Your last couple of Moosifications with bottom rollovers don't seem to
be working for me on either Firefox or IE. Either that or the changes
are so subtle that these old eyes can't see them.
Chuck Norcutt
On 6/14/2012 4:06 PM, Moose wrote:
> On 6/14/2012 7:48 AM, Ken Norton wrote:
>>> Color negatives scan fine:
>>> http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley/image/143476719
>> Ah! Fuji Press 800 is one of God's gifts to photographers. It's the
>> Tri-X of the color film world.
>
> Wonderful subject, light and color!
>
> The following doesn't relate to such a vast project of scanning thousands and
> thousands of slides. What you've got is
> more than good enough for that. More about what might be done when fine
> tuning a favorite image:
> <http://www.moosemystic.net/Gallery/Others/Manley/Laura_Dominquez.htm>
>
> A little vague looking in detail. Do you resharpen slightly after
> downsampling for the web? I and many others have
> expounded at length on the technical whys of loss of detail in the process of
> downsampling, indeed any digital sampling.
> The point is simply that it happens, and can be compensated for.
>
> There is some loss of visible detail in the brightest parts of the dress.
> It's there, but not visible to my eyes because
> of highlight compression somewhere in the processing. Gently stretching this
> highlight tonal info down, in bright areas
> only, brings fabric detail into visibility, especially in the low detail
> central panel. Makes the light seem a tiny bit
> softer, as well.
>
> I wonder if lack of post downsampling and loss of subtle detail in bright
> areas might be a factor in your choice to add
> some grain to some images.
>
> A final portrait trick is to locally sharpen just the eyes, eyebrows and
> lips, which really brings viewer's eyes to the
> face.
>
> Locally Sharp Moose
>
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