Mill Stones

Again a scanned 617.

Taken on Stanage Edge in the Peaks in early evening. In this instance I have broken the 'rules' slightly and not used a large DOF (chosing F11 instead of the usual F22+) as I wanted people to simply concentrate and be drawn back to the stones rather than search the whole image for detail. Chosing F11 means that the stones are pin sharp and the Edge is slightly OOF.

Taken about 2 hours before sunset.


Tpod/90mm/SW617(shifted)/Polariser
50asa/F11/.5sec
Normal PS

Works for me Tom, I really like the way the cloud continues the line through the image that is started by the stones, well seen and very nice indeed.

Looks mighty fine on screen Tom!!



Alan

The comp and PoV works great for me Tom, but I think your subtle DoF effect is a bit lost in the small repro size - any chance of you doing a Tristan and linking a bigger version?

Looks grand though from here

Nice composition with the x shape created by all the main elements. Hard to make out the DOF but I imagine it would work well to bring the eye back to the stones. To get the whole scene sharp on a camera like this can you only stop down or does it have tilt? If I only stop down on the 5x4 I cant get everything into focus with my 65mm. Tristan

Looks good to me, even on my steam machine !
JohnR

Hi Tom,

Oh, yes this is very, very, very nice indeed!

Tristian, only stop down . Yes this can be problematic but achieveable usually at F45 using the hyperfocal distance. I wish it had asymmetric swing and tilt but you have to work around it with these cameras. If you look at Colin Priors work he rarely has anything in the frame that is closer than 3 meters

PS there is a Ebony S617 view camera but it is too clumbersome for mountain/moorland backpack work (and kudos goes to the first to try it for this)

T