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redbandana [2003-12-19 14:18:15 +0000 UTC]

All I think about this photo has to do with my schooling. DOT GAIN! AHH! Dot gain is how large a spot of ink expands when its on paper, this is how pressmen know how much ink to put on the presses, so that it doesn't overwhelm the paper and make it too wet or heavy so that you wind up with too much spread. This photo reminds me of this because it's very 50%. This doesn't seem to have a lot of tonal quality to it, as it's overly quite grey. The highlights (the paint chips, white spots, whatever they are) turned out very nice, but don't look quite like a 1% dot, or a 0% dot. Everythings kind of 25-60% grey. I don't know how much sense this makes, but all I'm saying is that it needs to have darker 3/4 tones, and I think that would really make this photo stand out more.

I like this gate, it's very unique in the aging process that you were trying to capture. And it's very interesting because of how you can see through the gate, and it's black for the most part back there. It's got a spooky caged locked up feel. I think that's whats important about this photo.

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