Harvesting at Keld
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GFDarlington

Harvesting at Keld

Taken a month back as the harvest is very late this year, in Swaledale as everywhere else in the UK. My first attempt at using a graded paper rather than a VC - Ilford Galerie grade 4. Not sure if this is as contrasty as I was really after but there was a fair bit of mist about towards the end of the day.

I'd welcome comments on the composition and whether this arrangement works? I now feel that perhaps the thin oval field should have been a little more centrally within the frame. I could have dropped lower down the hill a little towards the village to bring the village and field closer together but I didn't want the two dark trees to interrupt the shape of the field.
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Location
Keld in Swaledale
Equipment Used
Xpan 90mm lens
Exposure
N/R
Film & Developer
acros in Rodinal at 1:50
Paper & Developer
Ilford Galerie and PQ Universal
Lens Filter
Lee no. 23 Orange
Anscojohn
I'd love to see a real print of this. I bet it just sings. Were I printing it, I might try cropping just above the roof line of the house at the top left just to see how it looks.
 
Nice work, and I think the contrast is just about perfect. The subject matter certainly conforms to the format you were using. Just my ciriosity, but how did you happen to switch from VC paper to the graded paper?
Bill Smith, North Carolina
 
michael9793
I feel that the lower is too tight and makes me feel uncomfortable, if you could bring the camera down a bet to give some room to the building that would help. that would also lower the cropping on the top which john had mentioned.

mike
 
It you are trying to convey the vastness of the landscape against the tiny spots of human habitation then it works and cropping might destroy that aim. However the middle of the far hills looks burnt out and what I assume to be a large tree under the bottom right edge of the oval field looks like a strange dark blob.

All the other trees look like trees but this one seems to emerge mushroom like from the ground.

It could simply be the size of scan, Frankly we are trying to critique a replica of the print and given the gallery limitations some scans can only be a poor replica of the original.

Monet looks crap on a 6x4 Boots birthday card if you get my analogy.

pentaxuser
 

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