What is your opinion? Camera Pentax LX- Film Fuji Velvia 50 - Exposure 1/60@f-5.6/80-200mm zoom, handheld- overexposed by 1 stop over camera's center weighted normal exposure reading. Time of the year: End of February.

-- Bahman Farzad (cpgbooks@mindspring.com), August 23, 1998

Answers

very, very well done, bahman. these frosty snow scenes are difficult to pull off. particularly well done exposure. congratulations.

-- wayne harrison (wayno@netmcr.com), August 23, 1998.

This is the kind of photo I like. I think it is more than 'technically correct capturing of a scene on a piece of light-sensitive material'. It really has the atmosphere. Maybe burnt out on the top right corner, but it is part of the composition.

There is only one minor problem for me. I wouldn't ruin it with that copyright. I'd try to place it on the frame border or at least out of the frame.

More than a nice shot anyway!

-- G. Avasi (avasig@hotmail.com), August 23, 1998.

Nice shot. I agree with the comments on the copyright. Using a GND oriented at 45 degrees and just pushed down enough on the right side may have helped to reduce the burn out in the top right corner. Still a very nice shot.

-- Paul Lenson (lenson@pci.on.ca), August 24, 1998.

I like the composition and the overall "feel" of the image. Does the top right have more detail in the original?

-- Don Carter (carter-graphics@pobox.com), August 24, 1998.

I just wanted to add that this was a business trip and I was not prepared for this type of photography. I grabbed my camera, the 80-200 zoom, about 12 rolls of velvia, my Minolta incident meter and that was it! I simply was not prepared for the cold and freezing temperature photography where the film would crack and the camera got so cold that I had to keep it close to my body to keep it operating. I wore tennis shoes (in Birmingham, AL it does not get very cold!) and in some instances I was knee deep in snow and I was freezing! It was early in the morning and a coat of fresh snow had coverd the ground and it was very foggy. The weather changed constantly and rapidly that I had to use my camera's meter. Everything on the top right was lost to the fog. Majority of my fog exposures were shot at N+1. PS: it is also very hard to scan white/snow pictures. If I had to reshoot, I would have centered it a little more. Thanks for your kind comments.

-- Bahman Farzad (cpgbooks@mindspring.com), August 24, 1998.