Saturday I went to a park with a dear friend . . . we looked up from our blanket on the lawn and saw the sun through the oak tree branches.
Tag: analog
Panorama at Shoshone Point
Digital allows you to use the proverbial scattergun approach to imaging for a panorama . . . film requires a bit more thought through the viewfinder. Parts you think you have disappear, and you don’t know until you have left the place. Sometimes CS6 can fill in the gaps and other times you just have to crop, even if you have a different vision. Ah, well. Here, though, I was pretty pleased, though not perfectly pleased, with the results.
Illusion of Fire
I tried to catch the window on the gallery where I stood one night in Salt Lake City. Â The automatic exposure of the XA4 was a long one . . . when I first glimpsed this, I wondered what fire I had photographed.
A View of the Grand Canyon, B&W
There is something rather moody here that really appealed to me, more so than the color version.
A Portrait in UltraMax 400
This is the other half, taken with UltraMax 400 and the Nikon F3HP and scanned on the Pakon 135. A bit of retouch in LR, but overall, there is little difference. The skin tones were important, because he has a rather ruddy complexion (not as bad as mine), and sometimes toning it down removes a lot of other qualities in an image. Above is the “retouched” and below is the untouched.
Ink, Yarn & Beer 