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This image "If I were a Raindrop" and "Paris in Snow" are probably my most iconic images. I shot this image during my San Francisco Presidio project. I had been cooped up during two week rainstorm. This was the firs moment of not raining. I literally tripped over a tree root and shot this whist falling into the mud.

 

I thought that the raw file for this image was lost to me for forever.... Had a hard drive go tits up, back before I knew about backing everything up and back before I could afford a lotta hard rives. I came across it being misfiled in another image's folder whilst going through my file spring cleaning of my 48TB server. Trust me it is a mind numbing eye crossing endeavor. I have always wanted to redo this image. Bu all I ever had was on copy of it as a flattened tif done with the knowledge base of 18 years ago (back when I knew considerably more than I now know I know today) The reason I am beside myself reliving the glory days of yore is Epson Legacy Etching paper and the P9000's new inset. The problem is the file I had was unprintable because of the quality of the paper and printer head and gamut of the ink. I simply did not have enough data. I spent three days on this file from RAW to final print file to get it the way I have always believed it should truly look. It will replace the one I currently have (44x36) hanging over my bed in my bedroom. The colors I was able to pull from the file using picture control in NXD as well as having a much better understanding of how things work.... I would recommend that every one revisit some of the old chestnuts of one's career and take the file out for a spin

 

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Uploaded on May 29, 2017