Place:
Schuylkill Banks, across from The Philadelphia Museum of Art
Image
Size: 11.5 x 17 @300 dpi (full frame)
Camera:
Nikon FM2n
Lens:
28-105 Nikkor Zoom
Film: Kodak Portra 400, 35mm
Scan: Epson V500
Proof:
Epson Artisan 1430/Cone Color Inks/ Moab Lasal
I’m
forever hungering for more texture and detail in my prints, although I am
finding lately that smoothing an area and making less of a focus may be
necessary to the overall structure of an image. I’d much rather do that in the
printmaking than have regrets that I didn’t capture enough on the
light-sensitive stock.
In
keeping with my desire to get as much from the negative as possible, I made
the print and then re-made it. I could have rested satisfied with the first
version, but my curiosity got the better of me. On the second go-round, instead
of a single scan, I did two: one for the foreground and one for the background,
which I then masked and combined in Photoshop. I was rewarded by a much livelier rendition in
the second attempt, especially in the foreground flowers. I went to nineteen
iterations, playing with balancing the sky off against the foreground. I wanted
the dark clouds to move forward and have some variation in tone and not be a
dead “curtain” but not so strong that they became the primary focus.
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