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 ©2004 Ed Book ( larger image here ~750k )This December 8,'04 image was exposed on seven frames of Fujichrome Velvia 50 ISO film in a tripod mounted Nikon F4s camera, scanned with a Nikon Super Coolscan LS-5000 film scanner, panorama stitching with no adjustments with PhotoShop CS3 Photomerge tool, and optimization in Photoshop CS3.
Peace Tags: -print available-, brown, canyon, desert, landscape, orange, panorama, photohoop, snow, utah, winter
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 First, about the photo. A couple weeks ago, I was at the Box Canyon of the Cowlitz River in Mount Rainier National Park. I looked down about 185 feet into the narrow slit that the Cowlitz abraded with its glacier silt and found that because of the heavy overcast, there wasn't a large difference in luminance value between the top and bottom and that the Canon 1Ds Mk II camera with it's DMax (density range) could record detail in both shadow and highlight areas. Film, especially Velvia transparency, wouldn't be able to handle the density range but here is the result of a digital capture. I didn't adjust other than to set white balance (by selecting the gray in the water as neutral) and white and black points in RAW conversion. This is the way the image looks at that point. Now, in Photoshop levels as well as saturation and maybe a little curves adjustments are needed... but... overall adjustments will cause other areas to go beyond density limits. So... here's another poll... and I'm going to leave it open... no multiple choice... What would you do? no, that's too easy... how would you do it? Peace Tags: -print available-, canyon, intimate landscape, poll, waterflow
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Stevens Canyon - Mt Rainier National Park - ©2005 Ed BookThis image is an example of the dynamic range of the digital camera format and the Canon EOS (Electronic Operating System). Had this exposure been made using Velvia, Provia, or one of the Pro Ektachromes, the limited range the film could handle, from detail in shadows to detail in the highlights, would either show detail in the highlights or shadows but not both... and in fact, in this particular image, if the exposure was set for details in the highlights or shadows, the midtones would be featureless because of the vast range from bright to dark. When I looked at the RAW image file, I could see that there was detail through the full range of exposure values and adjusted white and black points so Photoshop could further adjust effectively. In Photoshop, the first thing I did was adjust shadows and highlights and then I could do levels adjustments to fine tune how I wanted the image to appear... Had this been film, I would have probably allowed the shadows go black and concetrate on the highlights not going featureless white... (the eye expects to see featureless black without stress but featureless white is usually associated with squinting and it's associated stress... but here, there is detail in both and hopefully unstressing... except that the image is a bit busy for my taste... but that is a personal taste... [in a large print the busy detail would be appreciated––because there would be places for the eye to explore that can't be seen in a small jpg.]) Peace Tags: -print available-, autumn, canyon, forest, intimate landscape, mount rainier, mountains, trees
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Skokomish River north fork - Olympic National Forest, WASunday, I was up the Skok with my Daughter, Lisa, and my three Grandkids, Cody, Parker, and Jaden, and my Son, Seth and his girlfriend, Victoria. We built a campfire and cooked hot dogs (mine veggie, theirs chicken) hiked in the rain and visited the high steel bridge across the river. This image is from the bridge in the rain. After a five week visit here in WA, Lisa and the kids are flying back to North Carolina where they moved last summer. Keith, Lisa's husband, had to stay in NC as he is teaching this summer. Camera: Canon EOS D1s MkII, 28-135mm lens at 33mm with polarizer, ISO 100, 2.5 sec at f/20 tripod mounted with remote shutter trip, conditions light rain and fog moving through the trees above the canyon. Peace Tags: -print available-, canyon, forest, landscape, mountains, olympic mtns
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