medium format photo 2

landscape castle of Cassano d'Adda - ilford iso 400, Mamiyaflex 6x6, 2008
Italy
January 20, 2009 6:26am CST
landscape castle of cassano d'adda (MILANO - ITALY)
1 response
• Australia
22 Jan 09
Many of my comments re the previous castle picture apply here. I know how hard it is to hold a waist-level camera level, but if you can't you should correct on the enlarger bed. The print is very flat and does nothing for the landscape...maybe a lot has been lost in the scanning process, but it is only possible to judge what is posted, and that is a picture with no features in the sky, and muddy shadow areas. The dynamic range in this example is far too low. There are no true blacks, no pure whites, and the whole thing has a a slight tint as though printed on a porly calibrated ink-jet printer rather than processed from a 120 film negative. If you work with film, you must either master the wet darkroom, or engage a professional photo processing house.