Hmmm. You've been holding back the good stuff on us. And the last one
below needs to go black and white.
Chuck Norcutt
Moose wrote:
> Chuck Norcutt wrote:
>
>>I guess I should also have defined hyperfocal distance. When a lens is
>>focused at its hyperfocal distance everything from half of that distance
>>to infinity is in focus.
>>
>>For example, if Flower_Flow.jpg was taken at the 14mm end of the 14-54
>>and the aperture was f/16 the hyperfocal distance would be only 0.75
>>meters. That means everything from 0.75/2 = 0.37 meters to infinity
>>would be in focus sharp enough to make a good 8x10 print.
>
> <snip lots more good stuff>
>
> On the theory that a pic is worth several words, this and the next image
> are a couple of shots using DOF/hyperfocal control to maintain both
> nearby and distant subjects in focus
> <http://galleries.moosemystic.net/Yosemite2ip/pages/020428-29_12.htm>.
>
> Yes, I know the color balance is different on the two examples, as well
> as some other shots in the gallery. This gallery is still very much in
> process, and I haven't decided which look I want to go with.
>
> Back when I took a lot of images in Yosemite in Spring, 2002, I scanned
> some of them and put them up in a web gallery. I've meant for ages to
> rescan those I did before and scan many I didn't do before. A few days
> ago, I had occasion to look at what I had done before, for another use,
> - and realized both how little I knew then about scanning and PS and how
> much VueScan and PS have progressed in the meantime. One of the things
> I've learned since is not to rely on automated prints for evaluating
> which images will look good scanned.
>
> So I started over again, scanning all 200+ frames on the rolls with
> Yosemite on them. Good idea too, if it kept me out of some questionable
> threads the last few days. :-)
>
> I have since done icc color profiles of all the films used, so the
> colors should be rather accurate. So of course, on the earliest shots, I
> found the colors in late afternoon sunlight very warm, ok, and the skies
> odd looking, not so ok. So I've been experimenting between the color as
> shot and something more neutral. Fortunately, many of the images won't
> require any such evaluation. This, for example, has very little color
> anyway
> <http://galleries.moosemystic.net/Yosemite2ip/pages/020428-29_22.htm>.
>
> Moose
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