Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/06/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Geoff Zeiss glass and Hassy's are very much part of my work Flo over the years I've been on the HUG for a dozen years the newer version now and I'm used to seeing them on the Web from other people but when you look at your monitor at a rock in a stream and it jumps up and bites your earlobe off you know you are looking at something else than normal sprinklings of unsharp mask - and I was right. Its easy to get overly enthused with this kind of stuff and that's why we show are stuff to other people. mark@rabinergroup.com Mark William Rabiner > From: Geoff Hopkinson <hoppyman@bigpond.net.au> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> > Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 12:10:45 +1000 > To: 'Leica Users Group' <lug@leica-users.org> > Subject: RE: [Leica] IMG: OT Equip - Lime Kiln Park > > Mark, I only can observe any 'crunchiness' in the kiln interior two shots > (which have lots of sharp edges). The first five especially are delicious > medium format Velvia to my eye. It may be too that the original superb > resolution (plus the contrasty medium) as well as the scanner all > contribute > to so much minute detail that it needs managing. That's a quality problem > to > have, right there. Did you notice how many of these are the full frame with > no crop at all, too? Bob has the same sharpening regime as I do, so maybe > that?s why it appeals to me! Anyhoo it is very much more subtle and > superior > to anything easily achieved with unsharp mask. When you get down to these > low resolution web versions the effect is more distinct, certainly. > Actually > you can vary that too with choice of edge selection, opacity of that > adjusting layer and original capture sharpening routine. Sort of involves a > call on how much impact you want on the web versions too. Holding prints in > your hands will always be a different story, as you know. > > Cheers > Geoff > http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman/e > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/gh/ > > -----Original Message----- > Subject: Re: [Leica] IMG: OT Equip - Lime Kiln Park > > It does look like instead of unsharp mask you are using a new third party > high tech algorithm rich borrowed from the CGI folks SHARPENING FROM > HELL!!! > AND LOTS OF IT!!! For a whole new look. > I'd move back from it by half or two thirds. > And would love to see the stuff as well from the FP4. > Again less jacked up. > > > > mark@rabinergroup.com > Mark William Rabiner > > > >> From: Bob Adler <rgacpa@yahoo.com> >> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> >> Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2008 19:59:24 -0700 (PDT) >> To: Leica Enthusiasts Group <leica@freelists.org>, Leica Users Group >> <lug@leica-users.org> >> Subject: [Leica] IMG: OT Equip - Lime Kiln Park >> >> After?Yosemite?in April/May, attention turned back to?Big Sur. About > an?hour >> south of the town?of Big Sur is a?California State Park, Lime Kiln. If you >> drive in and?walk down to the ocean, it's completely uninspiring.?The > first >> time we did that and just got back in the vehicle and continued on. >> ? >> Next time, on a tip from a co-worker, we went the other way, deep into a >> beautiful redwood forest with at least 3 major streams. One ends at a 100 > foot >> high waterfall which I didn't shoot. It's not a regular waterfall with a >> couple of torrents showering down; it has about 100 little falls that fan > out >> from the top so the bottom of the falls is as wide as the falls are high. > Jim >> Brick has some good shots of it, after climbing like a mountain goat which > I >> wasn't about to do. >> ? >> Another stream goes up to the lime kilns. These are mammoth kilns built in > the >> late 1800s to extract lime from the limestone. There are?3 of them, each > about >> 30 - 40 feet high; steel turrets falling apart in these beautiful > overgrown >> redwood forests. How they built these monstrosities way up on this hill in > the >> middle of nowhere and how they got the lime stones up and resultant lime > back >> down is?beyond me. >> ? >> The third major stream is just a beautiful walk going nowhere; my kind of >> place... >> ? >> http://www.raflexions.com/LKP >> ? >> Hope you enjoy?these. Certainly worth a walk?if you're ever in the area, >> Bob >> ? >> P.S. - Tech stuff: Hasselblad (flex and 203), Velvia 50 and FP4 taken with >> various combinations of apprx. 40lbs of gear muled around on my back... >> ?Bob Adler >> Palo Alto, CA >> http://www.raflexions.com >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information