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At 10:49 AM 5/7/98 -0500, you wrote: > I think this last point is important and often overlooked by us. I >suspect there are shots posted on the page that look bland and flat, but >look real nice in person. This difference is I suspect directly related >to the art of scanning. I've watched Dave scan some of my shots and get >real creative with color tables in order to tweak the shot into looking >like the slide. The process of working with these color tables and >layers is every bit as critical as the actual exposure. Not to poke fun >at anyone in particular but I think this forum would benefit from seeing >the same slide scanned by two or three different SPORR contributors and >then post the shots up on the site for comparison. This would >illustrate the difference between scanner, photo shop software, and the >artistic eye of the person doing the work. Unfortunately, there's one other element over which the scanner artist has little control - the machine the viewer uses to view the image. I discovered just how great the variation from system to system can be when I was putting together some simple web pages a few months ago. I took the images off my PhotoCD and played with the brightness/contrast until they looked "right" on my display. After the pages were up on the site, I went around to various other computers to see how the pages looked. To my surprise, the images looked washed-out on most of the machines I tried, and the color registration varied greatly as well. As I browse the web, I often come across pictures that look dark or just "funny." I used to wonder what the web authors were thinking, but now I wonder if they were just tweeking their pictures until they looked "right" on their systems, too. -- ____ ____IOOI__I___________ /| Evan Werkema I\ | O O O | | | Berkeley, CA I | |_|______ATSF______|_|__| | [EMAIL PROTECTED] I |_ `-'O==O ==== O==O`-' O==O"""""""""""""""""""""""O==O ======================================================= -> SPORRS: 'Serious Photographers Of Railroad Related Subjects' -> Web Site: http://www.anet-stl.com/acphotog/sporrs/ -> Message © 1998 SPORRS® - All Rights Reserved =======================================================
