Chuck,
Nice shots. Best was the enforced choice of film. Had you gone with a higher
saturation film, it would have been accompanied with more contrast, and the
highlights would have been big blanks. NC is my favorite.
Bill Pearce
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From: "Chuck Norcutt" <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Olympus mail list" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, March 20, 2009 1:29 PM
Subject: [OM] Swamp walk at the Big Cypress Gallery
> Here's some actual OM film images... the first I've taken in a very long
> time. This is my walk through the cypress swamp behind Clyde Butcher's
> Big Cypress Gallery on Feb. 15. OM-1 with 28/2.8 for all (Only
> waterproof cameras are recommended so this was the only equipment I had
> with me that I was willing to carry into the swamp).
>
> Also, the film was the only ISO 400 film I had available, Kodak Portra
> NC. Not known for high saturation I was nevertheless underwhelmed by
> the low saturation on the scans. The film was developed and 2MP scans
> put to CD by Wal-Mart which has always been fine the few times I've done
> it in the past. I don't know if it was the processing, the normal low
> saturation of Portra NC or the fact that it was several years out of
> date... although always stored in a freezer. Anyhow, it took more than
> the usual amount of adjustments in ACR to introduce some (now maybe too
> much) color. Although there's nothing like Moostification yet, not even
> LCE.
>
> These are just mid-afternoon hurried snapshots enforced by the
> conditions of the walk with a group of people carrying walking staffs
> and trying to avoid tripping over hidden roots and logs and who weren't
> happy with me if I stopped too long. I'm not sure there's anything here
> worthy of scanning for real. But it does contain one of Nathan's
> senoritas. I'll bet he didn't know she leads swamp tours on the side.
> Only her backside is shown to protect her identity. :-) Clyde is shown
> in the last shot posing beside the "real" image of the one whose smaller
> brother I purchased and had him autograph that day. It's clear I also
> needed a 49mm polarizer.
>
> <http://www.chucknorcutt.com/Swamp_Walk/>
>
> Chuck Norcutt
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