What color is your mountain?

[ConsAreLiars]

The short version: these are scans of Velvia and Provia slides and not uniquely manipulated for special effects.

Longer, these were all run through the same batch-processing workflows in PWP5.0. Crop, reduce, reduce again to 800 pixels wide. Then the same 3-tone transformation, followed by bilateral sharpening with the same parameters for all images, and then converted from 48-bit TIFF files to 24-bit JPEGs at 100%, and then the filename was shortened.


















(Also note that cleaning slides/film before scanning is a good idea.)

[Adsos Letter]

1. Beautiful!!!

Reminds me of backpacking at/above timberline in the French Lakes region of the Eastern Sierra when I was a younger fellow.

I won't pretend to understand the technical aspects...but the pictures are first-rate. :thumbsup:

[ConsAreLiars]

3. Scott Lakes/Three Sisters is a lovely place and I thought this was a good example of how changes in

the light change the colors we see and can photograph even when the subject never changes. The technical details were just to be explicit in saying that they were all treated the same and no tricks or tweakings were involved in showing how the light changed. Daylight, assorted sunsets, and moonlight.

Scott Lakes Campground in Oregon has been our favorite summer getaway for years and it is free so it made the feeling of "getting away" even more valid, although it's been three since circumstances made any vacation possible. At 5000 feet, it is accessible and comfortable only a couple of months per year. The peaceful kingdom, harmony, all that.

A few days ago I was showing my SO some of the photos of Afghanistan from the first link in my sig and reading her some of the captions. My voice broke and I found it hard to continue when I read this one:

"Concerning this picture I am often asked: "Did it really look like that?" No, of course not. The human eye can see a range of light which is far greater than the contrast range to which films are sensitive, and films can record a greater range than that delivered by any work of art on paper. The eye can see 3.6 log or twelve stops on a camera, twelve doublings of light, while a painting or a photograph can only carry 2.1 log or seven stops. The real scene was much brighter and more vivid than this picture, and I can only hope to remind the viewer of the sparkle of creation. As I stood there composing the picture, clouds rolled over, rapidly mottling the scene with changing patterns of light and shadow. There were smells and bells, wind, dust, and donkeys singing in the distance. How could a simple print on paper or an image on a screen be just like that?"

On the face of, just words, some a bit dry and technical and some a bit poetic. But it was a reminder that that land had since been turned into a killing field and put under the control of religious hatemongers by "our" government (Brzezinski/Carter, Kissinger/ReaganBush). It was like being reminded of watching the murder of a child. And at the same time it was a reminder of the best experiences I have had, the wind, rain, changing light and all that that these photos try to share in some way.

Click the sig link. I think you'll understand these comments.

[elleng]

2. PURPLE!

Waddya think???

[ConsAreLiars]

4. Indeed. "America the Beautiful"

The Ray Charles version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghz4_kikLkE

[Blue_In_AK]

5. Even white can be many, many different shades

as I learned well in Nome. :)

[ConsAreLiars]

6. Yes indeed. I walked throught your Nome gallery earlier this evening.

Your landscapes during day and sunset hours are great illustrations of how photography is about light. Others s well, bur more subtly.

[Mira]

7. Taking my breath away, they are. Number 2 has the boulders placed in such a

way that I think you heaved them in place. Did you?
just kidding of course but I love that !

[ConsAreLiars]

8. Thank you.

I did position the boulders deliberately, and I'm glad you appreciated that placing. One of those ohboy-ohboy-goody-happyhappy I-got-the-shot-before-the-opportunity-vanished moments of pleasure that photography can provide. Of course, I did it by moving the tripod and elevating the camera so that the reflection framed them that way.