Joel,
I've been away for a couple of days, and dumped a bunch of emails, so this
is the first time I have seen this image. I am very impressed with it.
Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
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From: "Joel Wilcox" <jfwilcox@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Olympus Camera Discussion" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2012 11:03 PM
Subject: Re: [OM] Image: Farm near Harmony, MN
> 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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