Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/07/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Philippe, The picture itself is nice but I too was troubled by the quality issues mentioned. I think you are doing yourself a disservice by not paying a bit more attention to the quality of the stuff you put up on the web. After all, many more people are likely to see those images than the prints you eventually make. I realise that you are working under time constraints, so am I (this is one reason digital is great for me, having eliminated the scanning step), but even when I was shooting film, I only put up my own scans, after they were properly edited in PS and saved as JPEGs with the resizing determined by me and not software (I do not use PS's "save for web" feature, preferring to set the parameters manually). Yes, it is a bit more work, but I want to present my work in the best possible light (pun intended). Your image of the hand holding the glass and its shadow is interesting and well executed, but it is let down by the apparent oversharpening and other artifacts. Nathan Philippe Orlent wrote: > True about the granularity: 2 reasons > 1) the scan (lowres that they make when I have my negs developed: a cheap, > easy an fast way to see if there's anything worthwhile on a strip of film. > Replacing contacts so to say.) > 2) bad automated downsizing in Jalbum (freeware), that seems to enhance it > even more. > > I scan and rework the preferred shots afterwards myself, but that sometimes > takes weeks before I put myself to it. > > My basic initial routine is to look through the lowres, select the ones I > like, edit them quickly in PS, put them on the web for PAW or so, and have > a > 2nd look at them later on or when friends ask prints. Then I scan them as > should, and put some time and effort in the whole process of getting a good > print. > > --- > > >>From: Chandos Michael Brown <chandos@cox.net> >>Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> >>Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 08:52:10 -0400 >>To: 'Leica Users Group' <lug@leica-users.org> >>Subject: RE: [Leica] My PAW Wk29 >> >>Very nice, Philippe; great catch of the quotidian (at least at my >>house). There's a kind of granularity to it, though, that seems an >>artifact of over sharpening, scanning, or both; this strikes my eye as >>distinct from film grain. >> >>Cheers! >> >>Chandos >> >>-----Original Message----- >>From: lug-bounces+cmbrow=wm.edu@leica-users.org >>[mailto:lug-bounces+cmbrow=wm.edu@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Philippe >>Orlent >>Sent: Friday, July 22, 2005 8:46 AM >>To: Leica Users Group >>Subject: [Leica] My PAW Wk29 >> >>A simple one: >> >>http://users.telenet.be/philippe.orlent/PAW2005/slides/Wk29.html >>Or >>http://tinyurl.com/czegx >> >>Thanks for looking and >>Happy snappin' >>Philippe >> >> >> >>_______________________________________________ >>Leica Users Group. >>See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> >> >>_______________________________________________ >>Leica Users Group. >>See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > -- Nathan Wajsman Almere, The Netherlands General photography: http://www.nathanfoto.com Seville photography: http://www.fotosevilla.com Stock photography: http://www.alamy.com/search-results.asp?qt=wajsman http://myloupe.com/home/found_photographer.php?photographer=507 Prints for sale: http://www.photodeluge.com