Landscapers using 35mm

[Theo Sulphate]

Every time I see the title to this thread I think it is going to be about people wearing waterproof pants and boots and carrying a shovel and a rake and a 35mm camera!

Hardly a day goes by walking through the neighborhood when I don't see a Chevy pickup parked by someone's property, rakes and brooms in the truck bed, wooden ramps where the lawnmower was taken out, and the landscapers walking around, leafblowers strapped to their backs, while they point their SLR's at the vegetation.

 

[MattKing]

Hardly a day goes by walking through the neighborhood when I don't see a Chevy pickup parked by someone's property, rakes and brooms in the truck bed, wooden ramps where the lawnmower was taken out, and the landscapers walking around, leafblowers strapped to their backs, while they point their SLR's at the vegetation.

In Palm Springs, I guess they are less likely to be wearing gumboots.

 

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man ray

 

[David Lingham]

In the UK Eddie Ephrums used 35mm and I think a lot of Michael Kenna’s early work was as well. It’s dependent on the result you want in the final print. Smooth tonality and maximum sharpness of large format doesn’t suit every picture and is not to everyone’s taste. The character of 35mm allows you to give a picture atmosphere.

 

[E. von Hoegh]

Hardly a day goes by walking through the neighborhood when I don't see a Chevy pickup parked by someone's property, rakes and brooms in the truck bed, wooden ramps where the lawnmower was taken out, and the landscapers walking around, leafblowers strapped to their backs, while they point their SLR's at the vegetation.

Landscapers around here use digital p&s. Godless heathens...

 

[mporter012]

Where can one find his work? Doesn't appear to have a webpage with images.

 

[mporter012]

For the most part I agree with the many points you've mentioned in your posting. Most of my serious landscape work has been in medium format.

Related to the quote above I will offer one exception to the high-detail approach, which surprised me when I saw the results. In 2006, I was making photos in Yosemite and made a few also with my SX-70 of El Capitan and Half Dome. Those photos had a pastel watercolor-like appearance which I had scanned and enlarged to 8x10. They are on my wall now and look almost like paintings. They are probably among my favorites of all the photos I made.

I have an sx-70 - can you get film for it??? Be interested in seeing those images of Yosemite.

 

[mporter012]

Lee Friedlander:

I've always felt that Friedlander edited his images for about 30 seconds each and then said to hell with it.

 

[Theo Sulphate]

I have an sx-70 - can you get film for it??? Be interested in seeing those images of Yosemite.

Sure - film available is now called "Polaroid Originals", formerly "Impossible" film:

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I'm sure Amazon, B&H, etc. have it.

 

[Oren Grad]

Robert Adams' "Cottonwoods" is a mix of 35mm, medium format and 4x5.

 

[GillesG]

take a look at http://www.nikonf6.net
Many beautiful landscapes on 35mm

 

[Sirius Glass]

take a look at http://www.nikonf6.net
Many beautiful landscapes on 35mm

Welcome to APUG Photrio

 

[blockend]

Not all landscapes are about detail, many are about mood. You can create an evocative mood on any format, including the sub-miniature landscapes on the groups forum. Don't do what larger formats do better, so no subtle tonality unless you use slow films, use a tripod and print small, in which case you're sacrificing 35mm spontaneity. Go for graphic compositions. Case in point, this morning I took an Olympus XA3 and 100 ASA film out in horrendous conditions. A cliff with horizontal rain and mist. Into the deluge the sun burst through for a few minutes. J M W Turner's painting nailed the atmosphere: https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/...ain-steam-and-speed-the-great-western-railway

There were huge puddles, great reflections and the heavy mist meant I could shoot into the sun without silhouetting people. I'll print the shots flat to retain the mid tones and kill contrast. Few people are going to take larger format cameras out in those conditions, and keeping on the move means taking advantage of what's around, like people running for cover against the sun.

 

[Bob Carnie]

Eddie Ephraums. I just picked up his Creative Elements book, both his work and the book are excellent. His style is pretty unique, lots of burning, dodging and bleaching. He accentuates the grain of the film and sometimes even diffuses the image.

It really threw me for a loop and makes me want to go back and revisit some of my 35mm negatives.

Yes his books are great, have two of them

 

[Bob Carnie]

Eddie Ephraums. I just picked up his Creative Elements book, both his work and the book are excellent. His style is pretty unique, lots of burning, dodging and bleaching. He accentuates the grain of the film and sometimes even diffuses the image.

It really threw me for a loop and makes me want to go back and revisit some of my 35mm negatives.

Yes his books are great, have two of them.

 

[Craig75]

Ha I was just going to say that too - was just flicking through Creative Elements today and he's such a nice printer. 35mm + rodinol seems an unlikely combo for a landscape but he uses it to great effect

 

[Sirius Glass]

The choice of lens is based on the desired field of view and perspective. The choice of format is based on level of detail recorded and printed.

 

[blockend]

This landscape (isn't mine) was taken on a Minox from an 8mm x 11mm negative. That's less than the top one-third corner of a 35mm neg. I think it stands up as a landscape shot:
https://www.photrio.com/forum/groupphotos/photo?photo_id=1196