Arriving near Glacier Point for a hike the High Sierra were blanketed in a cloud inversion. Not even a mile down the trail Half Dome began to appear through the clouds. The hike was paused and photography began and then became serious having never seen any images like this.
35mm Film / 400mm f/5.6 full frame image (no crop)
Kodachrome 25
Tripod
Scanned @ 3200 dpi / Previewed and manual optimized for final scan and saved as .dng format
ACR optimized and manually spot healing in PhotoShop @ 300% …
Story behind this image. A pitfall in digitalizing Kodachrome images is the D-ICE software doesn’t work on them in that it is a silver based film i.e. basically a black and white film that receives multiple dyes during processing. D-ice software register the silver as dust. So each slide/transparency need to be manually spot healed a time consuming and arduous tasks which I don’t mind so much because from what I understand a flaw in the D-ice has an overall softening of the scan anyway so I choose not to use it on what few E-6 slide I have scanned. I just buckle down and do it almost turning it into a “space invader" type game zapping the little buggers. What I’ve developed is an over layer to keep track of my progress. Line across the frame mean that level is done and arrow show direction and quadrant I paused for a break. Inbetween one stop and start session I checked the image with an array of compositional guides and thought it interesting with this golden spiral that the lines and arrows seemed to work into the original composition. So I framed out a screen capture mode grabbed it and posted it as titled, poking fun and all the 1 and 2 star critics.