Just felt like sharing. %^q
http://albums.photopoint.com/j/View?u=1005538&a=7400079&p=26757317&Sequence=0
This is a pair of Mexican Petunias, according to one of my field guides.
Dunno, but they're very lavender. Last year's crop was better - took some
hunting to find a couple worth shooting this year.
OM-1, Zuiko 50/3.5 macro, Kodachrome 64. Handheld, prolly 1/60 @ f/8 - to
hot to mess with tripod or taking notes. I bracketed - the other shot was
too light.
Inneresting side note: a local Eckerd pharmacy has a Polaroid 35 Plus
sumpin'r'other slide/film scanner besides the usual flatbed. Pretty neat.
Thought I'd give it a whirl. Unfortunately I forgot to take a diskette so I
had to settle for a paper copy from their printer. The photo lab guy opened
up the box for me - turns out the printer is a Sony dye sub, not an ornery
inkjet like some places use. *Excellent* print quality, way better than any
of the under-$500 inkjets I've seen.
So what you're seein' is a jpeg from a .cpt from a 300 dpi scan from our
flatbed of the dye sub print from the original Kodachrome. Imagine what the
slide looks like. It is gorgeous.
A few tricks that work for me, using a cheapo flatbed:
1. Scan at 300 dpi (resample to reasonable size later);
2. Try the descreening option if your TWAIN driver or other scanner driver
supports it. Helps to minimize noise from matte prints, or from scanned
inkjet or dye sub prints. I used the "fine art" setting for this one;
3. Do all the editing on the big (before resampling) tiff, bmp, cpt,
whatever uncompressed format your software handles. Color/tone adjustments,
contrast, gamma, etc., first; sharpening/unsharp masking last;
4. If resampling to a smaller size, add a bit of sharpening again.
Resampling usually softens an image so it needs a little tweaking.
I'd sure like to hear comments from a technical perspective about the image
- especially whether the gamma is approximately right for those of you with
PCs *and* Macs (I try to set a compromise level), and whether there are any
visible distracting compression artifacts. I just put a different monitor
on this PC and am in the process of recalibrating everything (by eyeball).
Thanks a bunch,
Lex
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