Hard light

It's a while since I indulged in a high contrast texture picture. Back in my film and developer days I was a slave to hard contrast paper and those rich blacks and dazzling whites.

Spotted this week in the barn: straw and canvas.



This is an example from the film years. Beach huts in Herne Bay



This begs a question. When you print an image, you know how it looks. When you show one on the web, the image will only look as good as the viewer's monitor. Are the blacks really black? 

This is why I put the monitor test strip on my blog :-)

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