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I like the high contrast in "Dragon Rider".
That was partly the photographer's fault. The pictures started as 8X10s, taken with a Hasselblad, but the guy that did it (for free, so I didn't complain) was a portrait photographer. Also, many of the subtle color differences did not come through (like thalo blue vs. thalo green, in Sentinels ). Nowadays, a digital camera could do a lot better.
That was an error. I just found one of the negatives. They were 4 X 5 film.