On Sun, 8 Feb 2009 11:17:54 -0800, "Bruce Dayton" <[email protected]> said: > 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? >
Thanks Bruce. I fully intend to do that. It wasn't until I started playing around with the crappy scan I have that I realised that the image had some potential. As I mentioned to Christine, The image was actually taken on Fujichrome 100 not Ektar (I did take a similar shot on Ektar and I got the two mixed up when I checked the database for shooting data). Cheers Brian ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://members.westnet.com.au/brianwal/SL/ > -- > 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 > -- -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Accessible with your email software or over the web -- 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.
