My wife and I had taken our granddaughters to an annual Hot Air Balloon launch about a half hour from home, we arrived @ 5:30 in the morning in anticipation of a dawn launch. Driving down the streets of Plainville CT. in the wee hours of the morning we passed this diner will all the lights off and it did not even catch my eye.
The balloon launch did not take too long and we were back on the road for a breakfast stop when we passed the Main Street Diner, or as it was that morning the Ma n Street Diner, the letter I was not lite and I thought to myself that would make a terrific photograph with a title of the Man Street Diner, a play on words in the alpha man world.
I returned on a Sunday morning some weeks later and unfortunately for my preconceived image the letters of the sign were lite on this particular morning. Nevertheless, I was there well before sunrise and the texture and ominous feel in the sky, which was going to occupy a significant portion of the final image I decided this was the morning to make my image.
In spite of giving ample exposure with reduced development to capture as much interior detail as I could, I still wished I’d given more exposure, as there is still considerable manipulation on the interior to carry off the tonalities that are in my final image. To that end, Multi-Contrast papers do provide control never before possible.
During a critique session a noted photographer asked me if I chose to keep the dark light pole in the composition on purpose, I did as I felt it added a sense of depth and dimension to the composition, which is something I strive for in most all composition. A famous illustration photographer once told me “we photographers are charged with capturing a 3 dimensional world and presenting it in a 2 dimensional photograph”. Dean Collins
5x7 Deardorff 210mm Computar lens @ f 22 @ 3 minutes N-3 PyroCat HD Extreme Minimal Agitation
The balloon launch did not take too long and we were back on the road for a breakfast stop when we passed the Main Street Diner, or as it was that morning the Ma n Street Diner, the letter I was not lite and I thought to myself that would make a terrific photograph with a title of the Man Street Diner, a play on words in the alpha man world.
I returned on a Sunday morning some weeks later and unfortunately for my preconceived image the letters of the sign were lite on this particular morning. Nevertheless, I was there well before sunrise and the texture and ominous feel in the sky, which was going to occupy a significant portion of the final image I decided this was the morning to make my image.
In spite of giving ample exposure with reduced development to capture as much interior detail as I could, I still wished I’d given more exposure, as there is still considerable manipulation on the interior to carry off the tonalities that are in my final image. To that end, Multi-Contrast papers do provide control never before possible.
During a critique session a noted photographer asked me if I chose to keep the dark light pole in the composition on purpose, I did as I felt it added a sense of depth and dimension to the composition, which is something I strive for in most all composition. A famous illustration photographer once told me “we photographers are charged with capturing a 3 dimensional world and presenting it in a 2 dimensional photograph”. Dean Collins
5x7 Deardorff 210mm Computar lens @ f 22 @ 3 minutes N-3 PyroCat HD Extreme Minimal Agitation
