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Roger Williams
{K:86139} 8/20/2004
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Good enough for me, George. I'll give them another try. I'm no collector, nor am I interested in old cameras... it's just that rangefinders seem to suit my style of photography! Fortunately there are a few still being made. My Voigtlanders, for example.
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George Marks
{K:15437} 8/20/2004
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I'm sorry to hear about this Roger. To date I haven't had any problems with spam, and I've really enjoyed what they offer. I collect and use old RF cameras, and these folks have provided a wealth of information about the unique quirks these cameras have.
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Roger Williams
{K:86139} 8/20/2004
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George, Sorry but I forgot to reply to your kind introduction to the rangefinder forum. I knew of this from the moment it started, and wrote off asking for a statement of their privacy policy or a URL to where I could find it, and got no reply, so I never had anything more to do with them. Maybe I should try again... I was registered for just a couple of days, until it was clear that they weren't going to answer, and I started getting a flood of spam on the second day. My conclusion was that it was a spam trap, although whether by design or accident I couldn't say.
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Lucas Macedo
{K:12843} 8/16/2004
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Great composition with excellent water flow effect, Roger!
Yes adding some blue sky and clouds does help.
Best regards! ..... Lucas
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Roger Williams
{K:86139} 8/16/2004
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YES! I must say this is a really DRAMATIC improvement... thank, Chris. You've proved your point. If you have a file of this "with sky" version that's bigger than Usefilm's 500 pixel size, could you E-mail it to me? I'd like to print it for my Album.
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Chris Spracklen
{K:32552} 8/14/2004
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Here it is?
I hope!!
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With 'Spracklen sky'! |
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Chris Spracklen
{K:32552} 8/14/2004
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Something like this, perhaps, Roger?
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Chris Spracklen
{K:32552} 8/14/2004
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Hi Roger,
Dropping in a new sky is a comparatively simple business if the existing sky is all of a block, but gets very tricky if you've got parts of it showing through holes in trees etc.
I only know the PS way, and that's as follows?
i. Double click on your background layer and rename it so as to make it an editable layer.
ii. Select all the existing sky ~ usually using th magic wand tool, set to 'add to selection' so that you can keep picking up bits that you've missed. (If you have the 'contiguous' option unticked and a tolerance of somewhere between 20 and 40, you can usually pick it up fairly quickly.
iii. DEselect all the areas you've accidentally picked up that aren't sky ~ usually using the lasso tool set to 'subtract from selction.
iv. Go to the 'layer' pull down menu, drag down to 'add layer mask' and across the 'hide selection'. Your selected area should vanish ~ but it's only masked.
v. Drop in the new sky, having already adjusted levels, etc., making sure the sun's shining in the right direction to match your picture!!
vi. Resize as necessary.
vii. Once you're happy with it, with the original layer selected, go to 'layer?remove layer mask?apply'.
viii. To get rid of any slight fringe around the edge of your non-sky layer, go to 'layer?matting?defringe' and set a value of 1 or 2 pixels.
ix. Flatten your image. Voila!!
I hope this makes sense and that I haven't forgotten anything. As for the new sky, I'm not sure I've got the time to look for one that matches just at the moment. I'm sure you'll have something somewhere in your collection.
Best regards, Chris
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Roger Williams
{K:86139} 8/14/2004
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George, the lens is a standard Nikon 28mm/2.8, and has standard focusing. No problem... I try to use small apertures because I have to use a tripod anyway and the only penalty for slow shutter speeds is motion blur in people moving. Small apertures give me the depth of field I usually need. They also minimise the edge fall off due to using a lens with a 43mm image circle to cover an image 53mm wide!
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George Marks
{K:15437} 8/14/2004
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Excellent!!! How do you focus this camera? Should you be interested, I found another site I think would like. Just hop on over to www. rangefinderforum.com. If you haven't been there yet, you'll be quite pleased. It is so nice to meet others who are also fond of rangefinder cameras. And there isn't a limit to how much you can post!!! I hope to see you there.
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Ahmet Baki Kocaballi
{K:13618} 8/13/2004
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beautiful capture of beautiful place!
i love the small waterfalls and the greens..
regards
Baki
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Bart Aldrich
{K:7614} 8/13/2004
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I have several that I've added skies to...and more to come. I just don't make it known to avoid the lectures on the evils of 'cheating' and 'deceiving' my viewers. PLEASE! Some people just have too much time on their hands.
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Enjoy
{K:16125} 8/13/2004
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pure beauty
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Roger Williams
{K:86139} 8/12/2004
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Do you have a suitable sky for me to try, Chris? If you send one, and give me a few hints on how to do the cut-out and drop-in business, I'll have a go. (Is this really ME writing?)
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Roger Williams
{K:86139} 8/12/2004
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Well, Bart, I have a psychological block on doing that kind of thing, but I guess I could ask the master (Chris Spracklen) if he'd show me how. He might even have an appropriate sky I could use...
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Bart Aldrich
{K:7614} 8/12/2004
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Beautiful spot that looks much better without all the peeps. Maybe you could blend in a sky from another image to complete this gem?
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Chris Spracklen
{K:32552} 8/12/2004
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Beautiful falls expertly captured ~ an ideal capture for an S.S.*
Best regards, Chris
* Spracklen sky!! :-)
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Richard Thornton
{K:26442} 8/12/2004
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Well, I like the artifact (blue). Maybe there's something in the way the 400 speed negative film is constituted that makes it react in that manner. Or maybe it was just an overcast day? I like the overall composition.
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