Hi Bill, Thanks. I had experimented with cropping the shot as you mention. I kept flip-flopping back and forth between preferring the cropped version and preferring the original. I couldn't decide so I went with the original. As I look at it again, NOW I would choose the cropped version. :-)
Blockiness... are you viewing this with a CRT or an LCD display? I saw blockiness on my laptop display. I had William Robb take a look and he made some adjustments. In both cases, my version and his, I could see blockiness in the sky on my LCD. On my Trinitron monitor I could not see ANY blockiness in EITHER version. I'm running 24-bit color on my laptop and 32-bit on the desktop system. Maybe that's the difference. I didn't try running 24-bit on the desktop. What bit depth are you running at? Thanks again for commenting. Tom C. > > "Reaching for the Moon", by Thomas Cakalic > I like the simplicity of this composition. Just a personal preference, I > guess, but I might crop the bottom 30% of the shot -- just below that big > rock. Again, just a personal preference. The colors in the sky are nice, > but I notice on my monitor some pixellation, or posterization, or blockiness > -- not sure which of these, if any, is the right word. Is this a scanning > artifact, or just my monitor? I know that large areas of sky are tricky to > scan, but I wasn't sure if that's what I was seeing. I imagine that the > original slide looks great. An enjoyable shot -- reminds me what I miss > about the big mountains out West. - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
