Great photographs Mark. Really impressive. Although I
really admired yor macro work this was the one that
caught my attention
http://www.markcassino.com/01010702pandora_e1.jpg
Really cool.
Thanks - there's a larger version of that pic here:
http://www.photoblink.com/imageView.asp?ImageID=6239&SortBy=&SortOrder=&GroupBy=AuthorID&Value=297
I noticed that your scans look clear and crisp. Would
you care to share a little of your technique in
digital scanning/preparation?
The shots on the site are probably 60% slide film with 40% print film. Slide were scanned on a Minolta Dimage Elite, the prints were scanned in an old, first generation HP Photosmart. (Up till the most recent revision, which I just downloaded a week ago, the Minolta soft ware was horrible at color correcting for print film. The new driver is a big improvement, but still not as good as the old HP.)
Scans are done at the maximum resolution (2820 for the Minolta, 2400 for the HP.) I try to do any adjustments to the large file. I do a fair amount of cropping, followed by global levels adjustments, resample to the display size, and then sharpen with the Corel "directional sharpen" filter. Everything is saved as a Tiff and compression is done with ACDSee, which seems to be very good at automatically compressing to a small file size without hurting image quality too much.
- MCC
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Mark Cassino
Kalamazoo, MI
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