Home
Ed Book's Journal
photographs and words
Add to Memories
Tell a Friend
Winter Camp Wash - Arches NP, Utah - panorama
Winter Camp Wash - Arches National Park, Utah - panorama ©2004 Ed Book (all rights reserved - DO NOT COPY)   http://edbookphoto.com
©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: , , , , , , , , , ,

Add to Memories
Tell a Friend
first light on the land in Klickitat Canyon, Cascade Range, WA
Klickitat River Canyon in autumn - Garry Oak - Cascade Mountain Range, WA   ©2006 Ed Book (all rights reserved - DO NOT COPY)   http://edbookphoto.com

©2006 Ed Book


Contrary to appearances, in this image the view is looking down-slope into the canyon, not up.

Peace

Tags: , , , , , , ,

Add to Memories
Tell a Friend
Klickitat Canyon rim
Klickitat Canyon rim - Cascade Mountain Range, WA  autumn   ©2006 Ed Book (all rights reserved - DO NOT COPY)   http://edbookphoto.com

©2006 Ed Book


Peace

Tags: , , , , , , , ,

Add to Memories
Tell a Friend
Klickitat Canyon dryside of the Cascade Range forest
Add to Memories
Tell a Friend
Klickitat River Canyon
autumn in the Klickitat Canyon, Garry Oak and Ponderosa Pine, Cascade Mountain Range, WA   ©2006 Ed Book (all rights reserved - DO NOT COPY)  http://edbookphoto.com


©2006 Ed Book

Autumn in the canyon of the Klickitat River near Mt Adams (volcano) in the Cascade Range just north of the Columbia River–the dry east side with forests of Garry Oak mixed with Ponderosa Pine.

Peace

Tags: , , , , , , , , ,

Add to Memories
Tell a Friend
Klickitat Canyon Ponderosa Pine and Garry Oak
Add to Memories
Tell a Friend
Klickitat Canyon Garry Oaks
Klickitat Canyon, WA cascade range, Garry Oak, autumn  ©2006 Ed Book (all rights reserved - DO NOT COPY)  http://edbookphoto.com

©2006 Ed Book

Peace

Tags: , , , , , , ,

Add to Memories
Tell a Friend
Black Dragon Canyon
Black Dragon Canyon - San Rafael Swell, Utah  © 2004 Ed Book (all rights reserved - DO NOT COPY)  http://edbookphoto.com
Black Dragon Canyon - San Rafael Swell, Utah                                      ©2004 Ed Book

Pentax Optio S40 camera

'taking a break from printing, studying, writing, and some other stuff... now, back to work -- after I feed the llamagirls and take Hoodoo for a walk and work off the excellent Indian cuisine we had at the Gandhi Restaurant in Silverdale -- [info]yurtmeister Pat took us... Thanks Pat!


Peace

Tags: , , , ,

Add to Memories
Tell a Friend
Snake River Canyon downstream of Lewiston & Clarkston
Snake River Canyon, WA  ©2006 Ed Book (all rights reserved)   http://edbookphoto.com   DO NOT COPY
Snake River Canyon - Washington                                                         ©2006 Ed Book


Just before visiting the Palouse, we drove down the Snake River Canyon downstream from Lewiston, Idaho and Clarkston, Washington in thick fog. When the fog was finally clearing, I stopped to make a few photographs. Just after this spot, the road runs up one of the side canyons and tops out in the Palouse.

Note that this is not the wild Hell's Canyon of the Snake where it winds along through the Seven Devil's Mountains towering 7,000 feet above the river, much deeper than the Grand Canyon of Arizona/Utah.

Peace

Tags: , ,

Add to Memories
Tell a Friend
not what would you do but instead how would you do it
Box Canyon of the Cowlitz River
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: , , , ,

Add to Memories
Tell a Friend
Stevens Canyon sidelight
Stevens Canyon autumn - Mt Rainier National Park, WA  ©2005 Ed Book (all rights reserved)   http://edbookphoto.com
Stevens Canyon - Mt Rainier National Park - ©2005 Ed Book


This 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: , , , , , , ,

Add to Memories
Tell a Friend
Skokomish River
Skokomish River from High Steel Bridge, Olympic National Forest, WA  ©2005 Ed Book   http://edbookphoto.com
Skokomish River - Olympic Mountains, WA


another from the high steel bridge across the Skokomish.

Peace

Tags: , , , , ,

Add to Memories
Tell a Friend
Skokomish River Canyon
skokomish river south fork, Olympic National Forest, WA ©2005 Ed Book   http://edbookphoto.com
Skokomish River north fork - Olympic National Forest, WA


Sunday, 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: , , , , ,

Add to Memories
Tell a Friend
still had battery power...