[Leica] Don's PAW week 5

[hopsternew at gmail.com (Geoff Hopkinson)]

Don, the spot healing function in Adobe Camera Raw is a marvel. I think
Lightroom has the same?  I've started looking at the whole image at 100%
where I have small apertures and big plain areas too.
Amazing how often a spot will show up on that carefully produced big print.
Dare I say, take a peek at the sky areas in your other shots;-) Or were
these the pre-cleaning ones??

2009/2/8 Don Dory <don.dory@gmail.com>

> Geof,
> No, but I do have a handy clone tool to fix any print versions.  And if it
> is just two or three it is better than the twenty or so I had before I
> cleaned the sensor.
>
> On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 10:01 PM, Geoff Hopkinson <hopsternew@gmail.com
> >wrote:
>
> > Hi Don. I assumed this to be an IR image. I thought you did well to
> create
> > the interesting effect from the light you had in the lighthouse shot.
> > The spot I saw (first vista shot) was on your sensor, trust me.
> > I've retouched the odd one on cloud shots myself!  I just saw it because
> I
> > looked at the larger version to better appreciate your fine shot. About
> 25%
> > in from left and 20% down from top. Above the fluffy cloud bank. Now that
> > you see it, you'll be looking for it on the other 1,999 shots that trip!
> > DON'T look at the sky in your bridge shot in the large version ;-)
> >
> >
> > 2009/2/7 Don Dory <don.dory@gmail.com>
> >
> > > Geof, it started life as an IR image underexposed 1.5 stops.  The
> > > foreground was in shade so not much activity.  I used LR curves
> > > function to bring up the foreground.  Probably not a spot. Probably a
> > > vulture as I had seen a row of them just up the road.  Thank you for
> > > the comments.
> > >
> > > On 2/6/09, Geoff Hopkinson <hopsternew@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > Don the first scene is a marvellous vista. In the larger version the
> land especially has an odd smoothed look. Something in post-processing?? 
> One
> sensor spot above the cloud in centre, by the way!
> > > > You've done well to come up with drama from the sky-light around
> the lighthouse there.
> > > > The picnic one misses for me. Just too much messy detail n the
> picnic. Like a racoon opened their lunch for them!
> > > >
> > > > 2009/2/7 Don Dory <don.dory@gmail.com>
> > >  >
> > > >> This past week was spent cruising up or down highway 1 in
> California. Truly some of the best views in the world and the food is
> fabulous especially if you tastes run to fresh produce and seafood.  First
> up is a view looking south from a turn out on 1 north of San Francisco.
> >
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DoryG/On-the-road/PAW2009/Week+5/Hgwy+1+Marin+County.jpg.html
> > > >> Second is a view north from the top of a Civil War era fort under
> the Golden Gate.  The human figure is a civil war re-enactor looking north.
> >
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DoryG/On-the-road/PAW2009/Week+5/human+scale.jpg.html
> > > >> Third is an IR view of an old growth Redwood Grove.  In
> certain climates Redwoods are like johnson grass, they grow everywhere; but
> you have to walk among the really old groves to respect the efforts to save
> these now rare spots on the coast.
> >
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DoryG/On-the-road/PAW2009/Week+5/IR+Grove.jpg.html
>
> > > >> Fourth is a view of Pigeon Point Light House.
> >
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DoryG/On-the-road/PAW2009/Week+5/pigeon+point+LtHs.jpg.html
> > > >> Fifth is a view looking south toward San Francisco of some
> picnickers on top of the same civil war fort.
> >
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DoryG/On-the-road/PAW2009/Week+5/picnic+with+a+view.jpg.html
>
> > > >> Enjoy these few shots and be thankful that I didn't put up the
> other two thousand shots.  This coastline is truly spectacular.
> > > >> Don
> > > >> don.dory@gmail.com
> --
> Cheers
> Geoff
> 'Licence to Chill'
>