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I snapped this one with the last remainings of light. I tried

Ansel's advice of shooting for the shadows and developing for the

highlights (although "development" in this case is referred to the

digital equivalence, since it is a digital camera). The original

result (as expected) was horribly overexposed, and then I pulled the

curves, somewhat equivalent to an N-2 or N-3 at Zone IX, maybe. I

would appreciate your usual thoughful impressions. Thank you for

support as always. Mariano

 

Technical details follow.

 

Subject: Side street in Nantucket island, Cape Cod, MA

Light: Natural, dusk

Camera: Nikon Coolpix 990, handheld

Filters: None

Exposure mode: Aperture priority

Shutter: 1/53.8

Aperture: f/5.5

Exposure compensation: +0.7EV

And I like the way the street tones work, in particular. But overall it looks flat.

I'm not fond of the chimney on the front house running out of frame, either.

Very interesting composition. The house that is closest looks very nice and it has a good range of values. The rest of the picture looks a little flat. I think you would have a real winner if you could up the contrast in the other buildings.

Like the picture but might clean up the stray line top middle/left

RED FILTER!!!!

I read the preceeding comments and I'm not sure I agree. My first impression was that the "flatness" may have been intentional given the nice tones in the front house and the fence. It has sort of a solar eclipse kind of appearance which is kind of cool. The long shadow on the street really makes the picture, I think. Agree with that annoying line up top, and including the chimney may have been a plus. I like this photo quite a bit

I really appreciate your taking the time to comment, all of you. The flatness of the back buildings is far from intentional (I would not know how to do it intentionally :-)!) but I will try your suggestions. I agree it might have been better with a red filter, but I do not have one and I am finding it difficult to find one for my coolpix (damn 28mm thread!). Also agree on the chimenee (I did not see that when I was shooting the pix). Anyway, thanks to you all again, this is really helpful!