Ras Sadr...

airboatr · Post by **airboatr** » 06 Jul 2006, 07:10

thats a great story Peter
I can imagine the story is being told in the circles they
abide in
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would have loved to hear
that the guy picked up the slug
put it in his teeth and bit down on it
then hold it out to you
and say with in a "John Wayne" impression,,,,,,,,
Wana try that again Pilgrim.......

hehehe
Glad the guy was ok

petermcleland · Post by **petermcleland** » 06 Jul 2006, 19:09

Another small thing I remember about that place was that it was miles from anywhere and we used a helicopter to get there. When we got out of the helicopter there was not a fly in sight...for about 20 minutes...Then, hundreds of them. Where did they all come from? Did they follow us out behind the chopper??

They were that very annoying species that lands on the back of your hand and when you smack at it, does a take-off, mini-orbit and landing back on the same spot in about 2 tenths of a second!

One other thing I remember was the Sheik arriving in his chauffeur driven Cadillac...bumping along over the stoney surface with loud boing noises as the stones battered the under body...He watched for a while, with his Political Adviser and interpreter and then when he had seen enough, made to leave again...We offered a flight in the helicopter but through his interpreter he declined...It seemed he had "Bin there and done that!" :think:

blanston12 · Post by **blanston12** » 06 Jul 2006, 19:45

petermcleland wrote:
blanston12 wrote:Great shots,
Kodachrome perhaps?
Joe,

Those Ras Sadr shots are indeed all Kodachrome Transparencies...I did also use Ektachrome

Again great shots. I have read a lot about the archivalness of films and this is a good demonstration of the colour shift over time. Its good to get them all scanned into the computer to preserve them. Kodachrome is supposed to last much longer than Ektachrome although that's no longer true with today's films. If I had to guess the rift valley shots look like ektachrome from the colour shift.

If you are using photoshop you might try using its 'auto levels' feature to try to rebalance the colour. I dont have photoshop at work but I belive its in the menu's at image->adjust->auto levels. Most other serious image programs have a feature that can do the same thing.

Post by **DaveG** » 06 Jul 2006, 19:55

Cracking pictures Peter, and the stories to go with them really bring them to life

Keep 'em coming!

jonesey2k · Post by **jonesey2k** » 06 Jul 2006, 20:06

Good job it was only the .38 webley instead of the .455 !

Cracking pics! I see the text in your sigpic is well deserved!

petermcleland · Post by **petermcleland** » 06 Jul 2006, 20:20

blanston12 wrote: Again great shots. I have read a lot about the archivalness of films and this is a good demonstration of the colour shift over time. Its good to get them all scanned into the computer to preserve them. Kodachrome is supposed to last much longer than Ektachrome although that's no longer true with today's films. If I had to guess the rift valley shots look like ektachrome from the colour shift.

If you are using photoshop you might try using its 'auto levels' feature to try to rebalance the colour. I dont have photoshop at work but I belive its in the menu's at image->adjust->auto levels. Most other serious image programs have a feature that can do the same thing.

Joe,

I have adjusted them using your recommended method and they are now showing with adjusted colours...You might like to go back and look.

Yes, my Ektachrome colours have not survived so well and I'm going back now to see if your method will restore something to them...Thanks for the hint

petermcleland · Post by **petermcleland** » 06 Jul 2006, 20:26

jonesey2k wrote:Good job it was only the .38 webley instead of the .455 !
Cracking pics! I see the text in your sigpic is well deserved!

Jonesey,

It was a Smith & Wesson .38...BTW I shot many major comps with a .455 Automatic...It was the Colt 1911 .45 ACP which was re-calibred for the Royal Navy in WW1 and then withdrawn and issued to the newly formed Royal Air Force in 1920. I loved that pistol dearly and was very sad to part with it.

jonesey2k · Post by **jonesey2k** » 06 Jul 2006, 21:07

Ah right, I just asumed the service pistol was the same in each force. In fact I was mistaken, I meant the Enfield No.2.

blanston12 · Post by **blanston12** » 06 Jul 2006, 21:25

Peter, the rebalanced images look good, especially the one of the scouts and in the re-arm thread. Auto levels works best where there is a mixture of colours. If you don't like the results there is a 'levels' adjustment dialog where you can adjust each of the colour channels manually, but its complicated enough that I probably could not explain it here.

TobyV · Post by **TobyV** » 06 Jul 2006, 21:29

When all the colours are similarly distorted, one trick I have found that works wonderfully is to use a "smart colour balance" (or equivalent feature) and find an area of the image that should be pure white (or near as dammit) and specificy it to rebalance the colours with that as white (rather like a digital camera does).