Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Glacier National Park 2004

Some guy named Ansel Adams has been copying my work. He must have a time machine or something.
Here is a picture taken at GNP in 2004, John and Anna, you were there! We were only there for a day or so, but several weeks would have been nice too.



As I had mentioned in the last post, film holds more tonal range than digital. I just re-scanned this negative and found that I could over or under expose the scan by over a stop and get more detail than a single 16bit pass could hold. That is to say, the snow has more detail than is shown here, and the trees in the foreground also have more detail. I just chose a middle-of-the-road exposure setting so that the over all picture was OK. That is where film tells digital to take its ball and go home.