Original were two barstools on a checkered floor in an ice cream shop. I used three filters from Flaming Pear. I'm trying to make some pictures that I can hang on the wall to brighten up a dark corner.
From a very old slide. Edited in Live Picture and GKON. I think I used a 50mm f3.5 Elmar, as I have had that lens for 50 years. There were hours of work to get the apparent lighting right. The shadows on the original were bluish.
I lived here on Greenwich during the 80's. I could walk down the steps into the financial hub of San Francisco, or turn right and walk down the hill into Northbeach with its Italian restaurants like Cafe Sport, Cafe Malvina, and North Beach Restaurant.
By February 2003, I was beginning to understand digital capture, and selected the highest quality JPG on the PDR-M70, which compressed the file 10:1. It made the file 1MB, and since I only had 16MB available on the card I had to be careful what I shot. Now, 128MB is available. Captured at 3.3MB.
The original slide was so dark, I thought it was beyond help. But with the wonders of modern software - in this case Nikon NX2 with U-point technology (hurry you can still buy it from B&H, otherwise the technology was bought by Google, and Nikon lost the best editor it ever had. Works with any TIFF, JPG image, as well as Nikon RAW.)<br /><br />
Montmatre, Paris 1974 - 40 years ago!
I decided that pre-processing the image in camera (sharp, contrast, color temp) is better than shooting RAW and fiddling with the conversion. PP in GKON and Snapseed to bring out the ambience and do spot dodging. Slide from 20 years ago.
This 30 year old slide had deteriorated in storage and the colors were faded. There was a ton of dust on the slide that wouldn't come off. I rescued it by converting to B&W, then cleaning up in NX2. The toning was added in Snapseed. You can see that the crew have dropped the chute way too early and have hauled in the main and jib while still sailing downwind. The spinnaker sheet has been loosened when it should have been pulled in under the boom, and the spinnaker is going into the water. It will cost them
I rescanned the Ektachrome using a lightbox and NEX-5T with micro-Nikkor 55. Set for Vivid color. PP in SIlkypix Studio 4 for better more natural colors than previous posting. I shot this from my C&C 3/4T raceboat. No one seemed to mind that I was so close to them. My son steered while I filmed.
The idea here is to make an impressionist type "painting" using a digital capture from a Summarit 50 f1.5 which produces low contrast, then to apply various filters, and color changes to produce a pastel palette. Rain created using Pollock filter.
All these pictures made with a Pentax 110 18mm lens fixed at f2.8 on a NEX-5 body. Edited in CS2 mostly using flaming pear filters. Images cropped to select the most pleasing colors. Some took ten minutes, some an hour to do.
