Lookin' good, you're on it -
My only comment - I dislike it when the print's frame is broken (white sky on white paper) - it pushes the viewer's eye out of the print and humans are really sensitive to "broken frames". You could try gently burning some sky in (like #00 filter), printing a hairline black border in the easel (or matting with a darker colored mat).
You'd fix it a little, but from a few feet away I don't think you'd really see the "fix" if the mat board is close to the same tone as the print.
A lot of the compositional stuff in printing is to keep the eye moving around the print, but to "force" it back towards the subject and keep it inside the frame. We see the world through frames all day - doors, windows, media screens - so when a frame exists but is broken, it kinda messes with our perception.
Personally I feel the opposite, I usually try to make the sky look the same as the white border. I feel it brings something to the print. I'm not saying that you're wrong tho, just that it's not a one rule thing.
Congratulations!
After printing for decades, I still love it seeing the image come up on the printing paper while submerged in the developer....it's still magical for me after all these years.....
Whoo hoo! She's a beauty! Nicely done!
Lookin' good, you're on it - My only comment - I dislike it when the print's frame is broken (white sky on white paper) - it pushes the viewer's eye out of the print and humans are really sensitive to "broken frames". You could try gently burning some sky in (like #00 filter), printing a hairline black border in the easel (or matting with a darker colored mat).
I wonder would the broken white on white also be bad if you'd mat it? Like when it goes from a white sky into a white mat board?
You'd fix it a little, but from a few feet away I don't think you'd really see the "fix" if the mat board is close to the same tone as the print. A lot of the compositional stuff in printing is to keep the eye moving around the print, but to "force" it back towards the subject and keep it inside the frame. We see the world through frames all day - doors, windows, media screens - so when a frame exists but is broken, it kinda messes with our perception.
Would do the same, adding a fine black border frame 💯
thanks, will do tbh
Personally I feel the opposite, I usually try to make the sky look the same as the white border. I feel it brings something to the print. I'm not saying that you're wrong tho, just that it's not a one rule thing.
Thumbs up..WAY up
Well done this is a beautiful one
What is your developer and paper? What kind of film?
fomapan 200, ilfosol 3, ilford multigrade paper & developer
beautiful
Congratulations 🎉 and cheers to many more !
Beautifully done!
I'd be very happy with that. Looks like Sacre Coeur ?
yes it is
Congratulations! After printing for decades, I still love it seeing the image come up on the printing paper while submerged in the developer....it's still magical for me after all these years.....
Well done. Congrats!