Photo by Stewart Willason

Last Voyage of RV HERO

Photo was taken in 1984 near Palmer Station Antarctica (Antarctic Peninsula) with an Olympus OM-1 film camera using Kodachrome 400 slide film. I was fortunate to be a young scientist working at Palmer Station and on the Research Vessel HERO. The HERO was a wooden hulled ship designed for research in the Antarctic. At the end of 1984 research season the ship was decommissioned and I was on board for the last trip across the Drake Passage enroute to Chile. I merged the photo of the HERO taken on a foggy/snowy day late in the season with one of the many iceberg photos I took during 1984.

Editing notesThe color film slides were digitized and then processed with ON1 2024/5 RAW. I used No Noise AI to clean up/sharpen, and the develop/local modules to adjust color and tones of the ship and ocean/iceberg. I then combined the ship photo with the iceberg photo using layers. Further processing included adding film grain to simulate Kodachrome 400, a subtle touch of soft fog and a minimal vignette to enhance the mood the original overcast day.

Last Voyage of RV HERO

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