Seems to me (visually) to be an awful lot of snow for it to be an early winter. It is very beautiful though. Do you have a special technique for shooting images with lots of snow (high tonal range)? I ask because one of my film assignments is to do the white-on-white with texture on both fore- and background objects or subject. Students struggle mightily "seeing" what they're doing. I also mentioned to someone this semester how the lead of the graphic design community has us keyed up on high contrast and young people (especially) claim subtle tones are boring. Gawd, I hear so much of that. Boring is so lame. But, that's a different issue. :-)
there was about 3-4 feet of snow on the ground with much deeper drifts up higher on the ridges this past week. A month ago if it had been colder, there would have been sixteen feet of snow. This winter is predicted as being a low snow year so this may be the most we see... but then again, twenty feet of snow in a low snow year has happened
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"High contrast seems to be the norm for many beginners in the darkroom and usually misused-probably because it's more difficult to hit the target for subtle densities without making a bland image."
Well said, Ed. I insist that my students, even though they claim to love their high contrast images, that if they really had control of their tools and materials they could maintain "good" contrast while at the same time showing a full dynamic range of tones. I make them work on difficult assignments and they very often remake their prints (as that's part of the equation) but, evenutally go on to the next level courses with at least an understanding as to what a really good print should be, even if they haven't mastered it themselves. That's key to their improvement I feel.
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Well said, Ed. I insist that my students, even though they claim to love their high contrast images, that if they really had control of their tools and materials they could maintain "good" contrast while at the same time showing a full dynamic range of tones. I make them work on difficult assignments and they very often remake their prints (as that's part of the equation) but, evenutally go on to the next level courses with at least an understanding as to what a really good print should be, even if they haven't mastered it themselves. That's key to their improvement I feel.
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