Re: Eastern Sierras/Inyo Mountains
Posted: Thu Jun 09, 2011 1:23 pm
Wow, props to you for the dedication. It seems to be rewarding and the end result is fantastic!shuly wrote:I do use filters, but generally the only filters I use are UV, Polarizer, ND...I don't generally use any superspecial filters for in camera work. Not with digital anyway. One thing to remember is that with digital vs film, with digital CCDs most images look flat, not sharp, and require some amount of post work. Traditional chemistry, film/paper, would give you those bright colors and extra saturation...think Kodachrome or Fuji Velvia. It depends on the image, but I have workflow that I run through for all of my images. The color images take 30-60 minutes per image on average, ignoring any panos or other custom things that I feel need to be done. When I am shooting BWIR (used to shoot Kodak HIE film), I used a 25A or 87 for film work and for digital work I have a modified camera. The hot mirror in front of the CCD was swapped out with glass that acts as an 87 filter. BWIR images take me a significant time to get the post work done. As with my color stuff, I like them to match my film work, but that requires 1-2 hours per image or more. BWIR require typically several layers of curves adjustments and almost all require some D&B. The only difference for most of the images is that because they are digital I don't have to waste 3-5 shots bracketing film and spend hours in the darkroom running test strips over the whole image. I guess I need to do some post on the BWIR images from the trip and post them up at some point in the future.
Really it is just years of darkroom practice and nailing down a digital workflow that I am happy with. No I won't give out my workflow
I suppose I should yank the BWIR stuff out of the camera and throw one or two of them up...but those take even longer.
) , but here are the few that I did take. And they are just cell phone pics. 
