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Lake Geneva, seen from Puidoux
- Thread starter dcl
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I had to look at that for a while but it is very good.
Is it the HP5 that's setting the mood or is it your intended exposure?
Is it the HP5 that's setting the mood or is it your intended exposure?
I don't know (yet). I'm still experimenting with the film and the developer. Looking for a HC110 replacement, I tried Rodinal. HP5+ becomes grainy - and smoother than FP4+ and Fomapan 100.
The picture has nothing to do with reality. The distance to the other side of the lake is about 8 miles and to the peaks about 16 miles. There is really a lot of haze in the atmosphere. The contrast is rather low. I wanted to place the brighter clouds and the light on the lake's surface in VII. As a result shadows would have fallen in IV. Therefore I decided placing the shadows in III and developed N+1.
Maybe I will emphasize the peaks by printing them more contrasty (split grade). I prefer more darkness in the mountain flanks, because their brightness was created by unstructured haze in the atmosphere. I think it is better to have a some power in the darkness, that also allows me to print the lake richer in contrast. - Another option would be to enlarge the image so that it is not so dark. Let's see. I'll enlarge it to Fomabrom Variant 111, which has a lot of potential.
But the dark side is currently very strong
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The picture has nothing to do with reality. The distance to the other side of the lake is about 8 miles and to the peaks about 16 miles. There is really a lot of haze in the atmosphere. The contrast is rather low. I wanted to place the brighter clouds and the light on the lake's surface in VII. As a result shadows would have fallen in IV. Therefore I decided placing the shadows in III and developed N+1.
Maybe I will emphasize the peaks by printing them more contrasty (split grade). I prefer more darkness in the mountain flanks, because their brightness was created by unstructured haze in the atmosphere. I think it is better to have a some power in the darkness, that also allows me to print the lake richer in contrast. - Another option would be to enlarge the image so that it is not so dark. Let's see. I'll enlarge it to Fomabrom Variant 111, which has a lot of potential.
But the dark side is currently very strong
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