Lake side barn at sunrise

I'm sure you can see the uneven tone in the sky. Was there no clouds ? The lighting on the barn is strong and direct but needs to be counteracted with a powerful sky. Maybe you were just unlucky at your time of shooting. A red filter would have given you a black sky or an orange one for a lesser effect.

Cheers
TEX

hi thanks for your help. unfortunately it was a clear blue sky and was just experimenting with camera set up really. I take your point, not a wonderful image but as my first attempt at 8x10 it gave me enormous pleasure.

A very well done "first" 8x10!

I will disagree with Tex about the sky -- being a fan of more "natural" skies for most images. but to each their own.

It looks like you have kept the values in both the the sun-lite and shadowed sides of the barn -- which can be difficult at times.

Compositionally, I would have tilted the camera (or lowered the front standard) a little to have the tallest tree almost kiss the edge of the neg and give the building a little more ground to sit upon...but again, that is just an opinion.

How are you developing your negs? I ask because from the scan, it looks like the neg has extra density around the edges -- which can happen if one is tray developing an 8x10 in an 8x10 tray. In most cases, one should use a tray one size larger than the neg. But this is just a wild guess as making such judgements from an image on a computer screen is questionable.

Vaughn

Hi Vaughn, thanks.

I wasn't sure about the composition but believ it or not the tripod was on quite a slope, I had to use alot of base tilt and consequently ft and back tilt to keep the building in perspective. the sky was as it was, what more can i say. Really enjoyed the process of learning this one.

Wow, am v impressed. I did tray develop in 8x10 trays. thanks for the tip! it doesnt show up quite so bad on the print but its definitely there.

Thanks for your input, much appreciated.

A lucky guess -- one gets a little more development on the edges due (I think) to the the waves of developer bouncing off the sides of the tray when agitating. A little edge burning will take care of it in the print, but it is nice not to have to do it.

Yes, I could tell that the camera was positioned below the building (or perhaps just at ground level with the building). One thing that took me a little time to realize is that tilting the camera up and then making the back and front standards vertical is the exact same thing as keeping the camera level and only using front rise. If your lens has the coverage, sometimes one can do both.

I looks like you still have a little perpsective shift on the building (the back not parallel with the building.) but in a way, that is good. It gives a better feeling of size. Plus I doubt that the building is perfectly square!

Vaughn