Deer path and fishing gear.

[Grandpa Ron]

Just another attempt at turn-of-the-last-century photography. As I explained to a friend; it's not hard to do, it's just easy to mess up.

So with a backpack full of gear and with tripod in hand, it was off to the woods, to discover an ever so faint, deer path. Fortunately there was a footprint or two.

Then a couple of days with sunshine and temperatures in the 60's and I could sense the start of fly fishing fever.

1909 Seneca View camera.
4x5 format
163mm 1950's vintage Wollensak lens.
Dejur light meter.

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[Mattp311]

Ron, your first shot is great. It actually reminds me of a deck of tarot cards I have tucked away. It has a mysterious quality to it, and very vivid.

 

[Jeff15]

Number two for me.....

 

[Hardus Nameous]

Nice, I'm glad you got the camera working. Is that first shot orthochromatic film?

 

[AlanKlein]

Nice shots. The shadow of the fishing rod is distracting.

 

[Grandpa Ron]

These pictures are shot is with panchromatic film. However the woods image looks otho because the trees are grey and the leaves are brown and the sky has a heavy cloud overcast. There is no red to darken the scene.

There is very little post processing, on these photos, however I did have to do some adjustments.
* For some reason the the 165mm lens I used is very susceptible to lens flares, so I used a long homemade lens hood. It started to vignette the edges of the scene so I added a touch of vignetting around the entire photos.
* When I used my digital camera to digitize the negative, the mono setting produced a bluish tint to the black and white conversion. By adjusting the white balance I was able to eliminate the blue tint with just a touch of sepia.
* I decided to add a border just for an old timey look.

Since do not do much post processing, those few steps above took a lot of head scratching and "what ifs", but it was easier that commandeering the bathroom and setting up my enlarger or contact printing the negatives; which I would still have to digitize to upload to the forum.

 

[cgw]

#1 is the bomb. Truly striking...thinking Walden Pond. Superb!

For fun, try to grab the still-free Nik plug-ins. The Silver Efex plug-in is very versatile. Lots of online tutorials, too. Well worth a look whenever it suits. Cheers

 

[jeffashman]

Very nice couple of shots!

 

[slat]

Nice shots. #1 for me.

 

[Robshoots]

Very neat shots. I think I have to go with number one as well.