Siddim and everyone else: This is long. Perhaps it should only be
continued off-list.
Acer Victoria <siddim01@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> moved upon the face of the 'Net and
spake thusly:
> at all. Under the preference section, I set it to "sRGB" which greys out
> all tweaking functions. sRGB is also the color profile associated with my
> monitor (17" Sony) and printer (HP895Cxi).
Go ye to www.scantips.com -- You won't get good results without
learning to optimize your contrast and levels (it's not hard).
> :Verticals look a little off on some of the architecture, and some of
> :the scans need spotting. *Don't* exhibit your failures. A good deal
> :of looking like an expert is knowing what to exhibit.
>
> Yes, the UoR is skewed, and I've included the explanation. I have to go
> and reshoot it when I get the time. I didn't know the other building,
> Kim.Crest was skewed. Anyone else?
> What's "spotting"?
Touching up the dust spots, cat fur and other foreign matter.
It's damn hard to get a scan that doesn't have dust speck on it
somewhere, I know.
A "clone" operation is useful for this, where you copy colour from a
nearby area to fill in a dust spot.
> And would you mind specifically commenting on how to better have taken the
> so-so photos?
Your technique, subject selection and exposure seem to be ok.
I'm going to pick on the details, because when everything else is
good, that's what counts.
In general I feel that if you have to explain a photo, it's
not interesting enough. A caption can add information, but it
shouldn't be a crutch. And if you have to apologize for it, don't
even show it.
Bee in magnolia: Very nice, although the bee is barely visible,
and the flower could use a bit more light.
Yellow rose: Very strange angle...quite a confusing image,
and again, the chopped off bud at the bottom grates.
Pentagon: Not sharp enougn at the edges
Gardenia bud: marvellous. A little more space in front of
the bud, perhaps, and a lighter background.
Bad Bokeh Bells: The bokeh's OK, but cutting off the corners of
the flowers isn't.
Cycad: Dust and hair on the scan. Not quite enough
depth of field to hold the front-left frond.
Bloody promising subject, though.
Banana plant: Leaves chopped off.
Life after death: ho hum, really a bit dull. It's hard
to see what the foreground objects are.
Lotus pond: What's the white fuzz at the bottom?
I'd crop this to square, just above the
horizon.
Flowers: Seriously tilted, what's the subject here.
Not really anything to hold my interest here.
Redlands palms: Dust again (or stars?). The convergence
is giving an impression of barrel distortion. I'd be inclined to
digitally correct the perspective. Love the colours!
Prisoners: Flowers are blown out, and not really
interesting specimens anyway.
Orange dwarf: Watch those cropped edges, and you're losing
shadow detail on the scan. I'd like a bit more (or
dramatically less) DoF in this shot.
Lit tree: I suspect that green cast could be eradicated.
Medusa's Head: Just a few steps to the side might have
lost that yellow background. Looks like
it's leaning too. Very promising subject...
try either cropping tighter, or backing off
a bit more.
Highlighted: Wonderful lighting. Not really a spectacular
subject, though.
> :
> :Add a TITLE element to the HEAD area.
>
> Come again? Aren't those two seperate tags?
>
Title goes inside head. Title is what gets displayed in the title
bar of the browser, and it's usually what goes into your bookmark file
when you bookmark a site.
<html>
<head>
<title>My Nifty WWW site</title>
<head>
<body bgcolor="white">
<h1>Top level heading (often same as title)</h1>
<p>Some interesting text
<!-- The rest of the page -->
<hr>
Modification time and copyright statement.
</body>
</html>
> :Use H1 for your top-level header.
>
> Instead of H3, correct?
Yep. Just because H3 looks about the right size on your browser
doesn't mean it will everywhere. It's better to concentrate on the
MEANING of the tags, rather than using them for their VISUAL effect.
That way people with different visual settings still get the
right message.
> :Don't use BR to break paragraphs, use P. BR is hardly ever necessary.
>
> But "P" puts in a blank line which sort of makes the page look empty.
>
So use a style-sheet to change the behaviour of the P tag (reduce the
interparagraph gap), or just write more text :-)
> :Add a BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" tag inside the BODY element
>
> No idea what this is....
>
White background instead of the default grey. If you use Internet
Exploder you probably get white anyway, but other users do not.
It could be "bgcolor=white" but colour names are less portable than
color numbers.
> :Why not use in-line thumbnail versions of your images
> :instead of textual links? I have a (Unix/perl) program that will
> :auto-generate thumbnails if you like.
>
> Uhm, I suppose so. A friend told me about the "table" tag, but I have yet
> to get to it.
You don't need tables. Just this:
<a href="bigimage.jpeg"><img src="thumbnail.jpg" alt="my image"></a>
i.e. A link where the "blue bit" is an image rather than some text.
> All this webpage stuff is on "student" which is the server. From home, I
> have no way to transfer files to or from the UNIX account to my home PC
> because I dial-up to a modem bank and then do from there. So, any editing
> or manipulating is done at home and I transfer with floppies (CD drives
> don't read RW disks).
You can't FTP from your home box? That's how I used to do it when I
was at university (well, actually, when I *started* university the WWW
wasn't invented yet).
cjb.
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