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Today we set off for a drive with absolutely no idea where we were going. In the event we ended up driving up to Leadhills, passing Wanlockhead and on down the Mennock Pass to the main road to Dumfries. After Dumfries we headed along the River Nith, past Glencaple and then on towards the A75, back to Dumfries, then home.
Mousewald War Memorial, which takes the form of a memorial gate.
Used a 4'x4' unbleached muslin floppy to warm up and bounce sunlight into the corner. Also used a 1/8 Hollywood blackmagic diffusion filter for just a tiny bit of glow and softening. It has quickly become my new favorite optical filter!
50mm Sigma Art lens at F2.8, ISO 100. Incident metered for the light bouncing off the muslin panel.
Fiona and I recently went off the island for a trip down the road to Camas Luinie. It's a road end we had driven past many times without ever thinking it would be worth a visit. How wrong we were. The drive along Loch Long, even in horrible drizzly weather, was stunning. We will definitely be back again in better conditions. The gloomy weather meant I took very few photos but at the very end of the road at Camas Luinie I came across this abandoned road roller in the undergrowth and thought it worthy of a couple of shots.
The road roller is actually an American machine. It is a Huber, built in Marion, Ohio. How it came to be abandoned in the back of beyond is a mystery.
PS I have just noticed that it has a Caterpillar engine.
Last week, I discovered a raw developing plugin for Photoshop called PerfectRAW.
www.colorperfect.com/ColorPerfect/PerfectRAW/natural-colo...
Technical paper about the fundamentals of their approach:
www.c-f-systems.com/Docs/CompleteColorIntegrityCFS-276.pdf
At first, I thought it was a difficult to use tool that had little advantage over Lightroom.
And then I really started to dig in and reached out to contact one of its developers and it's like a fog has been lifted with developing raw images.
Sigma fp, 50mm art lens with 1/8 hollywood blackmagic lens diffusion for a tiny bit of glow.