Heavy Door And Arches, Ft Barrancas
Monica
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Heavy Door And Arches, Ft Barrancas
Shawna C., Ft Pickens, Pensacola, Beach, Fl
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stm

Heavy Door And Arches, Ft Barrancas

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I have photographed this same scene in three different formats; 35mm with T-Max 100, Digital and finally, as presented here, 6x4.5 with the Blad and T-Max 100.

Lighting on this image was very tricky because the range of Zones was very wide. From ZII behind the door on the floor to off the scale outside. I placed the middle arch in ZVI and went from there. Ultimately I decided on N-1 development with D-76 1:1. The lowest arch, which lead outside, was still not completely blown out as I envisioned, still showing some faint grass and shrubs, so I made a mask from HP printer paper and held back all the exposure on the baseboard, which did the trick.
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Location
FT Barancas, Pensacola Beach, FL
Equipment Used
Hasselblad 500C/M 60mm Distagon
Exposure
1/4 second @ f/16
Film & Developer
T-Max 100 in D-76 1:1, N+1 Development
Paper & Developer
Oriental Seagull grade 2
Very nicely done: Composition, exposure, development, you've gotten it all. Wonderful! I assume this is your preferred format?
 
stm
SWphoto said:
I assume this is your preferred format?
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It has become it in the last year and a half or so. I find myself pretty much reaching for the F2 only when I don't have a Blad lens to do the job or when I don't plan on enlarging past 11 x 14. However, since my longest Blad lens is only the 150mm, pretty much all (warm blooded or very high magnification at least) nature photography goes back to the F2 where I can use my 300mm or 500mm Nikkors and the TC-14B or my 24mm lens reversed..
 
Dan Henderson
I think this photograph has a lot going for it, but the light coming in from the outside really overpowers everything else. I wonder why you chose N+1 rather than N-1 development. It seems the very wide brightness range in this scene could have been managed a bit with contracted development. Also, I am curious what you mean by "6x4.5 with the blad." Do you have some sort of mask so your Hasselblad shoots that format rather than 6x6, or that you cropped it to that format?
 
stm
Dan Henderson said:
I think this photograph has a lot going for it, but the light coming in from the outside really overpowers everything else. I wonder why you chose N+1 rather than N-1 development. It seems the very wide brightness range in this scene could have been managed a bit with contracted development. Also, I am curious what you mean by "6x4.5 with the blad." Do you have some sort of mask so your Hasselblad shoots that format rather than 6x6, or that you cropped it to that format?
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I have an A-12 (6x6) back for my Blad but rarely use it. I have two A-16 backs (6x4.5) and they are my default.

I just went back and re-read the post and indeed I made a typo, I DID mean to say N MINUS 1! Thanks for the catch!
 
Dan Henderson
stm said:
I have an A-12 (6x6) back for my Blad but rarely use it. I have two A-16 backs (6x4.5) and they are my default.

I just went back and re-read the post and indeed I made a typo, I DID mean to say N MINUS 1! Thanks for the catch!
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No, thank you. I have used Hasselbad gear for a number of years and never knew that you could use another format than 6x6.
 
stradibarrius
I think the very bright light is nice. You have a very good graduation of tones from black to white and none of the real details are lost. It also depends on what your intended statement was??? "Step into the Light" or "Passing Over" would have been fitting names...LOL!
I like it and remember, "there is a saddle for every ass".
 

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