RedwoodCathedral5x7

Redwood Cathedral
Location
Prairie Creet trail, Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park. On top of a fallen redwood - camera about 25' above forest floor
Equipment Used
Rajah 4x5 (Indian copy of Deardorf Special) with a Deardorf 5x7 back, Computar 210mm/f6.3
Exposure
Kinda long. Direct sun shining through centuries of rewoods.
Film & Developer
Tri-X, HC-110, Dil.B in tray, constant agitation, 70F, 20 minutes (approx...from memory).
Paper & Developer
Monochromatic Single-transfer Carbon Print, developed in 120F water
No...needed to re-photograph the prints, so was anxious to see how they look on-line (much better once one clicks on the image, thankfully!) This is an older image after I began to get a grip on carbon printing. In fact, it is light like this that lead me to carbon printing -- it eats this kind of light for breakfast.

I have 4 rolls of 120 Tri-X loaded onto reels and into tanks ready to go, and a whole bunch of 4x5 Tech Pan to get to from my two trips to Redwood Creek!!! Just recieved my Jobo 3006 drum!
 
I have one taken in the same fashion, at Mt. Madonna State Park a number of years ago. So fun to climb up on a redwood stump, which created a large enough platform for me and my camera.

Beautiful shot, Vaughn.
 
I was on a stump with the 8x10 and my three boys were below me (about 3 or 4 yrs old I think). All three started to climb up to me and I warned them that there was not enough space for everyone. Well, of course one fell off - straight down about 6 feet. I could not see him from on top so had to climb down. Thankfully kids bounce pretty good.
 

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Vaughn
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Image metadata

Device
Canon Canon EOS REBEL T5i
Aperture
ƒ/11
Focal length
107.0 mm
Exposure time
2.5 second(s)
ISO
100
Flash
Off, did not fire
Filename
RedwoodCathedral5x7.jpg
File size
384.5 KB
Date taken
Thu, 14 July 2016 7:53 AM
Dimensions
513px x 720px

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