JWRisinger wrote:
You blew the doors off with the last one there, but every image is tremendous. Given your own style combined with this environment, your work here really reminds me of a large format photographer who used to post here named Ben Horne, you may remember him. For my part that's intended as a big compliment. But it's also, as I mentioned, very much consistent with your own style.
Thanks. I’m quite aware of Ben Horne’s work, and I’ve long been impressed with the effort he goes to in order photograph with 8x10 LF film gear. I suspect that he and I both have been influenced in some ways by LF film landscape predecessors — I know that I have!
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keepclicking wrote:
Dan, these are very nice and the last one is special. Brilliantly PP'd
Thank you. The last one is an example of something that I mention frequently — that fact that post-processing (sometimes extensive) can be used to make a photograph look more natural rather than to amp it up in ways that might make the post-processing more obvious.
That was actually a really difficult photograph to execute. I made it in a pretty restricted area of a Southern Utah slot canyon where I saw this combination of the deep red tones of the shaded sandstone and the blue reflections from the open sky overhead . To got the section of the canyon wall that I wanted I had to shoot at an angle rather than more straight on, so there were some depth of field challenges. In addition, the light varied quite a bit across teh scene, from the deep shadows at lower right to some very bright highlights in the reflected areas at the left. A lot of the post processing work went to evening out those wide variations.
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Jeffrey wrote:
Lovely images Dan. It's not often I see you work this area.
Thank you.
It has been a while! I love the Southern Utah terrain, and I’m hoping to find a way to spend more time there again.
JWRisinger wrote:
You blew the doors off with the last one there, but every image is tremendous. Given your own style combined with this environment, your work here really reminds me of a large format photographer who used to post here named Ben Horne, you may remember him. For my part that's intended as a big compliment. But it's also, as I mentioned, very much consistent with your own style.
Thanks. I’m quite aware of Ben Horne’s work, and I’ve long been impressed with the effort he goes to in order photograph with 8x10 LF film gear. I suspect that he and I both have been influenced in some ways by LF film landscape predecessors — I know that I have!
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keepclicking wrote:
Dan, these are very nice and the last one is special. Brilliantly PP'd
Thanks you. The last one is an example of something that I mention frequently — that fact that post-processing (sometimes extensive) can be used to make a photograph look more natural rather than to amp it up in ways that might make the post-processing more obvious.
That was actually a really difficult photograph to execute. I made it in a pretty restricted area of a Southern Utah slot canyon where I saw this combination of the deep red tones of the shaded sandstone and the blue reflections from the open sky overhead . To got the section of the canyon wall that I wanted I had to shoot at an angle rather than more straight on, so there were some depth of field challenges. In addition, the light varied quite a bit across teh scene, from the deep shadows at lower right to some very bright highlights in the reflected areas at the left. A lot of the post processing work went to evening out those wide variations.
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Jeffrey wrote:
Lovely images Dan. It's not often I see you work this area.
Thank you.
It has been a while! I love the Southern Utah terrain, and I’m hoping to find a way to spend more time there again.
