Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/08/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Jack, The film was Across in Xtol 1:3. This is usually a grainless combination. About half the grain comes from having to do some layers work in PS to get more contrast in the image as it is very flat lighting: I shot this in a break in a thunderstorm. As you know adjustment layers are 8 bit and there is some posterization going on. I shot four frames of this image bracketing two stops; this is the easiest to bring what I saw to paper. Also, it is a cropped image. I took a little off the bottom to remove a few shrubs that interfered with the lone tree look and a fair amount off the top that had posteriization out the kazoo. I do think the image works better closer to a square aspect ratio after looking at the work prints however. This is a rare image that I could do better in a wet darkroom. Don dorysrus@mindspring.com - -----Original Message----- From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of Jack McLain Sent: Saturday, August 23, 2003 10:16 PM To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Subject: Re: [Leica] Don's PAW 32 Clouds on virgin prairie Is this a cropped image? (I'm seeing a lot of grain). What film? What developer? Was the light as flat in reality as it appears in the photo? I really like the composition.. the lone tree standing against the vastness.... What I'd like to see is more contrast but maintain the tonality, but this might just not be in the negative. cheers Jack McLain Tucson, AZ - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alastair Firkin" <firkin@ncable.net.au> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Saturday, August 23, 2003 8:01 PM Subject: Re: [Leica] Don's PAW 32 Clouds on virgin prairie > I can't give you ps advise, but the image seems great as it stands: I'd > love printing it in a wet darkroom if I'd taken it. > > Cheers > On Sunday, Aug 24, 2003, at 11:47 Australia/Melbourne, Don Dory wrote: > > > In July I spent some time on the Tall grass Prairie Preserve in the > > Flint Hills south of Kansas City. This is probably the largest expanse > > of virgin tallgrass prairie left in North America. As a note, there > > are > > far larger tracts of short grass land in Texas and in Wyoming. > > > > This land still is very much as it always was; the major difference is > > that cows eat a slightly different mix of plants than buffalo or > > antelope so the mix of grasses is a little different. > > > > Anyway, this group of negatives has been very resistant to giving up > > the > > image that I saw. It has taken me two weeks to come up with this image > > which is still a work in progress. But, it is the best so far and I am > > doing an image a week so... > > > > http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=1704576&size=lg > > > > Comments always welcome and you PS experts especially desired. > > > > Don > > dorysrus@mindspring.com > > > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > > > > Alastair > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html