david_haynes

To Andrew Davis... Perhaps I should've been more clear. There was no manipulation of lighting in PS, only auto levels, resizing and slight sharpening. The image is essentially as it came from the camera with what I consider "normal" tweaking for any image for online viewing. This is how it looked as I remember it.

I was trying to test exposure by moonlight alone. This was 1

minute @ /1.8 wide open.

 

Comments will be appreciated.

Recent addition to my "Alabama Folks" series. Experimental

shot with 8x10 using a 72mm lens that covers slightly more than

5x7 format, but on 8x10 covers a thin strip through the center of

the film, hence the panorama format. The effect is a

rectiliniar-corrected 140 degree angle of view, roughly equal to a

12 mm on 35mm format.

A new addition to my "Alabama Folks" series

From my new series: "Great Front Porches of Alabama"

This is an 8x10 cropped from enlargement equal to 16x20, but

the image seemed to hold together okay in the print from which

this scan was made. Does the grain detract?

A note to those commenting on image size: I earn my living directly from the sale of my photography. If I upload images of sufficient size to see every detail, anyone who wants the photo can drag it to their desktop and output on a digital printer. Aside from the potential loss of revenue from selling the print itself, the resulting digital print of a downloaded image could never approach the quality of the prints I make from large format negatives. I spend hours upon hours in the darkroom printing every image to the best of my abilities. This way, I know that everything that leaves my studio is of the highest quality I can produce. Relinquishing that control is what's at issue for me. For that reason I never upload anything over 40 or maybe 50 kb so no one will be tempted to make a print as described above. Besides, if it's a good image, 50kb should be able to convey that and whet the appetite to see the real thing.

A note to those commenting on image size: I earn my living directly from the sale of my photography. If I upload images of sufficient size to see every detail, anyone who wants the photo can drag it to their desktop and output on a digital printer. Aside from the potential loss of revenue from selling the print itself, the resulting digital print of a downloaded image could never approach the quality of the prints I make from large format negatives. I spend hours upon hours in the darkroom printing every image to the best of my abilities because I know that everything that leaves my studio is of the highest quality I can produce. Relinquishing that control is wha't at issue for me. For that reason I never upload anything over 40 or maybe 50 kb so no one will be tempted to make a print as described above. Besides, if it's a good image, 50kb should be able to convey that and whet the appetite to see the real thing.

This is part of a new portrait series I'm starting using vintage

clothing and old studio camera

He offered us some moonshine he had under the seat of his truck; she has

a burger named after her on the diner's menu.

Any comments?

Another from my web/book project on life in Alabama during 2000

Image is part of a book/web project on life in Alabama during the year

2000.

No words, just picture

The Dunes on Cumberland Island offer a smorgasbord of textures for the

b&w photographer. This is part of a book project on the island.

This ancient liveoak's limbs spread for hundreds of feet outward from its

7-foot trunk. Photo is part of a book project on Cumberland Island, Georgia.

Luck was the reason this light appeared as an early morning breeze blew

mist off the Atlantic into the maritime forest on Cumberland Island. Photo is

part of a book project on Cumberland.

Photographed as part of a book project on Cumberland Island, Georgia.

I took this during an old-fashioned brush arbor service on the banks of the

Mulberry River in north Alabama. It's part of an ongoing web/book project.

This shot started a love affair that I've yet to get over (with the

Leica rangefinder camera). It was my first time to ever use a

(borrowed) M6 and we shot in the dim available light of her

apartment.

This is from a series last year, all done on 8x10, of people and places in

Alabama.

This photograph was taken last year by my (then) 8-year-old daughter of

her dog, Bubba. She also hand-tinted the wagon and won a photo contest

at school with this print..

I took this photo of our Golden Retriever, Bubba, (sheared for

summer) on the return canoe trip from an outing on Hatchet

Creek which included non-stop fetching and swimming for him.

I took this photo years ago en route to the Colorado River/Grand

Canyon put-in at Lee's Ferry. Pure luck to find a rainbow in the

desert, but I'll take being lucky anytime. What do you think about

the image?

I'd appreciate any comments on the artistic values of this image.

It moves me, but I'm not sure why.