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The Art of Photography => User Critiques => Topic started by: cjogo on October 28, 2013, 11:50:42 pm

Title: Coastal Fog
Post by: cjogo on October 28, 2013, 11:50:42 pm

  4X5 negative  >>  top of the crest  -- Big Sur

Title: Re: Coastal Fog
Post by: WalterEG on October 29, 2013, 06:35:24 am

Sublimely wondrous.  Could only be better on 8x10.  LOL

Title: Re: Coastal Fog
Post by: David Eckels on October 29, 2013, 08:35:18 am

+1

Title: Re: Coastal Fog
Post by: Mjollnir 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.....

Title: Re: Coastal Fog
Post by: Eric Myrvaagnes on October 29, 2013, 10:32:24 am

Classic California fog, nicely done.

Title: Re: Coastal Fog
Post by: cjogo on October 29, 2013, 01:06:28 pm

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

Title: Re: Coastal Fog
Post by: Christoph C. Feldhaim 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.

Cheers
~Chris

Title: Re: Coastal Fog
Post by: wolfnowl on October 29, 2013, 08:09:42 pm

Quote from: Christoph C. Feldhaim 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.

Cheers
~Chris

I agree.

Mike.

Title: Re: Coastal Fog
Post by: cjogo 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  

Title: Re: Coastal Fog
Post by: Christoph C. Feldhaim 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.

Cheers
~Chris

Title: Re: Coastal Fog
Post by: cjogo 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.....

Title: Re: Coastal Fog
Post by: Christoph C. Feldhaim on October 30, 2013, 01:11:03 pm

Quote from: cjogo on October 30, 2013, 01:07:10 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.

Title: Re: Coastal Fog
Post by: Mjollnir on October 30, 2013, 01:58:32 pm

Quote from: cjogo on October 29, 2013, 01:06:28 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

Title: Re: Coastal Fog
Post by: cjogo 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