allan_hsu

This is one of my first images taken with a view camera, as well as

one of my first landscapes. The image is much sharper on a print; I'm

unable to scan 11x14 prints in my scanner, so I scanned this image

from a contact print. The small size of the print and the mediocre

quality of my scanner conspired against me...

To my eye, the clouds and the waves look a little unevenly burnt in. This is a little distracting for me. Otherwise, nice image.

Creating this print was a personal excercise I presented to myself in

order to get back into the practice of printing after a year hiatus.

From the look of the negative, I thought it would be challenging

enough to redevelop a feel for darkroom work. I definitely regained

the feel for burning/dodging soon enough...

 

As for the image itself, it wasn't posed; she was just rocking back

and forth on the chair during conversation and I ended up getting a

picture of it.

 

What do you think?

A couple of friends.

I like the hand as it is. I bet it can look a little dark on a computer monitor (especially without proper gamma correction), but I imagine that in an actual print, the hand is just right.