HelenaN, Cam, Jason: Thanks for the kind words; those little buggers hang out with me year round now, as I am on their "A" list of food stops...
Mike: Nice body shot
Dan: Really nice set from the "Valley"; l like the combination of views-angles-light that you presented. I snow-camped there around this time in 1976...you have triggered the vault-hunt for my Kodachrome 25's which will be scanned... . I've got more "snow" stored in trays than we have seen all year...
Heading to Boston to see the Celtics vs. Bulls this afternoon; should be fun X10.
Got to go, but for Dan, here is one from 1976, shot on the Canon F1, with the 35mm f2, on Kodachrome 25. Scanned with the Canoscan FS2710...needs LR3 work, but that's for after the game...
Just got back from Boston, watching the Celts outplay the Bulls, and it was a madhouse...
Another Kodachrome from a Yosemite trip many years ago, shot on an F1 with FD 24mm f2, then scanned with the Canoscan 2710, and finally cleaned-up in LR3.6
Jerry: I hear you on the saturated colors, Kodachrome was red-heavy, and Ektachrome was blue heavy, especially when we hot-processed it (MACV lab).
Helen, you definitely have that icy blue look down to an art now. Good job on the others also - one day i will get round to the night shot off the old bridge...
Jerry: Thanks for the info...I have the MkII versions of both, wondering about the upgrade to the Version III's for use on the 70-200mm f2.8 MkII and the 500mm MkI. I hate using TC's, as I can see the drop-off in IQ on zonal plates (high-end optical test charts), but real-world imaging can sometimes be way-more forgiving, as you have shown. Thanks for doing that...
Massimo: Welcome, and that lake scene is wonderful; thanks for sharing it with all of us...
Although it's sad to see what is possibly the evidence of a building destroyed by fire, I've always been fascinated by remains of this sort. Hanging on our wall (and for a while also on the wall of a local gallery) is a print of a shot I made in my film days, the remnant brick wall of a factory building that was being overgrown by vegetation. The vegetation won a complete victory some years ago.
Not sure these work, but its fun messing around with processing. Inspired by Helena's toning and Jeffersons abuse of the clarity slider, 5D with Samyang 85mm f/1.4:
Nothing artistic about mine.
Just had to 'freeze' the scenario...where winter seems to be really taking its 'toll'.
It was a quick 5 min shoot on my street
