Dos Ocotillos

Though I think it would better sharp and crisp (it looks soft and fuzzy), tus dos ocotillos hace una buena composicion. I love pictures like this, and your B&W treatment adds drama. Muy bien.

Funny, I thought the photo was crisp and the plants were soft and fuzzy. I like the hard light and the resulting shadow. Very nice image.

Let me know what you think. The image is from fantastic 50-iso black-and-white film. a

yellow filter makes the sky more dramatic.

The sharpening looks fine to my eye. This is one of your best black and white images. Well done! I like it a lot. Cheers! Chris

Beautiful b&w. Simple but parfect composition with very good tones. Warm regards.

you caught the dryness properly. compliments -koushik

Debe ser la pelicula. Todavia es un bella foto! Clouds, shadows, slope of the land...ocotillos! -- great stuff. Just that you know the word "ocotillo" is impressive.

Wow! I had no idea these also grew in Great Britain. 8~)#

 

A nice shot, but I would have ruined it by attempting to include more of the foreground shadows.

Great b+w shot. Simple, effective composition and the combination of elements really works.

Dos "estupendos" Ocotillos! Nice to see our good old friend: "film" ... Love the composition and contrast of the image. Congratulations for a superb photograph!

Wonderful composition. Very good B/W photo. I am a fan of this photography's simpleness. Congratulations!

I'm really drawn to this one. I guess it's shot with a wide angle?

 

Perfect range of tones.

21 mm on a film body with fabulous Ilford Pan F and a yellow filter.

 

Here's the question, though. Does this flare spot detract from the image? I'm thinking of getting it darkroom printed.

The flare is a flaw, but it tells me about the process, so I don't mind it

This is your world, not mine.  So I could never produce anything so artistic and moving with the shadows playing off and accentuating the subjects. Yeah, I've gotten into some high tech B/W conversions in Photoshop.  But that still seems like cheating to me. Photoshop will never replicate the look and feel of B/W film.  BTW, what's up with the Cannon film camera. Where was the Leica(s)? Please don't tell me that you sold them.  That would have given that uber sharpness that you talked about in your own self critique.  :) Sorry about the Cannon jab.  touche.  (I remember those Nikon jabs ha ha ha).

Looking at this again, I think it looks astonishingly well controlled for being taken with a 20-mm lens.  I sold that lens quite a while ago because of its fantastically aggressive out-of-focus rendering, but I bought another 20 a few days ago, a Zeiss Flektogon from a long, long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away.  Supposed to have no geometrical distortion.  You'd like it.  Not at all bland like those Nikon lenses.

I think this picture is from before I discovered Leica.  The EOS-1 is still in use for the scientist portrait project Krisi and I are working on, though.

Thanks Sam.  Best, j