Before and after

[the foto fanatic]

In the Gold Coast Hinterland is the Springbrook National Park, and in the park are the Purling Brook Falls - they are about 100 metres in height.

I went there last week to take a few snaps, and when I got them onto my computer today they looked rather familiar. Trawling through Lightroom, I found an old photograph that I had digitised from a slide, probably Ektachrome. The camera would have been a Nikon FM2. Can't tell you the exact date, but around 20 years back.

Here they are, the older one first:


And last week's effort - Nikon D700, 14-24mm f2.8:


As I didn't reference the older photo before I went out, I was interested to compare the two. I believe the lens on the FM2 would have been a 28-70mm, hence the difference in perspective. Also, the weak contrast in the first may well be from the scanning process, although I think that I may have taken it in the middle of the day, whereas the second was taken around 9am.

In any case, it is interesting to compare and contrast two images separated by time and technology.

[Remorhaz]

Doesn't look like a lot has changed - still relatively untouched by man...

[the foto fanatic]

Nature moves slowly

[aim54x]

Nature does move slowly...but I have to admit that I prefer the second image. Wouldnt it be interesting to retake the image on film with the 14-24 (you will have to go to another film camera though)?

[the foto fanatic]

Nature does move slowly...but I have to admit that I prefer the second image. Wouldnt it be interesting to retake the image on film with the 14-24 (you will have to go to another film camera though)?

Hadn't even thought of that! I hate to admit it, but my last film camera had to be junked after severe battery corrosion rendered it unusable.

The second image is better, but I think that my scanning was not the greatest, leaving the first rather flat.

[aim54x]

Nature does move slowly...but I have to admit that I prefer the second image. Wouldnt it be interesting to retake the image on film with the 14-24 (you will have to go to another film camera though)?

Hadn't even thought of that! I hate to admit it, but my last film camera had to be junked after severe battery corrosion rendered it unusable.

I have been thinking about doing something like that....thankfully I still have a few film cameras and now a full frame digital

[Murray Foote]

In any case, it is interesting to compare and contrast two images separated by time and technology.

... and experience. Apart from any technical problems in scanning, the first image is cropped too tight and the second works much better as a composition ... - although, come to think of it, maybe that's the lens. You probably took it on 28mm and couldn't get further back but needed at least 24mm. In that case, equipment rather than technology because you could have had a wider lens though it wouldn't have been as good as the 14-24.