Kali (please view larger)

I quite like this shot. I wonder why you are using a yellow filter with Tri-X in this already very contrasty scene. Doing away with the filter might rein in some of the highlights.

Taken at one of the Kumartuli studios in Calcutta - backlit 'Kali'

amidst other unfinished bamboo-hay-and-mud idols atop a bamboo

scaffold. Exposed for about 1.5 seconds at 24mm (monopod used).

Okay, my apologies! There was a mistake. In fact I did not use a yellow filter on this particular day's shooting. I was using the 24-120mm zoom lens. My 62mm yellow filter can only fit the 85mm prime, which is the one I tend to use more. Sorry about the confusion. I have made corrections in the image info.