Yet Another Fuji
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Can you tell I love Fuji? What a classic shape, your standard volcano, a child’s idea of a mountain — yet how absolutely it transcends its simple geometry. Here it is looming over the Kanto plain this morning, seen on my morning walk through the Agricultural University.
I’m trying to figure out how to fatten the histograms on these long telephoto shots. There’s a lot of air between the camera and the subject, and everything pretty much turns blue. The tonal range thins right out and I don’t know how I should be filtering to correct it. I didn’t spend any time at all on this shot, so you can see the problem I’m having. Any ideas would be much appreciated.
By the way, I’ll try to remember to post exposure details in title attributes attached to the pictures so that mousing over the image will provide the information.Seems like the neatest way to do it for those that are interested.
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Posted to Photographs • 2003.10.31 (Fri) • 01:14
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Posted by Andy 2003.10.31, 02:26
Who doesn’t like Fuji? ;-)
By the way, I’ll try to remember to post exposure details in titleattributes attached to the pictures so that mousing over the image will provide the information.Seems like the neatest way to do it for those that are interested.Unless you’re using Safari, which doesn’t translate title tags as ‘tool tips’ on images. Too bad. There’s always view source, though.
Great picture.
Posted by jh 2003.10.31, 02:30
Safari should still show the information at the bottom of the window in the status bar. Hardly the most convenient location, but you shouldn’t have to go to the trouble of viewing source (not that you’re not welcome to, of course).
Posted by Eric 2003.10.31, 08:23
Simply beautiful image of Fuji-san. I almost moved to Portland, OR. simply because I could not move to Japan and Mt. Hood is shares some special qualities with Fuji. Not the same, but in a similar spirit.
Is this a digital image (as opposed to film scanned?) There are some tools that help remove color casts easier/better than photoshop-my favorite (though out of my price range) is Capture One DSLR Pro. They sent round a demo CD last month. Nice color cast removal and whitebalancing tools. If you are working from 16 bit tiff’s or one of the supported RAW formats it will allow you a lot of flexibility.
Posted by resonance 2003.10.31, 11:15
Jeremy,
Eric’s on the right track. To get a bit more latitude with your exposures, shoot in RAW mode and use a good converter. I use Adobe Camera Raw (mostly because C1 isn’t available for Macs, but also because it integrates well with PS). Check out the demo.
Color corrections are best done, I find, in LAB mode. That said, heavily modified hazy shots tend to turn blue no matter what you do, and if you push it too far, hazy images get rather nasty. Try shooting with a warm colored filter. Sometimes a UV/Haze filter or polarizer does the trick too.
Looks good in B/W, though.
Posted by jh 2003.11.01, 21:10
Thanks for the advice.
Eric —- thanks for the recommendation. C1 is currently incompatible with Mac OS 10.3, but when they say a new version is on the way which resolves the problem. When that gets posted, I’ll definitely take a look. It does sound promising.
resonance —- that was shot in RAW mode. ;-/ I’m using a Nikon, so it’s NEF format. Bringing them into Photoshop via Nikon’s plug-in. I haven’t tried the Adobe plug-in yet — not sure I want to pay for it seeing as it’s bundled into Photoshop CS, which I’ll need to upgrade to at some point.
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