H4D60 - A view from the Empire State

[David Grover]

This is x-posted at Loony Moose and Getdpi but of course you should see it here too...

I was showing these images at Salon de La Photo in Paris last week and they were very well received.

So I thought I would post them here.

They were taken last weekend by myself at the top of the Empire State building on a very quick visit before returning home!

H4D60 / HC80 Lens / ISO 100. Handheld.

Files are ready via yousendit.com. I am not sure how long these links stay active so get it while its hot!

Second Raw file is uploading now and I will add it when ready.

JPEGs attached in low res. One is Black and White as I liked the way it turned out like that. You can of course switch it back into colour if you like.

If you don't have a copy of Phocus (2.5.2 is needed!) then register and download at Hasselblad.com.

Ill also post up a couple of high res JPEGs if you don't want to download the RAW.

David

File No 1...

http://www.yousendit.com/download/dklweFVVdkdFd2Z2Wmc9PQ

File No 2...

http://www.yousendit.com/download/dklweFVVMVhEbUx2Wmc9PQ

JPEGS (20Mb-ish Zip File)

https://www.yousendit.com/download/dklyRkJUMGM1Ujd2Wmc9PQ

[rem]

wisch to be there again.... Cool job, David!

[David Grover]

Its really amazing what you can see!

Pretty good for a windy day hand held into the sunlight!

[David Grover]

The links were not copied correctly but they are fixed now.

[Dick Roadnight]

They were taken last weekend by myself at the top of the Empire State building on a very quick visit before returning home!

H4D60 / HC80 Lens / ISO 100. Handheld.

Hi, David...
I know that you are the Guru... but I suppose you uploaded the raws so we could experiment with Phocus?

I tend to work down the adjust list from the top, and if the whole histogram is displaced right I, I -ev, and I find -1.25 works well with this image, including sky and river, and this makes it unnecessary to clip the histogram... this gives some detail in the river by the statue of liberty.

If the histogram has gaps left and right I increase the contrast (30 and I left the recovery at 15, and clarity at 57) if not I would use the clarity slider instead.

I thought that increasing the WB to 6,500 improved the foreground, and one could do a graduated red filter by processing another copy to 7,500K, and layering and grey-scale masking in Photoshop.

A polarizing filter might have helped?

I look forward to doing similar things with the files from my 60, which arrived today.

[KeithL]

I tend to work down the adjust list from the top

Probably not a good idea, particularly when you consider that the tabs can be ordered by the user.