Stream, Big Sur Coast
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chuck94022

Stream, Big Sur Coast

This is a reflective scan of an 8x10 Cibachrome print. I took this in 1996 in the late afternoon.


Location was deep in a canyon. The subdued light required a substantial exposure.


This scan doesn't do the print or slide justice. The focus on the actual print is tack sharp. This was the first large format print I made that I literally felt I could walk into. In the print, the leaves in the lower left corner do not seem attached to the paper.


I also made an 11x14 print of this image. It works better larger for me.


*UPDATE* - I did a little more color correcting of the scan in PS. Plus I profiled my scanner for reflective targets.
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Location
Big Sur, California
Equipment Used
Wista 4x5, 135mm Schneider lens
Exposure
>90s, f<small>
Film & Developer
Velvia 50, tetenol
Paper & Developer
Cibachrome
Lens Filter
none
chuck94022
This image still has a color cast. This is my first reflective scan on my scanner, so I'm still dialing it in. I would appreciate comments beyond the color cast issue though. Thanks!

(Sean transitioned the gallery yesterday and I lost my previous uploads, so this is a new submission. Apologies to those who commented previously.)


-chuck
 
chuck94022
I do have a question about crop on this one: this is a print of the full slide. If I cropped to eliminate the two trees, just printing the bottom half of the slide, would that strengthen the composition or make it too claustrophobic? (Note that a crop of just the stream would leave a portion of the tree in the top left corner.)

-chuck
 
I guess, for me...I'd keep the two trees. You are correct that a crop below the trees would make a nice print, but those trees really hold everything together for me.
I'll bet the slide looks almost 3-d! Nice!
 
Baxter Bradford
The portrait format works well in this good image. I think the trees are strong, especially the position where they cross. Rock in bottom LHS holds this nicely with smaller rock in stream bottom RHS doing similar.

The hotspots of water in the waterfall section, may be due to scan highlight clipping/curve control, but should I be printing this, would look to subdue them to brightness of water in foreground. Assume colour cast you mention is that this appears rather cooler, than the original, about that of an 81B?
 
chuck94022
Thanks.

Yes, the hotspots at the top do print down better than the scan indicates. And yes, it is a bit cooler than the print.

I may scan the original slide, to see how well it performs in my scanner versus the reflective print.

-chuck
 

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