It is a cool shot. I'm wondering why you don't rescan it better to give you more leeway in your interpretation and processing?
-- Best regards, Bruce Saturday, February 7, 2009, 7:25:37 PM, you wrote: BW> Hi all BW> Bushfires are an unfortunate fact of life in much of southern Australia BW> in summer and are causing havoc in many parts of Victoria as I write BW> (25+ dead, over 100 homes destroyed). Then there are the ongoing floods BW> in much of Queensland..... BW> Anyway, by coincidence I came across this image of one of the several BW> fires in 1994 that destroyed property in parts of suburban Sydney. This BW> one was in the Royal National Park about 40 km to the south of the BW> centre of Sydney. I took the photo from my office building in Sydney's BW> CBD. BW> The original was on Kodak Ektar 100 (I really liked that film!) but the BW> scan was pretty awful so I decided on a b&w conversion. I used Focus BW> Magic to try to get some sharpness into the foreground buildings and BW> then used mainly the red channel plus a bit of tonal adjustment here and BW> there. BW> http://www.blognow.com.au/PESO/125130/Where_There039s_Smoke.html BW> Comments, as always, most welcome. BW> Cheers BW> Brian BW> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ BW> Brian Walters BW> Western Sydney Australia BW> http://members.westnet.com.au/brianwal/SL/ BW> -- -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
