[HUG ] Re: IMG: Recent Trips

Hi Nick.
Thanks for looking and for the comments.
Not sure about the contrast thing. I do use a polarizer almost religiously, so 
it wouldn't be that. Though with all the angles about, it is hard to suppress 
all the glare.
I've been using PixelGenius' Capture Sharpener, but I'm beginning to think it's 
not necessary with, as you noted, the Zeiss glass and Velvia. Next series I'll 
do without.
I scan to a .dng file using VueScan Pro. So I can reprocess these same images 
without the capture sharpening and take a look. Perhaps next week; I'll let you 
know.
I definitely use the glass holder; The provided holder doesn't hold the film 
anywhere near flat.
And I hope it's still green there; the fires are raging and only 10% under 
control. The road there from the north is closed (Highway 1). I'm keeping my 
fingers crossed.
Thanks again,
Bob

 Bob Adler
Palo Alto, CA
http://www.raflexions.com



----- Original Message ----
From: Nick Wilson <toona@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: hasselblad@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2008 9:31:37 PM
Subject: [HUG ] Re: IMG: Recent Trips

Bob

Nice to see some trees and a bit of nature coming back! Good shots too.

There is a bit of contrast in some of the colour ones...I guess the 
combination of Velvia and Zeiss and some glare from the bright overcast 
sky. I have seen that myself (a pol filter cuts it back off leaves etc).

Or is it a scanning thing? I have just got a Nikon 8000 to start using 
soon, but the first scans do seem a bit contrasty (like a slide dupe in 
the old days).

Any comments or tips?

Do you use the glass holder?

Cheers

Nick

PS The 'fallen giant' was pushed!


> After Yosemite in April/May, attention turned back to Big Sur. About 
> an hour south of the town of Big Sur is a California State Park, Lime 
> Kiln. If you drive in and walk down to the ocean, it's completely 
> uninspiring. The first time we did that and just got back in the 
> vehicle and continued on.
>  
> Next time, on a tip from a co-worker, we went the other way, deep into 
> a beautiful redwood forest with at least 3 major streams. One ends at 
> a 100 foot high waterfall which I didn't shoot. It's not a regular 
> waterfall with a couple of torrents showering down; it has about 100 
> little falls that fan out from the top so the bottom of the falls is 
> as wide as the falls are high. Jim has some good shots of it, after 
> climbing like a mountain goat which I wasn't about to do.
>  
> Another stream goes up to the lime kilns. These are mamouth kilns 
> built in the late 1800s to extract lime from the limestone. There 
> are 3 of them, each about 30 - 40 feet high; steel turrets falling 
> apart in these beautiful overgrown redwood forests. How they built 
> these monstrosoties way up on this hill in the middle of nowhere and 
> how they got the lime stones and resultant lime back down is beyond me.
>  
> The third major stream is just a beautiful walk going nowhere; my kind 
> of place...
>  
> http://www.raflexions.com/LKP
>  
> Hope you enjoy these. Certainly worth a walk if you're ever in the area,
> Bob
>  
> P.S. - Tech stuff: Velvia 50 and FP4 taken with various combinations 
> of apprx. 40lbs of gear muled around on my back...
>  
> Bob Adler
> Palo Alto, CA
> http://www.raflexions.com
>


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