On Wed, Aug 8, 2012, at 05:12 PM, Moose wrote:
> On 8/8/2012 11:48 AM, Joel Wilcox wrote:
> > Gasp! Trying some landscape with BW:
> >
> > http://myweb.uiowa.edu/jfwilcox
> >
> > Shot on UltraFine Plus, developed in HC-110/dilution H for 14 minutes,
> > scanned in Vuescan, Photoshopped in Photoshop!
>
> I like the composition. I wouldn't crop it, as others have suggested, if
> only because I like the clouds on the left.
I got off an alternative with the M-S 180/4.5 that is an "in-camera"
crop. It just eliminates the clouds altogether. It's OK, but I was
drawn to the clouds and hoped to make them work somehow.
> Well, no, it's also something about the sweep of country that would be
> lost. Still a nice image, but different, more
> closed in.
>
> I'd probably lift the shadows and lower mid tones a little, below the
> sky.
You are probably assuming that I didn't do both those things? In any
case, not as much as you'd have done, obviously. I used a medium red
filter, which has the effect of darkening the foliage, but really it was
already quite dark in the shadows. Not enough "there" there. I am also
a slave to my memory of what I saw, but I will see if I can get more
detail in the trees. I think I am pretty well satisfied with the sky.
> A couple of things slightly bugged the ol' Eagle Eye, probably only to do
> with the web image.
>
> The grain in the sky has done something slightly odd with the clouds. I'm
> not sure I dislike the effect, but it does
> look unnatural to me.
>
> There's something funny going on, edges/texture/?? in the area below the
> barn, right up to the dark brush - that
> probably only I can see. :-)
I think the web image is a bit over-sharpened. I let Focus Magic
sharpen a pixel's worth. Might that explain it? Another possibility is
that I used a setting in Vuescan to make a 3-pixel average, which has
the effect of reducing the scan to 1/3 of the size it would be
otherwise. It also produces an inherently sharper scan from the get-go.
Some of the time, FM is just too aggressive with web files (for my
taste anyway).
Thanks very much for your comments, Moose.
Joel W.
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