Velebit - Jan 3, 2003 4:58 pm - Hasn't voted
OMG, yet another beauty!Yet another stunning Mount Shuksan photo! How many do you have? :-) I'm wondering Greg are your photos scanned prints or film or digital and which camera do you use?
Dave K - Jan 3, 2003 5:04 pm - Hasn't voted
Re: OMG, yet another beauty!Another great one, Greg!!! Thanks for sharing it with us.
gotlight - Jan 3, 2003 6:59 pm - Hasn't voted
Re: OMG, yet another beauty!Thanks for the kind words. The photos are all scanned from 35mm slides (almost all Fuji Velvia). I use a couple of Canon EOS camera bodies and Canon lenses. Most of my landscape pictures up to now were taken with either a 24mm prime lens or a 28-105 usm zoom. That'll change soon, since I just got a spiffy new 24-70mm lens this week that's supposed to be super sharp. I'm anxious to see results from it.
Greg
Martin Cash - Jan 3, 2003 7:23 pm - Hasn't voted
Re: OMG, yet another beauty!If your photos were any sharper they would cut me! What kind of scanner do you use? My old one does a horrible job even at 600 dpi 24 bit. I just bought a digital camera, because the quality of the scans are so bad.
Keep them coming...
gotlight - Jan 3, 2003 8:24 pm - Hasn't voted
Re: OMG, yet another beauty!I use a Nikon coolscan IV scanner (it's about 2900 dpi I think). It's ok, but I find it takes a fair bit of level adjustment to bring the scan back up to where it matches the original again. Maybe other scanners have the same issues though.
icegrip - Jan 9, 2003 5:22 am - Hasn't voted
Re: OMG, yet another beauty!Gotlight -
Great shot. I was supposed to be out in the N. Cascades last August, but was forced home early from Wyoming with two broken/crushed toes.
I use a Coolscan IV also to scan all my Provia 100F slides. Try using VueScan instead of the factory software.
I find with VueScan the scan immediately looks much like the slide. It also has a nifty mid-tone feature where you can click on a mid-tone in the scan and the software adjusts the rest of the picture accordingly. Works great.
Wanna talk to me into using Velvia instead of Provia?
Scott
gotlight - Jan 9, 2003 9:06 pm - Hasn't voted
Re: OMG, yet another beauty!Thanks for the tip about VueScan Scott. I'll definitely give that a shot (anything to reduce the amount of fiddling in photoshop to bring the colors back up to the slide's levels!).
Alright....so I need to make a case for Velvia huh? I've actually only tried shooting Provia a few times. I used it for wildlife stuff where I was afraid I'd need faster shutter speeds, so maybe I'd neeed to shoot more of it to really justify my preference. It seemed a bit less saturated than Velvia when I tried it. Colors really seem to have more "pop" on Velvia. Plus you're getting a slower film than (I assume you're using) 100f Provia, which should give less apparent grain if you blow the shots up. Of course slower film means longer shutter speeds means you need to find more ways to stabilize the camera. Tripod, piles of rocks, whatever. I usually bracket shots and may take a couple extra frames for insurance. There've been a few times that this has saved me when one of the shots came out blurry from a gust of wind.
It's about the same cost as Provia per roll...it's worth trying a couple of rolls for comparison :)
Greg
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