P� torsdag, 4. september 2003, kl. 21:53, skrev Ann Sanfedele:
Tom Reese wrote:Things are getting better.
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
I have found a lab in Oslo having a Fuji Frontier 370 lab. I scan my slides, adjust or alter the pictures in Photoshop and save them in the right print size with 300dpi. Then I ask the lab to print the pictures uncorrected, without any further adjustments. With a fairly good, calibrated monitor I get prints on photographic paper looking exactly like the images on the computer screen. No one can see that they have ever been into the digital world, and at the same time the prints are inexpensive and better than I used to get from a normal lab. Also, there is little variation between the prints. A friend of mine used the same files in two labs in different towns, and got almost identical prints.
I finally decided to give up Cibachrome (Ilfochrome)....
DagT
