Thanks Rick. There have been many comical moments as a result of the
ruff. Seems cruel almost to think of them. She is an exceedingly sweet
creature, surprisingly hard to photograph!
Joel W.
On Mon, Jun 18, 2012, at 01:44 PM, Rick Beckrich wrote:
> Love the shots, Joel.
>
> You're lucky she's a little pooch... I still have sore spots from our
> wild
> red Siberian crashing her Victorian Collar into me during her post-spay
> era.
>
> Rick
> On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 1:02 PM, Joel Wilcox <jfwilcox@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
> > I recently picked up a beautiful Mamiya RB67 Pro-S with two useful "C"
> > lenses, the 90 and the 250. A couple test rolls of Portra and Ektar
> > await processing, but I was able to soup a roll of Fomapan 100 this
> > weekend. Eight minutes in Rodie 1+50. My bottle of Rodinal is
> > hilariously old and a retching brown, but as it is all I had, it had to
> > do, and it did pretty well. I scanned and put my favorite of the lot on
> > my homepage:
> >
> > http://myweb.uiowa.edu/jfwilcox
> >
> >
> > I was happy with the film and exposure for holding the highlights.
> > Other than that, I am still working on the amount of shadow detail I
> > want. This issue is somewhat an aesthetic one with regard to this
> > photo, but it is a larger concern as I figure out what the standard
> > profile needs to be for this film/developer combo in Vuescan.
> >
> > For anyone familiar with scanning BW in Vuescan, I initially scanned all
> > frames selecting "Generic" as the film type, since there is no film type
> > available for Fomapan. I had to adjust the curve to bring up the middle
> > values quite a bit. With some experimentation I found I liked one of
> > the various TMAX 100 profiles a little better from the outset. That's
> > fine as far as it goes, but it feels like a pig in a poke to proceed in
> > this way. In the end I guess it always is.
> >
> > I don't see why there would be any point in scanning in 16bit rather
> > than 8bit if doing BW, so I don't see why the option is available, or
> > why anyone would scan BW in RGB mode, which is also apparently possible.
> >
> > Any comments on this stuff certainly much appreciated.
> >
> > Secondly, our dog had a minor surgery about a week ago to remove a
> > wart-like mass from her lower eyelid. She has to wear the Cone of
> > Scratchlessness for a total of 10 days. Scroll down the page if you
> > have the heart. She was pretty doped up in those photos, but acts now
> > almost like The Cone is part of her skin. It will apparently be more of
> > a relief for us than her when we can remove it permanently.
> >
> > Joel W.
> >
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