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About This Web Site When we undertook the design of this site we employed web designer Jim Mitchell at WSI Albany to help us lay a solid foundation. He provided two very important contributions. First, although he is in the business of designing and maintaining web sites, he was willing to lend his expertise to us with the knowledge that we, not he, would be building the site. He offered us many valuable and practical suggestions. Second, he helped us come up with a “look” for the site. His intial design, although we have changed it some, allowed us to create a site with the look and feel we wanted to communicate to our audience. Thanks Jim; you got the ball rolling. This site is designed to be viewed with web browsers of at least version 4.x on either Macintosh or Windows. If you are still using an older browser, it is time to climb onto your horse for a trip down to the general store where you can get an upgrade. The photos and other graphics on this site were optimized for viewing at Windows gamma (about 2.2). If you are viewing the site on a Mac (at a gamma of 1.8) you might find the photos look slightly “washed out”. If your Mac is running OS X you might wish to go to your “displays” control panel and change the gamma to the Windows setting (2.2) – it’s an easy change that will make most of your web browsing look more like designers intended. We leave our Mac monitors at this setting pretty much all the time. Created and managed using Adobe GoLive CS, this site contains more than 100 separate pages (some of these pages contain as much as the equivalent of 15 pages of printed text), around 400 different photographs (each with an enlarged view) and a whole lot of code to make it all work together. We’d like to believe it all functions flawlessly but that is hardly likely. If you find problems we would sincerely appreciate your letting us know. Thanks! |
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About The Photographs Technical Photography Details: Most of the photos, prior to 2001, were made with Olympus 35mm OM System bodies and lenses. Nearly all of these images were transparencies (Kodachrome 64 or Velvia) and most were made with an OM-1N body, and Zuiko 21mm, 28mm or 100mm lenses. Riding in a rugged Lowe-Pro belt pouch, this system has made countless climbing and skiing trips. Olympus XA 35mm compact cameras were also used on many trips. When weight was not a problem (rarely), Zuiko 50mm, 80mm macro, 135mm macro, 200mm, and 300mm lenses were added along with an assortment of other bodies, extension tubes, flashes and tripods. For a short while, the tiny Canon Elph APS camera was used, but the lack of transparency film for this camera made it impractical. Transparencies (and a handful of prints) were scanned into Photoshop for use on this web site. Starting in late 2000, most of the photos are from a digital camera. The Canon Digital Elph S100 (28mm thru 55mm equivalent) and the Minolta Dimage X (37mm thru 110mm equivalent) each provide 2 megapixel images and either can be easily carried in a shirt pocket while climbing or skiing - no more excuses for leaving the camera behind. Both of these cameras capture images suitable for the web or up to 8”x10” inkjet prints. In June 2004 we added the Olympus C-5060 Wide Zoom to our growing collection of digital cameras. The camera's ED lens (27mm thru 110mm equivalent) and 5.1 megapixel resolution produce truly amazing images. Although not as tiny as our pocket-sized digital cameras, this compact camera features extraordinary macro images and a high quality accessory lens that allows wide angle photos to 19mm equivalent. This wide focal length is essential for capturing climbers in the climbing environment. Nowadays, we rarely carry a film camera. As digital cameras continue to improve, offering better image quality, greater ranges of focal length, longer battery life, and more useful features we expect our film cameras to gather even more dust. Our darkroom has already gone the way of the dinosaur. Every photo made a journey through Photoshop on its way to this web site. Before being compressed for the web, dust and other flaws were removed from scans. Scans and digital photographs were cropped and adjusted in Photoshop in an attempt to show the scene the way we photographed it. In most cases colors were corrected and an image’s shadows and highlights were manipulated to clarify detail. All images were sharpened to some degree. In a few cases, distracting elements were “removed” to make a photo clearer, or an image was obviously altered for artistic reasons, but we generally avoided Photoshop “trickery”. In other words, all heads are actually on their own bodies, foregrounds and backgrounds are actually from the same photo, and what you see in the photos is essentially what we saw when we took them. |
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