoon
Gelatin-silver photograph on Freestyle Private Reserve VC FB photographic paper, image size 16.3cm X 21.3cm, from a 4x5 Kodak Tmax 100 negative exposed in a Tachihara 45GF double extension field view camera fitted with a Voigtlander Anastigmat Skopar f4.5 F = 13.5cm lens dating from 1928. Titled and signed recto, stamped verso.
This ancient uncoated lens is of the Tessar design and delivers bitingly sharp images if stopped down and shaded from direct sunlight.

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Re: Sedge Field, Afternoon

Postby RoganJosh » 22 Mar 2015, 01:47

Very luminous. Good scene to bring the whites right up.

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Re: Sedge Field, Afternoon

Postby Maris » 22 Mar 2015, 07:33

Thanks RoganJosh for your insight.

It's an old trick but an effective one: to lend an impression of luminosity to a photograph let the top highlights blow out to paper-base white. This conflicts with the conventional wisdom of having highlights on Zone VIII (tone and texture) or Zone IX ( tone but no texture). The trick works as long as the burnt out white areas are tiny - bright leaves, webs, grass stems - where the eye would not expect to see textured detail.


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