Informal LF gathering, Vienne, France, Sunday March 16, 2008

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Emmanuel Bigler
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Informal LF gathering, Vienne, France, Sunday March 16, 2008

Post by Emmanuel Bigler » Sat Jan 19, 2008 6:43 pm Etc/GMT-1+01:00

Since some of our readers do cross the Channel from time to time, those who will be in the Lyons area, or those who will be skiing in the Alps in March could be interested by a friendly LF meeting in

Vienne, south of Lyons,
région Rhône-Alpes
on Sunday March 16, 2008

organised by Michel Guigue, one of the regular contributor to the French LF forum http://www.galerie-photo.info
initial annoucement and last details to be posted here:
http://www.galerie-photo.info/forum/rea ... 69&t=16369

update here
http://www.galerie-photo.info/forum/rea ... 30&t=17030

More about the organiser and the Vienne photo club :
http://photoclub.vienne.free.fr/guigue.html

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Post by Emmanuel Bigler » Tue Mar 11, 2008 12:11 pm Etc/GMT-1+01:00

March 16 in Vienne, France, close to Lyons.
Yes this is not that close to the Channel.
This Sunday
Here
http://photo.guigue.free.fr/Rencontre_2008/

I'll post a report next week.

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Report on the Vienne, Franec meeting, March 16, 2008

Post by Emmanuel Bigler » Wed Mar 19, 2008 7:08 pm Etc/GMT-1+01:00

The meeting was organised by Michel Guigue from the Vienne Photo Club.

http://www.galerie-photo.info/forum/rea ... 30&t=17030
Many thanks to him for taking care of everything and thanks to Marie for catering and excellent lunch !

For those UK readers unfamiliar with French LF meetings, we have to admit than no real lunch can be shorter than 1H-1/2. So if you insist on a sandwich-and-beer in 5 minutes to save time for taking pictures, probably our meetings are not for you ;)

We were about 15 people. The photo club kindly "rented" the space to us so we had two rooms and several tables to show various equipment and images.
The weather was so-so, hence we stayed inside but the availble time was too short to see everything. Too bad since Vienne, located along the Rhone river 30km south of Lyons has many interesting monuments to show including a Roman amphitheater and a superb cathedral.

One of the participants had brought a second hand Linhof Technika and immediately a friend gave him a startup-up tutorial.
Images shared for our pleasure included : 10x8" contact prints on classical baryt papers, platinum/palladium prints, conventional baryt enlargments on Kentmere paper ; and in order to balance traditional with digital, superb digital views of the Alps made by the stitching technique, about 15 frames 6Mpich each, and a nice example of Vienne from the top of the amphitheater recorded by the High Dynamic range technique (HDR)

"When digital meets traditional" I think that this is the advertising for US retailer, but we could also say the same for our meetings.

In the afternoon, Michel demonstrated with his computer how to build a colour image from the scan of 3 black & white images recorded through three red, green and blue filters, i.e. the direct tri-colour process as advertised in France, among others by Henri Gaud.
http://trichromie.free.fr/trichromie/
The same web site throught an automatic translation into ENglish ! just for fun !
http://translate.google.com/translate?h ... %26tl%3Dfr
One of the questions I raised was about the choice of software to do the 3-layer digital colour process. I say that because I do not want to spend a penny on an expensve commercial software if I can do it with the GIMP, a free digital image processing software.
And a few days after the meeting, one of the participants, Laurent, succeeded in using the GIMP to create a tri-colour image of the same places he had shows us in black and white (the Isère river valley between Chambéry and Albertville).
http://cjoint.com/data/dtl35Jcggu.htm

A really fruitful meeting !!

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