On May 15, 2005, at 7:48 AM, Shel Belinkoff wrote:
There's a gun shop located in a nearby town that has a fence made of stone
and old wagon wheels surrounding it. Last week, while testing some film,
the light seemed about right to photograph a section of the fence. Here's
a frame from that test.
http://home.earthlink.net/~scbelinkoff/wagwheel.html (250K file)
Tech stuff: Pentax LX on original Tiltall tripod, SMC Pentax 30mm/F2.8 @
5.6, Agfa RSX II 50, Adjusted color balance in PS CS to get as close to the
slide as possible.
My monitor's a little out of calibration, so comments about shadow detail
and sharpness are certainly welcome, as are any other comments.
It's a contrasty scene but renders well on my calibrated screen with detail almost everywhere. Some areas, like the chains on the left and some of the stone work on the right, could use a little Curves adjustment to express the values better.
Overall, the 'almost sharp' background is distracting. I'd want to take it, in this light, with a very wide aperture setting to provide some background separation, and I'd push down some of the background highlight values relative to the foreground points of interest.
Godfrey
