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Re: [OM] Too much chat, not enough images

Subject: Re: [OM] Too much chat, not enough images
From: Charles Geilfuss <charles.geilfuss@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2011 14:58:28 -0500
  1145 is very Turneresque Moose.

Charlie

On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 4:46 PM, Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx> 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
> >
>
> Misty Moose
>
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