Sedona

This is an image that I always liked, mostly because of the dramatically shaped tree. Still, there was something missing that I could not pin down at first. This was taken in 35 mm format, and as a result the image proportions were in that format: about 7 x 11.5, quite rectangular. So I cropped the image into a 4x5 format, the same proportions as seen in 4 x 5 large format. This makes the image feel much better. The cropping removed some extraneous stuff on the right hand side. It almost looks square, which is another format that I will be exploring. A photographer named Steve Strom, whose work I really like, shoots in the square format. My Hasselblad shoots in this format, but in film. Since I recently purchased my Hasselblad, I will be shooting with it in the near future.