[Rhodes22-list] Winter Wonderland Photo

[benonvelvetelvis at theskinnyonbenny.com]

   Very cool shot.
   On Sun, 19 Dec 2004 17:16 , Roger Pihlaja <cen09402 at centurytel.net>
   sent:
   
     Hi Everyone,
     The list is very quiet today. So, I thought you might enjoy seeing
     a photo my older son Daniel took as an assignment for his color
     photography class at NMU last semester. The picture was taken on
     November 25, 2004 at an expressway rest area on I-69 about 15 miles
     east of Flint, MI. The four of us were driving to my brother's
     house in Romeo, MI for Thanksgiving dinner. This snow covered
     dogwood tree was just growing beside one of the buildings in the
     rest area and the bight noon day sun had it light up just about
     perfectly for Daniel's purposes. He took about six shots of the
     tree from various angles and distances while the rest of us were
     using the bathroom. The purpose of the assignment was demonstrate
     using proper lighting and exposure to get maximum color contrast
     and saturation in a scene with a lot of bright white in it. They
     had to shoot the assignment using high resolution ISO 25 Fuji color
     transparency film. Apparently, this film has a marked tendancy to
     render bright white areas with a bluish cast and that was a no no.
     The color contrast between the bright white of the snow & the
     bright red berries makes for a rather striking photo.
     This digital image really doesn't do the original photograph
     justice either. You should see the image viewed as a 35 mm color
     transparancy or an 8 X 10 glossy print! I scanned an 8 X 10 glossy
     print at the highest possible resolution to get this digital image.
     The limitations of my scanner become painfully obvious; but, it's
     still a neat photo.
     Oh yes, Daniel aced this assignment!
     Roger Pihlaja
     S/V Dynamic Equilibrium