Larry, I'm going to post a shot wherein I sandwiched both a color and a B&W neg. Probably later this PM.
J Sent from my iPhone > On Oct 15, 2015, at 1:34 PM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > ann sanfedele wrote: >> Jack - that's terrific - I do remember the winding back with the LX but >> never , as I recall, managed to make somethin glike this work. >> I hvae one nit.. which is totally personal- thecolorcast overall - >> except for the moon, which is pleasing at that color.. easy enough >> to adjust with sliders in photoshop if you are soinclined... wondering >> if the color is just what happened when you scanned for the web. >> >> Larry - >> "the technology available at the time"?! never had an LX, huh? > > Film. These days someone would take two different photos. In the process > take many separate frames, checking the histogram, making sure each one is > perfect. When they got home they would put them in different layers in > photoshop, align the moon perfectly. and get exactly the photo that they're > trying for. > > He had to remember what frame he shot the moon at, where in the frame it was, > compose the birds around that and had one try to get the birds perfect. > > In the film era, I would have done that as two frames, in black and white, > and sandwiched the negatives in the enlarger. > >> >> ann >> >>> On 10/15/2015 3:58 PM, Larry Colen wrote: >>> Excellent job, >> ***particularly with the technology available at the time.** >> >> MARK!! >>> >>> Jack Davis wrote: >>>> >>>> This shot in Nov. 2002. LX with A*300mmf/2.8. Shot the moon (a few >>>> times from our back patio) using a 1.4L Pentax T/C and tobacco >>>> colored filter. >>>> As many of you will remember. the LX would allow you to rewind the >>>> film to a desired frame. I did so and went to Gray Lodge >>>> Refuge the next day with designs on a flock of rising Snow Geese. >>>> I removed the filter and T/C and fairly quickly rolled up on a good >>>> flock of Snow Geese. As was usually the case, it took some >>>> waiting 'til the signal went out to the geese to lift off. Their >>>> calls as they take flight always give me chills. >>>> I had reset the exposure to what I guessed would under expose the >>>> scene a couple stops. >>>> I went home with a hope of "maybe" having gotten what I'd gone after. >>>> I consider the background a happy accident. >>>> I found that I'd failed to rewind the film quite enough, but stuck >>>> with it realizing it would not work as an 8X12. >>>> I was more than pleased with the exposures and came to a reluctant >>>> appreciation of the 8X10. >>>> Have sold a number to locals, one just recently, and keep a couple >>>> largish copies on continuous display. >>>> >>>> C&C? >>>> >>>> Thanks! >>>> >>>> J >>>> >>>> http://photolightimages.com/aspupload/detail.asp?ID=986 > > -- > Larry Colen [email protected] (postbox on min4est) > > -- > 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. -- 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.
