Dear Moose,
Thanks for all the time and effort you're putting into this. It really
is very generous.
On the gallery I see two images of each picture, but they're both the
same (not before & after) and they seem to be exactly the same as my
originals at the moment -- so I must be missing something...
I can't comment on the changes you've made, yet, save to say that you're
right about the scanner not doing them justice. They are a different
ball game through my new projector. The scanner seems to over-lighten
the light, and over-darken the dark somehow and the detail and clarity
is lost. I'm disappointed with it, but I'm sure you're right in that if
I were better at using it I could get more out of it.
The trouble is, "playing" with the computer is what I do for a living,
and I can barely bring myself to look at the thing after hours!
Anyway, if you could let me know what I'm doing wrong trying to view
your changes, I'll comment on them further.
Thanks,
Simon
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From: olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Moose
Sent: 28 October 2005 06:53
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [OM] Re: OM holiday snaps
Simon Worby wrote:
>Some holiday photos -- finally (projector broke which delayed things).
>
Lovely shots.
I don't know what the original slides look like, but I suspect the 4990
and Epson software aren't doing them justice, although there may be
adjustments to the scanning process that would help. There are also post
scanning things that can be done. I hope you don't mind, I've done some
quick, simple things to your images to, I hope, bring out some of what
is in the slides <http://moosemystic.net/Gallery/tech/Worby/>.
523-30 is such a nice subject, but the web image has a sort of veiled
look. Here I selected all the brighter parts of the top and applied
local contrast enhancement, LCE, to the rest. I think it improves the
sky/clouds and both the reflections and the underwater detail.
524-19 mostly looks washed out except for the foreground. LCE and shadow
and highlight adjustment bring out the clouds and distant mountains and
enhance the foreground detail. If the original were mine, I would take a
little more time to separately treat foreground and background to avoid
the slightly oversharpened look to the foreground. I like the increased
differentiation of detail, but what's right for the background is a bit
much for the foreground.
525-04 is a great subject, but again, washed out looking and with a huge
expanse of blank sky. Slight downward brightness, LCE and shadow and
highlight adjustment bring some deatil and life to the cobbles, a little
color and cloud detail to the sky, more saturation to the building
colours and bring up a bit of shadow detail. Bringing up the sky more
reveals some nice colour and clouds. Looks terrible on such a compressed
image, as it strongly shows the JPEG artifacts, but it does mean there
is a real sky in the original that can be captured.
525-33 doesn't really need anything, but I tried out a bit of LCE, which
brings up a bit of color and detail in the boats.
Again, I hope you don't mind my messing with your images. I've heard so
many folks complain tht they can't get what they expect out of their
scanners when it's really possible and most of what they want is already
in the image, but hidden. I didn't spend more than a minute or two on
each image.
Moose
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