Stairs in El Yunque rainforest

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I think this would really benefit from tropical colors if you know what I mean. It also seems a wee bit dull. Perhaps adjusting the levels in photoshop would help. Did you unsharp mask this, it seems a little soft as well. I don't think I like this as much as some of your other Xpan images.

 

I think the bottom-most rock could probably be cropped out as well.

The basic composition, leading the eye up the stairway, works well. I would have liked more brightness and detail in the foreground. The question of a crop is difficult - I like the X-Pan format and you lose that if you crop off one end. Anyway, I think there is enough interest in the foreground to keep it. Nice shot - I like seeing the X-Pan used for vertical shots.

I like it, the composition is very nice. Perhaps this shot may have better suited to using Velvia film (higher contrast and more color saturation). I'm also curious how you accomplish scanning a XPAN negative?

First, thank you for all the comments. The bottom is a little soft compaired to the rest of the photo- I think I shot at f8. I am very inexperienced with slide film, and color in general, so I wasn't sure how to expose this one. I decided to use the X-pan's built-in meter, which left the bottom a little underexposed. I corrected for this in Photoshop by doing a brightness/comtrast adjustment and fooling around with the levels, but there isn't enough information on the film itself to completely compensate for the underexposure. As for the scanning, it is very clumsy and annoying. I use an Acer ScanWit film scanner, which is only designed to scan a standard 35mm frame. To scan an X-pan frame, I have to first scan one half into photoshop and then eject the film carrier and move the film so that the second half is in position. The reason for having to move the film is that the scanner can't scan the tiny area in the middle of the frame, were there would normally be a separation between two standard 35 mm frames. Once I have both frames in, I stitch them together in photoshop. I'm looking into getting a film scanner that allows me to scan the whole X-pan frame in one shot, but I'm going to be starting college in the fall, so funds are a little tight ^_^.

This is a great picture. I like the long trail of stepping stones leading up to the structure, where it opens up to light and the subject... Good shot. If it needed anything maybe more color dynamics, maybe at a different time of day. it is a little dark. overall it's a great picture.