Ruins - Wupatki National Monument

Very dramatic and beautifull capture with nice details in the shaded areas.
Well done.


jan

Nice picture. But it looks to me that the top of the "building" was burnt in while you burned in the sky.

Probably it would be better if the building was more consistant top to bottom which will unfortunately make a more difficult burn of the sky.

Michael

Nice! You caught a very dramatic sky, indeed - and I love all the shadow detail here.

Great cloud pattern.

I agree with Blansky on the tone of the structure, though the cause may be the ND grad filter rather than burning in the darkroom. This would be a good opportunity to try a contrast mask, or maybe you can get away with more localized dodging and burning.

Sometimes the effect of looking up at a building makes the building look impressive and imposing, and sometimes it just looks likes it's leaning back. In this case, I think it looks like it's leaning back. You can tilt the enlarging easel to improve that, and since the lines are curving and uneven, it probably doesn't need to be 100% corrected. If your enlarger has a tilting lens or neg stage, you can use the Scheimpflug principle to compensate for focus when tilting the easel. If not, you can stop down.

This was a straight exposure when I printed it. The effect of the sky and upper portion of the pueblo is the result of the neutral density grad filter used for this shot. Since there is still sufficient detail in the stones used to make the pueblo I will do another print and dodge out the top section of the building. I will also try tilting the enlarger head - the printing stage does not tilt.

Thanks for the compliments & suggestions thus far.

I love this shot. Very cooperative clouds!

Looks pretty good to me. Pity you haven't supplied more information! Seriously this is always what I hope to see in terms of info every time I look in the Gallery.