Hi Christine On Sat, 7 Feb 2009 23:36:27 -0600, "Christine Aguila" <[email protected]> said: > That's a very dramatic image, Brian--and to my eye it looks pretty good > for > a scanned image. Focus Magic seemed to do a pretty good job with the > foreground buildings. Just FYI, it comes up a little dark on my monitor, > but still very dramatic frame. You know, I saw a piece on an Australian > Photojournalist who specializes in Australian fires. I'll try to get his > name for you--he seemed pretty young. He shoots film for fire > shots--though > he does do some digital work as well; back in the newspaper lab, he runs > the > film through a machine that develops the film & converts the frames to > digital--all in about 12 minutes--than does digital post-processing. > I'll > try to find his name tomorrow; I have to run through a DVD to find it. > Very > compelling shot, Brian. Cheers, Christine >
Thanks. It was a pretty nervous time for many people. Nowhere near as bad as this weekend's fires in Victoria, though. Currently 66 dead and 700 homes lost - and it's not over yet. I hope no PDMLers are involved. I'll certainly be interested to find out more about that photojourno. The image is dark - I was trying to hide the out of focus foreground as much as possible :-)> I also made a mistake about the technical details. I did shoot a similar image on Ektar with the SFXn but I now find that this one was actually on Fujichrome 100 with the Super A. I scanned the slide on my old Epson 1650 Perfection scanner. I'll have to get a decent scan done commercially. Cheers Brian ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://members.westnet.com.au/brianwal/SL/ > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Brian Walters" <[email protected]> > To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> > Sent: Saturday, February 07, 2009 9:25 PM > Subject: PESO - Where There's Smoke... > > > > Hi all > > > > Bushfires are an unfortunate fact of life in much of southern Australia > > in summer and are causing havoc in many parts of Victoria as I write > > (25+ dead, over 100 homes destroyed). Then there are the ongoing floods > > in much of Queensland..... > > > > Anyway, by coincidence I came across this image of one of the several > > fires in 1994 that destroyed property in parts of suburban Sydney. This > > one was in the Royal National Park about 40 km to the south of the > > centre of Sydney. I took the photo from my office building in Sydney's > > CBD. > > > > The original was on Kodak Ektar 100 (I really liked that film!) but the > > scan was pretty awful so I decided on a b&w conversion. I used Focus > > Magic to try to get some sharpness into the foreground buildings and > > then used mainly the red channel plus a bit of tonal adjustment here and > > there. > > > > > > http://www.blognow.com.au/PESO/125130/Where_There039s_Smoke.html > > > > > > Comments, as always, most welcome. > > > > > > Cheers > > > > Brian > > > > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > > Brian Walters > > Western Sydney Australia > > http://members.westnet.com.au/brianwal/SL/ > > -- > > > > -- -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Access your email from home and the web -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
