This photograph was taken with the Kodak DCS 560 6 million pixels digital camera which I tested for Electronic Publishing Magazine. The tests, together with a multi-page report on the camera and my impressions of it, were publised in the February 1998 issue of Electronic Publishing.

I saw the image in black and white in my mind's eye. However, I originally shot in color because the DCS 560 did not include a black and white mode. In fact no professional digital camera, to my knowledge, includes a built-in black and white mode. I created the black and white version in photoshop by reducing the original file to a grayscale image and then adding a sepia tone to it in RGB mode.

The original color photograph was published on the Cover of Electronic Publishing with a serious cropping to make it vertical instead of an horizontal. The cover is below and provides an interesting insight on how cropping can affect an image.

Hogan and Mesa



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