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Subject: [Leica] My PAW Wk29
From: philippe.orlent at pandora.be (Philippe Orlent)
Date: Sat Jul 23 02:19:08 2005

Didier sent me some very useful info, and now I'm working on it.

Thank you all for the response folks.


> From: Nathan Wajsman <nathan.wajsman@planet.nl>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
> Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2005 07:15:34 +0200
> To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] My PAW Wk29
> 
> 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
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
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>> 
>> 
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> Nathan Wajsman
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