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cjogo

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Coastal Fog
« on: October 28, 2013, 11:50:42 pm »

  4X5 negative  >>  top of the crest  -- Big Sur
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Re: Coastal Fog
« Reply #1 on: October 29, 2013, 06:35:24 am »

Sublimely wondrous.  Could only be better on 8x10.  LOL
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Re: Coastal Fog
« Reply #2 on: October 29, 2013, 08:35:18 am »

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Re: Coastal Fog
« Reply #3 on: October 29, 2013, 09:52:05 am »

Nicely done, but my #%$#()$)( monitor screws up your otherwise lovely dark areas.

Where in the Sur is this? 

I love how that part of the coast lends itself to such shots so often, esp. further south where it's easier to get over the clouds, like Naciemento/Ferguson, South Coast Rd., etc.....
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Re: Coastal Fog
« Reply #4 on: October 29, 2013, 10:32:24 am »

Classic California fog, nicely done.
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Re: Coastal Fog
« Reply #5 on: October 29, 2013, 01:06:28 pm »

Up Palo Colorado >> winding up the trails ...
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Christoph C. Feldhaim

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Re: Coastal Fog
« Reply #6 on: October 29, 2013, 01:20:05 pm »

Nice colors, but the blacks look quite dead to me.
Though on the other hand this is a graphical statement, I guess lifting up the shadows very slightly - just to give some faint hints of detail would add to the image.

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Re: Coastal Fog
« Reply #7 on: October 29, 2013, 08:09:42 pm »

Nice colors, but the blacks look quite dead to me.
Though on the other hand this is a graphical statement, I guess lifting up the shadows very slightly - just to give some faint hints of detail would add to the image.

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cjogo

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Re: Coastal Fog
« Reply #8 on: October 29, 2013, 10:57:57 pm »

Tried to bring up the darker areas ---way too dirty.   This is 4X5 neg film >  spotting would take days ...  Believe me I tried - ended up just painting in all the low areas black ....

You can see the noise/grain in the bottom of image --where the valley ends -- just laden with spots in the magenta area ..

The scan was 510megs 16 bit ==from the scanner  
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Re: Coastal Fog
« Reply #9 on: October 30, 2013, 08:22:16 am »

Looks like color noise to me which should be easy to remove in post.
But it seems that there is indeed a lack of detail in the blacks you might not be able to recover.

Concerning spotting - an infrared channel enabled scanner should help a lot here.
With my Nikon LS 9000 scanning MF I hardly to any spotting after the scans.
And I do not even have to be super careful about dust.
If you do 4x5" an infrared enabled scanner like the Epson V 750 can do the job well, especially when using Silverfast software.

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Re: Coastal Fog
« Reply #10 on: October 30, 2013, 01:07:10 pm »

We no longer have the Minolta MF  but never seen a infrared channel ?  Using the V 700 these days ..  We don't use any of these pre software for dust = only seemed to soften the images ???   I am sure I shot the image for the hi-lights > nothing in the low areas to speak of.....
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Re: Coastal Fog
« Reply #11 on: October 30, 2013, 01:11:03 pm »

... We don't use any of these pre software for dust = only seemed to soften the images ???   ....

Digital ICE seems to soften images some report.
I'd give Silverfasts ISRD technology a try. You can mask out areas and fine-tune the behavior of the spotting algorithm, like setting the spotting sensitivity and defect size.

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Re: Coastal Fog
« Reply #12 on: October 30, 2013, 01:58:32 pm »

Up Palo Colorado >> winding up the trails ...

Thanks, it looked like that.

A lot of people would be surprised at how far back/high up that road goes, even past the mailboxes...

Impossible to tell from Highway 1
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Re: Coastal Fog
« Reply #13 on: October 30, 2013, 03:51:48 pm »

This is  a friends spot   > he built a great place > end of the road > right to a clearing >  on the South side of Palo
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