My Photoshop 'sketch'
This is taller than my 11x14" format ...
something's gotta give, and it will probably be the sky,
and building, at the top.
Here's the image at the bottom:
Chiracahua landscape
(If you'd like to see a bit more of this place, without having to search further
click on the image above.)
First exposure, at the bottom.
My various dodging techniques are doing double duty here.
The 'below the lense' tray holds a strip of black that dodges
the top, and I am manually dodging out the circular shape in the middle,
to accomodate the glyph below.
Petroglyphs, no more than 1 sq. ft.
(If you'd like to see more of this,
click on the image above for a new browser window.)
This is approximately what I exposed from that neg.
But I didn't burn in the glyph immediately, I exposed the ruins below, first -
so the space for the glyph would be defined.
about like this:
Once again 'double duty' on the dodging.
I used the below the enlarger lense thing to blend out the bottom,
I used the 'spatula'
to dodge out the soft circular shape....
and the other hand was holding back the sky, so I could add a better one, below.
Here's the three versions,
The only variation really is in how the sky is exposed:
V1
V2
V3
It's all still about the same things-
'choice' (of negatives)..
'design' (how they come together)...
and there ain't no software that can do that.
It comes from your head, your heart... and your soul.
