Tim Parkin - Landscape Photographer

I’ve received my first batch of results from the developers (at least from the Darkroom and NPS Media). The first interesting result is that the Velvia transparencies of the Quarry look different, with NPS Media’s result being clearer, deeper blacks whereas the Darkroom’s had a slight cyan cast.. The subject was, with hindsight, not the best – although with a lot of green it does make for an interesting ‘believability’ check (we disbelieve incorrect green colours more than we disbelieve other colours, supposedly – personally I have a problem with sky blues if they are slightly out). I’ll post more when I get Peak Imaging’s back.

I’m also a little dissapointed in my metering on the Saltwick shoot. I tried to do all of the metering calculations in my head rather than using my checklist and ended up screwing up one exposure and underexposing a couple of others.. Back to using the checklist for me then…

However, all was not lost. My ‘picture postcard’ shot came out a lot better than I though it would. I was trying to use the lines of seaweed in the slate to create some recession in the foreground combined with the three rocks forming a similar line. The results work I think, and hopefully raise something that is pretty obvious to something with a modicum of interest beyond ‘ooh pretty!’. My other shot was one I wanted to take when I was here previously. The sand at Saltwick, as well as being a fantastic red colour, is also quite large grained and this causes some amazing rivulets to form as the water passes through it. I tried to combine this foreground with the feel of a few Icelandic shots I’ve seen recently (silhouetted coastline shapes similar to Josef Hoflehner)..

I’ve sent back some transparencies with some drastic pushing and pulling (+1 Velvia, -1 Provia) so we’ll see what happens..

UPDATE: I’ve got some trannies back from Peak Imaging and was quite surprised to find them a lot better than either NPS or The Darkroom. I’ve put together a ‘rollover’ image swapping demo – hopefully it will work in your browser… click here for astia comparison and here for velvia comparison