+++ The Weekly Landscape Thread - #52, 2026.02.06

Thanks :-)
I posted a series of shots from this waterfall a few months ago on DPRevived and got some good feedback from the members. (a good feature of the forum)
The composition of this shot was modified, just before posting, taking that feedback into account and I think it is an improvement on the original :-)
Technically I couldn't do any silky water shots here, I didn't have any ND filters with me and it was too bright to slow the exposure enough. It might have looked good.
Often, but not always, I prefer to see the individual drops and splashes in the waterfalls and rivers. I feel that such detail can emphasize the power and speed.
Blurry water shots can be good, but can also be a bit cliché if used too often ;-)

Thanks also to @Meeces for all the posts, keep up the good work :-)
Nice to see your region of the world. These huge redwood trees are really amazing.
I'd never heard of "classic neg" before, just looked it up and it's interesting to see the way the old films produced all those different results.
I don't use any such filters but take all shots in RAW and process the colours to how I feel I'd like the shot to look like, keeping it fairly natural but adding a little bit of brightness, pop and warmer punchier reds, which sounds a bit like the description of "classic neg" ;-)

With the bus stop in the shot you get a good feeling for that enormous scale of these huge trees!
It has a bit of the HDR feeling to it with the shadows and midtones looking somewhat brighter than I'd expect. Maybe you could experiment with darkening those midtones and shadows just a touch. It gives more contrast, the darker areas become more "separated" from the lovely bright yellow light behind in the forest which then seems to shine out even brighter and looks more natural and even more 3D.

Thanks for the kind words. I've been fond of B&W as long as I can remember. I like color work from others, but I just am not attracted to it myself. As far as the lady in the photo, that's no lady that's my wife 🤣 . She got interested in photography in about 2019 on a road trip out to the Western US first on her phone, then I loaded her one of my cameras. Now she has two of her own and an assortment of lenses. The down side is she seems to always be in my way!

Congrats on the year mark.

The Southend Seafront

Whenever we visit family in the UK one of my greatest joys is walking along the Southend Seafront. I've been quite taken with this grainy black and white high contrast filter/setting my camera does and I've been using it a lot recently. I do love the drama of it.
Congratulations @Fireplace33 for running this thread for a year now!

Thanks also to @Meeces for all the posts, keep up the good work :-)
Nice to see your region of the world. These huge redwood trees are really amazing.
I'd never heard of "classic neg" before, just looked it up and it's interesting to see the way the old films produced all those different results.
I don't use any such filters but take all shots in RAW and process the colours to how I feel I'd like the shot to look like, keeping it fairly natural but adding a little bit of brightness, pop and warmer punchier reds, which sounds a bit like the description of "classic neg" ;-)

With the bus stop in the shot you get a good feeling for that enormous scale of these huge trees!
It has a bit of the HDR feeling to it with the shadows and midtones looking somewhat brighter than I'd expect. Maybe you could experiment with darkening those midtones and shadows just a touch. It gives more contrast, the darker areas become more "separated" from the lovely bright yellow light behind in the forest which then seems to shine out even brighter and looks more natural and even more 3D.
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Thank you. And thank you for running the thread. It's a nice place to 'visit' every week. 🙂
I struggle with the classic negative because of the way it makes the greens look sometimes, but this scene it seemed to work.

I agree on the slightly HDR feeling. Still learning exposure stacking/editing. Here is a slightly revised copy with shadows/midtones lowered and a small bump in contrast.

Yes, I think it looks good like that :-)

Thanks for posting, always good to see your shots!

I really like these two. Both well composed and nicely processed with that grainy B&W filter.

The first tells a little cameo story at the seaside with the light breaking through the clouds and lighting up the water with those seagulls having fun just flying around. All watched by the still lady in the long raincoat; wind blowing her coat tails a little, appearing as a silhouette against the bright water. All framed nicely by the two benches.

The second has some fantastic light rays coming out of that moody sky and making an impressive silvery sea