First Scan This AM.

[Ysarex88 82]

Dark Forest with broken sun.

Joe

 

[Rick50]

I like it.

 

[jcdeboever]

Very nice.

 

[Ysarex88 82]

Thanks guys, appreciate it.

Joe

 

[jcdeboever]

Man, your film Landscape's are real nice.

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[limr32 1]

Really like the dappled light!

 

[Ysarex88 82]

Man, your film Landscape's are real nice.

Thanks.

Really like the dappled light!

Appreciate it -- that was the hard part, always difficult contrast with that lighting.

Joe

 

[smoke665]

You're making me wish I still had my darkroom equipment. Very nice.

 

[Ysarex88 82]

You're making me wish I still had my darkroom equipment. Very nice.

Thanks, but don't wish too hard. That negative is all but unprintable in a darkroom. I tried and gave up many years ago. I should have had enough sense when I took the photo to know better, but I was younger then. The required burning and dodging to deal with the lighting is just too complicated. I'm working on some other scans right now so I grabbed that neg and put it back in the scanner. I set the scanner to auto and just let it scan that neg with no adjustments -- arguably what you'd get from a first print on #2 paper and normal exposure. Here it is:

That patch of sunlight on the ledge to your right is all blown out as is the sky and the rhododendron but the waterfall and left cliff face needs a dodge as does the big rock and while at it how about switching to a higher contrast filter for those areas and etc..

Masking in editing software ups the game and makes all that possible with precision.

Joe

 

[Gary A.]

Nice ... and yes dodging and burning and changing contrast in the computer is so much better then in a darkroom.

 

[smoke665]

Masking in editing software ups the game and makes all that possible with precision.

True that, but still I miss some of the hands on. In the darkroom as in woodworking/carving, there is a "feel" between you, the tool, and the end product. I'm hoping that "feel" might develop again in the digital world, as I become more comfortable with the tools.

 

[Ysarex88 82]

Masking in editing software ups the game and makes all that possible with precision.

True that, but still I miss some of the hands on. In the darkroom as in woodworking/carving, there is a "feel" between you, the tool, and the end product. I'm hoping that "feel" might develop again in the digital world, as I become more comfortable with the tools.

It will.

Joe