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Re: [OM] Some Iowa Zuikfest Photos

Subject: Re: [OM] Some Iowa Zuikfest Photos
From: John Hermanson <omtech1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 01 Sep 2009 10:17:00 -0400
That was a problem I had when I first put my Jalbum up.  Sharpening 
(slightly hidden in the jalbum settings) was up, the pictures just 
didn't look right.  resetting sharpening to "0" made everything MUCH 
better.
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Joel Wilcox wrote:
> Hi Chris,
> I had a look at settings and discovered that Jalbum was both
> sharpening and compressing.  I turned off sharpening and went with
> 100% jpg (since I'd already sized them).  I hope they look better to
> you now.  Thanks for tipping me off.
> 
> Joel W.
> 
> On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 9:49 AM, Chris Barker<ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Thanks, Joel.
>>
>> I started looking at your photos in the JAlbum pages from the link
>> below, but the colour looked strange and the grain seemed to stand
>> out.  But then I noticed that I could launch CoolIris by hovering the
>> cursor over the forward/back delta-pointers.  In CoolIris they looked
>> much better, as you see them, I hope.  I don't know what JAlbum was
>> doing to your lovely images, but it was no favours on my iMac.
>>
>> I enjoyed the old building shots in the first 3; the rusty staircase
>> was a bit flat for me, but the Spaulding chimney was interesting, as
>> were the flowers.  Is that Canadian Gordon, far from home?
>>
>> Chris
>>
>> On 31 Aug 2009, at 05:17, Joel Wilcox wrote:
>>
>>> As most of us were shooting film, the photos will be coming in the
>>> next days and weeks.  I was shooting Kodachrome, but I brought along
>>> the E-3 for those occasions where it would be difficult to get
>>> anything on an ASA 25 film, which was a good bit of the time because
>>> of the wind.
>>>
>>> My journey began with my friend Paul, who is new to OM and has been
>>> something of a protege.  He is also a motorcyclist, so we had a nice
>>> ride together on back roads through some very pretty country and some
>>> pretty little towns with picturesque names like "Deep River" and
>>> "Montezuma."  Not to mention "Brooklyn."  Oh well.  We took the long
>>> way getting to Grinnell, managing to string out a 70 miles trip into
>>> 100, but stopped only once to look at a bit of prairie in northwest
>>> Johnson county and to photograph some abandoned and decaying
>>> buildings.  Little did we know that we would be photographing a
>>> decaying factory and some prairies when we got to Grinnell.
>>>
>>> It was good to see Ken again.  It was also great to meet Michael
>>> Collins, known to listees, and Cory Brown, a pro from a town about 30
>>> miles away who shoots Olympus digital.  It was especially good to see
>>> Gordon again, who was on the Isle Royale trip and made my experience
>>> so memorable and enjoyable with his knowledge of botany.  Gordan made
>>> our visits to some restored and native prairies as enjoyable as one
>>> might have expected.  The last photo in the linked sequence includes
>>> Gordon in the frame, as well as the species liatris aspera, one of a
>>> couple species whose presence in a prairie indicates that it is
>>> healthy, according to Gordon.
>>>
>>> http://jfwilcox.jalbum.net/Zuikfest/index.html
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