ku # 1219 ~ entre chien et loup

Moon over Blue Mountain Lake ~ Blue Mountain Lake, NY - in the Adirondack Park • click to embiggenWere I to be light chaser, the light to be encountered during the time of day the French call entre chien et loup - literally translated as between the dog and the wolf - would be the light I would chase. That is, the soft light which bathes the landscape after the sun has set but before darkness descends).
In fact, I have a body of work which is comprised of just such light. Most of the pictures in that body of work were made with my 8×10 Arca Swiss view camera utilizing 8×10 Type L (long exposure) color negative film (some exposures were up to 20 minutes long and Type L color negative film was formulated to deal with the reciprocity failure - color-shifting, as dye layers of the film absorb light unevenly over the prolonged exposure). The color results from that combination, printed by me or one of my assistants on Ektacolor paper (C print), were amazingly delicate / subtle - a result which also recorded the same entre chein et loup qualities of the light.
Some may be wondering why I used past tense verbs (was ... were) in the preceding paragraph. That's simply because I haven't made pictures with that view camera / film for over a decade more. The reason for that is also simple - as sheet film + processing have become harder to find than hen's teeth, I simply wasn't up the task of dealing with the film / processing issue, not to mention having to set up a darkroom in which to make prints (which assumes C print paper and chemistry won't become equally scarce).
In any event, I am currently closing in on a digital domain image file processing routine which is coming close to my past film / C print results.