Shot very late afternoon as night rapidly approached. Its been a miserable wet and windy weekend so have spent most of it in the darkroom doing test prints from negatives shot earlier this year. This is a straight print, want to live with it for a few days and decided what needs to be done.
Hi everyone thank you for the positive comments. Over recent years I have got in to the habit of making test prints and leaving them scattered around the house to allow me to ponder on how I might add to the initial print. At the moment I'm loving the light on the rocks but feel a little lightening of the rocks on the horizon and the shadows bottom right are needed. Also wondering whether once printed should it be a straight selenium tone or partial split with sepia and selenium.
I'm not sure I'd do anything different. A lot of times there are monitor and scanning issues which obscure exposure and detail in highlights and shadows, but on my monitor this print is pretty perfect.
If it were me I'd do as you mentioned and do a little dodging in the foreground rocks to see if you could bring out some detail. Selenium toning would be good. This photo reminds me of a few I took on the coast at Ogunquit. I worked with that print several times till I got what I wanted and had to do a bit of dodging on it as well. I'd try it and see-good shot.
RE: Towards Dark Very nice! I wouldn't tone it at least the way it appears on my monitor. I happen to be viewing it on a laptop so the entire image doesn't show which leads to a thought. Cropping the bottom just at the top of the triangular rock in the middle of the image to me makes for a stronger composition.