Cradle

I like the composition and arrangement here - the rocks tell an interesting story. I do think the highlights maybe too strong - not necessarily blown, but too bright to make the image enjoyable for me to look at. Best, Jeremy

Jeremy, what kind of monitor are you using? The highlights aren't that strong on my screen, and less so in print.

Could be my monitor - it's a high-end widescreen laptop screen, so not the ideal means of looking, but not altogether bad. I've attached a version which looks less bright on my monitor. If it looks appallingly dark on yours, then we'll know it's my machine, and you can disregard all future highlight comments that I make (I probably shan't make any). Hope this helps. Best, Jeremy

I find that LCD's in general contract tonal range for contrast. Yours doesn't look half bad, and in the uncontrolled workspace of the internet looks more like what I see in Adobe and in print (I use a custom BW profile which does not get carried along in "Save for Web"). Having said that, your version does tend to flatten things which is why I think it looks better to you, on your screen, as compared to my CRT.

 

I looked at this on my sisters Dell LCD and had excatly the same reaction as you. What's a BW photographer supposed to do???

underexpose lowlight shots with no highlights :-(

thanks for any thoughts!

 

cheers,

Aaron

Nice photo, Aaron. I love it.

I do not have a reference scale. How big or tiny are these rocks/stones?

There are a couple of clues, but the main formation is about waist high.