pentax 6x7, 75mm, t-max 100. river in north Alabama.

-- Mike Green (mgprod@mindspring.com), February 03, 1999

Answers

Technically, exposure wise it seems dead on.

It juts doesn'r "speak" to me or evoke emotions the way your earlier posts do though. Maybe it's just me. I do like your work a bunch...

Thank you for not saying which river. :>

-- Keith Clark (ClarkPhotography@spiritone.com), February 03, 1999.

I think much of the beauty of Ansel Adams work is the incredible detail and tonality of large format. If some of his work (not all) were scanned and crammed into a 50k jpg it wouldn't be too impressive. This medium format image probably makes a very nice print, but it lacks the extra punch that keeps it special when the tones and detail are degraded by the Web format. Also from this shot you can't really tell its a river (which river did you say it was?)

-- Larry Korhnak (lvk@gnv.ifas.ufl.edu), February 03, 1999.

Mike- I tend to agree with Keith. The exposure and print quality (scan) seem to dead on. Artistically, the image does not seem to grab my attention and is not as sensitive as some of your previous postings. Somehow IMO too much of the "rock" is showing. Good luck.

-- Bahman Farzad (cpgbooks@mindspring.com), February 04, 1999.

I do like the rocks and the trees very much, especially the angles on the wedge-shaped rock and the one in the rear. The way that rock in the back is leaning makes me think it's straining to move forward. The small patch of water doesn't do anything for me, but between the rocks and the trees I like this picture a lot.

-- John Sullivan (sullivan@spies.com), February 04, 1999.

Thanks all for responding. I'm not sure why this picture doesn't completely work; all the elements seemed to be there for a good picture but didn't quite hit it. The large boulder in back interested me in that it peers over the others, but I think the forground is not doing much to support it. Maybe the "rockjam" is breaking up the scene. It's good to get input from this forum to help define problems. Thanks all, Mike

-- Mike Green (mgprod@mindspring.com), February 05, 1999.

Regarding Larry Korhnak's comment re AA's images:

I feel just the opposite, most of his images would be excellent even when printed without the ultra-refinement of AA's darkroom technique. Good image design shows through almost any moderately competent lab technique. The refinement may add to the image, but it doesn't MAKE the image, IMO.

Frank

-- Frank Kolwicz (bb389@lafn.org), February 09, 1999.