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| Church (Hornitos) - Mariposa County 1996 |
I visited this church earlier this year during my unsuccessful Yosemite trip.
The 35mm negatives for both this photo and yesterday's Soo Line photo were very detailed in the foreground elements, but the skies in both images were quite bad. I used Photoshop to perform a sky substitute for them both, then added artificial grain using Camera Raw.
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| Contrail (San Rafael) - Marin County 2026 |
Photo taken with my iPhone near my May Open Studios exhibit . . . same idea as an earlier 2021 photo.
Interesting: the iPhone that I have (13 Pro Max) has started to exhibit a flaw when in the "telephoto" mode, . . . a web search is showing that others have reported the issue. Easily corrected in Photoshop of course.
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| iPhone Photo with Defect in Sky |
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| Market Street View - San Francisco 2026 |
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| Golden Gate Bridge from Twin Peaks - San Francisco 2026 |
Cloudless day, alas. That's been happening to me lately.
Of course, Photoshop can always whip up some clouds:
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| Market Street View - San Francisco 2026 |
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| Twin Peaks - San Francisco 1989 |
Last 1989 photo post, for now. Discovered the image when I was scanning the 1989 backpack photos. Thought I should put it up, given the recent July, 2025 Twin Peaks posts.
[Full Disclosure: I replaced the sky using a relatively new Photoshop feature. The skies in many (actually, most) of the 35mm film negatives are pretty messed up with grain, scratches, dust and whatever. So I've been trying out the replacement idea. We'll see.]
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| Granite, Mountains - Sierra Nevada 1989 |
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| Storm Clouds - Sierra Nevada 1989 |
All backpacking photos taken using 35mm film (Panatomic-X) developed using fine grain developer. Negatives are slightly "flat." Turns out there's a limit as to how much one can boost the contrast using Photoshop.
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| Blue Residence - San Francisco 2025 |
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| Pizza - San Francisco 2025 |
Cropping and perspective Photoshop control for the top iPhone photo. Taken while walking to my lunch date with Marilyn in the Avenues.
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| Villa Concordia (Hakodate) - Japan 2024 |
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| Villa Concordia Room (Hakodate) - Japan 2024 |
Our room(s) at the Villa Concordia were undoubtedly the most spacious of our trip. Two bathrooms! Plus the nice furniture pictured above.
By the way, the original photo of the hotel exterior shown above had perspective issues due to vertical convergence. Photoshop could redo the perspective, but had to cut out the lower corners (see below). So I used Photoshop's AI tool to fill in the blanks (top image). Interesting, I guess.
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| Villa Concordia (missing corners) (Hakodate) - Japan 2024 |
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| Cloudy - Berkeley 2024 |
We were over in Berkeley so that Margaret and Jim could check out my new Sony RX100VII. When we arrived we were gratified to see that Cloudy was hanging around their front yard. Then it transpired that Cloudy was being let into their house! Wow!
I took a photo of Cloudy on the living room carpet, but with not enough space above the creature's head in the photo. So I added some extra carpet using Photoshop. (Original shot below.)
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| Cloudy - Berkeley 2024 |
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| Trees, Lake, Mist (Lake Lagunitas) - Marin County 2024 |
My second Photoshop attempt. Extreme light and dark areas make it difficult to process. Taken with a Nikon Z7II.
Below, a third version. Hm.
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| Trees, Lake, Mist (Lake Lagunitas) - Marin County 2024 |
