What did you compose at Waters Edge?

[pau3]

Already posted in the portrait thread, but... contact print on Foma 112 of 8x10 Foma 100 negative.

La pesca del
cranc by Pau Martín, on Flickr

[Corran]

Gorgeous shot. Looks like my kind of place.

[krishmandal]

Peekskill Waterfront

Took this a few weeks ago ... I have another that I haven't scanned yet, but will post that when I do.

[Deval]

Juno by Deval Joshi, on Flickr

Toyo 45a II
Nikon 90mm SW F8
Fuji Neopan Acros 100
Pyrocat HD
F22.5 1 second
Filter: Red 25a

Interesting story, while setting up the shot, the lightmeter's battery died ...I downloaded a lightmeter app on android, and hoped I'd get in the ballpark...

[RSalles]

Deval,

Interesting shot, as a suggestion - if you work with wet printing - would be to play a bit with the light trails on the ground with split contrast or similar technique to make it "come" to the scene.
I like your "open shadows" approach, probably by the average exposure the cell phone app metered. Pyrocat came just there.

Cheers,

Renato

[Deval]

Deval,

Interesting shot, as a suggestion - if you work with wet printing - would be to play a bit with the light trails on the ground with split contrast or similar technique to make it "come" to the scene.
I like your "open shadows" approach, probably by the average exposure the cell phone app metered. Pyrocat came just there.

Cheers,

Renato

Renato,
Thanks for the tip. I tried placing the shadows in zone 3.5-4 knowing that I could print down. I also knew I was using pyrocat so that gave me a confidence to let the highlights fly. I figured with the smartphone meter who knew where it would end up...

I was going back and forth about split contrasting in photoshop with the foreground. On an initial attempt it took away from the shoreline so I ditched it, but I think I'll have to play around with it some more.
I'm sure there is a sweet spot between using the light as a leading line and letting it be distracting.

I'm planning on wet printing it later this week so I'll definitely play around with it. Thank you for your constructive feedback...very helpful

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[Rory_5244]

Interested in seeing the result of the foreground experiments. Looks great as is anyway!

[pau3]

Gorgeous shot. Looks like my kind of place.

Thanks for your comment. It is indeed a magical place.

Pau

[barnacle]

Parati, Brazil - twenty years ago.



Neil

[RSalles]

Love that also, Paraty, the time wheel moves slowly up there,