The Bridge

[Ian Grant]

Two images from a series of images of a collapsed bridge.



Wista 45DX, 90mm Grandagon N, Agfa AP100, Rodinal.



Wista 45DX 150mm Sironar N, EFKE PL25 @ 50 EI (box speed, green filter, Rodinal. However, the negative was bleached today and then redeveloped in Pyrocat HD.

A bit of a tribute to John Blakemore.

Ian

 

[Ian-Barber]

I keep meaning to try my green filter in areas like this. Does it make much difference ?

 

[Ian Grant]

I keep meaning to try my green filter in areas like this. Does it make much difference ?

Surprisingly, more than you might expect, it helps delineate the foliage. So it lightens newer foliage more than the darker more mature, old foliage.

I don't use it very often, but when I have it has made a huge transformation. You can see partially see it visually by just looking through the filter. I also use it for it'd ND properties, I like to capture some slight movement of foliage, that has included multiple exposures.. It's actually the only filter I use, aside from UV as lens protection.

Maybe I'm too much of a purist, but I won't use Yellow, Orange, or Red, filter to exaggerate Skies etc. I used to until I had an epiphany.

Ian

 

[Nas]

Which green filter do you use? I've got different strengths that I keep meaning to test but they're 35mm lens thread size so I can't share any test shots here. From memory one is listed as yellow/green.

 

[Ian Grant]

I use a Cokin Green filter, & P series filter holders (now called M series).

Ian

 

[Soulstar89]

lovely pictures Ian. I always appreciate when mood can be created from a landscape scene.

 

[MartyNL]

These show some lovely tones, I bet the prints are something to behold!

Very much the style of printing that I appreciate and challenge myself with; a long tonal scale, a celebration of the mid-tone range and trying to make the silver sing!

 

[Soulstar89]

These show some lovely tones, I bet the prints are something to behold!

Very much the style of printing that I appreciate and challenge myself with; a long tonal scale, a celebration of the mid-tone range and trying to make the silver sing!

I agree beautiful tones

 

[Ian Grant]

It's about consistent approach, I have three prints in an exhibition set shot at the same location but at different time, over a period of a few years. If you look at the prints you might think they were shot in the same session, but there are subtle differences like the direction of light, In fact two are 5x4 and one 6x6 shot with a Rolleiflex.

In terms of printing, it's important to have negatives that can be printed in different ways. Ansel Adams likens a negative to a score.

If you can find a copy John Blakemore's Black & White Photography Workshop, it's worth having on your bookshelf. But looking at the prices of John's books finding them is getting harder.

Ian

 

[Keith tapscott.]

Surprisingly, more than you might expect, it helps delineate the foliage. So it lightens newer foliage more than the darker more mature, old foliage.

Maybe I'm too much of a purist, but I won't use Yellow, Orange, or Red, filter to exaggerate Skies etc. I used to until I had an epiphany.

Ian

My personal favourite is the Hoya X0 Yellow-Green filter. It seems to give a natural tonal rendering of blue skies and helps to delineate foliage too.

I don't have a green filter, so I am unable to compare them.

 

[Soulstar89]

It's about consistent approach, I have three prints in an exhibition set shot at the same location but at different time, over a period of a few years. If you look at the prints you might think they were shot in the same session, but there are subtle differences like the direction of light, In fact two are 5x4 and one 6x6 shot with a Rolleiflex.

In terms of printing, it's important to have negatives that can be printed in different ways. Ansel Adams likens a negative to a score.

If you can find a copy John Blakemore's Black & White Photography Workshop, it's worth having on your bookshelf. But looking at the prices of John's books finding them is getting harder.

Ian

Thanks for the tips. I will check out John Blackmore’s work.

I’ve been looking for “people photography- creative large format” by Urs Tillmanns in the uk. No luck as yet.

 

[Hendo'svan]

I bought a Green filter to use with my Wista, last year I was photographing old farm equipment among long grass and shrub and looking at the contact prints later thought that the machinery was somewhat lost in the grass. I thought that maybe a green filter would lighten and help separate the greenery and machinery. I have yet to revisit and try it out