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Subject: RE: [Leica] Nathan's PAW 44 - Halloween
From: "Jay Burleson" <jayburleson@earthlink.net>
Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2001 12:12:24 -0800

Hello Nathan,

(snip)
>http://www.wajsman.com/44.jpg
>Incidentally, it looks on the scans as if the black areas, especially
>from the witch's clothing, "bleed" into the surrounding bright areas.

I noticed this right away. Actually, your B&W scans from the Octoberfest
looked like this also. The look received a couple of comments but I don't
think you connected the questions with the screen image.
If you were doing wet printing you'd achieve this look by diffusing the
image whilst printing. That makes the blacks diffuse. But, since you are
doing digital scanning from the negative...
Do you have a Photoshop "Batch" command set up for running the scans? If so,
maybe you accidentally stuck a "diffuse glow" into the action.
I honestly don't know if it could be a dirty lens in the scanner. It seems
to me that a dirty scanner would cause more degradation than that. Maybe
Mark Rabinier would know - he had a dirty scanner recently.
Anyway, keep up the good images!

Jay Burleson
"It is now the moment when by common consent we pause to become conscious of
our national life and to rejoice in it, to recall what our country has done
for each of us, and to ask ourselves what we can do for our country in
return. "
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
UPDATED 5-30-01: http://www.jayburleson.com/


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