Log Rolling (for WC479)

This is humorous. I hope it is meant to be. It's about cloning, right? I see these guys rolling a cloning circle down the beach and many cloning circles above. This antique photo look is kind of neat. I might crop it a bit to make the beach action more prominent.

Thanks RL for letting me say it was meant to be humorous. <g> Pulled this up when I saw what the challenge was and didn't look it over well.

What a great photo! It makes me sick to think of all the wonderful slides that are so old and will never digitize correctly.

I have a bunch of underwater slides.....................If only, digital had come earlier.

It's always nice to see kids having fun on the beach. I like the way the kids are contrasted against the waves. Like Lucy, I wish digital had come 10-15 years earlier.

Great image Charlie! Sands of a youngster's time. I have 10's of thousands of Kodachrome and Ektachrome slides I should revisit and scan. If I only had the time. My medium format slides survived the best. Some of the 35mm (maybe due to more handling to put them in mounts by the processor) have degraded (not all but some have mold/fungus damage).

Yes Eva they won't be getting any better. My medforms are in better shape too but I don't have a scanner to handle them. I keep saying I'll get some done by a lab but don't do it.

Hi Lucy, I always liked this shot of the kids and will never get another chance for that exact scene. This isn't the place for scanned slides at least at the quality of mine. I like them for what they are, but they can't compete with what we can have with our cameras of today

Charlie, as it seems many of us associated "sand" with beaches, freedom, childhood and lightheartedness - in that sense, the emotion in your image meets this weekly theme well! Thanks for sharing an image that is not technically perfect, but rich of memories - to keep them is one of the most important achievements in photography.

Silvia

Charlie and Eva, with a good scan and some simple adjustments with easy software such as lightroom, those slides will usually look better than they did originally. You probably have diamonds in the rough lurking in your files. A kodachrome from the 1970's competes very well with today's DX format. I post images scanned fron 35mm slides fairly often, and I don't think anyone can tell the difference. Medium format scans of transparencies are in a class by themselves. Learning how to look at a weak transparency and visualize a strong finished image is the hardest part of the process. I just wish I had kept thousands of probelmatic images that I threw away.

Thanks, Silvia, for similar feelings about old loved photos.

I know what you mean about some slides coming out better than original, RL. I've thought it is just because we now have the ability at our own desktop to play with and adjust for ourselves rather than accepting what a lab tech or machine gives us. I have however had slides that I just haven't been able to bring up to even the original. Practice perhaps.

I'd love to see this shot in black and white. I like the grainy look of the image - it speaks of times gone by. The beautifully silhouetted boys are a wonderful point of interest, and they seem so small next to the misty cliffs. A little bit of cleanup would go a long way. Beautiful!

Thanks Varina. I am going to spend a bit of time working on this as you suggest because it is a human interest shot of which I have very few in my files.