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Yo, yo, yo. What is up, homes?

I made this suggestion months ago and thought I can now put it into practice: providing forum members a scanned copy of one of my negs to play with to their heart's content and post for comparison. Ideally, I would provide a darkroom print for comparison.

If enough people are keen to participate, we can kick this off with one of the Hunter Valley photos recently posted:



This one because I had plans for a more dramatic shot, but with boring skies, early afternoon sun, the neg is dense but the image is a bit boring.



The uncropped version of this one (there is more space to the right and left).

At this stage, given these are 4x5 negs, I will be limited to contact printing but will have some scope for manipulation. I will then scan the prints and post unmodified.

Thoughts?

Since I have no internet at home...you are on...I will download neg scan at work and have a play at home.

game on, where are the full/large res versions?

biggerry wrote:game on, where are the full/large res versions?

I will dump them on smugmug tonight and post the link here. How big do you want 'em?

Reschsmooth wrote:

biggerry wrote:game on, where are the full/large res versions?

I will dump them on smugmug tonight and post the link here. How big do you want 'em?

I like it big

how about 2000pixels on the shortest side? that should give plenty of cropping latitude if required.

Ok, here are the larger files of the B&W and colour versions.

Go nuts - if you want to HDR them, drop skies in, whatever.

One

Two

Three

Four

Cool, standby, i am keen to have a crack at them.

Thanks... I will have to have a crack at home later....may not be able to post them for a while though.

Looking forward to your efforts.

2.5 mins per image was my limit

the first smacked me of a old photo, hence processed accordingly, the second, the key change is teh crop and the colours, the hint of distance detail leaves me wondering what wonderful view the person who sits in that chair is gonna get...

I particularly like your version of the chair photo, Gerry. The crop adds a lot to it.


For anyone who wants to play, I will be taking down the high resolution images from the Smugmug site by tomorrow afternoon.

Reschsmooth wrote:I particularly like your version of the chair photo, Gerry. The crop adds a lot to it.


For anyone who wants to play, I will be taking down the high resolution images from the Smugmug site by tomorrow afternoon.

c'mon , did you notice how the sky in the first matches the forum BG!

I reckon that chair composition has lotsa potential.