Water Over Rocks, Gold Creek

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Ikeda 4x5 field camera, 150mm lens, Ilford FP4.

-- Barbara Kelly (kellys@alaska.net), January 29, 1999

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Barbara: I love the feel of the flow and the composition of the image. I am sure my monitor does not do justice to its tones. Enjoyed it.

-- Bahman Farzad (cpgbooks@mindspring.com), January 29, 1999.

Barbara, Ditto Bahman's comments. On my monitor the darker 1/4 of the tone scale looks all black. This probably explains the "heavy" nature of the "print". However, the negative space in the upper left also contributes. I love flowing water and your image captures it nicely.

-- Larry Korhnak (lvk@gnv.ifas.ufl.edu), January 31, 1999.

There's something odd about your gray scale. I measure the darkest tones as 91% grey and the lightest tone as 17% grey. It makes the image look dull and washed out. It's not my monitor - I measured the gray scale values directly off the file.

-- Bob Atkins (bobatkins@hotmail.com), February 01, 1999.

Looks great to me Barbara. Love water and rock shots and the composition is nice. I might burn in the center a bit. I like the specular highlights on the rocks. I'm not convinced that b/w prints need full blacks and whites. I'm usually doing all I can to avoid printing for zones at the top and bottom of the scale. It looks pretty contrasty on my monitor.

-- Mike Green (mgprod@mindspring.com), February 02, 1999.

I love the feel of the photo. I do think it could be improved by shifting one's viewpoint so that the three streams gain symmetry.

The tones in the scan however are blown out. There should be detail in the non-specular highlight area of the plunge pool.

I'm sure the original print looks much better.

If you feel comfortable sending an uncorrected (RGB) scan with a full range of tones, I'd be happy to try to dodge/burn it for you. Or you can do it yourself in Paintshop Pro 5 or Photoshop by using layers. Simply create a blurred duplicate of the original scan, invert it (make it a negative) and use this blurred negative layer as a mask by changing it's compositing mode to "color dodge", and then changing the opacity of the mask layer to get the results you want. You may also need to add a curve adjustment layer.

Only trying to help...

Keith

-- Keith Clark (ClarkPhotography@spiritone.com), February 02, 1999.



One can almost hear the water surging down the rocks. Good shot!

-- Garry Schaefer (schaefer@pangea.ca), February 02, 1999.

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