"Rhododendrons Worship"

Thanks for looking. A re-worked 35mm velvia scan at 16 bit. Two scans blended for

increase of tonal range. Your thoughts are appreciated. Please click image for a Larger

view.

Your contrast control is very well done.

Beautiful light and great color. Beautiful, peaceful scene.

Gorgeous!

 

great image !!!

Stunning detail and tonal range! Lovely, Mark. May I ask what scanner you used? I am not at all happy with my current HP.

Thanks, Nancy

excellent colors contrast very good image congrats

Thanks Jerry, Dave, Mike, Ali, Nancy and Gerolamo for your impressions. Nancy, I scan with a Canoscan 9900F from Canon (4years old). I actually don't know if they are still in production. It is a consumer grade flat-bed that works well enough (it utilizes a film adaptor), but as you can see from my tech notes, I usually have to blend two scans from different settings to render shadow detail and preserve highlight information. As far as resolution, I am making scans of 100megs from 35mm at 8bit, but I utilize 16 bit at twice the size for more processing control. I would not recommend this scanner for someone who is serious about photography. A dedicated film scanner, not a flat-bed, will provide better digital files hands down. At the same time, I have printed 24inchX36inch prints from these scans with darn good results. For me, rather than upgrading to a new scanner, I will probably take my very best slides and have them professionally Drum Scanned. I am talking perhaps my best 15 slides. All the rest will be happy as scans from my current model. The balance of my work is from a digital SLR. Good luck!

Excellent point of view and wonderful colours !

Mark, this is beautiful. I normally run a mile from the wide angle close up landscape type of shot but this goes far beyond that. The balance of bright sky top LHS against the rhododendrons is excellent as is the play of light over the whole scene.

As usual Mark your control of the lighting is exceptional.Like the manner the background is low toned to keep the eyes on thr beautiful foreground. Regards-Ross

Thanks Stefano, Jeff and Ross. This was a memorable evening. It all came together so well. I only wish I had my digital back then, but it would require some additional PP to give the RAW a velvia look.

Simply gorgeous light. The exposure couldn't be any better, and the composition is nicely balanced. Very well done.

 

Anish

Excellent image Mark! This is really beautiful with great composition and light. ~ Gary

Another Mark Geistweite original that you are famous for. Well done , Mark!

Thanks Anish, Gary and Leo. This was shot in 2005, a little over one month before we moved to Raleigh from Hendersonville. That was a heartbreaking move considering we were so close to these mountains. I always like to return to a place that I know will produce, and I still want to come back here one day during the same time for another go round!

Excellent

Another great work from you! Regards.

A wonderful image that has been expertly captured. thanks for the info re the scans. I have so many Kodachrome but mostly velvia slides that have been sadly neglected. Oops - almost forgot that i also have some 645 velvia slides. I have to go back and decide which of my 15 to have drum scanned even though I have a canon FS4000US 35mm film scanner.