My other four White Sands film images

[thewayne]

These are untouched negative scans, I haven't had time to do any work in Photoshop on 'em yet. My next purchase for that camera will be a red filter and a polarizer! Somewhere I have a 77mm polarizer, I think, but I'm not sure where it is right now...

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#4

Comments

[bibliofile]

These are cool.

[thewayne]

I'm hoping that with a little Photoshop they'll be a little cooler. Thanks! At the least, the footprints will go away. That's the problem with going to White Sands late in the afternoon.

[disneydream06]

It almost looks like snow. lol......
Hugs, Jon

[thewayne]

The interesting thing is, you use the same exposure compensation!  +1 or +2 overexposure!  Otherwise snow or white sand comes out 18% gray as that's what the meter is calibrated for.

[disneydream06]

I have always wanted to take a camera class and sadly it's never happened. :(

[thewayne]

There are online classes available, and some good books.  I know with your work schedule, it'd be almost impossible for you to take a class before you retire.

[disneydream06]

I remember a couple of times in the past our community ed had classes, but like you said, with my schedule it didn't work. They were always weekend afternoons, and of course weekends I worked. :o

[kaishin108]

I agree, that last one looks like snow. But I have snow on the brain right now.
What a great process. The photos look so dramatic.

[thewayne]

Snow, and shooting at White Sands, is the same exposure compensation.  You want to overexpose by +1 to +2 stops.  I'm ont sure I got the metering on that last shot quite right, I'm not used to constantly working with a hand-held light meter.  Something that I need to work on.  But it's also something that - to a degree - I can compensate for in Photoshop!