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Subject: Re: [OM] New arrival from the lab
From: "Sue Pearce" <bs.pearce@xxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 10:18:09 -0500
It is a wonderful photo, especially considering where it was shot. As 
someone that has driven through eastern colorado many times on many roads, I 
can assure you that compared to this, western Kansas and Nebraska are very 
scenic.

And the horizon? Don't be a slave to "rules."

Bill Pearce
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From: "Ken Norton" <ken@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Olympus Camera Discussion" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, August 28, 2009 10:08 AM
Subject: Re: [OM] New arrival from the lab


> Thanks everybody for the complements. When I went through the required
> ritual of immediately ripping open the package and leafing through the
> slides (held up to the ceiling light, of course) this one brought a gasp 
> and
> a "wow".  In fact, the entire roll had serious wow factor.  After 15 
> minutes
> I realized I hadn't close the door.
>
> When I wrote the post and originally put the image up, I thought it was 
> the
> 35/shift as I was using it extensively at that site.  But in looking at 
> the
> converging angles and the spread of the road, I realized that I had 
> changed
> over to the 24/2.8 for that shot and the next.
>
> Checking my notes and remembering my shooting style, I can reconstruct 
> what
> was going through my mind when I shot the picture:
>
> The horizon was perfectly flat and any tilting of the camera with any of 
> the
> wide-angles would subject this flatness to lens distortion. The only way 
> to
> keep the line straight is to center it perfectly in the viewfinder.
> Secondly, I was very intrigued by the converging lines--even by the cloud
> top-left-center.  If I put the horizon in the bottom part of the 
> viewfinder,
> the converging lines lost their impact and the subject became the clouds.
> If I raised the horizon, the clouds lose their impact AND there is a sense
> of emotional depression as it is the angle of hanging your head downward.
> Perfectly centering the extinction-point created an image of geometry. The
> subject isn't the clouds, it isn't the fields, it isn't the road.  It's 
> all
> about the sames.  It's an abstract. As an abstract, it falls under a
> different set of rules than what we normally apply to an image.
>
> I did take other pictures with the horizon high and low and neither one 
> made
> me go "wow" like this one did.  As previously noted, the colors and
> contrasts are very close to what the original Velvia slide looks like.  No
> Photoshop (or PWP) magic here.  The Nikon scans a little on the flat side,
> so I did have to re-energize the shot in post a little, but only enough to
> match the slide. However, the intense green in the field on the left was
> slightly muted in the scan--which is very typical when scanning Velvia
> whereas the greens will intensify when scanning Provia.
>
> BTW, the OM-2S was set on auto-exposure with a +0.3 exposure compensation
> and most likely the lens set at F11 for maximim DoF.  Camera height was 
> just
> over 1m.
>
> It's a little misleading in the picture, but this road was quite 
> challenging
> to drive and walk on. It had just rained very heavily and it was a slimy
> mess. I was parked nose in on a field entrance and had to use 4WD to get
> back out.
>
> AG
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