Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/06/08

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Subject: [Leica] Perils of Film
From: mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)
Date: Mon, 08 Jun 2009 15:24:17 -0400

A  very viable worth it image perhaps more so as a scan than as an original
slide to darkroom print.
I'd desaturate the blues and greens (sky and grass) they are so hyped up
they are bound to look a little distorted. Or just the whole shot.


Mark William Rabiner



> From: Bob Adler <rgacpa at yahoo.com>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2009 08:31:25 -0700 (PDT)
> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Subject: [Leica] Perils of Film
> 
> As I posted before, we had a great day at Yosemite on Friday. One of the
> venues we shot was right after lunch; it was a view from the valley floor
> west. The valley meadow was occasionally glowing with breakthroughs of the 
> sun
> and had lush grasses and flowers.
> 
> So I decided this was a large format type of scene and walked out into the 
> bog
> and rain, unbrella and 4x5 in hand. Of course by the time I set up, it had
> clouded up quite a bit more, but toward the end the sun broke through onto 
> the
> grasses and I was able to get off a few sheets.
> 
> I developed them yesterday. Unfortunately, I think the 1st E-6 developer 
> was
> too old to complete the process, but I'm not sure.
> Such are the perils of film... I'll just have to go back :-)
> 
> The scan is here:
> http://raflexions.com/2009Yosemite/content/YosemiteMeadow01_large.html
> 
> Any input on saving this image (particularly the purpleness of the sky and
> mountains) would be appreciated. The transparency pretty much looks like 
> this
> scan (Velvia 50).
> 
> Best,
> Bob
> 
>  Bob Adler
> Palo Alto, CA
> http://www.raflexions.com
> 
> 
> 
>       




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