Hallaig, Dusk

Beautiful as usual Gavin.

Beautiful.

yes , beautifully done ... spiritiual. Words of the poem ring a lot of bells inside

Beautiful shot Gavin. Good luck with your polymer photogravure process it sounds quite difficult.

A lovely image. Please help me understand how this image was created -- shot on b/w negative film, reverse processed as a positive image (?), then scanned as a positive image? What attributes do you find from using dr5 to reverse process your b/w film?

Just Beautiful. Very peaceful.

beautiful work gavin
i could look at this all day ..
john

Thanks for comments folks. This small series on Hallaig is part of a longer-term project to photograph Highland Clearance sites. Many of the lesser-known sites are fading back into the landscape, and are often not marked on current maps etc. A fair amount of detective work is involved. There is a real sense of poignancy about many of these places. David Craig's excellent book 'On the Crofters Trail' traces the path of those evicted who emigrated to the 'New World' - fascinating. The Clearances are central to most highlanders understanding of belonging, and are now part of a greater mythology (which is sometimes not consistent with historical 'reality' either). The clearances also set in place a pattern of land ownership that eventually led to the creation of giant sporting estates, devoid of people. Much of what people associate with Scottish 'wilderness' is actually a man-made wilderness. See James Hunter's excellent 'On the Other Side of Sorrow - Nature and People in the Scottish Highlands'.

Trask said:

A lovely image. Please help me understand how this image was created -- shot on b/w negative film, reverse processed as a positive image (?), then scanned as a positive image? What attributes do you find from using dr5 to reverse process your b/w film?

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I shoot positives because I like 'look' and the extra tonal range I get as compared to shooting the same films as negatives. They are metered and shot as transparencies. See http://www.dr5.com/blackandwhiteslide/filmreviewdev1.html PM me if you want any tips on shooting dr5 reversed transparencies.

Gavin, that's really exceptional. For a while I've been thinking about shooting dr5 reversal as 5x7 sheets. You always inspire me with your wonderful results. It seems as though you have settled on Delta 100.

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For a while I've been thinking about shooting dr5 reversal as 5x7 sheets... It seems as though you have settled on Delta 100.

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I use Delta 100 for most of my dr5 work - love the tonality and the image latitude. It's good for landscape work - it perks up heavy overcast days (and we get plenty of these in Scotland!) but handles dramatic light well too, and is particularly good for getting tonal detail in skies when used with ND Grads (as you would with colour transparencies). I've used it so long now it feels like second nature too. Feel free to PM for any info. And thanks for the kind words.