Monument Rock #1 Triptych

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  Photo Engineer

• Mar 18, 2009

Very nice Alex. Congratulations.

PE

 

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  Colin Corneau

• Mar 18, 2009

I like it also. I'm just curious: why do this? Why not just use a whole negative?

Not knocking you, just asking.

 

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  Alex Hawley

• Mar 18, 2009

Thanks Ron, Thanks Colin.

Colin, that's a worthwhile question. This negative had light leak problems on both ends, plus some rather harsh shadows on one end. I was not happy with the neg as a whole. But I found that two or three good 4x5 negs can be taken out of a useless 7x17. Plus, I can enlarge and get the larger prints. People like large for some reason these days. I don't agree with that desire, but large attracts more attention and sales.

 

• mike c

• Mar 19, 2009

All and all it worked out pretty good, like that sky.

 

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  bsdunek

• Mar 19, 2009

Interesting way to save a negative. I probably wouldn't have thought of that. Learn something every day on the forum.

 

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  Derek Lofgreen

• Mar 19, 2009

Cool stuff Alex. I like these a lot.

D.

 

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  Thomas Bertilsson

• Mar 19, 2009

Nice work, Alex! Good idea too with using the same negative... Did it hurt just a smidgeon to cut it?

 

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  Vincent Brady

• Mar 19, 2009

Alex while I like the result I think that it could be improved by increasing the gap between the photo's. As it is the photo on the RHS appears to be have been taken further away. The increase in the gap will give each photo more room to breath and the viewer has to work harder to join them together.

Cheers
Vincent

 

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  Alex Hawley

• Mar 19, 2009

Warm thanks for everyone's comments and input.

Thomas, yes it can be hard to cut the neg, but otherwise its gone to waste. But, its still not done whimsically.

Vincent, good suggestion. I had been wondering how spacing might the overall image. Glad you brought that up.

 

• OMU

• Mar 21, 2009