That's a very dramatic image, Brian--and to my eye it looks pretty good for
a scanned image. Focus Magic seemed to do a pretty good job with the
foreground buildings. Just FYI, it comes up a little dark on my monitor,
but still very dramatic frame. You know, I saw a piece on an Australian
Photojournalist who specializes in Australian fires. I'll try to get his
name for you--he seemed pretty young. He shoots film for fire shots--though
he does do some digital work as well; back in the newspaper lab, he runs the
film through a machine that develops the film & converts the frames to
digital--all in about 12 minutes--than does digital post-processing. I'll
try to find his name tomorrow; I have to run through a DVD to find it. Very
compelling shot, Brian. Cheers, Christine
----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Walters" <[email protected]>
To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, February 07, 2009 9:25 PM
Subject: PESO - Where There's Smoke...
Hi all
Bushfires are an unfortunate fact of life in much of southern Australia
in summer and are causing havoc in many parts of Victoria as I write
(25+ dead, over 100 homes destroyed). Then there are the ongoing floods
in much of Queensland.....
Anyway, by coincidence I came across this image of one of the several
fires in 1994 that destroyed property in parts of suburban Sydney. This
one was in the Royal National Park about 40 km to the south of the
centre of Sydney. I took the photo from my office building in Sydney's
CBD.
The original was on Kodak Ektar 100 (I really liked that film!) but the
scan was pretty awful so I decided on a b&w conversion. I used Focus
Magic to try to get some sharpness into the foreground buildings and
then used mainly the red channel plus a bit of tonal adjustment here and
there.
http://www.blognow.com.au/PESO/125130/Where_There039s_Smoke.html
Comments, as always, most welcome.
Cheers
Brian
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Western Sydney Australia
http://members.westnet.com.au/brianwal/SL/
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