Tom Reese wrote: > Thank you for the very thoughtful reply. I agree that going through archives > can be a very good learning experience. I frequently go through my "best of" > notebook (a great advantage of slides - easy searches!) to look for an > image. I wouldn't think of submitting one of those old images for the PUG > though. I'd rather go out and shoot film for the assignment and try to > improve on what I'd already done if I did have something that fit. It's fun > to take pictures. The PUG assignment, IMO, is a good way to motivate > yourself to do just that.
Alas, I simply can't afford it, Tom, almost all the photos I take these days are for stuff I'm selling on ebay or hostess presents... so I have to content myself in poring over when I have stashed in drawers, and boxes to find something. But looking through a loupe at slides is pure torture for me - I must have 150,000 slides - now and then I grab sheets of them that I previously pared down and search for stuff. My BW stuff is easier to rifle through. and then there are the color prints -- arrggh! I'm so far behind in pruning things from the past two years I can begin to tell you. > I'd like to enter the PUG. I had digital prints made from slides not too > long ago and they were garbage. All the contrast was gone, the colors were > off, they were awful. I may try it again but I'll stick with my lightbox and > loupe for a while. Well what you want for PUG though, isn't a print. SOunds like you just had a lousy processor. THe thing about web display is that if the slide is properly scanned and scaled it reproduces the slide wonderfully. Prints from slides are often troublesome, whether digital or C or R - which you know doubt know already :) Best, ann
