Afternoon light. F5, Nikkor 24mm, Nikon polarizer, Velvia.

-- Jeff Kelley (thocker@ix.netcom.com), January 23, 1999

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The composition is nice. The very harsh, contrasty afternoon light has exceeded the latitude of your slide film thus you have areas with are underexposed in overexposed within the same picture. When faced with this very constrasty light, using print film may have been a better chice. If possible, return to this spot in early morning or evening. Summary: poor light & good composition.

-- Chris Hawkins (peace@clover.net), January 24, 1999.

There are some interesting things going on here Jeff. If it were a black and white print I would burn-in (darken) the center section to make it less hot and strenthen the interaction betweeen that neat rock in the front and the interesting formations in the back. That high value area dead center is killing you. But since it is a tranparency I would have put the camera down on the ground to try to close the gap between the interesting rock and the top stuff. Also, maybe backoff on the pola filter a little unless you want the sky that dark. But some good posibilities for a really great shot if you set it up again IMO. Thanks for posting it.

-- Mike Green (mgprod@mindsring.com), January 24, 1999.

Thanks for the comments. I agree about burning in the center if this was B&W. Part of the problem here is the scanning. When I look at this with a 4x loupe, the original Velvia slide looks nowhere near as burnt out... I tried several times to get a scan without the center burnt. Any suggestions appreciated. I'm using a Nikon LS-2000 scanner and have Photoshop 5x.

-- Jeff Kelley (thocker@ix.netcom.com), January 24, 1999.