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Appreciate the comments from a number of folks about a couple of the shots I put up on SPORRS last month. I wish I could say I spent days getting them, but what I was really doing was chasing the damn sun around under the clouds. Both the "Orangy" shots were made with a monopod and are from west of IBIS on the BNSF main just out of Needles. I suspect that Dave Busse knows it pretty well. I have been there enough to find a few of the great spots, but I am sure there are more. Robert Palmer mentioned scanning and prep of images. Lazerquick is a Kinkos like copy and office stuff store that somehow got into the scanning business. I found out about the service from my assistant, who used to work there. As I understand it, they have one scanning machine (in Seattle I think) and they send the slides off to that location. About a week later, they are back on CD. Over the last year, price per slide has gone from 85 cents to 99 cents plus about $10 for a new CD and $4 for adding to an existing CD. Someday, I hope to join the "Big Guys" and have PhotoShop to edit images. For now, I have sworn not to buy it until I can take a class to learn to use it right. Maybe this year! For now, I use "Thumbs Plus" to sharpen and occasionally color correct the photos that come off the CD. I usually load a large image and re-size and crop as necessary. Most of the scans don't need much work and I try not to oversharpen to the point that it is obvious. One of the many things that I have learned from SPORRS and Dave C is to work with images as bitmaps and only save once to .jpg format lest quality be lost each time the image is resaved as a jpg. As Dave C mentioned, we got together a few months ago in Kansas City. I do most of my shooting alone and I was much relieved to find that Dave spent as much time and gas chasing the perfect train in the perfect location as I usually end up doing. Thanks Dave and Keith! If any SPORRS folks end up out near Portland and Columbia River Gorge, drop me a note and we can burn some film. Chuck Donaldson West Linn, Oregon "Somewhere West of Denver" (A West Coast Railfan's Photopage) http://www.teleport.com/~cdonald/ ======================================================= -> SPORRS: 'Serious Photographers Of Railroad Related Subjects' -> Web Site: http://www.anet-stl.com/acphotog/sporrs/ -> Message © 1998 SPORRS® - All Rights Reserved =======================================================
