Very nice. And it's just the kind of wide-ranging BW scene that the Epson printers with multiple grays excel at. Looks like it wants to be a 13 x 19 borderless. Paul On Oct 17, 2011, at 1:10 PM, Mark Roberts wrote:
> Walt Gilbert wrote: >> On 10/17/2011 11:10 AM, Stan Halpin wrote: >>> On Oct 17, 2011, at 11:04 AM, Mark Roberts wrote: >>> >>>> School has kept me too busy for a long while but it's time I put some >>>> new stuff on my web page so here's a shot from this past spring. Late >>>> sprint (May 20 to be precise) there was still -- barely -- enough snow >>>> on Mount Washington for some die hards to ski Tuckermen Ravine. They >>>> were rewarded with about 10 seconds and a couple of hundred yards of >>>> skiing in return for their several-hour hike. Meanwhile down below the >>>> snow melt made for some nice photography of various streams and >>>> rivers, especially on a foggy morning: >>>> http://www.robertstech.com/pages/fotoblog/7db01117.htm >>>> >>> I don't know what the difference is, but I find this shot very appealing >>> despite my strong bias against flowing-water shots. Maybe you've used a >>> relatively short exposure here? In any case, nice work. >>> >> There's a tonality in this one that you don't normally see in any shots, >> let alone flowing water shots. I suspect that may have a great deal to >> do with it. It's just beautifully rendered -- at least to my eye. > > Thanks. The tonality was what I was really going for. The light was > amazing (there's no clipping even in the brightest parts of the water) > but it still took a lot of subtle-but-time-consuming work in Photoshop > to get the tonality you see here. Another think I like about it is > that it's both a high-contrast shot and a low-contrast shot: It starts > very high contrast in the foreground and gets progressively less > contrasty with greater distance, due to the fog. > > The shutter speed *was* relatively short: 1/4 second at f/22 (ISO 100) > with the DA*16-50/2.8 on the K5. > > I think this will make a nice print on the new Epson R3000. > > -- > Mark Roberts - Photography & Multimedia > www.robertstech.com > > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
