Ross, I am not picking on your beautiful image, but this is an example of never really knowing what the actual film and print looked like before it is put through the digital wringer and shown on screen.
I find it all very confusing.
However, I am a minority opinion and please ignore my distress. Yes, I have seen before and after many times on screen, and I prefer before...
It is a wonderful image!
dperez #8357. Good work under sub-optimal sky conditions. Sad to say, the first reaction I had to the foreground was ...Jabba the Hut. I would try to lighten the foreground a tad. The film reminds me of old mostly-blue-sensitive photos - is x ray film effectively orthochromatic? I like the #8358 photo even better, with its wider range of tonalities. I rather like the Foot of Man in the lower left corner - subtle, but reminds the viewer that the subject is huge and the viewer is small.
Thanks Randy and Andrew. In order to get some detail in the cabin in the trees I ended up really overexposing the sky. Had I known at the time about N-2 development I might of planned for that. I can't really print the negative in the darkroom. I was able to scan the negative and "fix" it somewhat in Lightroom. Incidentally, after this shot i walked out to the edge of the Playa and took a better exposed shot looking back in the other direction. I was able to print this negative in the darkroom:
[IMG] Homestead and Spring, Alvord Playa, OR by Jeffery D Ross, on Flickr[/IMG]
That second one nails it. The first one has an overprocessed "glow" like you used an unsharp mask filter with a large radius.
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