Falls, Chile
Vaughn

Falls, Chile

From my recent trip to Chile. Due to time, place, wind, etc, I forced the composition -- the image seems to have a top and bottom halves that do not support each other, if that makes sense. The water is the glacier-blue instead of clear water.
Location
Torres de Paine area, Chile
Equipment Used
5x7 Eastman No.2, perhaps the Computar 210/6.3
Exposure
f16 at 1/60
Film & Developer
Ilford FP4+ at 100asa, Pyrocat HD
Paper & Developer
Platinum/palladium print on Hahnemuhle Premium Rag, Potassium oxalate developer at 110F
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The rock in the water anchors the picture and is too high up, could crop or reshoot, guess both are out of the question. Think if the water was blue then why not cyanotype or better still a combination with PP. When I look at it blue, it seems to work much better for me.
 
Probably too much contrast to try cyanotype -- but perhaps a combo as you mentioned. Or just trim off the bottom half! LOL!

Or just say it was not a bad effort, but just falls short.
 
I think if the water was clear it would work well in PP. The blue of the water must be impressive in color. Be very challenging to get it to work in mono tones. If you can split tone it might just pull it together.
Cyanotype and PP could be worth a try, water would be good to see in blue.
 
@Vaughn Your original appraisal seems obvious.

It does seem quite unsharp. I have that Computar but have never used it..gigantic lens. Does it have the tremendous coverage some claim? Have you used yours extensively? What do you think about it?
 
The image is sharper than reproduced, but I think there was some camera shake (winds). And I should have scanned it rather than the digital camera...but I was more interested in compositional problems. The Computar Symmetrigon 210/6.3 is not huge -- but it did come with a metal screw-on lens shade which makes it look big (Copal 1 shutter). Very sharp lenses with good contrast...four air spaced elements (thus the lens shade), but will not cover 8x10. Great 5x7 lens, but it is not the f9 which has the large coverage.
 

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Image metadata

Device
SONY DSC-RX100M4
Aperture
ƒ/2.8
Focal length
19.1 mm
Exposure time
1/15 second(s)
ISO
400
Flash
Off, did not fire
Filename
falls.jpg
File size
570.7 KB
Date taken
Sat, 23 February 2019 8:39 PM
Dimensions
1080px x 783px

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