I liked them all, the Cat tails left me feeling that something was about to
come around the corner, good for a scary movie. I really enjoyed the stream,
slightly subdued it was a winter day professing no need to rush and
wondering if spring would ever come, though you know it eventually would.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Russ Butler" <rbinnj@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "OMlist" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, March 23, 2007 3:42 PM
Subject: [OM] some winter shots & scans
>
> Here are a few shots from this winter taken close to home in NJ. All
> were taken with an OM-4 using fuji superia 400 developed at costco and
> scanned on an epson V700.
>
> I used a kiron 28-210 on these
> @~50
> http://nfs.nfshost.com/pics07/7A26/19.HTM
> @~28
> http://nfs.nfshost.com/pics07/7A26/21.HTM
>
> and a z 35/2 on these
> http://nfs.nfshost.com/pics07/7A12/01.HTM
>
> http://nfs.nfshost.com/pics07/7B06/14.HTM
>
>
> My wife bought me the epson scanner for xmas. Since then I've wondered
> whether it was a gift or a means to keep me out of her hair. Life was
> MUCH simpler before the scanner as I just used costco scans. But I now
> realize how cooked they are/were. (I still get the costco scans as
> they're cheap - $3 per roll and I can use them for screening.) After
> much learning from the list, the web, and a lot of fiddling my
> 'workflow' is stable at this point until the next in a long series of
> gotcha's pops up.
>
> At this point, I scan raw at 2400/in. to 16-bit tif and do the heavy
> editing in a batch file using ImageMagick. I don't stay with 16-bit as I
> don't (yet) have a GUI editor that supports it nor the horsepower req'd.
> Vuescan is also out at this point due to horsepower as it totally
> absorbs my WinME 384Kb machine. (Once I bite the time bullet and get
> another machine I can revisit the raw scans.)
>
> Using IM from the command line allows me to do other things as it runs
> in the background. It stretches the color range/histogram without
> clipping, does some contrast/curve adjustment and applies a color
> profile xform from epson scanner to RGB. I output a second file with
> heavy LCE for later layering. I use photofiltre studio for the layering
> and minor editing, removing the f'ing dust and the rare flare which, at
> least for me, is a bear to fix and ONLY occurs on what I consider to be
> good shots. I now realize that a stitch in time saves a LOT of work with
> the dust and flare!
>
> Anyway, that's how I've been spending my winter 'vacation' :-)
>
> Comments and especially critiques welcome.
>
> --
> Russ Butler (NJ USA)
>
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