[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I found them all eye-catching. Perhaps it was the scans, > but they seem "dark" rather than friendly. > > Geometrically they're fine compositions. So let's take your > obvious skills to that next step: What were you trying to say? > > Collin > KC8TKA >
Hello Colin, I really appreciate that you like the compositions. Yes, they are dark, this is intentional. I use very deluted rodinal stand development in order to shift the midtones to the shadows and to render lot of detail in them and in the shadows themselves (thanks to the compensation) and not to burn the highlights. This gives me also the so called "adjancency effect" that sometimes work well, somtimes not at all. They are more visible on the silverprints than on the scans and I do not know why. For example you could see them on the cemetery photo, around the tombstones but they are not so pronounced as on the print. One of the images that I have made with most visible and surrealistic adjancency effects could be seen here: http://photo-forum.net/index.php?APP_ACTION=GALLERY_IMAGE&IMAGE_ID=151569&USER_ID=4703 Regarding your question what I am trying to say. I am not sure that I am tryint to say anything. My feeling is that the pictures are not supposed to say something but to show something. What I try to show is a difference between the banal view and my view of the shown scene. Sometimes I manage to make it appear sometimes I do not. Sometimes it work for the other sometimes it doesn't. Best regard and thans for the comment luben
