Thanks! I wasn't the one who requested the color version, but will admit that I was curious also. Both versions are great, but I agree with your choice of B&W as the preferred mode of presentation.
stan On Apr 20, 2007, at 10:59 PM, Mark Erickson wrote: > As requested: > > http://www.westerickson.net/mark/misc/ > MinaretsRitterBannerMediumColor.jpg > > --Mark > > Boris Liberman wrote: >> >> Mark, could you please show the color version too??? >> >> Thanks. >> >> Boris > > > Mark Erickson wrote: >>> Paul's Minarets picture inspired me to dig into my archives and >>> do some > work >>> on a shot I took last fall. I grew up on the east side of the >>> southern >>> Sierra Nevada and hiked, fished, and skied a lot in the mountains >>> between >>> Lone Pine and Mammoth. In high school I skied Mammoth 20-30 days >>> per > year, >>> so the Minarets and Mts. Ritter and Banner were familiar sights. >>> After > an >>> absence of more than a decade when I went back last fall and took >>> a bunch > of >>> pictures. >>> >>> The URLs below link to a composite made from two shots taken with my > *ist-Ds >>> and FA 77 Ltd lens hand-held at F/8. Man, that lens is sharp! >>> The sky > was >>> an crisp, pure blue with no clouds--not exactly Ansel Adams' most >>> favored >>> condition for dramatic mountain scenes. To make things a little >>> more >>> interesting I went black and white with a real emphasis on red to >>> darken > the >>> sky. The originals were taken RAW. The only other processing I >>> did was > to >>> stitch the photos together with Photoshop and apply a little Smart > Sharpen. >>> Apologies in advance to those without 1280-pixel wide monitors. >>> >>> http://www.westerickson.net/mark/misc/MinaretsRitterBannerMedium.jpg >>> >>> The large is the full size version if you want to pixel peep. I >>> don't > think >>> that the Bayer pattern de-mosiac algorithms do very well with >>> really fine >>> detail like pine needles. A Foveon sensor or dedicated black and >>> white >>> camera would have probably done much better... >>> >>> http://www.westerickson.net/mark/misc/MinaretsRitterBannerLarge.jpg >>> >>> --Mark >>> >>> > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
