Jostein wrote: > Weired story, Wendy. > OTOH, a renowned nature photographer in Norway had an article coming up in a > German photo mag, and the editor asked him for a slide. As the guy works > with digital, he said he could send the raw file if they wanted. But alas, > the mag wanted slides and slides only, so he ended up making slides from the > digital files for them to scan... > > Go figure...:-) > > Both yours and his story sounds to me like lack of competence at the > publisher's. > > Jostein >
Boy, you guys are really into publisher bashing! I think it much more likely the magazine has gotten too many low res jpg files and/or they have not gotten fully into the computer age with the equipment they have . The may have excellent technicians doing dye transfer or such that do them so well that it isn't necessary to get into digital. Or maybe they are film purists. If someone is shooting slide film - giving the publisher the slide seems much better , and easier for the photographer. But if it really is just incompetence at the publisher level (or non-up to dateness) where Wendy was submitting, she surely has the savvy to get around it by making a hi res file and getting it printed though a digi-lab , yes? annsan > > oh, btw, here's the photographer's website. He's a complete Nikonoid. > http://www.naturfotograf.com/ > > ----------------------------- > Pictures at: http://oksne.net > ----------------------------- > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "wendy beard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "pdml" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 9:27 PM > Subject: Publishing and digital photos > > > Someone on one of the mailing lists I'm on needed photographs for one of > the > > chapters in her soon to be published book. One of the stipulations from > the > > publisher was that they were not to be digital photographs as they didn't > > reproduce well. > > Anyone heard of such a thing? It certainly surprised me to hear it. > > Is it ~that~ obvious if a photograph is digital? If I took a file down to > my local photolab and got them to print up an 8x10, is anyone going to know > that it wasn't from film? > > Hot Air, misinformation or what? > > > > > > > > wendy beard > > ottawa, canada > > http://www.beard-redfern.com > > > >
