barn shadow, old mayakka city,fl, 2006

Your composition choice to leave that black square in the top right corner was not a good one. That small little area is very distracting from the image as a whole. The human eye natural pulls toward the darkest parts of an image like this, and I'm not sure if that is where you want the viewers eye pulled in this image.

Also, you need to get the evenness of the tones under control. It's somewhat disturbing how the highlights have extreme hot spots, then gray areas.

I'm also seeing some weird pink staining in parts of the image. Maybe that is a characterist of the paper or developer, but either way...it should be more consistant and not blotchy. Might even be the scan? Not sure.

All the best,

Ryan McIntosh
www.RyanMcIntosh.net

Ryan,
I went back to the print I made which is a 16x20 print. The print does have a brown tone to it but I'm not too sure where the pink your getting is from. I don't see it. But I work from a laptop and that may not show everything.
Second,
I had a very hard time getting this print to scan. I scan the 16x20 print but everytime I scanned it the left side was much lighter than the left. I tried to fix it but I think I made it worst. The black spot on the upper right hand corner is roof and is a zone IV in the print and isn't as noticeable as in the scan. This was the first time I used Begger and really like how it works but this scan doesn't really show what it should be. Looking at the print there may be slightly lighter on the left but almost not noticable but scanning picks up the worst part of prints some times.

Thanks for your info

Mike Andersen