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blansky · May 16, 2015

Interesting but you have some printing issues as far as the exposure on each. The picture gets lighter as it goes right. Simple to fix.

cliveh · May 16, 2015

Blansky, are you confusing the Standard Gallery with Critique Gallery?

blansky · May 16, 2015

Nope. The critiques are free. Take 'em or leave 'em.

barbara ann · May 16, 2015

Technicalities aside, this is an absolutely delightful "candid portrait"! Simply priceless. (Love the socks on the man in the middle.)

pentaxuser · May 16, 2015

I have looked at this several times since seeing Blansky's comment and I feel the scene's light may be correctly reflected by the scan we see.

pentaxpete · May 17, 2015

Thanks for all viewers -- well as the Werramatic does not have a 'Focal Plane' shutter it cannot be uneven shutter travel but I did notice that their hats were causing some face shadowing, but I didn't have my small FLASH for fill-in as I usually have. There is a large TREE on the LEFT near where they are sitting maybe that is the reason.

blansky · May 17, 2015

Not to belabor the point but it's not about what was there, but about what we do when we make a print. And thank god you didn't use fill flash. My point was when we make the prints we fix/clean up/enhance the world in our creation, and don't merely say a tree was causing uneven light. We merely correct it.

cliveh · May 17, 2015

blansky said:
Not to belabor the point but it's not about what was there, but about what we do when we make a print. And thank god you didn't use fill flash. My point was when we make the prints we fix/clean up/enhance the world in our creation, and don't merely say a tree was causing uneven light. We merely correct it.

Thus destroying the original integrity of the lighting as it was at that moment in time.

Ken Nadvornick · May 17, 2015

blansky said:
And thank god you didn't use fill flash. My point was when we make the prints we fix/clean up/enhance the world in our creation, and don't merely say a tree was causing uneven light. We merely correct it.

Using discreet fill flash (which is the only way it should be applied) is, in fact, "fixing/cleaning up/enhancing the world in our creation". In a practical sense what one is effectively doing is an in-camera contrast mask. One is differentially lightening the shadows at a level of granularity not possible by hand on the easel, while at the same time leaving the highlights relatively untouched. The difference is that it's happening way before one ever reaches the darkroom. And it's a lot more risky because one only gets a single chance to get it right.

pentaxpete · May 19, 2015

I met the Gent wearing the Cap on the LEFT of pic TODAY on that same seat talking to another mate and I told him I had put the photo 'online' and got some comments and he was pleased - -- I offered to do him a free print but he declined. About 'fill-in flash' -- I have been using it for years and can control it so you never notice it.

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