Brad Visser
346b/366 Beautiful chaos
Often in forest or woodland photography one goes to a lot of effort to find clean and tidy compositions. I find myself doing the same, but decided for a few shots to embrace the apparent chaos that is nature and avoid the order that we humans search for. In these two cases I think it worked out very well - there is a lot going on in the photos, but the compositions retain a kind of harmony, which is just what I was hoping for.
Post script - I gave up on my tripod between these two images, as it was such a pain trying to work it with one hand while holding an umbrella in the other. To get to reasonable shutter speeds in the dark and misty forest I decided to push the HP5+ I was shooting to 1600 ISO. For a two stop push I am happily surprised that the image turned out so free of grain.
Film: Ilford HP5+ pushed to 1600
Camera: Hasselblad X-Pan with 45 mm lens
Developed in Ars-Imago #9 (rodinal) 1:99 semi-stand.
Digitised with an Epson V850 using Silverfast. Positive conversion and levels done with Negative Lab Pro.
346b/366 Beautiful chaos
Often in forest or woodland photography one goes to a lot of effort to find clean and tidy compositions. I find myself doing the same, but decided for a few shots to embrace the apparent chaos that is nature and avoid the order that we humans search for. In these two cases I think it worked out very well - there is a lot going on in the photos, but the compositions retain a kind of harmony, which is just what I was hoping for.
Post script - I gave up on my tripod between these two images, as it was such a pain trying to work it with one hand while holding an umbrella in the other. To get to reasonable shutter speeds in the dark and misty forest I decided to push the HP5+ I was shooting to 1600 ISO. For a two stop push I am happily surprised that the image turned out so free of grain.
Film: Ilford HP5+ pushed to 1600
Camera: Hasselblad X-Pan with 45 mm lens
Developed in Ars-Imago #9 (rodinal) 1:99 semi-stand.
Digitised with an Epson V850 using Silverfast. Positive conversion and levels done with Negative Lab Pro.