Brad Visser
Stellisee
The following day I decided to push myself harder and hike up to the 5 lake hike trail to spend some time quiet time just ambling around and photographing whatever took my fancy. With all my photo gear plus the essentials I was carrying much more weight than I'd normally take with me on a hike. The conditions were good though, so it was tiring, but still very enjoyable.
My furthest destination was Stellisee and shortly before that I hit the snow line and my progress slowed to a crawl. Battling through it, I eventually made it to the lake, only to find it completely frozen over and my original plans for a composition were dashed. Too tired now to walk around the lake, I instead set up the camera on the near side and see if I could find an image that reflected my experience of being there, all alone.
Committed to Kodak Tmax 400 using a 4x5" Wista field camera and 150 mm lens. Developed using Ars-Imago FD 1:39, dev. time as per the massive dev chart, and scanned with an Epson V850 using Silverfast. Positive conversion and contrast done with Negative Lab Pro. Dust cleaning and final contrast in Photoshop.
Stellisee
The following day I decided to push myself harder and hike up to the 5 lake hike trail to spend some time quiet time just ambling around and photographing whatever took my fancy. With all my photo gear plus the essentials I was carrying much more weight than I'd normally take with me on a hike. The conditions were good though, so it was tiring, but still very enjoyable.
My furthest destination was Stellisee and shortly before that I hit the snow line and my progress slowed to a crawl. Battling through it, I eventually made it to the lake, only to find it completely frozen over and my original plans for a composition were dashed. Too tired now to walk around the lake, I instead set up the camera on the near side and see if I could find an image that reflected my experience of being there, all alone.
Committed to Kodak Tmax 400 using a 4x5" Wista field camera and 150 mm lens. Developed using Ars-Imago FD 1:39, dev. time as per the massive dev chart, and scanned with an Epson V850 using Silverfast. Positive conversion and contrast done with Negative Lab Pro. Dust cleaning and final contrast in Photoshop.