Still using Kodak Royal Gold film, my trip to Greece in 1997 found me on the island of Santorini. This is just a photo down some street, but it gives you a feeling for the architecture...
Here is a photo taken in a Moscow Bazaar in 1992, of course using "film" (only you old timers know what that is), converted to digital by a Kodak PhotoCD machine in the mid 1990's, and then into this beauty using Luminar.
I call this photo "The Sentinel." It is a rock formation in Bryce Canyon that reminds me of someone sitting up on a ridge looking down at the world, waiting...
This was shot in summer 1994 on Kodak Royal Gold 100 film and scanned with a Kodak PhotoCD Film Scanner... (what's that? Well, it no longer exists, just like 8-track...). But with the help of Luminar 3, I was able to remove the film defects (which always are worst in the sky), and this came out quite nice! Enjoy! Be sure to click on the photo so you can see it in large format! You only see the top part here, as they don't handle portrait orientation images very well - only landscape orientation.
Another of my Royal Gold 100 film shots from June 1994 in Bryce Canyon. This image was first enhanced using Luminar 2, and then a little application of the Luminar 3 AI filter. I love Bryce Canyon! It has the most brilliant colors - much more colorful in my opinion than Grand Canyon. Of course Grand Canyon is BIGGER... Shot with my Canon EOS camera, but who knows what the settings were, or the lens? Processed to digital via the Kodak PhotoCD Scanner. Remember them? I even remember when PhotoCD format was supported by Windows and Mac OS. No longer. Times change FAST. I only found ONE program that can read my 120 PhotoCD's now, a mere 20 years later... Sigh. 8-track, anyone?
Bryce Canyon, June, 1994. This is a Kodak Royal Gold 100 shot with my Canon EOS camera, processed into digital format via a Kodak Photo CD Scanner. After careful processing in Luminar 3, it came out looking pretty darn good. Certainly the current and recent crop of digital cameras, such as my Sony NEX-5N and Sony RX100iii give much better results at much higher resolution, but "in the day" a 6 megapixel image was pretty much state of the art.
I love the latest version of Luminar! It has an "Accent AI 2" filter which was used here to do a whole pile of adjustments very quickly. Add in a touch of the Sky AI filter, then some detail enhancement and eliminating the blue layer defects from the sky, and we have a pretty nice looking photo. Not museum quality, of course, but it will do for enjoying the beauty of Bryce Canyon!
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I have been fortunate to travel to many places in my life, and have loved nature photography since a young lad. I have "suffered" through the technology changes (and in fact participated in a number of them). I have many beautiful photos and would love to share them with you! I will add a few a week or so for your enjoyment. Naturally, they are available as prints, as well, if you have such interest.