Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/08/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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