Since I have no account, FB doesn’t let me quietly appreciate the whole set of images. But from what I could see, some of them are obviously worth an exhibition. No doubt.
The issue your visitors may have at the exhibition will be finding the theme. I’m really having a hard time finding the connection between a tomato, some shipwrecks, a house by the ocean and a modern bridge.
Choosing a theme, let’s say “Seaside”, would allow you to select the best of the best that apply to that theme: shipwrecks, house by the ocean, the lighthouses, the waves crashing on the rocks, the seafood dinner… and leave the rest behind for your next exhibition (fruits, flowers, back alley, landscapes).
Let me ask, what is the printer model you are using for exhibition. In the past I had bad experiences with large format printers to make real greyscale images. The 6 to 12 ink printers usually make dark greenish images instead of black shades.
Possibly because these images are not the final choice and, even then, the “title” would be « Rétrospective », as it is meant to be a collection of photos on no particular subject, apart from them all being B&W, taken over several years.
I am using the Canon Pro 1000, which has 12 inks but also a dedicated B&W mode, which gives superbly neutral shades of black; although, if I wanted, I could tint but don’t.
This is a retrospective. There’s no need for a theme. These images are photographic art, not a photography contest with content rules. When it comes to art, themes can often be repetitive and pedestrian. Each image being considered for this retrospective stands on its own.
So would we All we need is some more space in the house for a printer, stock of ink and paper; and the wall space to hang the prints
We are planning on printing the Moonrise over Tréduder one to A1 at a lab - we do have space for it and Helen has been hoping to hang it for it for a couple of years.
The images are superb artwork. Presumably you started with a standard colour raw and then processed to monochrome without film grain (or did you use FilmPack?). I note that the resolution appears greater than using a 35 mm monochrome film, and probably greater than even a medium format monochrome film camera. Definitely worthy of an exhibition as art. (For my work, I am not an art photographer, but a realist – thus colour.) These do look like fine monochrome photography of the Ansel Adams epoch.
As I can’t afford a mono Leica, it all starts win colour. I always use FilmPack and usually the Fuji Acros 100 emulation, which has a very fine grain.
I use a Nikon D850 with 46Mpx, which gives more resolution than MF and approaching that of LF, especially when I use Topaz Photo AI to enlarge the images. We normally print to A2 but can achieve at least A0 using a lab.
Thank you. We also use 5"x4" LF cameras and are very familiar with the work of Ansel Adams, whose techniques we have adapted to digital work.