Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/09/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Gorgeous colors and light. Cheers, Nathan Nathan Wajsman Alicante, Spain http://www.frozenlight.eu http://www.greatpix.eu http://www.nathanfoto.com PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ YNWA On Sep 12, 2011, at 11:15 PM, Adam Bridge wrote: > Since I have some time on my hands, and finally I can sit at the desk in > my studio, I'm revisiting a images I took back in 2002 when my wife and I > took our first trip from Lake Tahoe, down US 395, to Bodie and Lee Vining, > crossing the Sierra through Yosemite on Hwy 120 over Tioga Pass. > > This is a wonderful drive and in late October with the color near its > peak, it was especially magical. We left northern Lake Tahoe well before > sunrise, so the long golden sun caught the cottenwood trees as we > approached Topaz. Couldn't have been more appropriate! I believe we > stopped in Bridgeport for breakfast and then on to Bodie. > > I tried to find the original scans but the Wiebetech device that handles > the removable drives has decided that it's FireWire electronics are fried > so until it gets back from being serviced those scans aren't accessible. > But I have managed to find at least some of the negatives and > transparencies I shot. > > Here are the first three: > > <http://adam-bridge.smugmug.com/gallery/18998620_KksJhp/1475955514_TSJ6FHq#1475953672_pRTPk7n> > > These were taken in the middle-afternoon about half-way up Tioga Pass. I > loved the shapes of the willows, their colors, the bits of color spread > through the conifer forest. When I shot them originally I was quite > disappointed, I remember. Perhaps I have learned more about cropping and > about scanning in the meantime. > > These were made with either the M6ttl or the R8, I no longer remember > which and they aren't marked on the negative sleeves. I hadn't learned to > do that yet. It's the older Portra 160VC and scanned recently on a Nikon > Super Coolscan 4000 using VueScan software, the Nikon software no longer > works under OS X 10.7. > > I'm curious about how people react to these. Yes good? Adequate? Do my > memories color them too much? > > Thanks for looking! > > Adam Bridge > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >