Merced Reflections #2, Yosemite

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  Matthew Gorringe

• Mar 24, 2008

Hi Jim,
I think you might be better off cropping out as much of the sky as possible and also cropping the right.

Such a pity, these two are really special.

 

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  Jim Fitzgerald

• Mar 24, 2008

Matt, thanks I think that may be a good idea. I have to find out what I did wrong. I know that Efke can be a bitch to use if you have sky in the image but I think it may be a processing error on my part. I'm going to try some things on the next printing and I'll post the results.

Jim

 

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  Jersey Vic

• Mar 24, 2008

Beautiful image. Very nice work.

 

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  Jim Fitzgerald

• Mar 24, 2008

Vic, thank you. Hard to go wrong in such an inspiring place.

Jim

 

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  Dietmar Wolf

• Mar 25, 2008

wonderfull reflection!

 

• walter23

• Mar 25, 2008

Looks nice. Shame about the processing fault (gotta hate that!). I'm being plagued by a couple of fogging gremlins right now so I can sympathize.

The mottling is the sky sort of looks like clouds (though unusual/unreal ones). Just the right burns / dodges might work here. I'd almost burn the mountain a bit, but dodge the messiest part of the sky in the upper left.

Worst case, you crop the whole top half of the image and turn the remainder upside down

 

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  Jim Fitzgerald

• Mar 25, 2008

I'm going to spend some time with this image. I'm thinking I may have not had enough developer the tank or maybe it was my agitation. I like the edge effects I get with Efke-25 and minimal agitation and this is the first time I've had any problems. The nice thing about 8x10 negs is there is a lot to work with.

Jim

 

• jeroldharter

• Mar 25, 2008

This would be a good print to experiment with selective bleaching of the lighter tones of ice/snow on the 3 areas around the water. Nice print.

 

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  Christopher Walrath

• Mar 25, 2008

Jim, looks like Ansel took it. Superb.

 

• jgjbowen

• Mar 25, 2008

Jim,

I would suggest trying it with almost the top 1/2 of the photo cropped, so that the mountain is only visable in the water and the trees are the top of the photo.