fhmillard

Thank you Chris!! I take it from your comments that I must be on the right track here. Your portfolio is both instructive and inspirational and often humbling, so your comments have great meaning.

This is a photo of a bristle cone pine I posted last year. This photo was taken this 4th of July.

I used my new Nikkor PC 24mm f3.5 on my new D300; using this lens takes some patience and reminders of manual photography -- a sturdy tripod and 3d geared head help too.

The lens not only tilts and shifts, but also allows rotating both cw and ccw. Here the lens was rotated 60deg. cw (to the right) looking from the back of camera, so that the shift feature is diagonal on the sensor (film) plane producing a decent capture of the tree along the diagonal. The lens was tilted up to give the tree more presence from the background.

Shooting at f32 emphasizes lots of nasty noise. Here the sky had some noise, noticeable at 300% enlargement, easily corrected in capture NX and PS without much loss of detail.

This is my favorite in this series. I made some slight adjustments -- I hope you don't mind.

Thank you Henri and thanks for stopping by.

It is an experiment because it is one of my first photos with a perspective control (PC) lens that tilts and shifts -- so the walls and the vertical parts of the archway are in the same visual plane and do not seem to lean.

Indeed a masterpiece illustrating the constant effort required for neatness and cleanliness.

But, to me, it is the artistic geometry that is captivating -- the linearity!! Her 90 deg. bend, the vertical and horizontal lines in the bricks, ornamental iron and steps; all contrasted by the angle of her rake or hoe.

Thank you Carsten!!

Yes, there are some issues with contrast here in this image, but the out of camera, non-retouched image (attached) is better.

Looks like a roller-coaster, eh?

Thank you T.M. and Carsten. I like this shot too, very much.

I spent most of this day dodging bursts of snow and sleet, and finally a break in the clouds. Except for cropping and TLR Platinum toning, curves black point set in lower foreground and white point on snow at right; 60% opacity.

My D200 could never capture subtle tone variations in the clouds and rock or the misty shroud on the center peak nor the shadowy scene at center left with detail like this.