#2. Saw something about a new bamboo paper Hannamule is putting out now. 'Bout
perfect for this image, I'd say.
Bob Whitmire
www.bobwhitmire.com
On Jan 11, 2011, at 4:46 PM, Moose wrote:
> On 1/6/2011 10:29 PM, Chris Barker wrote:
>> Thanks, Moose. It looks like a lovely end to the day.
>>
>> But 1146CR has colours that seem to have separated into blocks; it reminds
>> me of the days when I had a monitor that couldn't resolve enough colours in
>> an image.
>
> On 1/7/2011 7:36 AM, C.H.Ling wrote:
>> I believe it is due to heavy JPEG compression (59KB is just too small for
>> the size), problem shown on my LCD too.
>
> You're both right. I've seldom processed images with such subtle tonal detail
> in the shadows. I should have looked at
> the results of my standard process for the web before posting in this case.
>
> Now that I've looked into it, I find that is seems to be impossible to save
> such subtlety satisfactorily in a JPEG..
> What you are seeing, especially in the face of the small hill rising from the
> lake, is insubstantial mist floating in
> front of the almost featureless, dark hillside. That's clear in the original,
> and quite lovely, I think.
>
> It's still fairly nice downsized, but still at 16 bits. Even at highest JPEG
> quality, which I think(?) doesn't compress,
> the conversion to 8 bit and JPEG causes loss of some subtlety and a slightly
> chunky look to the edges. Going slightly
> lighter helps somewhat, although at the expense of the look I wanted.
> Still a little short of what I would like, but much improved.
> <http://galleries.moosemystic.net/MooseFoto/index.php?gallery=Travel/NorthEast_2010/Coastal%20Maine/Mt_Desert_and_Acadia/Cadillac_Mountain&image=_MG_1145.jpg>
> And
> <http://galleries.moosemystic.net/MooseFoto/index.php?gallery=Travel/NorthEast_2010/Coastal%20Maine/Mt_Desert_and_Acadia/Cadillac_Mountain&image=_MG_1146cr.jpg>
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