Thanks R.G. for letting me play with this image. This is my try.

Thank you, the tablet back in business.

Thank you for posting. I have bookmarked this to add to my Adams library.

John

Herb and Tom, the link provided in this post is for the windows download. Go to Sony.com for the Mac version.

Thanks for posting the resource link Linda. That'll keep me busy for a while.

Hi Linda, I see this on canvas with some kind of clear gel applied to give brush stroke texture. I love the concept.

Thanks for posting these pictures. I thoroughly enjoyed using the Zone System for about 50 years, before I switched to digital. The process of carefully metering the shadows to determine the correct exposure, and then metering the highlights to determine the appropriate developing time, resulted in many very printable negatives over the years, the "score" as Adams put it.

I see that the shadows in your pictures are quite dark. If that was what you wanted, you got it! If I photographed the log in the first picture, I would have wanted some detail in the cut end of the log. Does your negative show any detail there? I would like to hear your intent for that picture.

To me, color is irrelevant in this image. I would convert to black and white and make it very dramatic. Then crop to emphasize the contrast between the huge cloud and the small sailboat.

Thank you AnthonyM for bringing this up, and thank you SalvageDiver; you taught me too.

My try, using CaptureOne.

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Thank you for posting. I ordered one. It should work perfectly with my panorama setup, which includes keeping the "L" bracket on my camera.

I like your concept. In fact, you have inspired me to try something along these same lines.

One suggestion I have is to slightly blur and reduce the contrast of the cloud background to separate it from the leaves.

Thanks for the inspiration.

John

I have a Sony A6000 and there is a menu setting that switches the Live View WYSIWYG "on" or "off". I set it to "off" when working with flash in the studio to see what the lens sees.

Very interesting. Thanks for posting.

Me too. Thanks for the heads up.