Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/09/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Adam, I think the first image is best. The second one has the river bend too centered for me and in the third one there is a bit of road showing. There is a lot of potential in the first one. If you did some judicious dodging and burning, I think it would be a really luminous image. I don't know if you've done anything after the scan in an editing program, but if you haven't, this image warrants it. The eastern sierra's are gorgeous; once you are up and mobile you need to make that trip again! Glad you are healing well. Best, Bob On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 2:15 PM, Adam Bridge <abridge at mac.com> wrote: > Since I have some time on my hands, and finally I can sit at the desk in my > studio, I'm revisiting a images I took back in 2002 when my wife and I took > our first trip from Lake Tahoe, down US 395, to Bodie and Lee Vining, > crossing the Sierra through Yosemite on Hwy 120 over Tioga Pass. > > This is a wonderful drive and in late October with the color near its peak, > it was especially magical. We left northern Lake Tahoe well before sunrise, > so the long golden sun caught the cottenwood trees as we approached Topaz. > Couldn't have been more appropriate! I believe we stopped in Bridgeport for > breakfast and then on to Bodie. > > I tried to find the original scans but the Wiebetech device that handles > the removable drives has decided that it's FireWire electronics are fried > so > until it gets back from being serviced those scans aren't accessible. But I > have managed to find at least some of the negatives and transparencies I > shot. > > Here are the first three: > > < > http://adam-bridge.smugmug.com/gallery/18998620_KksJhp/1475955514_TSJ6FHq#1475953672_pRTPk7n > > > > These were taken in the middle-afternoon about half-way up Tioga Pass. I > loved the shapes of the willows, their colors, the bits of color spread > through the conifer forest. When I shot them originally I was quite > disappointed, I remember. Perhaps I have learned more about cropping and > about scanning in the meantime. > > These were made with either the M6ttl or the R8, I no longer remember which > and they aren't marked on the negative sleeves. I hadn't learned to do that > yet. It's the older Portra 160VC and scanned recently on a Nikon Super > Coolscan 4000 using VueScan software, the Nikon software no longer works > under OS X 10.7. > > I'm curious about how people react to these. Yes good? Adequate? Do my > memories color them too much? > > Thanks for looking! > > Adam Bridge > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- Bob Adler Palo Alto, CA http://www.rgaphoto.com