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Seal Solitude: Enviro

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Posted by Tom_W on June 6, 2008 at 9:56 AM
Seal Solitude: Enviro
It's not that often this happens but I had to get a 617 scanned at 3000dpi for a project so I may as well post it. The final image size of 150M pixels (21360*7068 pixels) makes the 1DS3's 22M pixels look very small :wink:. Printing at 300dpi yeilds a 72' by 24' print of gallery quality; the down side is the memory footprint of the Tiff 16bit is 850M on my hard drive and PS3 really really struggles :frown:.

This was taken at Donna Nook last year about 40 minutes before sunrise on a landscape Fotoman 617 or a Horseman SW617 camera (I am not sure which as I had a Horseman out on trial at some point during that winter)

The beach is lonely at that time, no hordes of people (in this instance I think it was just Dave Kjaer and me) and the light can be superb. The white blob in the top of the picture is the cresent moon which is clearly a cresent in the large image.

A landscape of the seals environment.

90mm/617 camera/Tpod (a 90mm lens on a 617 is about a 18mm lens on a 35mm)
30second @ F8 on 50 ASA Velvia
As scanned, just reduced :wink:

Slightly larger 1200px image Here

T
Posted by Mike Smith on June 6, 2008 at 10:41 AM
one word

stunning

what else can one say?
Posted by Mark sellings on June 6, 2008 at 10:45 AM
As Mr Daniels would say 'Now thats magic!'

That is absolutely brilliant and a pleasure to see...

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Posted by Dave Sewell on June 6, 2008 at 10:50 AM
Well the first paragraph might as well be in cantonese as far as I'm concerned but the picture's an absolute stunner!
Dave
Posted by Brett Lewis on June 6, 2008 at 10:53 AM
Stunning... I can well believe this to be a fantastic image at it's larger size. What a great moment in time, very well done indeed.

Brett. :toast: :toast:
Posted by Matt Cole on June 6, 2008 at 11:12 AM
a great image that I would love to see a larger version of.

Matt
Posted by Adrian North on June 6, 2008 at 11:21 AM
Now that is an image I would love on my wall :biggrin:

Very nice Tom, very very nice

Adrian

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Posted by Paul Everett on June 6, 2008 at 11:46 AM
Brilliant image. Very well done Tom.

Paul :toast:
Posted by eric weight on June 6, 2008 at 12:06 PM
That looks absolutely superb to me at this size, it must be something else at full size.

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Posted by Nigel Blake on June 6, 2008 at 12:10 PM
Superb!
Posted by Dave Courtenay on June 6, 2008 at 12:17 PM
Stunning :toast:
Posted by Paul Gibbs on June 6, 2008 at 12:18 PM
Very nice tom, lovely colours and textures. Only thing, i'm glad i dont have 850mb TIFF's!
Posted by Mark Sisson on June 6, 2008 at 12:27 PM
Good job you've got a big hard drive then!!

Very nice - nothing more to add than that.

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Mark
Posted by Alan Bryant on June 6, 2008 at 12:50 PM
Cracker of an image Tom

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Posted by David Taylor on June 6, 2008 at 12:58 PM
Beautiful to behold. Superb.

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Posted by John Robinson on June 6, 2008 at 1:31 PM
Excellent.!
And on my old stamping ground too.
JohnR
Posted by Bertl Menegoni on June 6, 2008 at 1:42 PM
Brilliant Tom !! :toast: :toast:
Congratulations
Bertl
Posted by John H on June 6, 2008 at 2:16 PM
Looks a perfect, tranquil scene Tom. Would love to see the detail in the large image.
Thanks for sharing.
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John
Posted by Andy Astbury on June 6, 2008 at 6:28 PM
That'll do..... more than nicely :toast: :toast:
Posted by Tim Taylor on June 7, 2008 at 3:01 AM
Lovely shot Tom.

Tim :toast:
Posted by Elliott Neep on June 7, 2008 at 6:39 AM
Staggering - good to see the manual skills are still there after all this digital development. I still think it is very hard to beat a 617, especially one of this quality. Inspired my Thomas Mangellson's large format book, I'm seriously considering hiring one for my return trip to the Masai Mara. :toast: :toast: :toast: :toast:
Posted by Paul Inglis on June 7, 2008 at 7:09 AM
Hi Tom,

Stunning! Simply stunning! WOW!
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Posted by Edwin kats on June 7, 2008 at 3:23 PM
Is it a photo, is it a painting? What the ..... is it. Well I tell you what it is. It's absolutely amazing.
One of the best landscape scenes I ever saw. I would really like to see it hanging on my wall.


Edwin Kats
Posted by Guy Rogers on June 9, 2008 at 4:43 AM
Hello Tom.

This is just first class and then some and some more after that. I'll have to go with Edwin its well up there with some of the best. :wavey: :wavey: :wavey: