Taken on a clear-sky day, in open shade. I purposely used no filters because I wanted this effect. An overcast day would have rendered the water a more neutral color, but that wasn't what I was after here. No retouching except basic color corrrection to make the scan match the slide. Exposure: "a few seconds" @ f22 on Velvia. Keith http://www.spiritone.com/~kclark/

-- Keith Clark (ClarkPhotography@spiritone.com), November 21, 1998

Answers

I think it's fine. I think you'll want to eliminate the small black area in the lower left corner, though, and the rock on the far right needs to be either in or out, in my opinion.

-- Randy Wilson (randy@uafphpl.uark.edu), November 21, 1998.

Keith, what's the purpose of the wedge ?

My monitor is a NEC 5FGp which isn't the worst monitor on earth but it wont show all off the steps. I can't adjust the brightness/contrast controls because i taped them after calibrating photoshop. I'm not aware of anything else that will adjust win95 to show all of the wedge ?

In other words, can one be very demanding about the monitor on the other side when publishing on the internet ?

As for the image, IMHO it's original, but i don't like the dark spot in the upper right corner, and think the left side is a bit empty.

-- Jan van Bodegraven (janvnbdg@mandic.com.br), November 21, 1998.

Could be a beatiful print, the monitor probably dosn't much justic to the detail in the image.

-- Tait Stangl (taits@usa.net), November 21, 1998.

Is abstract and dreamy becoming a style for photo.net? Very nice effect and, with the details already noted, a great image.

Frank

-- Frank Kolwicz (bb389@lafn.org), November 21, 1998.

Nice work Keith! As other contributors have noted,the black on the bottom left should.

-- Paul Lenson (lenson@pci.on.ca), November 23, 1998.

Thanks guys.

This was a full frame scan. When printed, it's also full frame and I cropped the left and right edges with the matting.

As for monitors, if you can't see all steps on the scale, then the monitor isn't calibrated correctly, period.

Read the Don Margulis book ("Professional Photoshop") to see why taping monitor controls is a bad idea.

Someone commented on details... since the rocks are diffused by heavy mist (I was 100 meters away and still got wet) there isn't much detail except for in the dark rocks on the left. Although, in the original there is much more detail in the spray of water off the big rock, also. And yes, there is much more detail in the chrome than is in this 15k jpeg. ;>

As for "empty" space...it's a deliberate part of the composition.

There is a certain fallacy promoted by irresponsible book authors that a subject should "fill the frame". Not necessarily true. Use your heads... Now it's true that a 35mm frame cannot be enlarged very much, compared to a 4x5 frame. So in that respect it makes sense.

Aesthetically however, balancing positive and negative space can work very well. Besides, by leaving that space, I have more cropping choices, and as a stock image, it leaves rooom for text to be stripped in. Of course we all have our own opinions on cropping...not to put anyone down, just explaining my reasoning.

Best,

Keith

-- Keith Clark (ClarkPhotography@spiritone.com), November 23, 1998.