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Artful Skies - Linc
Orangey-red afternoon light was streaming over the dunes when I saw this yucca in full seed pods contrasted against the unusual mix of clouds. I tried to tone down the orange color somewhat. Unfortunately, my scanner could not capture the detail in the pods that I can see in the slide. This is a second upload. I have found the original slide and rescanned with my DSE 5400 into the proPhoto RGB color space. I have also made sure the focus was on the yucca pod in the center of the image.
| Camera: | Contax G2 |
| Lens: | Carl Zeiss Planar 45mm f/2 |
| Film: | Provia 100f |
| Exposure: | Not recorded |
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| Filter: | None |
| Adjustment: | Normal PS workup with attention in "color-balance" in an effort to remove some of the orange light. USM@100 I have rescanned with my DSE and adjustment for color balance did not seem to be necessary. |
| Posted: | 08-Jan-2004 |
Rating: 0.00 (0 rating)
Comments
Lovely lovely colour
This is as much detail as I would expect to see on an image this size, but the colour work you have done really helps retain the feel of the time of day.
Charez Golvala 09-Jan-2004 at 02:41Thanks Charez,
The original has a lot more detail, but my scanner seems to be missing a lot of it. Linc
Linc 09-Jan-2004 at 07:13Color vs B&W
Linc, I was about to comment on how powerful I find your B&W re-works of color images of White Sands. I was about to conclude that White Sands is a place to take only B&W film. THEN, I saw this image. It is just as powerful, but in a totally different way. I guess that conclusions are often best not taken as rules. This image, I think, emphasizes that what one takes away from an image is greatly influenced by what one brings when viewing the image. I have experienced many late evenings in the wide open spaces of the West, and for me this is a powerful capture that needs color to really draw me in. I guess what I'm trying to say is that this image made me recall experiences that I treasure. Frank Ramig
Frank Ramig 09-Jan-2004 at 07:23Frank,
Thanks for your thoughtful remarks. I always find it a hard choice to post images I think others will find touristy or cute, or only work because they seduce with color. For me, all the hues and shades *is* the essence of the White Sands. The shapes and textures that lend themselves to b&w, work in their own right on a different level. Sometimes you have to just look at nature and say "wow" what a wonderful "colorful" world it is. Linc
Linc 09-Jan-2004 at 15:38I think this image is superb (texture, composition and colour). Definitely an envious ‘wish I’d could ’ve taken that’ moment for me. With regards to scanning , I share your ‘frustration’. Try as I might, I so far haven’t been able to get scans from my Duall II which come close to satisfactorily realising the kind of detail held in the transparencies... Anyway congratulations, I hope this image will get the rating it so richly deserves. I think there are submissions which strangely seem to slip by unoticed. surfer
surfer 09-Jan-2004 at 22:05Colors are superb
... composition is optimal given this scene, but the plant and the landscape in the background seem out of focus, unfortunately.
Wilfred van der Vegte 11-Jan-2004 at 10:48Wilfred,
It is distressing to see the lack of clarity in this image. The slide is decidedly sharp, but I have a feeling that the focus feature of my Dual II has screwed up. Manual focussing does not improve it over auto. ?? I NEED A 5400, LIKE YOU! DID YOU HEAR ME? :-) Well, maybe in the future when I can afford one, I will rescan. Linc
Linc 13-Jan-2004 at 17:57Linc
this is imo the better one. I don't think that you have a scanner problem, because the sky is extremely well rendered. My guess is that you have a focus problem. Might be a camera problem.
Knut Skjærven 22-Jan-2004 at 01:18Great
Your work is great. i love the colors and search for texrure. No to menttion the compositions are just great. I really like your work.
Pablo Perilla 04-Jan-2005 at 12:59Thank you, Pablo
Your comment is very much appreciated. This is one of those times when 'mother nature' comes into the photographers eye and he knows he cannot do it justice. Linc
Linc 05-Jan-2005 at 17:17Both fantastic
I love them both....I like the light in the second but the composition and the placement of the plant in the first..but the horizon slopes downward on the left just slightly......making # 2 feel more balanced....I know that John L Soule (not Horace Greely) was right..."Go West Young Man And Grow Up With This Country" 1851.Terre Haute Express .It is beautiful.and you capture it so well....
Mary Alice 01-Nov-2007 at 00:16Both fantastic
I love them both....I like the light in the second but the composition and the placement of the plant in the first..but the horizon slopes downward on the left just slightly......making # 2 feel more balanced....I know that John L Soule (not Horace Greely) was right..."Go West Young Man And Grow Up With This Country" 1851.Terre Haute Express .It is beautiful.and you capture it so well....
Mary Alice 01-Nov-2007 at 00:16Hi Linc, While considering the conversation about the "sharpness" of the yucca being the lens or the scanner, is it not possible you have over-sharppened the image? That is the feeling I get. Does the unsharpened image have that look? Ron
Ronald Wells 29-Oct-2008 at 10:03Yucca unsharpness,
Ron, for whatever reason, the yucca is not sharp in this image.(either in the original slide or scan) I have posted it, even though I am not pleased with that aspect, since I think the overall colors and composition are good. I get so preoccupied with resolution and the technical part of an image and someone will come along and look....."gosh, that's a beautiful pic!" So that's part of it too, you have to try in improving your craft, but sometimes the thrust of the image is just good. Generally speaking, I don't think the image is oversharpened. I tend to back off the sharpening if it doesn't feel right to me. However, I can look at the original slide and make a comparison. I think the sand patterns can give a sense of oversharpening because of the complicated lines. My effort was to do as much as I could with the yucca pods without making the rest of the image look unnatural. Of course , this is on my monitor, it's hard to say what you are looking at. It was a rude awakening when I looked at some of my images on other peoples monitors. We just have to do the best we can and hope other folks are seeing the same thing we prepare. Thanks for the comment. Linc
Linc 29-Oct-2008 at 14:26Linc, what a stunning photograph! SHOOT MORE!!!!
Ibbi 15-Jul-2009 at 15:45