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Twelve Images, Antietam National Battlefield Park, Sharpsburg, Maryland

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Photography: Nikon D300s; Nikkor 28mm f/2.8; CP 52.mm B+W Kaeseman (worth it); Lightroom 3.6.
The infamous “Bloody Lane” or “Sunken Road” on a most beautiful autumn day.
Orientation: west by northwest, and the next range over is across the Potomac River. Subject: Mumma Farm. Observation: why Antietam National Battlefield Park may be regarded among the most, perhaps the most, pristine of preservation projects within the National Parks system of historic sites. Photography: Nikon D2x; Nikkor 60mm (macro); 62mm CP; Adobe Lightroom 3.6.
Antietam National Battlefield Park has been noted as the most preserved of historic landscapes and “view sheds”, but even so, its arrangements include privately worked farmland.

CA – Photography – Technical Note

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Editing Screen: LaCie 320 1600×1200

Editing Software: Adobe Lightroom 3.6; Adobe Photoshop CS4; “onOne Presets” Volumes 1 to 3.

Image Standards: Nikon RAW; Adobe DNG; Edited Final: TIFF

Image Sizing: Facebook and Flickr: 900 Vertical; 1600 Horizontal.  Note: for a short period, I was uploading full-sized images, just beneath 6,000-pixels-width, to Flickr, but I’ve settled on the standard noted for the web.   What this means for the viewer is that when the option to see the “original” or “full-sized” image on screen, it’s really about 1/3 the image size available for the file of interest.

One Chance, One Desktop, One Photographer

While my XP-era technology has aged multiple computing generations, it has within the nostalgic traditions of photography — the field is famous for its leading personalities taking great leaps backwards (to wet plates, wooden boxes, FILM, for pete’s sake) to pursue their promotion of the look of having recorded what is to become shared visual memory — rather matured.

I like it.

It and I have already fallen behind.

I don’t care.

The industry has thundered on to the next level — and doubtless has already in hand the level after that — and I’m just hanging out with a couple of old Nikons, digital and film.

Walkabout: Nikon D200, Nikkor 16-85mm VRII, basic filters plus graduated neutral density card (always in the bag), and a carbon fiber tripod.

Portraiture: Nikon D2x, Nikkor manual 105mm f/2.5.

Trestle across the Potomac River viewed from James Rumsey Monument Park.

Trestle across the Potomac River viewed from James Rumsey Monument Park.

I don’t keep track (as I perhaps should), but the Big Landscape is why I carry the graduated neutral density card.

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