Unbelievable! Can we have some details? I love the combination of the uniformity of the background and the random foreground together with the great composition and beautiful toning.
Hi Ben, thank you for your kind words. The camera is the Shenhao 617, the film is Fuji Reala. It's a 3 mins exposure with a 10 stopper, right after sunset. I think for the large format camera, probably an ND 0.9 may be sufficient, as I think this may have been F16. I'd like to use F22. I forgot whether it was a 300mm/9 Nikkor M or the 210mm/5.6 Fujinon CMW. Actually I was wishing I had 2 Shenhao because the opposite side was pretty good light too
The first set of exposure was with the Sun still up, at
#10592, but I really like the way the sticks curve. I only put them at the left end at 10592 because of the sunset. After the sun was mostly set, I switched to the sticks at the right end in this composition.
I finished my calendar last week and it was a tough call between these two images and I ended up with 10592. Probably would be equally as happy with this one.
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This is at the Don Edwards Nature Preserve in Fremont, CA. The view is really the Silicon Valley: the right is FB, Google directly in front. NASA/Ames is next to it. Yahoo on the left. Intel, HP, etc. etc. are all in the view, so to speak. Jack is somewhere about 30 miles away, I think
Thanks again.