Zabriskie Point Dawn B&W (View Larger)

Zabriskie Point has an other world quality to it with it's stark

barren landscape of stony outcrops. It's pastel colors are due to it's

vast minerals deposits and display all the colors of the

rainbow.Having already posted the color version I decided to see what

the B&W had to offer. My intention here was to produce a full tonal

range print, from pure black to white and everything in between.

Though your negative may contain all the tones for a full scale print

that may not produce the best print or the one you visualized. It is

sometimes necessary to shorten your scale for the best effect. Such

was not the case here as I was able to include almost all the tonal

values. This was about fifteen minutes before sunrise and the

foreground was just beginning to fill with the early morning light.

The background was receiving much more of this light as it wasn't

shielded as much. The white area between the foreground mounds and the

mountains is Badwater Basin, a salt flat. I toned this image with

Ektalure Cream and selenium.

"My intention here was to produce a full tonal range print, from pure black to white and everything in between"

 

you succeeded. Given the conditions no small feat. Impressive.

Sublime! What more can be said? It truly is all about the tones. Woo-Woo! Cheers! Chris

This should be displayed in a gallery. Beautiful photograph with a very detailed explanation. 3 wooos on this shot amigo...Lefty

You guys, you guys...your kind words of encouragement both inspire and aspire me. Thanks

Leo...it looks like lithograph or old pencil drawing....You got very interesting effect....nicely done.

This is a great great photo, hopefully you can enlarge to at least 22 by 30 inches and print it, 7/7. Cheers from Canada! - Michael. P.S. Oh! by the way," it's" is a shortened form of "it is" surely?

Thanks for the comment and the typo, damn and you can't edit that input. Oh well!

Thanks to all you for your comments and stopping by.