"The Dome" Egmont National Park New Zealand

• BWGirl

• Jun 30, 2004

Ok...I am speechless... what in heavens name is this *hump*? It looks very interesting with the clouds (I assume this thing is very high) and eerie with the toning you've done. The foreground is just a tad bit too dark for me.
Jeanette

 

• Dharmendra

• Jun 30, 2004

Sorry I got the name wrong. It\'s \"The Dome\" and agree with u on the foregound bit dark. It was ok before I toned it. But there is a peak in the same park called the Hump 1292m.

 

• Francesco

• Jun 30, 2004

Wow Grade 4 and still too soft for my liking. I would recommend that for your film-dev combination you should increase exposure and development to get more general and local contrast (FP4 is flexible enough). Detail is also imperative on that largest of stones. I need to see how it really looks. Compositionally I would either get rid of the sky or wait until some interesting cloud formations happens by.

 

• Dharmendra

• Jun 30, 2004

I have just checked my film and it was delta 400. Sorry about the mistake. I will try and do a reprint with lot more detail in the foreground.

 

• John McCallum

• Jun 30, 2004

Nice Bump/Hump/Dome. Especially impressed since we know it was your first darkroom print. Re contrast, how old was the paper? Overall great moody feeling to the image.
My only suggestion: this is a great subject, perhaps it would be worth taking a LF camera back to it
Would love to see more of your work Dharmendra.

 

• Leon

• Jul 1, 2004

I really like the sky as-is but then again I am a sucker for misty mystery - and the dark feel to the foreground and bump/hump/dome only serve to add to the feeling. This image isnt about a technically perfect and sharp recording of a scene, its about *your* interepretation of it, and, if your aim was to create an emotive and moody rendering of what you saw, you have been utterly successful.

thanks for sharing

Leon

ps - i really like like it.

 

• Annemarieke

• Jul 1, 2004

Well done! This is a lovely moody, mysterious print.
Glad you made a correction on your film information, because I was wondering how you got FP4 to behave so 'grainily'.
Good luck with your darkroom work, and show us some more.

 

• Dharmendra

• Jul 1, 2004

Thanks for your comments everyone. John regarding the age of the paper, I am estimating at least 10 yrs old as the person I bought the paper from didn\'t do any darkroom work for 10 yrs.
With regards to taking my large format tramping I am working on it. May be on my next trip