How Small We Are

Thanks for the comments on my last photo. Reciprocity is a real problem for us film photographers. It was a big gamble, but I wanted to play. Further Fuji Provia shifts to magenta in ling exposures past two minutes so it needs green filtering as compensation, that is probably what caused the extreme red/magenta glow in the trees. I had to correct for it in scanning pretty heavily.

Anyway the next morning I woke up late, at least in photographer terms, I awoke as the sun was rising. It was still okay as in the Valley you still have about an hour or so before the sun hits the ground. I was hoping to catch more tooley fog in the meadows but my late start got the best of me. My first stop was at Leidig Meadow from the Northside Drive. I stayed up on the road embankment to try and photograph down into whatever fog did remain. There was not much. I again made two exposures here with the camera back shifted once right and once left and then stitched the two sheets together in PS.

As I was setting up, William Neil and his workshop group stopped there and went out into the meadow but moved west and did not get into my framing. Don't know if that was no purpose or not, but it was appreciated. He said hello as he passed and asked where Lon was. I told him he had already left and then William vanished among the trees.

Your thoughts and honest feedback on this panorama of the meadow is much appreciated. I only have one more photo to share from the Yosemite trip after this one.

4x5, Nikkor 150mm, f22, 1 sec, 81EF warming filter, Fuji Provia 100F.