Ghost Waves

That's amazing.....

I like it, even with the halo (which isn't that bad) very dramatic long exposure- well done.

Great shot...keep working in the darkroom! Looks like you're learning quickly...nice work.

Good work again Aaron. Next time round, why don't you make a mask? A quick and dirty way is to place a pice of paper of card onto the base board and trace around the area you need to dodge. Then cut it out and place it onto the paper during enlargement for the time needed. You can remove it afterwards for the rest of the exposure time. Or you can make a smaller mask and hold it in place between enlarger lens and paper. Could be a useful technique?

Thanks everyone

Andrew, I tried using a mask but, just couldn't quite seem to get it to come out right along the bottom of the rocks. So in the end, I ended up using the mask for dodging. I wound up with an overall exposure of 35s with the dodge on the rock being 23s. How would you handle masking that without it being obvious? Granted I should have jut gotten the exposure right to being with but...

It is tough, one of my prints ( I think it is in my gallery) of a white house in Bermuda. TO get the sky black I made a print and dried it in the microwave then went back and cut it out a little smaller than the original and let the edge go black in the sky with a slight darking of the edge of the house. With yours darking the hill is more advantagous since it is dark already having dark edges is less noticable than the light edges.
some times the circular file is where they have to go. NOT MANY THOUGH
Mike Andersen

Aaron, to be honest, the halo is only really noticeable on the left hand side. For that I would just do an edge burn to bring that area down. Even with some bleed over into the rocks, that would be acceptable. The halo nearer the point of the rock actually looks like water spraying up with the longer exposure. I'd leave that alone.

Thanks Mike, I'll give that a shot next session

Hi Andrew, you are correct, at the end of the rocks it is actually a wave crashing up over it. Maybe it's just me and that I know it's there so the halo is all I see??? I'll try the edge burning next time along with Mike's idea to see if either helps.

The foreground cobbles and water action are great...

Thanks Mark Funny you mention the foreground. I was planning to go back this week and shoot more focusing on those and maybe some tidal pools in the rocks.