I've been reprinting old negatives while attempting different things with contrast. If you feel she is slightly "high key" it was purposeful here. She had angelic qualities that I wanted to portray here. Plus it was a sunny day. No dodging or burning here. Shot with Tmax 400. Interestingly, over the last decade, she has been my cutest/most photogenic subject and I didn't even know her!
Shawn, do you suppose you could go in and add the final quote mark
after leaning.jpg just before the width tag? Dang it. I'm always
missing that last quote!
She is indeed angelic looking. I find a lot of the rest of
the picture to be distracting. Have you experimented with
different cropping to get everything to work together? Guess
you can't find her to get some more shots...The expression and
her entire bearing are so good that it might be worth the
effort.
Thanks for your response. This is mostly full frame, so I could maybe
crop some. I hate the car, but I actually think the woman in the
background contrasts well with the girl. I wish I could find her, but
she's probably 16 or 17 by now and long gone from the apartment bldg.
It loads for me, but there is a slight glitch in that I left out the
last quote after the URL of the image. Click on
this
Little Girl link as an alternative.
I like the way the background receeds into grey and your girl pops
out in the higher values. At first I thought the background was
solarized. Maybe some local toning (make her warm and leave the
background cold, a la Phil Borges) would help you past this issue. I
think you did a very good job, printing and scanning... t
Anchorage, Alaska