[pure-silver] fence row project negatives
- From: Shannon Stoney <shannonstoney@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 20:04:21 -0500
I was working on a project this summer where I photographed every fence
post along a fence row on my road in TN. Then I came back to Houston
and started processing the negatives. Some of them look pretty flat;
that is, the leaves and branches and vines in the foreground are all
the same value. Sometimes the sky is dense on the negative, and so
technically the negative has a normal range, but there are no values in
between the dark leaves in the foreground and the bright sky or pasture
in the background. I think this is because I shot the negatives around
6 pm on most days, right at sunset. I did this mainly because it
finally cooled off at that time of day, and also because I didn't want
a lot of light effects--cast shadows, dappled light etc--interfering
with the texture of the leaves and branches. I wanted a kind of flat
light. But evidently I went too far. I like this time of day for
photographing, because of this even, flat light; but maybe I should
have gone out an hour earlier? Or tried to stretch out the values in
the leaves a little more? I was using ddx 1+6, and I have another box
that I exposed for processing with ddx 1+4, so maybe those will work
out better.
I sort of knew it wasn't a great idea to meter the leaves and then
meter the sky and not meter anything in between but I did it anyway. In
fact there wasn't anything in between those two values usually. I've
had this problem before in landscapes, where all the values "on the
ground" are compressed and look flat, and the sky is perfect, but so
what? If the main subject of interest is flat, the photograph looks
flat.
What do other people do in this situation? Go out earlier in the day?
Ignore the sky and let it blow out?
--shannon
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