Sunset from Wheal Coates, north Cornwall

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  Martin Aislabie

• Aug 1, 2008

Fabulous Bill

You have realy captured the feel of a sunset - mine are always to dark (sky) & burned out (sun)

Martin

 

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  aparat

• Aug 1, 2008

I am not familiar with the printing technique you've described, but the image has a very ethereal mood. Is that why? Of course, the composition and light are perfect, too. How did you manage to balance the exposure to include such a wide dynamic range?

 

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  bill spears

• Aug 1, 2008

The orange filter on camera has darkened the (blue) sky, aswell as some burning in at the printing stage. The soft look is from a cokin diffuser held under the enlarger lens.

 

• pentaxuser

• Aug 1, 2008

As one who has tried a B&W sunset at Tenby and failed, I appreciate the skills of someone who has succeeded. In my opinion they are not easy and colour has a head start here but B&W is great when it succeeds as here.

pentaxuser