Hi! How are you? Well, re-read my profile, and you will know where to look for what I've been trying to do in the meantime... Yes, lots of contrast, if you will. My position on that is that photos must have black and white in it, or, if you wish, that the print must contain the entire range of zones, at least those in the negative _whenever_ possible. I do change my positions now and then! The exposure was calculated with a grey card. Film processing was done straight from the time table. Printing, when I did it, was made with grade 3 or 3.5 and involved considerable dodging and burning and endless paper trashing. This is, actully, a negative scan I processed in PS to get what I did in my darkroom once and for all. The original function of the house was... a house. In the Alentejo houses are built small (one kitchen, one bedroom) then grow along a line by adding successive houses as the family grows or neighbors get into the place. Some are really long!, mostly those that were meant to accomodate several families of workers.
Quite a lot of contrast here :-) It's nice to see that there's good texture in the highlights. Which makes me ask, did you expose for highlights, or was the development so precise? What was the original function of the building?
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