In reply to UKC/UKH Gear:
'In many places the contrast dial seems to have been turned up to 11, and all detail in the shadows is lost. If this is a stylistic quirk on Craig's part then I wish he wouldn't. I suspect however that the exaggerated shadows came about during production. Is it the paper they used, or a quirk of the printing?'
It's an old technology called 'film', specifically Fuji Velvia. You only get about 4 stops of dynamic range, so faced with sunlight and/ or snow something has to give, and generally it's preferable to let the shadows go and save the highlights. Working around this issue is one of the great challenges of photography on slide film, but it does tend to breed an awareness of light that is often missing from digital work.
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