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By: John A Scott
Copyright ©2002

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Photographer	John A Scott {Karma:623}
Project	#12 Dramatic B&W Shadows	Camera Model	Pentax MZ-50 / ZX-50
Categories	Landscape	Film Format
Portfolio	Black and White	Lens	Pentax SMC F 35 - 80mm ï4,0 - 5,6
Uploaded	10/14/2002	Film / Memory Type	Kodak T-Max
		ISO / Film Speed	400
Views	831	Shutter
Favorites	0	Aperture	f/
Critiques	3	Rating	Pending / 0 Ratings
Location	City - Sudbury State - ONT Country - Canada
About	Just a path through the woods in a local park

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John A Scott {K:623} 10/14/2002

Thank you for your help and the time you took to review the pic

Jeff Cable {K:3599} 10/14/2002

Hi John. I noticed this picture and wondered if i could usefully make some comments that I believe are constructive. You are, of course, free to ignore anything I say. 8>

This type of picture can be very dramatic and you have picked a subject with extremely difficult lighting. The very harsh sunlight and the very dark shadows create a problem for film to register everything you saw with the same fidelity.

My first comment concerns the scan which appears to have artifacts created by compression into .jpg format. I have uploaded a different version of the file with a red ring drawn around one of the artifacts for you.

I have also cropped the picture to lose the very large area of competing highlight which tends to draw the eye away from your subject matter (the path).

Despite the fact that the lighting was difficult, with normal exposure the film should have been able to record a full range of tones from black to white. i think your picture appears to from zone i to x (see grayscale on the bottom of the usefilm page). I have changed the tonal values slightly in my version, to give you an example of what I mean.

The other marks on the version I have uploaded show the path (your subject) and an arrow which indicates the direction you could have moved to get more of the path in view. (it is obscured partly by a tree. Getting detail into shadows can be done in several ways but here it looks as if the metering was influenced by the very bright area that I removed in my version. Metering close to a tree from the tree would have given you far more shadow detail. The path would have moved towards a lighter zone but could have been controlled a bit at the printing stage. Just opening the aperture from your metered reading by one or two stops would have provided a little more shadow detail.

Keep shooting because you have an eye for a picture.

Cheers!
Jeff

Jeff Cable {K:3599} 10/14/2002

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