and another differnt attempt at toning. Yet another Photoshop attempt this one using a gradient map instead of of a curve. More complicated still not sure it is any better.
Taken in August of 2006 at the Old Idaho Pennitentairy in Boise.
Lamont Cranston
Lamont Cranston? Is he related to (Tommy) Lamont DuPont, maybe he is the founder of Cranston, RI or perhaps the patron of Harvard's Lamont Libray or maybe the leader of the band, or the father of the erstwhile CT senatorial candidate or his brother — once of the Hilltop and now of the Circle? Nah, none of these, he is the classic pulp superhero, The Shadow. The Shadow as in "Who know what evil lurks in the heart of men? The Shadow knows!". Five from the dark side of the dark side in the Old Idaho Pennitentiary, Boise, ID — August 2006.
First and last two from a multi-shot brackets on the original 5D, mounted on the Gitzo. Dramatic, like Lamont himself, B&W conversion on top of a mild HDR sandwich.
"The weed of crime bears bitter fruit. Crime does not pay... The Shadow knows!"
A couple of more
The flagship snap
Storage is Cheap...
at least the kind most would use to store photos. Storage to do airline reservations might be $100k per Terabyte but the stuff my snaps live on is about $65 per Terabyte. So that means it costs around 4¢ for 10 images including backup. Pretty cheap so why throw them away. More like why not keep them. I keep getting better at post processing and I keep getting better using software that is also getting better and the software is getting better a lot faster than I get better. So snaps that maybe didn't look so good when I took them have the potential to look a lot better a couple of years later. Kinda like booze, whiskey I think would taste like hell right after it was stuck in the barrel, ten to twenty years later maybe it is a great single malt. Anyway, I was looking a NikSoftware webinar for HDR Efex which I got to replace the difficult to use Photomatix so I went back through the archives and redid some old snaps. One thrice bracketed series from Fort Delaware in June of '09, and two from August '06; a single shot faux HDR from the Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia and a set of nine bracketed snaps from the Old Idaho Penitentiary, in Boise.
Snaps post processed in HRD Efex then another pass in Color Efex with Tonal Contrast and then with Glamour Glow. Final tune up done in Aperture.
Anyway, I think these prove, that old is worth keeping around and old keeps getting better — kinda like stuffed peppers, hey!
Fort Delaware
Old Idaho Pennetentiary
Eastern State Pennetentiary
