Great american National Parks in winter

[danmasse]

Hello from France !

I visited some of the great american National Parks in winter... a long time ago... (January 1994 and again in January-February 1995), and of course I brought back a number of great pictures (I went only to take pictures...).

Also, I was carrying a 6x6 Hassy (and a tripod !).

I never made shows with these pictures - but the virus gave me the time I needed to scan the pictures (6x6 negas, 4,5x4,5 slides and 24x36 slides : quite a job !).

I have now completed 4 shows : Death valley, Zion, Monument Valley and Bryce Canyon. They are on my Vimeo channel : www.vimeo.com/channels/danmasse or :

Death valley :

Zion :

 

Monument Valley :

 

and Bryce Canyon :

 

Enjoy !

[JRR]

Trés bien Dan!!

Must have been quite a lot of work as you say digitizing the images. The productions are very well done.

Merci

[danmasse]

Thank you JRR !

The most difficult was the post treatment of the negas : I did not have the reference we have in slides... I had to rely on my memory...

Thanks again !

[landsberger]

Beautifully presented and produced. I like the way that you presented the square format images excellent quality!

John

[nelson]

Beautiful photos, would love to see them projected on a large screen.

Thanks for sharing,

Kieron

[danmasse]

Thank you John and Kieron !

I spent a wonderful time visitng the Parks in winter... and again when I digitized the pictures and relived my experiences...

In fact, I have travelled to many wonderful places in the world (see for instance my show on mountains of the world), but I believe the US Parks are the most varied and beautiful...

 

Thanks for visiting !

 

[Bert]

Dan, beautiful quality audio visuals that show how good medium format film was.  You did a lot of work with the digitizing and making these AV's.

I liked the way you incorporated the old westerns in your "Monument Valley" show.

Thanks for showing.

Bert

[danmasse]

Thanks Bert for your message !

 

Indeed, medium format film was of a quality the digital cameras do not always meet...

A friend of mine, a professional photographer, tells me that in his opinion, a good scan of a medium format picture is easily as good as a modern digital photo of 35-45 Mo. He still uses a panoramic argentic camera quite often : he says the colors have no equivalent in the digital pictures - and I quite agree with him.

I am presently posting on Vimeo a slight variation of my Bryce show : I was not satisfied with the dancing girl on the last picture. I litteraly spent days trying to build a better animated gif. I guess this one is better - but not perfect. And animated gif's are not easy to integrate smoothly into PTE...

Well, that will do - until I find a better way... I have already spent too much time for a few seconds of the show...

I wish you all the best !

[landsberger]

Dan

I think that your "mountains" sequence is absolutely superb  in the presentation and quality!

When I was a bit younger Used my Rollei 6008 plus lenses along with a Leica R7 plus lenses on holidays in Switzerland, however I don't think I could carry that much now!

A question if I may. What scanner and software do you use?

Regards

John  

[danmasse]

Hello landsberger !

Thank you so much for liking my pictures of mountains ! Carryng the camera, the lenses and sometimes the tripod, was worth the effort. Like you, I could not dream of doing that again now, but at least I have the pictures ! And I spent a wonderful time scanning them and putting them together in a show... It was worth it : otherwise, the pictures would be lost forever...

I have an excellent scanner - maybe the best : a Nikon Coolscan 9000 ED. And I use Vuescan. I scan to raw (dng) and I make the corrections with Phososhop and Camera Raw. I did spend quite a few hours to decide on a working process...

Regards !

 

Dan

[landsberger]

Dan

Thanks for your kind reply. I use a Nikon as well, mine is 8000 ED and Vuescan. I also have got Silverfast which I will get to try sometime.

regards

John 

[danmasse]

Hello John !

I believe the 8000 ED and the 9000 ED are almost identical - except that the 9000 accepts the 6x6 dias and negas. The 9000 costs an arm... if you find one. But some are avalaible on the used market. The main problem is that it is fairly delicate, and must be handled sith great care (don't carry it using the door opening !). And it may be difficult to find a repair technician...

I try not to move mine at all... And I still use Windows 7, as I am not certain that it would work with Win 10 (Ed Hamrick says it does...). The problem, as I see it, is that it is connected by FireWire, a connection which is not available on recent computers.

They are both of an excellent quality

[landsberger]

Hello Dan

Sorry not to have replied earlier, have been in hospital for 5days.

The Nikon 8000 is virtually identical to the 9000 they both use the same film slide holders and the 8000 scans 6x6 and 6x9 fortunately I have been able to get all of the film adapters available including the rotating glass holder which has Hasselblad XPan masks included.

My system is Windows 10 X64  and Vuescan / Nikon work perfectly. I keep on looking at the Nikon 9000 but the prices are very high when they appear here in Australia.

Mine is connected by Firewire I installed a pci firewire card in the main PC and have the Nikon and an Epson perfection flatbed permanently connected

John