Post your woodland scenes!

[jeffreyg]

I'm finally getting around to posting in this category. I usually print too large for my scanner so I started going through my negative scans. Both photographs on Ilford Delta 400 120.

 

[Stephen Benskin]

[Aug. 2025 - Near Hebron, IL] Trunk Lines

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Leica M4, 50mm f/2 V3 Summicron, TMX@100, red filter, semistand processed in Pyrocat-HDC for 25min, scan of silver print.

Nice light.

 

[Jim Peterson]

Forest Creature. Canon 5dsr, 40mm 2.8 pancake lens. Washington rain forest.

 

[Franswa]

Another one from the ankle destroyers series printed as a cyanotype and toned with mushroom coffee

 

[CreationBear]

ankle destroyers series

Ha, after thousands of trail/streambed miles here in the Southern Appalachias I’m afraid my peroneal tendons are about shot.

At any rate, a great approach but you might check out Gary Geboy’s latest palladium print over on FB to see what he’s able to do with the high key part of the scene. Of course a series of, say ,14x17” prints might have you casing catalytic converters in short order.

 

[Franswa]

ankle destroyers series

Ha, after thousands of trail/streambed miles here in the Southern Appalachias I’m afraid my peroneal tendons are about shot.

At any rate, a great approach but you might check out Gary Geboy’s latest palladium print over on FB to see what he’s able to do with the high key part of the scene. Of course a series of, say ,14x17” prints might have you casing catalytic converters in short order.

Having fractured both ankles I tend to follow John Muir's advice and sautner, rather than hike.

I did see Gary's post and I wonder if that was also shot on a Holga. I finally pulled the trigger on some kallitype chemicals and platinum toner, and I have more COT 320 on hand than I care to admit

 

[retina_restoration]

Having fractured both ankles I tend to follow John Muir's advice and sautner, rather than hike.

I did see Gary's post and I wonder if that was also shot on a Holga. I finally pulled the trigger on some kallitype chemicals and platinum toner, and I have more COT 320 on hand than I care to admit

I hope you like working with Kallitype — I found it easier to control than Salted Paper, less inclined to show faults, less fussy, etc. Once you've toned the print, there's virtually no difference, visually, between a Kallitype and a Salt print or even a Platinum/Paladium print.

 

[CreationBear]

kallitype

Excellent, if you haven’t already you might check out Don Nelson’s book—pretty encyclopedic, with some great work from Sandy King et al.

Of course, what I really want to turn some of y’all onto is photogravure landscapes, especially since Cone has these “print-to-plate” offerings now…you ought to be able to rent studio space and time on an etching press no problem in your part of the world.

 

[Adam W]

Another one from the ankle destroyers series printed as a cyanotype and toned with mushroom coffee

Great toning!

 

[Franswa]

I hope you like working with Kallitype — I found it easier to control than Salted Paper, less inclined to show faults, less fussy, etc. Once you've toned the print, there's virtually no difference, visually, between a Kallitype and a Salt print or even a Platinum/Paladium print.

I hope I do too. When reviewing other processes I felt most discouraged by salted and gum, but I'm only a few months into alt-process and that may change after a year or so.

 

[Franswa]

kallitype

Excellent, if you haven’t already you might check out Don Nelson’s book—pretty encyclopedic, with some great work from Sandy King et al.

Of course, what I really want to turn some of y’all onto is photogravure landscapes, especially since Cone has these “print-to-plate” offerings now…you ought to be able to rent studio space and time on an etching press no problem in your part of the world.

I got Don's book and plan to start reading very soon! I'd not heard of Sandy King before starting this printing exploration and didn't even notice that was who I purchased a BetterScanning film holder from several months ago

Oh great......print-to-plate photogravure....how lovely.......will need to add that to the rabbit hole bookmark on my browser, right next to Tenkara rod

 

[Franswa]

Great toning!

Thank you, Adam!

 

[CreationBear]

Sandy King

Ha, Sandy’s definitely one of the OG’s of the alt world.

BTW, it was your HABs shot of the textile mill that got me thinking about photogravaure—it seems to be a process that will give you the tonality of platinum in the highlights while retaining a burly Dmax in open shadows, (The
light filtering through the glass block window especially strikes me as a challenge to “keep alive” )

 

[Franswa]

Sandy King

Ha, Sandy’s definitely one of the OG’s of the alt world.

BTW, it was your HABs shot of the textile mill that got me thinking about photogravaure—it seems to be a process that will give you the tonality of platinum in the highlights while retaining a burly Dmax in open shadows, (The
light filtering through the glass block window especially strikes me as a challenge to “keep alive” )

What is HABs? I'm contemplating the cotton mill image as my first kallitype, but may need to consider something a little more "beginner".

Now that I think about it, I also bought some sheet film holders from Sandy(also prior to discovering who he is) and half of them arrived with film still loaded. Unfortunately, I just tossed em when instead I should have developed them just to see...!!

 

[CreationBear]

https://habsphotography.com/

Sorry, just a bit of shorthand on my part for the subject matter. At any rate, I think any number of POP approaches would work great—I’ll be especially curious how warm or cold the final image looks, depending on your developer temp and/or toning.

 

[Franswa]

https://habsphotography.com/

Sorry, just a bit of shorthand on my part for the subject matter. At any rate, I think any number of POP approaches would work great—I’ll be especially curious how warm or cold the final image looks, depending on your developer temp and/or toning.

Ah yes, now I recall someone posting about that on LFF. I'm really curious about how my failures are going to turn out initially.

 

[retina_restoration]

Photographed on Adox CHS 100 II with the Horizon S3 camera.

 

[Franswa]

Photographed on Adox CHS 100 II with the Horizon S3 camera.

My goodness, those are very nice to look at. Love the micro-contrast

 

[Franswa]

Stepped into the kallitype domain this weekend. Watching the print change numerous times before your eyes is pretty fascinating. This is toned with platinum.

 

[retina_restoration]

Stepped into the kallitype domain this weekend. Watching the print change numerous times before your eyes is pretty fascinating. This is toned with platinum.

Good job. My first Kallitypes did not look this good!

 

[CreationBear]

Excellent, I’ll be very interested in how this jibes with your tastes—for myself, a photo that is “texture dependent” like this one really benefits from the extra crunch, especially in the upper midtones. Otherwise, I’m afraid I’m going to insist on cleaner borders on your platinotypes, though….

 

[chuckroast]

Nov. 1997 - Zion National Park

Wisner Technical Field, 210mm f/6.8 Caltar-II, red filter, 4x5 APX 100, PMK Pyro - Scan of silver print

 

[Franswa]

Good job. My first Kallitypes did not look this good!

Thanks!

 

[Franswa]

Excellent, I’ll be very interested in how this jibes with your tastes—for myself, a photo that is “texture dependent” like this one really benefits from the extra crunch, especially in the upper midtones. Otherwise, I’m afraid I’m going to insist on cleaner borders on your platinotypes, though….

As you know I am very texture-forward, but also I am gonna have to work on the crunch factor. Though, this scene is being printed in the way that caught my eye on that day, when I was climbing back up the river bank from the submerged boulder photograph. Above here is a huge limestone plateau dotted with oaks and elms and the sun was coming down and through at a nice angle, almost like soft/diffused studio lighting.

 

[Franswa]

Otherwise, I’m afraid I’m going to insist on cleaner borders on your platinotypes, though….

Note to self: do not brush emulsion on after two cups of coffee