The Southwest Ray McSavaney
anasazi ruin, 1997 by ray mcsavaney with skills honed in tire factory , bunker hill projects, mcsavaney tackled challenging southwest pueblo ruins of eye dramatizing portraying them. now, proficient mature professional photographer, confident capture scene, regardless of whatever technical difficulties may present. knowledge of materials, gained through rigorous testing , experimentation, allowed him confidently tackle subjects defeat lesser craftsman . in addition luminance extremes, ruins held dark regions of flat contrast. so, how handle subject, part of in deep shadow, part in bright sunlight, , in between dark patches of no contrast, regions somehow had open? no hay problema! of southwest photographs, besides having compress wide luminance ranges, simultaneously had drastically expand parts of many images — difficult technical exposure situation. for southwest subjects, mcsavaney resorted high key printing. in rendition, faced different technical problem need further compress sub...