Wow, Ken -- that's a really good bleaching job down in the bottom left corner.
(Yes, I know.)
Wow, Ken -- that's a really good bleaching job down in the bottom left corner.
(Yes, I know.)
Philip Ulanowsky
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I noticed the difference clearly on my home editing computer and monitor, but not so much different at work on my older monitor.
Ken's tone change is more true to original pictorialist style. Good credit for that. They like dark and couldn't get enough, sometimes to their advantage and sometimes they went too far I think. When I print this I'll probably make a few different light and darker tone versions and see what I like when they dry. Till then, both are good with me.
Tonality aside, I thought it might be helpful to remove the footprints at the lower left, and darken the lower right.
Right. We all see a delta change but it's the absolute value of the change that is variable. For example, I could have been seeing that same adjustment down before he adjusted down ( because it was subtile) on my monitor. And now it could be darker then what Ken was seeing for me. I dunno but when I try to say flirt with the edge of black on my monitor (and even wet prints - room light variables), I'm often disappointed it's not the same when I see it on my tablet or another person's monitor (especially at a work monitor - yuck). But that's just my experience. YMMV.
Last edited by tuco; 20-Feb-2020 at 12:44. Reason: sp
My favorite shot from the last LF outing. Duke Creek, near Cleveland Ga. Tmax 400, 150mm Caltar on my 4x5 Ebony.
Hi, Steve. Nice work. It's hard for me to judge on screen, but there are certainly some careful and well-seen juxtapositions in particular. The only aspect that comes across on my screen is the relative lightness of the clouds behind (through) the tree. I suspect that this is a result of dodging there or burning around it. It just seems a little off-key to me; a non-photographer would not likely notice, and perhaps find it perfectly fine.
I like the overall tonality and handling.
Philip Ulanowsky
Sine scientia ars nihil est. (Without science/knowledge, art is nothing.)
www.imagesinsilver.art
https://www.flickr.com/photos/156933346@N07/
There was some dodging and burning. The clouds were kinda flat, tried to bring out some detail (my monitor is profiled to 40cd/m^2 for brightness, so it will match prints, so it may appear brighter on someone with a brighter setting on their monitor). I did play with the composition quite a bit (hurredly though). Tried my 90mm and 210mm, but they were too much. Settled on the 75mm, but had to frame carefully there was some muck just outside of frame to the right.
Thanks for the review/critique
Steve, for display as art, consider flipping it horizontally.
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