Kostas Kavoussanakis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>On Fri, 22 Aug 2003, Mark Roberts wrote:
>
>> Kostas Kavoussanakis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> >May I disagree a little bit[1] about the quality of the picture in
>> >question? It may of course be the quality of my screen, but it seems
>> >to me that the whiter of the grey rocks are dithered crudely, they
>> >definition of their shapes is just rough (yes, I know the rocks were
>> >rough :-),
>>
>> Yep, that's exactly how they appear in film shots of the same scene. It
>> looks like digital pixelization but it isn't; the rocks really look like
>> that. I almost didn't use that particular photo for that reason.
>
>Many thanks for this. Can you also see the white artifacts in the
>bushes?

They're blown-out highlights which have been exaggerated somewhat by
unsharp masking.

-- 
Mark Roberts
Photography and writing
www.robertstech.com

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