Yes, I agree the surreal white can be appealing, but wait til you see
the B&W print. It's quite nice by itself, Much nicer than the scan...
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 5:10 PM, Ken Norton <ken@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> OK, I re-did the waterfall and it's closer to what I see in the darkroom
>> print:
>>
>> http://www.dragonsgate.net/pub/richard/PICS/BigBasin09/content/bin/images/large/20091207_161.jpg
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>
>
> Honestly, I REALLY liked the first version you presented. Sure, it wasn't
> "real", but most good B&W images aren't. Saint Adams bent reality on nearly
> all of his prints and he frequently used green filters and or orthochromatic
> films to lighten vegetation.
>
> As to Moose's image... I spent a few minutes working with it and concluded
> that is a composition which doesn't warrant B&W conversion well. There is
> absolutely no way that I could fine to separate the little tree from the
> background. The background wasn't blurred enough to separate subject from
> background and the brightness level was also the same. I couldn't even pick
> a color to lighten or darken to separate the subject from the background.
> The image just flattens and doesn't have any dimensionality to it to give me
> anything to look at. Not being critical (OK, maybe a little), but the
> picture didn't do anything for me at all.
>
> I'm not picking on Moose, here. Trust me, I've got hundreds (if not a few
> thousand) B&W images that are exactly like that. It looked great in the
> viewfinder, but somehow it didn't translate to anything even remotely
> interesting in print and those that I think DO make it other people find
> BORING!
>
> AG (sleep inducing) Schnozz
>
> AG
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