>>3814311Anon who's scanning?
If the inversion is auto-everything on the scanner software, some things could trick the algorithm into bumping the contrast. Auto-levels rarely works great.
Without having seen the scene though I can't know.
Did you use a spot meter?
If you just pointed at the rocks with a centre weighted meter, it probably caught a good chunk of the water which is quite bright.
Also the ricks at the bottom could be reflective when when and not really dark, so metering on them wouldn't exactly be metering for the shadows.
For what it's worth I think the exposure is fine.
You got plenty of detail whee it matters, and you didn't blow anything at all - sky, clouds, water.
Some small areas of no interest being black is fine, it actually gives some contrast to your image.
But I think if you set yourself the black point in scanning, you probably could set it a bit before crushing the blacks to get a little bit more detail.
If you don't scan yourself, you could try the Shadows tool to see if you can recover some.
But you don't need to, really. It looks fine.
