Acadia National Park - Bar Harbor Sunrise

cliveh said:

Stone, well done, you are starting to learn about composition.

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Thanks... I think... Lol

Jim Jones said:

This image, problems and all, beats almost anything I've done over many decades.

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wow that's quite a compliment, thank you Jim, I'm flattered.

Shawn Dougherty said:

Looks like a processing issue to me, too. It's a shame, a beautiful image. So nice I'd suggest a big scan and using "other" means to make a print! And tell the birder to chill, man! =)

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I highly highly doubt it's a processing issue, I'm very consistant and used the same method on all 6 sheets in the same dark bag, at night, in dim light, and same dark tank I've always used, I'm just trying to understand how that could possibly be a processing issue.

winger said:

That bottom right corner looks to me like it has a light leak AND something blocking the corner itself. The light leak goes further into the image than the blacked area. The area across the top looks like under-development? The rest of the image looks great.

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I think I may have hurt myself by slightly cropping this, the dark bar on the TOP is ALSO on the BOTTOM, I just cropped it out slightly, I was in a rush and I don't remember why I even did it. But it certainly was only on 3 of the 6 images, the MOD54 stands straight up, and the sheets are held by two teeth at basically the"rule of thirds" points of the image, so it doesn't make sense that there would be a continuous line on both sides of only some of them, and I checked, it wasn't just at one side or the other, it was just sort of random.could the bellows on the side be tight somehow? would this cause a gradual falloff rather than a hard one? I wasn't even using a lot of movements for most of these so I can't see why it would happen. I dunno...

It obviously isn't a light leak. It would have to be a dark leak... If you weren't using extreme movements and there was nothing physically inside of your camera blocking the light along the edges... that leaves processing issue. And it looks like one to me. I'm guessing the sheets were either in contact during development or you had some sort of strange flow pattern going on that limited development on the edges, especially given that you're using the MOD54. Only trying to help, Stone. Good luck figuring this out. It is a lovely image.

And Bethe (Winger) makes a good point. The area in the lower right, just inside of your dark triangle is the only area that might indicate a light leak, or even over development caused by the flow pattern created by your films touching, or maybe it's flare. The rest of it (the dark edges) is underdevelopment.

Try a little cropping and see if it works for you. If you were using a compendium that could possibly be suspect. looks good otherwise.

Shawn Dougherty said:

And Bethe (Winger) makes a good point. The area in the lower right, just inside of your dark triangle is the only area that might indicate a light leak, or even over development caused by the flow pattern created by your films touching, or maybe it's flare. The rest of it (the dark edges) is underdevelopment.

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Is it possible I severely under exposed the image, and then the light trap was basically letting light across the whole film area, so only the edges were SAFE and that's why they are dark? I know that's crazy but, I'm looking at the mod, it just doesn't seem to have any reason to have bad edges. Well I did some Velvia50 and Provia100f on the trip, so I may send that to the lab, if I get it back and it's similar, we know it's not the development...

StoneNYC said:

Well I did some Velvia50 and Provia100f on the trip, so I may send that to the lab, if I get it back and it's similar, we know it's not the development...

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I think that's a good idea.

StoneNYC said:

... the dark bar on the TOP is ALSO on the BOTTOM, ...

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So it is not insufficient developer. That leaves interference from the compendium shade (150 is moderately wide-angle) and insufficient development of the edges, perhaps due to the MOD54 holder. The triangle is still a mystery.