This is an image of an old southern cemetery that on the surface looks to be a simple ‘snap shot’ landscape. And that was the idea behind it. Basically an old style shot of head stones and graves.

These is a lot to see here so developing/finishing darkroom style was needed. I’m an old black and white photographer so I love doing this work.

The soft, almost gray look and feel is done with a Lightroom pre-set created and saved a few years ago.

Dodge and Burn, the old lighten and darken specific areas played a big part here. Bottom of image foreground was lightened.

Parts of the background were lightly burned to expose hidden/dark iron fences, head stones, and other small details.

When shooting color I rarely bother with small details like here. Monochrome images are based on light and shades so it makes a bigger difference.  It’s just old school darkroom techniques.

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Charleston, South Carolina.