Wednesday, November 18, 2009

"Hot air for a cool breeze"


Exp: 50mm @ f/4 - 1/500th
Film: Ilford Delta 100
File: 8-31
At: -/ 55
On: RC Ilford Grade 4 pearl (matte) 8x10

This is a picture of Great Falls park in Maryland from earlier in the fall. Claire and I decided to go for a hike there on her due date. Little did we know it was going to be another 12 days before our little guy came.

Anyway I really liked the symmetry of this composition, and the brightness of the sky and water almost makes it look orthochromatic. After I printed this I went out and got a #25 and #58 wratten number filters by Tiffen, these are red and green filters respectively. They pull down the overexposed sky for cloud details and mess with contrast and different tones - in the case of #58, foliage can be drastically affected.

I learned from reading my books on Ansel Adams that when photography was still immature, it was common for photographers to use a second negative with clouds on it to add to pictures like this. Apparently people just didn't notice that the same clouds seemed to follow these photographers wherever they went!

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