Princeton Campus At Dawn -1991 (flatbed scan of 8x10 print. compare to negative scan same folder)

Tried, but never managed to produce something like this myself!

Truly a great picture!

the perspective is amazing!

 

Thanks for sharing!

The repeating patterns of circles, ovals, and lines are mesmerizing.

Rachel,

Thank you for the comment on Princeton Campus. Not too long after I took this, maybe a year later I watched the video at "Scent Of A Woman" with Al Pacinlo. This exact image is the opening scene taken from virtually the same spot but not at dawn. My shot is better..

 

This has got to be my favorite piece in your gallery.... I love the moment the light the view - excellent

Thank you. If you check out the first photo on my page, apartment 1999.. The second from the right is Princetion Campus at Dawn. The photo was taken in 1991. Long time ago I had about 20 pieces in the Fort Lauderdale Airport. A woman passing through on the way to France called me from the airport and ordered this print. I can't remember if I shipped it to France or she had an American adderess. My copy, the one on the apartment wall is in storage in America.

Really very nice picture.7/7.No comment

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Good shot, yes!

Beautiful image. I like the tones and the repeated shapes. Nicely done. Dan

I do not know what "HDR" is.

Meir, my english is very limited, I like very much this photo. Regards.

Great photo. Great light and shadows. Very good composition also. Congratulations for your good work.

very very nice B\W, my best regards

 

ciao

I like the tones and textures of this image. The arched corridor is very nice and I really like the light spilling in through the windows...nicely done.

Thank you to: Joaquim Bidarra, Gianluca Bottecchia

BANAFSHEH JAHANGIRI ,J Kilgom Pep Mir and others for your time to comment and/or rate. Does anyone know what is HDR? see a comment above.

 

To Michael Franz,..... Michael I had a chance to Google HDR and come to some understanding of what HDR is about. From your comment I have learned something....To comment on your comment, first off, I have Photoshop elements, nothing more than and nothing as powerful as HDR. I set contrast and that is about all?.I think you are suggesting that I use HDR to render more detail? The history of this photo is different than what one usually sees on photo.net. Princeton Campus was taken in 1992 on Ilford Delta film. Digital was not around for almost another 10 years. The photo was never intended to be printed or displayed on a PC. PCs were almost not around either and it was before the time of scanners, Windows and Inkjet. The photo was intended to be printed and is printed on Ilford 16"x20" and 8"x10" Cold Tone Cotton Rag Fiber Paper. [One inch is 2.54 centimeters]. Five years later the tools were there and the print was uploaded to a 3 gigabytes hard drive -that was as big as they came then on a PC. The image came onto the hard drive via a flat bed scan of an 8"x10" print. To this day a flat bed is the only way I can get an image from film to my hard drive and have quality. In fact often I cannot move an image from a digital camera onto my hard drive and have quality. Cameras don?t have it yet. On my present hard drive I have the one image which you see and I think its dimension is 400 pixels. What you see on a monitor is all there is and will be. The negative, and the fiber base prints are in crates 5,000 miles away and I doubt I will ever see them again. A final point is as follows: The meaningful intended print was created in a "wet" darkroom. There is/was no HDR in a wet darkroom. I will not make two distinctly different version of the same photograph - one as I have on paper and another printed from a computer. That is, the ink jet and the "wet darkroom" print must match. Consequently, I also do not remove trash cans and power lines from such photos. Yes, from the understanding I now have of HDR if might very well make the photo better but it would not be a ' real' photo. If you return Michael and read this far, good for you. I do not think anyone will read this ?much too long and boring. I will send you an email copy b?n.

 

 

hardly a surprise this one attracts so many fine photographers because this is photography like it's supposed to be. Great b&w (ten zones) a very fine composition and a very appealing atmosphere as we have come to expect from you.

Michael, You ask in email about equipment and history of the photograph -did I develop myself etc. The details are:.... Most of the camera information should be on the "detail" drop down.... The photo was taken a little after dawn. I had been there before but not photographed. I went there specifically to take that photo at that specific time......I used a Nikon 8008/35mm on tripod, and a Nikkor 28/2.8. with avaiable light. I do not remember how I metered.....The film was Ilford Delta 400....I underdeveloped by 1 minute to hold the brights.

....The print was cropped in the darkroom on the right side I think, because there was something there I did not want and could not exclude at the shoot....I do not remember if I did dodging but I did burn some at the far end. I did not need to burn much because of the N-1 development. Those records are in America....The print(s) are Silver Gelatin Selenium on 16"x20" Ilford Cold Tone Cotton Rag Fiber Base. The mat is Crescent Rag Artic White (1613 I think). The back is rag museum board. The edition is 36. Six were printed. I have 2 of them. One went to France, two to a collector in Alaska and I do not remember where is the other. All those records are in storage in America....All of my non-sepia prints are as above except I stopped using Selenium because of OSHA restrictions and my own health.......It was a long time ago, another world and a younger man.

 

... I love cloisters but this is one like I've never seen. The tones are so perfect in here and the light at the end of the hall is perfect. So very well done. Congratulations. Don't think personally that HDR has anything to offer this shot, since it is the juxtapositon of light and dark that makes the shot work so well.

I wrote above about this shot being the opening theme of 'scent of a woman' sometime after I took it. Princeton Campus was used as the Boys School in that movie. If it a beautiful campus. They do not make them like this anymore nor the places that you shoot.

Great!

A really terrific image and congrats. I like the tonal range, the light, lines and forms. It has depth and character. Thank you for commenting on my portfolio. Best regards,

Very Fine this IS!

I love this shot